Cancer
Pedersen DC, Hameiri-Bowen D, Aarestrup J, Jensen BW, Tjonneland A, Mellemkjaer L, von Euler-Chelpin M, Vejborg I, Andersen ZJ, Baker JL. Associations of early life body size and pubertal timing with breast density and postmenopausal breast cancer risk: A mediation analysis. Ann Epidemiol 2025;102:68-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2025.01.004
Pedersen DC, Bjerregaard LG, Dybkaer K, Jacobsen RK, Longmore DK, Burgner D, Baker JL, Aarestrup J. Associations between hospitalized infections in the first 24 months of life and risk of cancer in early-mid adulthood. Cancer Epidemiol 2025;97:102835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2025.102835
Svendsen SMS, Pedersen DC, Jensen BW, Aarestrup J, Mellemkjaer L, Bjerregaard LG, Baker JL. Early life body size and puberty markers as predictors of breast cancer risk later in life: A neural network analysis. PLoS One 2024;19(2):e0296835. PMC10857724. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296835
Pedersen DC, Aarestrup J, Blond K, Jensen BW, Andersen ZJ, Mellemkjaer L, Tjonneland A, Baker JL. Trajectories of body mass index across the lifecourse and associations with post-menopausal breast cancer by estrogen receptor status. Cancer Epidemiol 2023;87:102479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2023.102479
Jensen BW, Aarestrup J, Blond K, Jorgensen ME, Renehan AG, Vistisen D, Baker JL. Childhood body mass index trajectories, adult-onset type 2 diabetes, and obesity-related cancers. J Natl Cancer Inst 2023;115(1):43-51. PMC9830482. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djac192
Pedersen DC, Jensen BW, Tjonneland A, Andersen ZJ, Mellemkjaer L, Bjerregaard LG, Aarestrup J, Baker JL. Birthweight, childhood body size, and timing of puberty and risks of breast cancer by menopausal status and tumor receptor subtypes. Breast Cancer Res 2022;24(1):77. PMC9652814. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-022-01578-0
Blond K, Carslake D, Gjaerde LK, Vistisen D, Sorensen TIA, Smith GD, Baker JL. Instrumental variable analysis using offspring BMI in childhood as an indicator of parental BMI in relation to mortality. Sci Rep 2021;11(1):22408. PMC8599489. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01352-w
Aarestrup J, Bjerregaard LG, Meyle KD, Pedersen DC, Gjaerde LK, Jensen BW, Baker JL. Birthweight, childhood overweight, height and growth and adult cancer risks: a review of studies using the Copenhagen School Health Records Register. Int J Obes (Lond) 2020;44(7):1546-60. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-020-0523-9
Sorensen KK, Jensen BW, Thomas PE, Madsen K, Eriksson F, Aarestrup J, Baker JL. Early life body size and its associations with adult bladder cancer. Ann Hum Biol 2020;47(2):166-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2019.1707873
Jensen BW, Meyle KD, Madsen K, Sorensen TIA, Baker JL. Early life body size in relation to risk of renal cell carcinoma in adulthood: a Danish observational cohort study. Eur J Epidemiol 2020;35(3):251-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-020-00605-8
Aarestrup J, Trabert B, Ulrich LG, Wentzensen N, Sorensen TIA, Baker JL. Childhood Overweight, Tallness, and Growth Increase Risks of Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2019;28(1):183-8. PMC6325003. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-18-0024
Aarestrup J, Kitahara CM, Baker JL. Birthweight and risk of thyroid cancer and its histological types: A large cohort study. Cancer Epidemiol 2019;62:101564. PMC12965715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2019.07.003
Rieckmann A, Meyle KD, Rod NH, Baker JL, Benn CS, Aaby P, Sorup S. Smallpox and BCG vaccination in childhood and cutaneous malignant melanoma in Danish adults followed from 18 to 49 years. Vaccine 2019;37(44):6730-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.09.023
Petrick JL, Jensen BW, Sorensen TIA, Cook MB, Baker JL. Overweight Patterns Between Childhood and Early Adulthood and Esophageal and Gastric Cardia Adenocarcinoma Risk. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2019;27(9):1520-6. PMC6707875. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22570
Trabert B, Aarestrup J, Ulrich LG, Wentzensen N, Sorensen TIA, Baker JL. Birth weight and the risk of histological subtypes of ovarian and endometrial cancers: Results from the Copenhagen School Health Records Register. Gynecol Oncol 2018;148(3):547-52. PMC5829014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygyno.2017.12.031
McGlynn KA, Petrick JL, Gamborg M, Aarestrup J, Baker JL. Childhood height and risk of testicular germ cell tumors in adulthood. Int J Cancer 2018;143(4):767-72. PMC6041140. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.31354
Jensen BW, Bjerregaard LG, Angquist L, Gogenur I, Renehan AG, Osler M, Sorensen TIA, Baker JL. Change in weight status from childhood to early adulthood and late adulthood risk of colon cancer in men: a population-based cohort study. Int J Obes (Lond) 2018;42(10):1797-803. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-018-0109-y
Aarestrup J, Gamborg M, Tilling K, Ulrich LG, Sorensen TI, Baker JL. Childhood body mass index growth trajectories and endometrial cancer risk. Int J Cancer 2017;140(2):310-5. PMC5132154. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.30464
Piltoft JS, Larsen SB, Dalton SO, Johansen C, Baker JL, Cederkvist L, Andersen I. Early life risk factors for testicular cancer: a case-cohort study based on the Copenhagen School Health Records Register. Acta Oncol 2017;56(2):220-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/0284186X.2016.1266085
