Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Volume 52, Issue 2 , Pages 207-214 , February 2005

High school dietary dairy intake and teenage acne

  • Clement A. Adebamowo, MD, ScD

      Affiliations

    • From the Departments of Nutrition
    • Dartmouth Medical School
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Clement A. Adebamowo, MD, ScD, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115.
    • ,
  • Donna Spiegelman, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Biostatistics
    • Epidemiology
    • ,
  • F. William Danby, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Ibadan, University College Hospital
    • ,
  • A. Lindsay Frazier, MD

      Affiliations

    • Harvard School of Public Health; Division of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
    • Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
    • ,
  • Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • From the Departments of Nutrition
    • Epidemiology
    • Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
    • ,
  • Michelle D. Holmes, MD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

,Accepted 11 August 2004.

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 Supported by CA50385, the main Nurses' Health Study II grant, and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The Nurses' Health Study II is supported for other specific projects by the following National Institutes of Health grants: CA67262, AG/CA14742, CA67883, CA65725, DK52866, HL64108, HL03804, DK59583, DK 36798, HL 57871, CA46475, NS035624, NICHD 40882, and HD40882. In addition, for activities related to the Nurses' Health Studies, we have received modest additional resources at various times and for varying periods since January 1, 1993, from the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation, the American Cancer Society, Amgen, the California Prune Board, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Ellison Medical Foundation, the Florida Citrus Growers, the Glaucoma Medical Research Foundation, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Kellogg's, Lederle, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Mission Pharmacal, the National Dairy Council, Rhone Poulenc Rorer, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Roche, Sandoz, the US Department of Agriculture, the US Department of Defense, the Wallace Genetics Fund, Wyeth-Ayerst, and private contributions.Conflicts of interest: None identified.

PII: S0190-9622(04)02158-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2004.08.007

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
Volume 52, Issue 2 , Pages 207-214 , February 2005

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