Loretta H. Pearson
Dartmouth College
15 Papers
388 Citations
Loretta H. Pearson is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Colorectal adenoma & Adenoma. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 15 publications.
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A randomized trial of aspirin to prevent colorectal adenomas
John A. Baron,Bernard F. Cole,Robert S. Sandler,Robert W. Haile,Dennis J. Ahnen,Dennis J. Ahnen,Robert S. Bresalier,Gail McKeown-Eyssen,Robert W. Summers,Richard I. Rothstein,Carol A. Burke,Dale C. Snover,Timothy R. Church,John I. Allen,Michael L. Beach,Gerald J. Beck,John H. Bond,John H. Bond,Tim Byers,E. Robert Greenberg,Jack S. Mandel,Norman E. Marcon,Leila A. Mott,Loretta H. Pearson,Fred Saibil,Rosalind U. van Stolk +25 more
TL;DR: Low-dose aspirin has a moderate chemopreventive effect on adenomas in the large bowel, using generalized linear models to compute risk ratios and 95 percent confidence intervals.
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Folic acid for the prevention of colorectal adenomas: a randomized clinical trial.
Bernard F. Cole,John A. Baron,Robert S. Sandler,Robert W. Haile,Dennis J. Ahnen,Robert S. Bresalier,Gail McKeown-Eyssen,Robert W. Summers,Richard I. Rothstein,Carol A. Burke,Dale C. Snover,Timothy R. Church,John I. Allen,Douglas J. Robertson,Gerald J. Beck,John H. Bond,Tim Byers,Jack S. Mandel,Leila A. Mott,Loretta H. Pearson,Elizabeth L. Barry,Judy R. Rees,Norman E. Marcon,Fred Saibil,Per Magne Ueland,E. Robert Greenberg +25 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the safety and efficacy of folic acid supplements for preventing colorectal adenomas were evaluated in a randomized clinical trial. But, the results showed that folic acids at 1 mg/d did not reduce coloreCTal adnoma risk.
A Randomized Trial of Aspirin to Prevent Colorectal Adenomas
John A. Baron,Bernard F. Cole,Robert S. Sandler,Robert W. Haile,Dennis J. Ahnen,Robert S. Bresalier,Gail McKeown-Eyssen,Robert W. Summers,Richard I. Rothstein,Carol A. Burke,Dale C. Snover,Timothy,Fn> R. Church,John I. Allen,Michael L. Beach,Gerald J. Beck,John H. Bond,Tim Byers,E. Robert Greenberg,Jack S. Mandel,Norman E. Marcon,Leila A. Mott,Loretta H. Pearson,Fred Saibil,Rosalind U. van Stolk +24 more
TL;DR: It is confirmed that aspirin lowers the risk of recurrent colorectal adenoma in those having one or more adenomas recently removed, and the protective effect is of a moderate degree.
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Reliability of readings of magnetic resonance imaging features of lumbar spinal stenosis
Jon D. Lurie,Anna N. A. Tosteson,Tor D. Tosteson,Eugene J. Carragee,John A. Carrino,Jay A. Kaiser,Roberto Blanco Sequeiros,Amy Rosen Lecomte,Margaret R. Grove,Emily A. Blood,Loretta H. Pearson,James Neil Weinstein,Richard J. Herzog +12 more
TL;DR: The imaging characteristics of spinal stenosis assessed in this study showed moderate to substantial reliability; future studies should assess whether these findings have prognostic significance in SPS patients.
Effect of Calcium Supplementation on the Risk of Large Bowel Polyps
Kristin Wallace,John A. Baron,Bernard F. Cole,Robert S. Sandler,Margaret R. Karagas,Michael A. Beach,Robert W. Haile,Carol A. Burke,Loretta H. Pearson,Jack S. Mandel,Richard I. Rothstein,Dale C. Snover +11 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that calcium supplementation may have a more pronounced antineoplastic effect on advanced colorectal lesions than on other types of polyps.