Breast Cancer — Dietary Fat, Eicosanoids and Breast Cancer Risk
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McColley SP, Georgopoulos A, Young LR, Kurzer MS, Redmon JB, Raatz SK A high-fat diet and the threonine-encoding allele (Thr54) polymorphism of fatty acid-binding protein 2 reduce plasma triglyceride-rich lipoproteins. Nutr Res. 2011 Jul;31(7):503-8. doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2011.06.003.
Raatz SK, Young LR, Picklo MJ Sr, Sauter ER, Qin W, Kurzer MS Total dietary fat and fatty acid content modifies plasma phospholipid fatty acids, desaturase activity indices, and urinary prostaglandin E in women. Nutr Res. 2012 Jan;32(1):1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2011.12.006.
Young LR, Kurzer MS, Thomas W, Redmon JB, Raatz SK Effect of dietary fat and omega-3 fatty acids on urinary eicosanoids and sex hormone concentrations in postmenopausal women: a randomized controlled feeding trial. Nutr Cancer. 2011;63(6):930-9. doi: 10.
Young LR, Raatz SK, Thomas W, Redmon JB, Kurzer MS Total dietary fat and omega-3 fatty acids have modest effects on urinary sex hormones in postmenopausal women. Nutr Metab (Lond). 2013 Apr 23;10(1):36. doi: 10.1186/1743-7075-10-36.
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