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Citations
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Overview

Nita G. Forouhi is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions to subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Genetics, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their main topics of study encompass Nutritional Studies and Diet, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Fatty Acid Research and Health, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, as well as Diet, Metabolism, and Disease.

Key recent papers authored by or related to their work include:

  • Blood n-3 fatty acid levels and total and cause-specific mortality from 17 prospective studies, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A cross-platform approach identifies genetic regulators of human metabolism and health, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Vitamin D for COVID-19: a case to answer?, 2020, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • 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
  • Association of plasma biomarkers of fruit and vegetable intake with incident type 2 diabetes: EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study in eight European countries, 2020, BMJ

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include:

  • Nicholas J. Wareham
  • Fumiaki Imamura
  • Matthias B. Schulze
  • Stephen J. Sharp
  • Elisabete Weiderpass

Common publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMJ
  • UNC Libraries
  • Circulation
  • Diabetes Care

Best Publications

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Common genetic determinants of vitamin D insufficiency: a genome-wide association study

    Thomas J. Wang;Feng Zhang;J. Brent Richards;Bryan Kestenbaum

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Association of Dietary, Circulating, and Supplement Fatty Acids With Coronary Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Rajiv Chowdhury;Samantha Warnakula;Setor Kunutsor;Francesca Crowe

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and fruit juice and incidence of type 2 diabetes: systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimation of population attributable fraction

    Fumiaki Imamura;Laura O’Connor;Zheng Ye;Jaakko Mursu

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • The interleukin-6 receptor as a target for prevention of coronary heart disease: a mendelian randomisation analysis.

    D I Swerdlow;M V Holmes;K B Kuchenbaecker

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance.

    Alisa K. Manning;Alisa K. Manning;Alisa K. Manning;Robert A. Scott;Jonna L. Grimsby

  • Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

    Robert A Scott;Vasiliki Lagou;Ryan P Welch;Eleanor Wheeler

  • 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

  • Epidemiology of diabetes

    Nita Gandhi Forouhi;Nicholas J. Wareham

  • Baseline Serum 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D Is Predictive of Future Glycemic Status and Insulin Resistance: The Medical Research Council Ely Prospective Study 1990–2000

    Nita G. Forouhi;Jian'an Luan;Andrew Cooper;Barbara J. Boucher

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Claudia Langenberg
Claudia Langenberg Queen Mary University of London
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Stephen J. Sharp
Stephen J. Sharp University of Cambridge
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Jian'an Luan
Jian'an Luan University of Cambridge
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition

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