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Inge Huybrechts is affiliated with the International Agency For Research On Cancer in France. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Other subfields include Physiology, Oncology, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Genetics.

Their work extensively covers topics related to Nutritional Studies and Diet, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Fatty Acid Research and Health, as well as Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact.

Huybrechts has contributed to numerous publications in a variety of journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Nutrients
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • European Journal of Nutrition
  • PLoS Medicine

They have collaborated often with several researchers such as Marc J. Gunter, Matthias B. Schulze, Elisabete Weiderpass, Anne Tjønneland, and Mathilde Touvier.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Inge Huybrechts include:

  • Artificial sweeteners and cancer risk: Results from the NutriNet-Santé population-based cohort study (2022), published in PLoS Medicine
  • Mycotoxin exposure and human cancer risk: A systematic review of epidemiological studies (2020), published in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety
  • A Body Shape Index (ABSI) achieves better mortality risk stratification than alternative indices of abdominal obesity: results from a large European cohort (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • Consumption of ultra-processed foods and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study (2023), published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Artificial sweeteners and risk of cardiovascular diseases: results from the prospective NutriNet-Santé cohort (2022), published in BMJ

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

  • Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2016: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study.

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Tomi F. Akinyemiju;Faris Hasan Al Lami;Tahiya Alam

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • 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

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • 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

  • 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

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Lalit Dandona;Lalit Dandona

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

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

  • Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology – nutritional epidemiology (STROBE-nut): An extension of the STROBE statement†

    Carl Lachat;Carl Lachat;Dana Hawwash;Marga C. Ocké;Christina Berg

  • Comparison of Nutritional Quality of the Vegan, Vegetarian, Semi-Vegetarian, Pesco-Vegetarian and Omnivorous Diet

    Peter Clarys;Tom Deliens;Inge Huybrechts;Peter Deriemaeker

  • Review and evaluation of innovative technologies for measuring diet in nutritional epidemiology

    A-K Illner;H Freisling;H Boeing;Inge Huybrechts

  • Associations between dietary inflammatory index and inflammatory markers in the Asklepios Study.

    Nitin Shivappa;James R. Hébert;Ernst R. Rietzschel;Marc L. De Buyzere

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • Dietary fibre and incidence of type 2 diabetes in eight European countries: the EPIC-InterAct Study and a meta-analysis of prospective studies

    Anneleen Kuijsten;Dagfinn Aune;Matthias B. Schulze;Teresa Norat

  • Stress, emotional eating behaviour and dietary patterns in children.

    Nathalie Michels;Isabelle Sioen;Isabelle Sioen;Caroline Braet;Gabriele Eiben

  • Consumption of sweet beverages and type 2 diabetes incidence in European adults: results from EPIC-InterAct

    D. Romaguera;T. Norat;P. A. Wark;A. C. Vergnaud

  • Mapping low intake of micronutrients across Europe

    Gert Mensink;Reg Fletcher;M. Gurinovic;I. Huybrechts

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis A. Moreno
Luis A. Moreno University of Zaragoza
Dénes Molnár
Dénes Molnár University of Pecs
Marcela González-Gross
Marcela González-Gross Technical University of Madrid
Kurt Widhalm
Kurt Widhalm Medical University of Vienna
Marc J. Gunter
Marc J. Gunter Imperial College London
Yannis Manios
Yannis Manios Harokopio University
Frédéric Gottrand
Frédéric Gottrand University of Lille
Jean Dallongeville
Jean Dallongeville Institut Pasteur
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Elisabete Weiderpass
Elisabete Weiderpass International Agency For Research On Cancer

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