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2023

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Medicine

D-Index
161
Citations
86646
World Ranking
758
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Salvatore Panico is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, molecular biology, oncology, genetics, and physiology.

Their work addresses a range of topics including nutritional studies and diet, cancer risks and factors, diet and metabolism studies, epigenetics and DNA methylation, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, nutrition, genetics and disease, as well as colorectal cancer screening and detection.

Salvatore Panico has contributed to several frequently publishing venues in the scientific community. These include:

  • BMC Medicine
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Cancer Research
  • European Journal of Epidemiology

Their recent publications highlight a broad scope of research questions and methodologies. The following are some selected papers along with their year of publication and venue:

  • Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Lifestyle factors and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • A Body Shape Index (ABSI) achieves better mortality risk stratification than alternative indices of abdominal obesity: results from a large European cohort, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • 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
  • Consumption of ultra-processed foods and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study, 2023, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe

Frequent collaborators in Salvatore Panico's research include Rosario Tumino, Elisabete Weiderpass, Matthias B. Schulze, Anne Tjønneland, and Carlotta Sacerdote. These coauthors have contributed significantly alongside Panico across multiple publications.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity

    Simone Wahl;Alexander Drong;Benjamin Lehne;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Marie Loh

  • 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

  • Prediction of acute myeloid leukaemia risk in healthy individuals

    Sagi Abelson;Grace Collord;Grace Collord;Stanley W.K. Ng;Omer Weissbrod

  • 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

  • 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

  • Serum uric acid and hypertension : the Olivetti heart study

    F Jossa;E Farinaro;S Panico;V Krogh

  • A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies multiple susceptibility loci

    Nathaniel Rothman;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Nuria Malats

  • Circulating sex hormones and breast cancer risk factors in postmenopausal women: Reanalysis of 13 studies

    T J Key;P N Appleby;G K Reeves;A W Roddam;A W Roddam

  • Serum Sex Hormone Levels After Menopause and Subsequent Breast Cancer

    Franco Berrino;Paola Muti;Andrea Micheli;Gianfranco Bolelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Domenico Palli
Domenico Palli Institute for the Study and Prevention of Cancer (Istituto per lo Studio, la Prevenzione e la Rete Oncologica)
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Paolo Vineis
Paolo Vineis Imperial College London
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay

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