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- Publications
- Influence
Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: a mendelian randomisation study
- B. F. Voight, Gina M. Peloso, +123 authors S. Kathiresan
- Medicine
- The Lancet
- 11 August 2012
Summary Background High plasma HDL cholesterol is associated with reduced risk of myocardial infarction, but whether this association is causal is unclear. Exploiting the fact that genotypes are… Expand
Meat, fish, and colorectal cancer risk: the European Prospective Investigation into cancer and nutrition.
- T. Norat, S. Bingham, +43 authors E. Riboli
- Medicine
- Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- 15 June 2005
BACKGROUND
Current evidence suggests that high red meat intake is associated with increased colorectal cancer risk. High fish intake may be associated with a decreased risk, but the existing evidence… Expand
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and…
- Leandra Ziad A Zargar Abdul Niveen M Benjamin Cecilia Robe Abarca-Gómez Abdeen Hamid Abu-Rmeileh Acosta-Cazar, Leandra Abarca-Gómez, +1,022 authors M. Ezzati
- Medicine
- The Lancet
- 16 December 2017
Summary Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide… Expand
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC): study populations and data collection.
- E. Riboli, K. J. Hunt, +29 authors R. Saracci
- Medicine
- Public health nutrition
- 1 December 2002
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is an ongoing multi-centre prospective cohort study designed to investigate the relationship between nutrition and cancer, with… Expand
Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: EPIC-elderly prospective cohort study
- A. Trichopoulou, P. Orfanos, +40 authors D. Trichopoulos
- Medicine
- BMJ : British Medical Journal
- 8 April 2005
Abstract Objective To examine whether adherence to the modified Mediterranean diet, in which unsaturates were substituted for monounsaturates, is associated with longer life expectancy among elderly… Expand
Body size and risk of colon and rectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).
- T. Pischon, P. H. Lahmann, +38 authors E. Riboli
- Medicine, Physics
- Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- 5 July 2006
BACKGROUND
Body weight and body mass index (BMI) are positively related to risk of colon cancer in men, whereas weak or no associations exist in women. This discrepancy may be related to differences… Expand
Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants
- M. D. Cesare, J. Bentham, +738 authors J. Cisneros
- Medicine
- The Lancet
- 2 April 2016
BACKGROUND
Underweight and severe and morbid obesity are associated with highly elevated risks of adverse health outcomes. We estimated trends in mean body-mass index (BMI), which characterises its… Expand
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants
- B. Zhou, J. Bentham, +757 authors J. Cisneros
- Medicine
- The Lancet
- 7 January 2017
Summary Background Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood… Expand
General and abdominal adiposity and risk of death in Europe.
- T. Pischon, H. Boeing, +45 authors E. Riboli
- Medicine
- The New England journal of medicine
- 13 November 2008
BACKGROUND
Previous studies have relied predominantly on the body-mass index (BMI, the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) to assess the association of adiposity with… Expand
Dietary polyphenol intake in Europe: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study
- Raúl Zamora-Ros, V. Knaze, +42 authors A. Scalbert
- Medicine
- European Journal of Nutrition
- 1 June 2016
AbstractBackground/Objectives
Polyphenols are plant secondary metabolites with a large variability in their chemical structure and dietary occurrence that have been associated with some protective… Expand