Nogueira L, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Gamborg M, Sorensen TIA, Baker JL. Childhood body mass index and risk of adult pancreatic cancer. Curr Dev Nutr 2017;1(10). PMC5788457. https://doi.org/10.3945/cdn.117.001362
Meyle KD, Gamborg M, Sorensen TIA, Baker JL. Childhood Body Size and the Risk of Malignant Melanoma in Adulthood. Am J Epidemiol 2017;185(8):673-80. PMC5394246. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kww128
Jensen BW, Gamborg M, Gogenur I, Renehan AG, Sorensen TIA, Baker JL. Childhood body mass index and height in relation to site-specific risks of colorectal cancers in adult life. Eur J Epidemiol 2017;32(12):1097-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-017-0289-0
Aarestrup J, Gamborg M, Ulrich LG, Sorensen TI, Baker JL. Childhood body mass index and height and risk of histologic subtypes of endometrial cancer. Int J Obes (Lond) 2016;40(7):1096-102. PMC4973214. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2016.56
Zimmermann E, Berentzen TL, Gamborg M, Sorensen TI, Baker JL. Sex-specific associations between birth weight and adult primary liver cancer in a large cohort of Danish children. Int J Cancer 2016;138(6):1410-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.29900
Smith NR, Jensen BW, Zimmermann E, Gamborg M, Sorensen TI, Baker JL. Associations between birth weight and colon and rectal cancer risk in adulthood. Cancer Epidemiol 2016;42:181-5. PMC4911557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2016.05.003
Meyle KD, Gamborg M, Holmich LR, Baker JL. Associations between childhood height and morphologically different variants of melanoma in adulthood. Eur J Cancer 2016;67:99-105. PMC5068922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2016.08.002
Bjerregaard LG, Aarestrup J, Gamborg M, Lange T, Tjonneland A, Baker JL. Childhood height, adult height, and the risk of prostate cancer. Cancer Causes Control 2016;27(4):561-7. PMC4796358. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-016-0731-8
Aarestrup J, Gamborg M, Cook MB, Baker JL. Childhood height increases the risk of prostate cancer mortality. Eur J Cancer 2015;51(10):1340-5. PMC5584054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2015.03.022
Cook MB, Freedman ND, Gamborg M, Sorensen TI, Baker JL. Childhood body mass index in relation to future risk of oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Br J Cancer 2015;112(3):601-7. PMC4453659. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2014.646
Aarestrup J, Gamborg M, Cook MB, Sorensen TI, Baker JL. Childhood body mass index and the risk of prostate cancer in adult men. Br J Cancer 2014;111(1):207-12. PMC4090733. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2014.266
Kitahara CM, Gamborg M, Rajaraman P, Sorensen TI, Baker JL. A prospective study of height and body mass index in childhood, birth weight, and risk of adult glioma over 40 years of follow-up. Am J Epidemiol 2014;180(8):821-9. PMC4188341. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwu203
Kitahara CM, Gamborg M, Berrington de Gonzalez A, Sorensen TI, Baker JL. Childhood height and body mass index were associated with risk of adult thyroid cancer in a large cohort study. Cancer Res 2014;74(1):235-42. PMC3891884. https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-13-2228
Berentzen TL, Gamborg M, Holst C, Sorensen TI, Baker JL. Body mass index in childhood and adult risk of primary liver cancer. J Hepatol 2014;60(2):325-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2013.09.015
Andersen ZJ, Baker JL, Bihrmann K, Vejborg I, Sorensen TI, Lynge E. Birth weight, childhood body mass index, and height in relation to mammographic density and breast cancer: a register-based cohort study. Breast Cancer Res 2014;16(1):R4. PMC3978910. https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr3596
Cook MB, Gamborg M, Aarestrup J, Sorensen TI, Baker JL. Childhood height and birth weight in relation to future prostate cancer risk: a cohort study based on the copenhagen school health records register. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2013;22(12):2232-40. PMC3863763. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-13-0712
Risnes KR, Vatten LJ, Baker JL, Jameson K, Sovio U, Kajantie E, Osler M, Morley R, Jokela M, Painter RC, Sundh V, Jacobsen GW, Eriksson JG, Sorensen TI, Bracken MB. Birthweight and mortality in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Epidemiol 2011;40(3):647-61. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyq267
dos Santos Silva I, De Stavola B, McCormack V, Collaborative Group on Pre-Natal Risk FSRoBC, . Birth size and breast cancer risk: re-analysis of individual participant data from 32 studies. PLoS Med 2008;5(9):e193. PMC2553821. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050193
Baker JL, Olsen LW, Sorensen TI. Weight at birth and all-cause mortality in adulthood. Epidemiology 2008;19(2):197-203. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0b013e31816339c6
Ahlgren M, Wohlfahrt J, Olsen LW, Sorensen TI, Melbye M. Birth weight and risk of cancer. Cancer 2007;110(2):412-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.22773
Ahlgren M, Melbye M, Wohlfahrt J, Sorensen TI. Growth patterns and the risk of breast cancer in women. N Engl J Med 2004;351(16):1619-26. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa040576
Ahlgren M, Sorensen T, Wohlfahrt J, Haflidadottir A, Holst C, Melbye M. Birth weight and risk of breast cancer in a cohort of 106,504 women. Int J Cancer 2003;107(6):997-1000. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.11481
Prener A, Hsieh CC, Engholm G, Trichopoulos D, Jensen OM. Birth order and risk of testicular cancer. Cancer Causes Control 1992;3(3):265-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00124260