William B. Grant Publication List of Work on Health-Related Research

January 1, 2002

William B. Grant – Publication List of Work on Health-related Research

William B. Grant, Ph.D., 12 Sir Francis Wyatt Place, Newport News, VA 23606-3660, USA; 1-757-870-8434 – cell phone;

Professional Associations and Journal Editorships

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Journal of Primary Care, Medical Information Systems, London, 1998-2000.

Associate Editor, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Case Western Reserve University, October 1, 1999-September 30, 2000.

Member, Scientific Advisory Council, Alzheimer’s Prevention Foundation, Tucson, Arizona

Alzheimer's Disease

*Grant, WB. Dietary links to Alzheimer's disease. Alz Dis Rev 1997;2:42-55

>http://www.mc.uky.edu/adreview/default.htm

available from author as PDF file (31 ISI Web of Science citations, 3 book citations) (* indicates that it was published in or is in review or at a peer-reviewed journal)

Grant, WB. Multi-country analysis linking diet to Alzheimer's disease and other chronic degenerative diseases, Proc., 1997 Annual Convention of Naturopathic Physicians, Phoenix, AZ, Aug. 20-24, 1997, 124-131.

Grant, WB. Evidence linking diet to Alzheimer's disease, Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Feb./Mar. 1998;175/76:120.

Grant, WB. Alzheimer's disease is largely preventable. Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, May 1998;178:7273.

Grant, WB. Alzheimer's disease. Nutritional Therapy Today, 1998;8(2):8-9 (1 book citation)

*Grant, WB. The APOE-epsilon4 allele and Alzheimer disease among African Americans, Hispanics, and Whites, JAMA, letter, Nov. 18, 1998;2830:162-163.

Grant, WB, Moore, AM. Dietary links to Alzheimer's disease: An update, NHS Doctor and Commissioning GP, (Medical Information Systems, London), Winter 1998/99:36-39.

Grant, WB. Aluminum accumulates in body with high-acid diet, Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, June 1999;191:92.

*Grant, WB. Dietary links to Alzheimer’s disease: 1999 update, J Alz Dis 1, 197-201, 1999. (Case Western Reserve University), (http://www.j-alz.com/numbers4-5.html) (5 ISI citat.)

*Grant, WB. Fish consumption, cancer, and Alzheimer disease, Am J Clin Nutr, letter, 2000 Feb;71:599.

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/71/2/599

Grant, WB. Some risk factors were not included, Electronic comments on “Smoking and dementia in male British doctors: prospective study” by R. Doll, R. Peto, J. Boreham, and I Sutherland, BMJ 2000;320:1097-1102. Posted May 3, 2000: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/320/7242/1097#EL1

Grant, WB, Interview in Clinical Pearls News, Sept. 2000

http://www.prescription2000.com/cpnews/sept2000/cpnseptexp.htm

Grant, WB. Dietary risk factors for Alzheimer disease. BMJ electronic response, March 10, 2001. http://bmj.com/cgi/eletters/322/7286/574/a#EL2

*Grant, WB. Incidence of dementia and Alzheimer disease in Nigeria and the United States, JAMA, May 16, 2001;285:2448-9.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/current/ffull/jlt0516-4.html

Using the search engine Google on ‘fish Alzheimer’ turns up many references to my work: http://www.google.com/search?q=fish+alzheimer (also try ‘fat Alzheimer’)

Ischemic heart disease

Grant, WB. Reassessing the role of sugar in the etiology of heart disease. J Orthomolec Med, 1998;13:95104; 1998;13:241-243.

*Grant, WB. Milk and other dietary influences on coronary heart disease. Altern Med Rev, 3:281294. 1998. (available on the web through PubMed link to publisher (enter Grant, WB): http://www.thorne.com/altmedrev/.fulltext/3/4/281.html (3 ISI citations, 1 book citation)

Grant, WB, Moore, A. Sugar and milk, the hidden causes of heart disease. Nutritional Therapy Today, 1998;8(3):6,7,11; 1998/9;8(4):12.

Grant, WB. The role of milk and sugar in heart disease. Am J Nat Med, 1998;5(9):19-23. (Cover story) (1 ISI citat.)

Grant, WB, Moore, A. The role of sugars in ischemic heart disease, Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Feb./Mar 1999;187/8:80-86. (banner headline on cover)

Grant, WB. Commentary: Lactose, sweeteners and wine may explain the “French paradox,” electronic commentary on Law and Wild, BMJ 1999;318:1471-1480.

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/318/7196/1471#EL4

*Grant, WB. Low-fat, high-sugar diet and lipoprotein profiles, letter, Am J Clin Nutr, 1999;70:1111-2.

