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

Overview

Carmen Navarro is affiliated with the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Spain and has contributed to research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans various subfields including General Health Professions, Surgery, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Cell Biology.

Their research topics cover several areas: diet and metabolism studies, dementia and cognitive impairment research, lysosomal storage disorders research, cellular transport and secretion, abdominal vascular conditions and treatments, nutritional studies and diet, as well as consumer attitudes and food labeling.

Navarro has published articles in a range of scientific venues, with frequent publications in the following:

  • Revista Española de Cardiología
  • UNC Libraries
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions
  • Neurology Perspectives

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Mediterranean Diet and Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in the EPIC-Spain Dementia Cohort Study" (2021), published in Nutrients
  • "TICACOS international: A multi-center, randomized, prospective controlled study comparing tight calorie control versus Liberal calorie administration study" (2020), Clinical Nutrition
  • "From centralisation to new ways of multi-level coordination: Spain's intergovernmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic" (2022), Local Government Studies
  • "Incidence of Dementia and Associated Factors in the EPIC-Spain Dementia Cohort" (2020), Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • "Adsorption of arabinogalactan-proteins from Acacia gums (senegal and seyal) and its molecular fractions onto latex particles" (2021), Food Hydrocolloids

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Navarro include:

  • Andreas Ladner
  • Nicolas Keuffer
  • Alexander Bastianen
  • Harald Baldersheim
  • Nikos Hlepas

In addition to journal publications, Navarro has contributed to book literature with a publication by Edward Elgar Publishing titled "Dynamics and Issues of Local Autonomy," expected in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000-14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries.

    Claudia Allemani;Tomohiro Matsuda;Veronica Di Carlo;Rhea Harewood

  • General and abdominal adiposity and risk of death in Europe.

    T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann;M. Bergmann

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Meat, Fish, and Colorectal Cancer Risk: The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

    Teresa Norat;Sheila Bingham;Pietro Ferrari;Nadia Slimani

  • Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: EPIC-elderly prospective cohort study

    Antonia Trichopoulou;Philippos Orfanos;Teresa Norat;Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

  • Correction: Corrigendum: Risk Model for Colorectal Cancer in Spanish Population Using Environmental and Genetic Factors: Results from the MCC-Spain study

    Gemma Ibáñez-Sanz;Anna Díez-Villanueva;M. Henar Alonso;Francisco Rodríguez-Moranta

  • The causal link between human papillomavirus and invasive cervical cancer: A population-based case-control study in colombia and spain

    N. Munoz;F. X. Bosch;S. de Sanjose;L. Tafur

  • Body Size and Risk of Colon and Rectal Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Tobias Pischon;Petra H. Lahmann;Heiner Boeing;Christine Friedenreich

  • Descriptive epidemiology of Kaposi sarcoma in Europe. Report from the RARECARE project

    C.A. Stiller;A. Trama;D. Serraino;S. Rossi

  • The multicentre south European study 'Helios'. II: Different sun exposure patterns in the aetiology of basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin.

    S. Rosso;R. Zanetti;C. Martinez;M. J. Tormo

  • Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema: Decreased Survival Associated With Severe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Mayra Mejía;Guillermo Carrillo;Jorge Rojas-Serrano;Andrea Estrada

  • Burden and centralised treatment in Europe of rare tumours: results of RARECAREnet—a population-based study

    Gemma Gatta;Riccardo Capocaccia;Laura Botta;Sandra Mallone

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

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

  • Genetic fine mapping and genomic annotation defines causal mechanisms at type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci

    Kyle J Gaulton;Kyle J Gaulton;Teresa Ferreira;Yeji Lee;Anne Raimondo

  • 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

  • Is concordance with World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research guidelines for cancer prevention related to subsequent risk of cancer? : Results from the EPIC study

    Dora Romaguera;Anne Claire Vergnaud;Petra H. Peeters;Petra H. Peeters;Carla H. Van Gils

  • Fruit, vegetables, and colorectal cancer risk: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

    Fränzel J.B. Van Duijnhoven;H. Bas Bueno-De-Mesquita;Pietro Ferrari;Mazda Jenab

  • 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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay
Paolo Vineis
Paolo Vineis Imperial College London
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon Institut Gustave Roussy

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