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Petra H.M. Peeters

Petra H.M. Peeters

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Medicine
Netherlands
2023

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
157
Citations
109752
World Ranking
107
National Ranking
8

Medicine

D-Index
162
Citations
115945
World Ranking
702
National Ranking
27

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Petra H.M. Peeters was affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands during their academic career.

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There are no records of book publications or awards associated with Petra H.M. Peeters.

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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

  • 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

  • General and abdominal adiposity and risk of death in Europe.

    T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann;M. Bergmann

  • 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

  • General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Death in Europe

    T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann

  • Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts : Prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

    Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen;Rob Beelen;Evangelia Samoli

  • European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC): study populations and data collection

    E. Riboli;K. J. Hunt;N. Slimani;P. Ferrari

  • Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality : An analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Dietary fibre in food and protection against colorectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC): an observational study

    Sheila A Bingham;Nicholas E Day;Robert Luben;Pietro Ferrari

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Meat, Fish, and Colorectal Cancer Risk: The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

    Teresa Norat;Sheila Bingham;Pietro Ferrari;Nadia Slimani

  • Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: EPIC-elderly prospective cohort study

    Antonia Trichopoulou;Philippos Orfanos;Teresa Norat;Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

  • Body size and breast cancer risk: findings from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).

    Petra H. Lahmann;Kurt Hoffmann;Naomi Allen;Carla H. Van Gils

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

    Laufey Amundadottir;Peter Kraft;Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon;Charles S. Fuchs

  • Body Size and Risk of Colon and Rectal Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Tobias Pischon;Petra H. Lahmann;Heiner Boeing;Christine Friedenreich

  • 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

  • A genome-wide association study identifies pancreatic cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 13q22.1, 1q32.1 and 5p15.33

    Gloria M. Petersen;Laufey Amundadottir;Charles S. Fuchs;Peter Kraft

  • Meta-Analysis of MR Imaging in the Diagnosis of Breast Lesions

    Nicky H G M Peters;Inne H M Borel Rinkes;Nicolaas P A Zuithoff;Willem P T M Mali

  • Postmenopausal serum androgens, oestrogens and breast cancer risk: the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition

    R. Kaaks;S. Rinaldi;T.J. Key;F. Berrino

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita
H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge
Rudolf Kaaks
Rudolf Kaaks German Cancer Research Center

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