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/70/6/1111

Appendicitis

Osteoporosis

*Grant, WB. Lactose maldigestion and calcium from dairy, letter Am J Clin Nutr 1999;70:301-302 (1 ISI citat.) http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/70/2/301A

Cancer

*Grant, WB. An ecologic study of dietary links to prostate cancer, Altern Med Rev, 1999;4:162-169. http://www.thorne.com/altmedrev/.fulltext/4/3/162.html (9 ISI citations)

Grant, WB. Dietary fiber and colorectal cancer, The Townsend Letter, 1999;192:112-3 (2 ISI citation).

Grant, WB. Diet and the prevention of cancer – recent findings. Electronic response BMJ July 20, 1999. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/317/7173/1636#EL10

*Grant, WB. Fish consumption, cancer, and Alzheimer disease, Am J Clin Nutr, letter, 2000 Feb;71:599. (the response by E.Fernandez discusses the role of fish in reducing the risk of cancer).

*Grant, WB. Calcium, lycopene, vitamin D and prostate cancer, Prostate 2000 Feb 1;42(3):243 (1 ISI citation)

Grant, WB. Solar ultraviolet radiation and vitamin D as overlooked risk reduction factors for breast cancer, BJM, Electronic Letters, 2000;321 http://bmj.com/cgi/eletters/321/7261/624#EL1

*Grant, WB. An ecologic study of dietary and smoking links to lymphoma, Altern Med Rev, 5, 563-572, 2000 (note: this paper is incorrect; a new manuscript is in review (Oct. 16, 2001)

Grant, WB. UV, vitamin D and cancer, http://www.srrb.noaa.gov/UV/mail2.html. Nov. 2000;1:4.

Grant, WB. Cancer risk reduction form ultraviolet-B radiation and vitamin D, oral presentation at the 15th National Conf. on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Wash., DC, Nov. 29, 2000, spons. by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Assoc. of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors.

Grant, WB. An estimate of excess cancer mortality in the U.S. due to inadequate exposure to solar UV-B radiation (abstract), Photodermatol Photoimmunol Photomed 2001;17:142.

Grant, WB, An ecologic study of the role of solar UV-B radiation in reducing the risk of cancer using cancer mortality data, dietary supply data and latitude for European countries, in Holick MF, (ed.), Biologic Effects of Light 2001, Proceedings of the Biologic Effects of Light Symposium, held June 15-17, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., in press. (1 ISI citation)

Grant, WB, Health benefits of solar UV-B radiation: Cancer risk reduction, Proc. SPIE 4482, Ultraviolet

Ground- and Space-based Measurements, Models, and Effects, San Diego, CA, July 30-Aug. 1, 2001, in press.

Grant WB. An ecologic study of dietary and solar UV-B links to breast cancer mortality rates. Cancer, 94, 272-281, Jan. 1, 2002.

Grant WB. An estimate of premature cancer mortality in the United States due to inadequate doses of solar ultraviolet-B radiation, a source of vitamin D, Cancer, in press (Feb. 15 or Mar. 1, 2002)

Arthritis

*Grant, WB. The role of meat in the expression of rheumatoid arthritis, Brit J Nutr, Nov. 2000;85:589-595. available as PDF file (1 ISI citat.)

Grant, WB. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Meat Consumption. Clinical Pearls, April 2001. http://newresearch.prescription2000.com/users/experts/

Diet in general

*Grant, WB. Scientific conference on preventive nutrition, Circulation, 2000 Jul 25;102(4):E28

Interviews

Chowka, PB. William B. Grant: A dietary approach to Alzheimer's. Nutrition Science News, March 1998; http://www.nutritionsciencenews.com/NSN_backs/Mar_98/expert.html

Grant, WB. Disease Puzzles, Heath disease, the possible dairy—sugar connection, an interview with William Grant, PhD, Nature's Impakt, Feb./Mar. 1999, 34-37. (Cover story)

Grant, WB, by Bland, J., HealthCom International, July 1999

UV-B radiation

*Grant, WB. Global stratospheric ozone and UVB radiation, Science, 1988;242:1111-2 (16 ISI citations)

*Mims III, FM, Holben, BN, Eck, TF, Montgomery, BC, Grant, WB. Smoky skies, mosquitoes, and disease, Science, 1997;276:1174-1175 (2 ISI citation)

Optical remote sensing

*Grant WB, Kagan, R, McClenny, W. Optical remote measurement of toxic gases. J Air Waste Manage Assoc. 1992;42:18-30. (29 ISI citations)