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Overview

Rashmi Sinha is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a substantial body of work covering Oncology, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, and Epidemiology.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Linda M. Liao
  • Erikka Loftfield
  • Emily Vogtmann
  • Neal D. Freedman
  • Yunhu Wan

The scientist has published extensively across several notable venues, including:

  • Cancer Research (14 publications)
  • Current Developments in Nutrition (7 publications)
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention (6 publications)
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute (5 publications)
  • British Journal of Cancer (5 publications)

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Rashmi Sinha are:

  • Diet, nutrition, and cancer risk: what do we know and what is the way forward?, 2020, BMJ
  • Association Between Plant and Animal Protein Intake and Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Fecal Metabolomic Signatures in Colorectal Adenoma Patients Are Associated with Gut Microbiota and Early Events of Colorectal Cancer Pathogenesis, 2020, mBio
  • The 2022 EULAR/ACR points to consider at the early stages of diagnosis and management of suspected haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis/macrophage activation syndrome (HLH/MAS), 2023, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Whole grain and dietary fiber intake and risk of colorectal cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study cohort, 2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Rashmi Sinha has contributed to book publications as well, with works published by IGNOU eBooks and Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi eBooks. Titles include:

  • Block-4 Approaches of Biological Anthropology, 2020
  • Block-2 Human Evolution and Evolution, 2020
  • Block-2 Early Hominids, 2020
  • Block-1 Palaeoanthropology and Primate Evolution, 2020

Best Publications

  • Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • Author Correction: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2.

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R. Dillon;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • Meta-analysis of fecal metagenomes reveals global microbial signatures that are specific for colorectal cancer

    Jakob Wirbel;Paul Theodor Pyl;Paul Theodor Pyl;Ece Kartal;Konrad Zych

  • Human Gut Microbiome and Risk for Colorectal Cancer

    Jiyoung Ahn;Rashmi Sinha;Zhiheng Pei;Christine Dominianni

  • QIIME 2: Reproducible, interactive, scalable, and extensible microbiome data science

    Evan Bolyen;Jai Ram Rideout;Matthew R Dillon;Nicholas A Bokulich

  • Meat consumption and risk of colorectal cancer.

    Ann Chao;Michael J. Thun;Cari J. Connell;Marjorie L. McCullough

  • Meat Intake and Mortality A Prospective Study of Over Half a Million People

    Rashmi Sinha;Amanda J. Cross;Barry I. Graubard;Michael F. Leitzmann

  • Association of Coffee Drinking with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality

    Neal D. Freedman;Christian C. Abnet;Albert R. Hollenbeck;Rashmi Sinha

  • Trends in meat consumption in the USA

    Carrie R. Daniel;Amanda J. Cross;Corinna Koebnick;Rashmi Sinha

  • A prospective study of red and processed meat intake in relation to cancer risk.

    Amanda J Cross;Michael F Leitzmann;Mitchell H Gail;Albert R Hollenbeck

  • A Large Prospective Study of Meat Consumption and Colorectal Cancer Risk: An Investigation of Potential Mechanisms Underlying this Association

    Amanda J. Cross;Leah M. Ferrucci;Adam Risch;Barry I. Graubard

  • Meat‐related mutagens/carcinogens in the etiology of colorectal cancer

    Amanda J. Cross;Rashmi Sinha

  • Assessment of variation in microbial community amplicon sequencing by the Microbiome Quality Control (MBQC) project consortium

    Rashmi Sinha;Galeb Abu-Ali;Emily Vogtmann;Anthony A Fodor

  • Sex, Body Mass Index, and Dietary Fiber Intake Influence the Human Gut Microbiome

    Christine Dominianni;Rashmi Sinha;James J. Goedert;Zhiheng Pei

  • High Concentrations of the Carcinogen 2-Amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo-[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) Occur in Chicken but Are Dependent on the Cooking Method

    Rashmi Sinha;Nathaniel Rothman;Ellen D. Brown;Cynthia P. Salmon

  • Well-done meat intake and the risk of breast cancer

    Wei Zheng;Deborah R. Gustafson;Rashmi Sinha;James R. Cerhan

  • Heterocyclic Amines, Meat Intake, and Association with Colon Cancer in a Population-based Study

    Lesley Butler;Rashmi Sinha;Robert Millikan;Christopher Martin

  • Association between body mass index and cardiovascular disease mortality in east Asians and south Asians: pooled analysis of prospective data from the Asia Cohort Consortium

    Yu Chen;Wade K. Copeland;Rajesh Vedanthan;Eric Grant

  • Body Mass Index and Diabetes in Asia: A Cross-Sectional Pooled Analysis of 900,000 Individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium

    Paolo Boffetta;Dale McLerran;Yu Chen;Manami Inoue

  • Mortality from different causes associated with meat, heme iron, nitrates, and nitrites in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study: population based cohort study

    Arash Etemadi;Rashmi Sinha;Mary H Ward;Barry I Graubard

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry I. Graubard
Barry I. Graubard National Institutes of Health
Neal D. Freedman
Neal D. Freedman National Institutes of Health
Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon
Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon National Institutes of Health
Christian C. Abnet
Christian C. Abnet National Institutes of Health
Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health
Wei Zheng
Wei Zheng Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Andrew T. Chan
Andrew T. Chan Harvard University
Walter C. Willett
Walter C. Willett Harvard University
I-Min Lee
I-Min Lee Harvard University

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