Research Program: Prevention & Etiology
Professor, Division of Epidemiology

folsom@epi.umn.edu
612-626-8862 — office

Research Interests

Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; heart disease surveillance and risk factors; cancer risk factors.

Selected Publications

Ahmed RL, Schmitz KH, Anderson KE, Rosamond WD, Folsom AR: The metabolic syndrome and risk of incident colorectal cancer. Cancer 2006;107:28-36.

Tande AJ, Platz EA, Folsom AR: The metabolic syndrome is associated with reduced risk of prostate cancer. Am J Epidemiol 2006;164:1094-1102.

Ross JA, Sinner PJ, Blair CK, Cerhan JR, Folsom AR. Hormone replacement therapy is not associated with an increased risk of leukemia (United States). Cancer Causes Control. 2005 Jun; 16(5):483-8.

Johnson KJ, Anderson KE, Harnack L, Hong CP, Folsom AR. No association between dietary glycemic index or load and pancreatic cancer incidence in postmenopausal women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005 Jun; 14(6):1574-5.

Sinner PJ, Schmitz KH, Anderson KE, Folsom AR. Lack of association of physical activity and obesity with incident pancreatic cancer in elderly women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005 Jun; 14(6):1571-3.

Lee DH, Anderson KE, Folsom AR, Jacobs DR Jr. Heme iron, zinc and upper digestive tract cancer: The Iowa Women's Health Study. Int J Cancer. 2005 May 31.

Harvie M, Howell A, Vierkant RA, Kumar N, Cerhan JR, Kelemen LE, Folsom AR, Sellers TA. Association of gain and loss of weight before and after menopause with risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in the Iowa women's health study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005 Mar; 14(3):656-61.