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Pietro Ferrari is affiliated with the International Agency For Research On Cancer in France. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with considerable contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The work spans subfields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, oncology, physiology, molecular biology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's research topics encompass nutritional studies and diet, cancer risks and factors, diet and metabolism studies, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, alcohol consumption and health effects, and the relationship between cancer, lipids, and metabolism.

Recent papers associated with Pietro Ferrari include:

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Global burden of cancer in 2020 attributable to alcohol consumption: a population-based study, 2021, The Lancet Oncology
  • Lifestyle factors and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Alcohol and Cancer: Epidemiology and Biological Mechanisms, 2021, Nutrients
  • 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

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pietro Ferrari include:

  • Marc J. Gunter
  • Anne Tjønneland
  • Elisabete Weiderpass
  • Matthias B. Schulze
  • Giovanna Masala

Publication venues where Pietro Ferrari's work often appears include:

  • International Journal of Cancer
  • BMC Medicine
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Epidemiology

The scientist's contributions reflect an interdisciplinary approach integrating epidemiology, molecular biology, and public health. Their body of work addresses critical aspects of cancer epidemiology and cardiovascular risk, emphasizing the influence of lifestyle and metabolic factors.

Best Publications

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

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

  • General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Death in Europe

    T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann

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

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

  • 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

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

    Teresa Norat;Sheila Bingham;Pietro Ferrari;Nadia Slimani

  • 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

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

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

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

  • 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

  • Meat consumption and colorectal cancer risk: Dose‐response meta‐analysis of epidemiological studies

    Teresa Norat;Annekatrin Lukanova;Pietro Ferrari;Elio Riboli

  • 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

  • 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

  • Serum Sex Steroids in Premenopausal Women and Breast Cancer Risk Within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Rudolf Kaaks;Franco Berrino;Timothy Key;Sabina Rinaldi

  • 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

  • Association between pre-diagnostic circulating vitamin D concentration and risk of colorectal cancer in European populations:a nested case-control study

    Mazda Jenab;H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita;Pietro Ferrari;Franzel J.B. van Duijnhoven

  • Biomarkers in nutritional epidemiology: applications, needs and new horizons

    Mazda Jenab;Nadia Slimani;Magda Bictash;Pietro Ferrari

  • Bias in dietary-report instruments and its implications for nutritional epidemiology.

    Victor Kipnis;Douglas Midthune;Laurence Freedman;Sheila Bingham

  • Prospective study of hyperglycemia and cancer risk.

    Pär Stattin;Ove Björ;Pietro Ferrari;Annekatrin Lukanova;Annekatrin Lukanova

  • N‐3 and N‐6 fatty acids in breast adipose tissue and relative risk of breast cancer in a case‐control study in Tours, France

    Virginie Maillard;Philippe Bougnoux;Pietro Ferrari;Marie-Lise Jourdan

  • European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) calibration study: rationale, design and population characteristics

    N Slimani;R Kaaks;P Ferrari;C Casagrande

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
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
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
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Salvatore Panico
Salvatore Panico University of Naples Federico II
Rudolf Kaaks
Rudolf Kaaks German Cancer Research Center

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