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José María Huerta

José María Huerta

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José María Huerta is affiliated with the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of nutrition, genetics, and disease, with a strong emphasis on public health and epidemiology. The scientist's work spans medicine as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, contributing specifically to fields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, genetics, oncology, and molecular biology.

Their research topics include nutritional studies and diet, diet and metabolism studies, nutrition genetics and disease, consumer attitudes and food labeling, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, folate and B vitamins research, and cancer risks and factors.

José María Huerta has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Nutrients
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Clinical Nutrition
  • Frontiers in Nutrition

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by José María Huerta include:

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis, 2020, Nature Communications
  • RETRACTED: Estimating dose-response relationships for vitamin D with coronary heart disease, stroke, and all-cause mortality: observational and Mendelian randomisation analyses, 2021, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Consumption of ultra-processed foods and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study, 2023, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Development and validation of a lifestyle-based model for colorectal cancer risk prediction: the LiFeCRC score, 2021, BMC Medicine
  • Consumption of ultra-processed foods associated with weight gain and obesity in adults: A multi-national cohort study, 2021, Clinical Nutrition

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several other researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Pilar Amiano
  • Matthias B. Schulze
  • Giovanna Masala
  • Elisabete Weiderpass
  • Anne Tjønneland

José María Huerta's academic output reflects a multidisciplinary approach, integrating aspects of public health, genetics, and nutritional epidemiology to explore complex relationships between diet, lifestyle, and disease risks. This body of work contributes to understanding cancer risks and metabolic diseases within population health contexts.

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

  • 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

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

    Angela M. Wood;Stephen Kaptoge;Adam S. Butterworth;Peter Willeit

  • 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

  • Prediction of acute myeloid leukaemia risk in healthy individuals

    Sagi Abelson;Grace Collord;Grace Collord;Stanley W.K. Ng;Omer Weissbrod

  • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley;Sara Lindstrom;Sander Canisius

  • Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Overall Cancer Risk in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Paolo Boffetta;Elisabeth Couto;Janine Wichmann;Janine Wichmann;Pietro Ferrari

  • Differences in the prospective association between individual plasma phospholipid saturated fatty acids and incident type 2 diabetes: the EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study.

    Nita G. Forouhi;Albert Koulman;Stephen J. Sharp;Fumiaki Imamura

  • Meat consumption and mortality - results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

    Sabine Rohrmann;Kim Overvad;H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita;Marianne U. Jakobsen

  • 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

  • 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

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer : a Mendelian randomisation analysis

    Nikos Papadimitriou;Niki Dimou;Konstantinos K. Tsilidis;Konstantinos K. Tsilidis;Barbara Banbury

  • Physical activity and all-cause mortality across levels of overall and abdominal adiposity in European men and women: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study (EPIC)

    Ulf Ekelund;Ulf Ekelund;Heather A. Ward;Teresa Norat;Jian'an Luan

  • Plasma antibodies to oral bacteria and risk of pancreatic cancer in a large European prospective cohort study

    Dominique S. Michaud;Jacques Izard;Charlotte S. Wilhelm-Benartzi;Doo Ho You

  • Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in the Spanish EPIC Cohort Study

    Genevieve Buckland;Carlos A. González;Antonio Agudo;Mireia Vilardell

  • The link between family history and risk of type 2 diabetes is not explained by anthropometric, lifestyle or genetic risk factors : The EPIC-InterAct study

    R. A. Scott;C. Langenberg;S. J. Sharp;P. W. Franks;P. W. Franks

  • Meat consumption and prospective weight change in participants of the EPIC-PANACEA study

    Anne Claire Vergnaud;Teresa Norat;Dora Romaguera;Traci Mouw

  • Separate and combined associations of obesity and metabolic health with coronary heart disease: a pan-European case-cohort analysis.

    Camille Lassale;Camille Lassale;Ioanna Tzoulaki;Ioanna Tzoulaki;Karel G.M. Moons;Michael Sweeting

  • Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Is Associated with Lower Abdominal Adiposity in European Men and Women

    Dora Romaguera;Teresa Norat;Traci Mouw;Anne M. May

Frequent Co-Authors

Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
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
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge

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