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Franco Merletti

Franco Merletti

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Medicine

D-Index
87
Citations
31972
World Ranking
13537
National Ranking
518

Overview

Franco Merletti is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, focusing primarily on occupational and environmental health risks. Their work spans multiple subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis; pulmonary and respiratory medicine; epidemiology; cancer research; and pediatrics, perinatology and child health.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as occupational and environmental lung diseases, air quality and health impacts, cervical cancer and HPV research, health, environment and cognitive aging, COVID-19 and mental health, carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment, and head and neck cancer studies.

Merletti has published influential papers including:

  • Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies, 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Diesel Engine Exhaust Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Exposure-Response Analysis of 14 Case-Control Studies, 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Occupational Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Lung Cancer Risk: Results from a Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies (SYNERGY), 2022, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Germline determinants of humoral immune response to HPV-16 protect against oropharyngeal cancer, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Measuring Child Socio-Economic Position in Birth Cohort Research: The Development of a Novel Standardized Household Income Indicator, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Frequent collaborators in their research include Wolfgang Ahrens, Lorenzo Richiardi, Dana Mateș, David I. Conway, and Milena Maule.

Merletti's work has appeared regularly in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • Research Square (Research Square)

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

  • International incidence of childhood cancer, 2001-10 a population-based registry study

    Eva Steliarova-Foucher;Murielle Colombet;Lynn A G Ries;Florencia Moreno

  • 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

  • Cigarette smoking and lung cancer – relative risk estimates for the major histological types from a pooled analysis of case-control studies

    Beate Pesch;Benjamin Kendzia;Per Gustavsson;Karl Heinz Jöckel

  • Cancer of the larynx/hypopharynx, tobacco and alcohol: IARC international case-control study in Turin and Varese (Italy), Zaragoza and Navarra (Spain), Geneva (Switzerland) and Calvados (France).

    A-J. Tuyns;J. Esteve;L. Raymond;F. Berrino

  • A multicenter, randomized trial of prophylactic fluconazole in preterm neonates

    Paolo Manzoni;Ilaria Stolfi;Lorenza Pugni;Lidia Decembrino

  • Lung ultrasound-implemented diagnosis of acute decompensated heart failure in the ED: A SIMEU multicenter study

    Emanuele Pivetta;Alberto Goffi;Enrico Lupia;Maria Tizzani

  • Multicenter Case-Control Study of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer in Europe

    Paolo Boffetta;Antonio Agudo;Wolfgang Ahrens;Ellen Benhamou

  • Risk of oral squamous cell carcinoma in 402 patients with oral lichen planus: a follow-up study in an Italian population.

    S Gandolfo;L Richiardi;M Carrozzo;R Broccoletti

  • Meta-analysis of non-sentinel node metastases associated with micrometastatic sentinel nodes in breast cancer

    G. Cserni;D. Gregori;F. Merletti;A. Sapino

  • Short-term effects of Italian smoking regulation on rates of hospital admission for acute myocardial infarction

    Francesco Barone-Adesi;Loredana Vizzini;Franco Merletti;Lorenzo Richiardi

  • Metabolic Syndrome as a Predictor of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes: The Casale Monferrato Study

    Graziella Bruno;Franco Merletti;Annibale Biggeri;Giuseppe Bargero

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study of Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancers Conducted within the INHANCE Consortium

    James D. McKay;Therese Truong;Valerie Gaborieau;Amelie Chabrier

  • Lung cancer and cigarette smoking in Europe: An update of risk estimates and an assessment of inter‐country heterogeneity

    Lorenzo Simonato;Antonio Agudo;Wolfgang Ahrens;Ellen Benhamou

  • Alcohol, tobacco, diet and the risk of oral cancer: a pooled analysis of three case-control studies

    G.J. Macfarlane;G.J. Macfarlane;T. Zheng;T. Zheng;J.R. Marshall;J.R. Marshall;P. Boffetta;P. Boffetta

  • Survival of European adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer in 2000–07: population-based data from EUROCARE-5

    Annalisa Trama;Laura Botta;Roberto Foschi;Andrea Ferrari

  • Painting, firefighting, and shiftwork

    Aaron Blair;David Blask;Magne Bråtveit;Thomas Brock

  • Continuous positive airway pressure for treatment of respiratory complications after abdominal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Gabriela P. Ferreyra;Iacopo Baussano;Vincenzo Squadrone;Lorenzo Richiardi

  • Role of tobacco and alcoholic beverages in the etiology of cancer of the oral cavity/oropharynx in Torino, Italy.

    Franco Merletti;Paolo Boffetta;Giovannino Ciccone;Arthur Mashberg

  • Mortality among workers employed in the titanium dioxide production industry in Europe

    Paolo Boffetta;Anne Soutar;John W. Cherrie;Fredrik Granath

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Karl-Heinz Jöckel
Karl-Heinz Jöckel University of Duisburg-Essen
Antonio Agudo
Antonio Agudo University of Barcelona
Pagona Lagiou
Pagona Lagiou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Eleonora Fabianova
Eleonora Fabianova Regional Authority of Public Health
Mia Hashibe
Mia Hashibe University of Utah
Neil Pearce
Neil Pearce London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jolanta Lissowska
Jolanta Lissowska Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology

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