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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Carlotta Sacerdote is affiliated with the University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro in Italy. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, molecular biology, oncology, genetics, and cancer research.

Their work addresses several key topics, including:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research

Notable recent publications by Sacerdote include:

  • Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • A Body Shape Index (ABSI) achieves better mortality risk stratification than alternative indices of abdominal obesity: results from a large European cohort, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • RETRACTED: Estimating dose-response relationships for vitamin D with coronary heart disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality: observational and Mendelian randomisation analyses, 2021, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Long-term survival and cure fraction estimates for childhood cancer in Europe (EUROCARE-6): results from a population-based study, 2022, The Lancet Oncology
  • Development and validation of a lifestyle-based model for colorectal cancer risk prediction: the LiFeCRC score, 2021, BMC Medicine

Sacerdote frequently collaborates with several researchers, as evidenced by their multiple joint publications. Key coauthors include:

  • Rosario Tumino (92 coauthored papers)
  • Matthias B. Schulze (82 coauthored papers)
  • Elisabete Weiderpass (79 coauthored papers)
  • Anne Tjønneland (70 coauthored papers)
  • Giovanna Masala (67 coauthored papers)

The scientist publishes often in specialized journals associated with cancer research and nutrition, including:

  • International Journal of Cancer (17 publications)
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention (9 publications)
  • Cancer Research (7 publications)
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (7 publications)
  • British Journal of Cancer (6 publications)

The main fields of study for Sacerdote consist of a substantial number of publications in Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, reflecting a comprehensive engagement with both clinical and molecular approaches to health and disease.

Best Publications

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts : Prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

    Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen;Rob Beelen;Evangelia Samoli

  • Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality : An analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • Socioeconomic status and the 25 × 25 risk factors as determinants of premature mortality: a multicohort study and meta-analysis of 1·7 million men and women

    Silvia Stringhini;Cristian Carmeli;Markus Jokela;Mauricio Avendaño;Mauricio Avendaño

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

    Angela M. Wood;Stephen Kaptoge;Adam S. Butterworth;Peter Willeit

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • Type I and II Endometrial Cancers: Have They Different Risk Factors?

    Veronica Wendy Setiawan;Hannah P. Yang;Malcolm C. Pike;Malcolm C. Pike;Susan E. McCann;Susan E. McCann

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • Body size and breast cancer risk: findings from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).

    Petra H. Lahmann;Kurt Hoffmann;Naomi Allen;Carla H. Van Gils

  • Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and incidence of acute coronary events: prospective cohort study and meta-analysis in 11 European cohorts from the ESCAPE Project

    Giulia Cesaroni;Francesco Forastiere;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana J Andersen

  • Differences in the prospective association between individual plasma phospholipid saturated fatty acids and incident type 2 diabetes: the EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study.

    Nita G. Forouhi;Albert Koulman;Stephen J. Sharp;Fumiaki Imamura

  • Sequence Variant on 8q24 Confers Susceptibility to Urinary Bladder Cancer

    Lambertus A Kiemeney;Steinunn Thorlacius;Patrick Sulem;Frank Geller

  • A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies multiple susceptibility loci

    Nathaniel Rothman;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Nuria Malats

  • Epigenome-wide association study in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Turin) identifies novel genetic loci associated with smoking

    Natalie S. Shenker;Silvia Polidoro;Karin van Veldhoven;Carlotta Sacerdote

  • Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of stomach and oesophagus adenocarcinoma in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-EURGAST).

    Carlos A. González;Guillem Pera;Antonio Agudo;H. Bas Bueno-De-Mesquita

  • Meat intake and risk of stomach and esophageal adenocarcinoma within the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).

    Carlos A. González;Paula Jakszyn;Guillem Pera;Antonio Agudo

  • Association Between Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol-Lowering Genetic Variants and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Meta-analysis

    Luca A. Lotta;Stephen J. Sharp;Stephen Burgess;John R B Perry

  • Plasma antibodies to oral bacteria and risk of pancreatic cancer in a large European prospective cohort study

    Dominique S. Michaud;Jacques Izard;Charlotte S. Wilhelm-Benartzi;Doo Ho You

  • The EPIC nutrient database project (ENDB) : a first attempt to standardize nutrient databases across the 10 European countries participating in the EPIC study.

    N Slimani;G Deharveng;I Unwin;D A T Southgate

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Domenico Palli
Domenico Palli Institute for the Study and Prevention of Cancer (Istituto per lo Studio, la Prevenzione e la Rete Oncologica)
Salvatore Panico
Salvatore Panico University of Naples Federico II
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Paolo Vineis
Paolo Vineis Imperial College London
Rudolf Kaaks
Rudolf Kaaks German Cancer Research Center

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