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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Elio Riboli is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on several subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, Oncology, Physiology, and Epidemiology.

Their work addresses main topics such as Nutritional Studies and Diet, Cancer Risks and Factors, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Diet and Metabolism Studies, and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling.

Riboli has published extensively in frequent venues including the International Journal of Cancer, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Cancer Research, and Scientific Reports.

Some notable recent papers include:

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • Effect of delays in the 2-week-wait cancer referral pathway during the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer survival in the UK: a modelling study (2020) published in The Lancet Oncology
  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction (2021) published in Nature Genetics
  • Lifestyle factors and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study (2020) published in BMC Medicine
  • An integrative multi-omics analysis to identify candidate DNA methylation biomarkers related to prostate cancer risk (2020) published in Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Marc J. Gunter
  • Elisabete Weiderpass
  • Anne Tjønneland
  • Giovanna Masala
  • Matthias B. Schulze

Elio Riboli has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • 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 adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • 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

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective

    M Marmot;T Atinmo;T Byers;J Chen

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

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

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

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC): study populations and data collection

    E. Riboli;K. J. Hunt;N. Slimani;P. Ferrari

  • Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases

    EK Amine;NH Baba;M Belhadj;M Deurenberg-Yap

  • Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all-cause mortality-a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies.

    Dagfinn Aune;Dagfinn Aune;Edward Giovannucci;Edward Giovannucci;Paolo Boffetta;Lars T. Fadnes

  • Epidemiologic evidence of the protective effect of fruit and vegetables on cancer risk

    Elio Riboli;Teresa Norat

  • A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

    Rayjean J. Hung;James D. Mckay;Valerie Gaborieau;Paolo Boffetta

  • Dietary fibre in food and protection against colorectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC): an observational study

    Sheila A Bingham;Nicholas E Day;Robert Luben;Pietro Ferrari

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Association of Leisure-Time Physical Activity With Risk of 26 Types of Cancer in 1.44 Million Adults

    Steven C. Moore;I-Min Lee;Elisabete Weiderpass;Peter T. Campbell

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

    Teresa Norat;Sheila Bingham;Pietro Ferrari;Nadia Slimani

  • The EPIC Project: rationale and study design. European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.

    E Riboli;R Kaaks

  • Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Whole grain consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all cause and cause specific mortality: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies

    Dagfinn Aune;NaNa Keum;Edward Giovannucci;Lars T Fadnes

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

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Rudolf Kaaks
Rudolf Kaaks German Cancer Research Center
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay
Domenico Palli
Domenico Palli Institute for the Study and Prevention of Cancer (Istituto per lo Studio, la Prevenzione e la Rete Oncologica)

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