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Nicola Orsini is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has a significant body of research primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with 119 publications. Their work extends into several specialized subfields, including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Statistics and Probability, Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's research topics encompass a diverse range of areas with a focus on epidemiological and clinical studies, particularly relating to cardiovascular health and infectious diseases. Key topics include:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Electromagnetic Fields and Biological Effects
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Orsini has contributed papers to multiple publication venues, showing a concentration in journals related to environmental health, cardiovascular medicine, and public health. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Environment International
  • European Journal of Heart Failure
  • BMC Public Health
  • Toxicology Letters
  • Circulation

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Nicola Orsini demonstrate a focus on cardiovascular and infectious disease topics, including studies on blood pressure effects, the impact of nutrients on cardiovascular health, and environmental factors related to COVID-19 spread and outcomes:

  • Blood Pressure Effects of Sodium Reduction, 2021, Circulation
  • Potassium Intake and Blood Pressure: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials, 2020, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Lockdown timing and efficacy in controlling COVID-19 using mobile phone tracking, 2020, EClinicalMedicine
  • Satellite-detected tropospheric nitrogen dioxide and spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Northern Italy, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Associations between mortality from COVID-19 in two Italian regions and outdoor air pollution as assessed through tropospheric nitrogen dioxide, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Orsini collaborates regularly with several researchers, who frequently co-author publications alongside them. These frequent co-authors include:

  • Tommaso Filippini
  • Marco Vinceti
  • Robert Thiesmeier
  • Gianluigi Savarese
  • Kenneth J. Rothman

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Diabetes Mellitus and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

    Susanna C. Larsson;Nicola Orsini;Alicja Wolk

  • Generalized least squares for trend estimation of summarized dose–response data

    Nicola Orsini;Rino Bellocco;Sander Greenland

  • Meta-Analysis for Linear and Nonlinear Dose-Response Relations: Examples, an Evaluation of Approximations, and Software

    Nicola Orsini;Ruifeng Li;Alicja Wolk;Polyna Khudyakov

  • Diabetes mellitus and risk of endometrial cancer: a meta-analysis

    E. Friberg;N. Orsini;C. S. Mantzoros;A. Wolk

  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of reduction in all-cause mortality from walking and cycling and shape of dose response relationship

    Paul Kelly;Paul Kelly;Sonja Kahlmeier;Thomas Götschi;Nicola Orsini

  • Non-vigorous physical activity and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies

    James Woodcock;Oscar H Franco;Nicola Orsini;Ian Roberts

  • Blood 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration and hypertension: a meta-analysis.

    Ann Burgaz;Nicola Orsini;Susanna C Larsson;Alicja Wolk

  • Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption and All-Cause Mortality: A Meta-Analysis

    Susanna C Larsson;Nicola Orsini

  • Body mass index and pancreatic cancer risk: A meta-analysis of prospective studies.

    Susanna C. Larsson;Nicola Orsini;Alicja Wolk

  • Body weight and incidence of breast cancer defined by estrogen and progesterone receptor status—A meta‐analysis

    Reiko Suzuki;Nicola Orsini;Shigehira Saji;Timothy J. Key

  • Diabetes mellitus and risk of bladder cancer : a meta-analysis

    S. C. Larsson;N. Orsini;K. Brismar;A. Wolk

  • Maternal smoking in pregnancy and asthma in preschool children: a pooled analysis of eight birth cohorts.

    Åsa Neuman;Cynthia Hohmann;Nicola Orsini;Göran Pershagen

  • Vitamin B6 and risk of colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis of prospective studies.

    Susanna C. Larsson;Nicola Orsini;Alicja Wolk

  • Body mass index and incidence of localized and advanced prostate cancer—a dose–response meta-analysis of prospective studies

    A. Discacciati;N. Orsini;A. Wolk

  • A Procedure to Tabulate and Plot Results after Flexible Modeling of a Quantitative Covariate

    Nicola Orsini;Sander Greenland

  • Cigarette smoking and risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a dose-response meta-analysis.

    Daniela Di Giuseppe;Andrea Discacciati;Nicola Orsini;Alicja Wolk

  • Night-shift work and breast cancer--a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Sharea Ijaz Ijaz;Jos H Verbeek;Andreas Seidler;Marja-Liisa Lindbohm

  • Fish Consumption, Dietary Long-Chain n-3 Fatty Acids, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies

    Alice Wallin;Daniela Di Giuseppe;Nicola Orsini;Pinal S. Patel

  • One-stage dose-response meta-analysis for aggregated data.

    Alessio Crippa;Andrea Discacciati;Matteo Bottai;Donna Spiegelman

Frequent Co-Authors

Alicja Wolk
Alicja Wolk Karolinska Institute
Susanna C. Larsson
Susanna C. Larsson Karolinska Institute
Rino Bellocco
Rino Bellocco Karolinska Institute
Sander Greenland
Sander Greenland University of California, Los Angeles
Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Pagona Lagiou
Pagona Lagiou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Kenneth J. Rothman
Kenneth J. Rothman Boston University
Bo Burström
Bo Burström Karolinska Institute
Torbjörn Åkerstedt
Torbjörn Åkerstedt Karolinska Institute
Ben Schöttker
Ben Schöttker Heidelberg University

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