Dr. Meir J Stampfer M.D.
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
Channing Laboratory Brookline MA, 02445About
Meir Stampfer is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Brookline, MA. Stampfer specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Stampfer participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
New York Univ Sch of Med, New York Ny 1977
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Assessment of genetic markers for coronary thrombosis: promise and precaution.
- Dietary fat and coronary heart disease: a comparison of approaches for adjusting for total energy intake and modeling repeated dietary measurements.
- Lower prostate cancer risk in men with elevated plasma lycopene levels: results of a prospective analysis.
- Postmenopausal estrogen and cardiovascular disease.
- A prospective study of fibrinogen and risk of myocardial infarction in the Physicians' Health Study.
- Distribution of and factors associated with serum homocysteine levels in children: Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health.
- Prospective study of colorectal cancer risk in men and plasma levels of insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and IGF-binding protein-3.
- Intake of vitamins B6 and C and the risk of kidney stones in women.
- Smoking and risk of total and fatal prostate cancer in United States health professionals.
- The relation of breast size to breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women (United States).
- Age at natural menopause and risk of cardiovascular disease.
- Postmenopausal hormone therapy and the risk of colorectal cancer: a review and meta-analysis.
- A prospective study of coffee consumption and the risk of symptomatic gallstone disease in men.
- Prospective study of alcohol consumption patterns in relation to symptomatic gallstone disease in men.
- Trans fatty acids and coronary heart disease.
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