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Overview

Isabelle Romieu is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with significant contributions in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Oncology, Physiology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Genetics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including Cancer Risks and Factors, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Nutrition and Health in Aging, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, and Birth, Development, and Health.

Recent notable papers authored by Romieu include:

  • Lifestyle factors and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study (2020) published in BMC Medicine
  • Body mass index and waist circumference in relation to the risk of 26 types of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 3.5 million adults in Spain (2021) published in BMC Medicine
  • Nutritional Factors during and after Cancer: Impacts on Survival and Quality of Life (2022) published in Nutrients
  • Longitudinal body mass index and cancer risk: a cohort study of 2.6 million Catalan adults (2023) published in Nature Communications
  • Pro-Inflammatory Diet Is Associated with Adiposity during Childhood and with Adipokines and Inflammatory Markers at 11 Years in Mexican Children (2020) published in Nutrients

Frequent collaborators include Albino Barraza-Villarreal, Marc J. Gunter, Sabina Rinaldi, Carine Biessy, and Heinz Freisling.

The venues where Romieu has most frequently published are:

  • Nutrients
  • BMC Medicine
  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Cancer Causes & Control
  • International Journal of Obesity

Best Publications

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • 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 comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

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

  • The Global Burden of Disease Due to Outdoor Air Pollution

    Aaron J Cohen;H Ross Anderson;Bart Ostro;Kiran Dev Pandey

  • An Official American Thoracic Society Public Policy Statement: Novel Risk Factors and the Global Burden of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    Mark D. Eisner;Nicholas Anthonisen;David Coultas;Nino Kuenzli

  • 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

  • Global burden of cancer attributable to high body-mass index in 2012: a population-based study

    Melina Arnold;Nirmala Pandeya;Graham Byrnes;Andrew G Renehan

  • Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking

    Roby Joehanes;Allan C. Just;Riccardo E. Marioni;Luke C. Pilling

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations

    Dara G. Torgerson;Dara G. Torgerson;Elizabeth J. Ampleford;Grace Y. Chiu;W. James Gauderman

  • Alcohol drinking and colorectal cancer risk: an overall and dose–response meta-analysis of published studies

    V. Fedirko;I. Tramacere;V. Bagnardi;V. Bagnardi;M. Rota

  • International study of temperature,heat and urban mortality: the ‘ISOTHURM’ project

    Anthony J. McMichael;Paul Wilkinson;R. Sari Kovats;Sam Pattenden

  • Energy balance and obesity: what are the main drivers?

    Isabelle Romieu;Laure Dossus;Simón Barquera;Hervé M. Blottière

  • Type and timing of menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis of the worldwide epidemiological evidence

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

  • Validity and reproducibility of a food frequency questionnaire to assess dietary intake of women living in Mexico City

    Mauricio Hernández-Avila;Isabelle Romieu;Socorro Parra;Juan Hernández-Avila

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O.C. Cookson

  • The genetics of Mexico recapitulates Native American substructure and affects biomedical traits

    Andrés Moreno-Estrada;Christopher R. Gignoux;Juan Carlos Fernández-López;Fouad Zakharia

  • The potential impacts of climate variability and change on air pollution-related health effects in the United States.

    Susan M. Bernard;Jonathan M. Samet;Anne Grambsch;Kristie L. Ebi

  • Energy intake and other determinants of relative weight.

    Isabelle Romieu;Walter C Willett;Meir J Stampfer;Graham A Colditz

  • Dietary polyphenol intake in Europe: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study

    Raul Zamora-Ros;Viktoria Knaze;Joseph A. Rothwell;Bertrand Hémon

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O. C. Cookson

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Pagona Lagiou
Pagona Lagiou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
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
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon Institut Gustave Roussy

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