Correlates of burnout in small independent primary care practices in an urban setting

B Blechter, N Jiang, C Cleland, C Berry… - The Journal of the …, 2018 - Am Board Family Med
Background: Little is known about the prevalence and correlates of burnout among providers
who work in small independent primary care practices (<5 providers). Methods: We …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study of lung adenocarcinoma in East Asia and comparison with a European population

…, S Li, T Zhang, C Breeze, Z Wang, B Blechter… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer. Known risk variants explain
only a small fraction of lung adenocarcinoma heritability. Here, we conducted a two-stage …

[HTML][HTML] Commute patterns, residential traffic-related air pollution, and lung cancer risk in the prospective UK Biobank cohort study

JYY Wong, RR Jones, C Breeze, B Blechter… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction Commuting exposes millions of people to carcinogens from traffic-related air
pollution (TRAP) but is seldomly considered in epidemiologic studies of lung cancer. In the …

[HTML][HTML] Sub-multiplicative interaction between polygenic risk score and household coal use in relation to lung adenocarcinoma among never-smoking women in Asia

B Blechter, JYY Wong, CA Hsiung, HD Hosgood… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
We previously identified 10 lung adenocarcinoma susceptibility loci in a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) conducted in the Female Lung Cancer Consortium in Asia (FLCCA), …

It's time to re-evaluate cervical Cancer screening after age 65

S Dilley, W Huh, B Blechter, AF Rositch - Gynecologic oncology, 2021 - Elsevier
Cervical cancer screening guidelines currently recommend cessation of cervical cancer
screening after age 65, despite 20% of new cervical cancer cases occurring in this age group. …

[HTML][HTML] Tuberculosis infection and lung adenocarcinoma: Mendelian randomization and pathway analysis of genome-wide association study data from never …

…, JY Park, SS Kweon, CJ Chen, KM Lee, B Blechter… - Genomics, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigated whether genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) influences lung
adenocarcinoma development among never-smokers using TB genome-wide association study (…

[HTML][HTML] Methylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from household coal use across the life course and risk of lung cancer in a large cohort of 42,420 subjects in …

L Portengen, G Downward, BA Bassig, B Blechter… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background We previously showed that exposure to 5-methylchrysene (5MC) and other
methylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) best explains lung cancer risks in a case-…

Mitochondrial DNA Fragmentation and Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

…, R Cawthon, SJ Weinstein, B Blechter… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Research suggests that increased mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn)
is associated with increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL); however, no studies to …

Associations between longer leukocyte telomere length and increased lung cancer risk among never smokers in urban China

JYY Wong, XO Shu, W Hu, B Blechter, J Shi… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2023 - AACR
Background: The complex relationship between measured leukocyte telomere length (LTL),
genetically predicted LTL (gTL), and carcinogenesis is exemplified by lung cancer. We …

[HTML][HTML] Age at lung cancer diagnosis in females versus males who never smoke by race and ethnicity

B Blechter, JYY Wong, LH Chien, K Shiraishi… - British Journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
Background We characterized age at diagnosis and estimated sex differences for lung cancer
and its histological subtypes among individuals who never smoke. Methods We analyzed …