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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
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Overview

Sheila Bingham was affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions spanned multiple areas within medicine, with a focus on molecular biology, physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their published work covered several interconnected topics, including:

  • Congenital heart defects research
  • Adipose tissue and metabolism
  • Nutritional studies and diet
  • Cardiovascular disease and adiposity

They authored or contributed to research papers primarily published in UNC Libraries, with notable recent works including:

  • "Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Evaluation and Comparison of Food Records, Recalls, and Frequencies for Energy and Protein Assessment by Using Recovery Biomarkers," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity," 2020, UNC Libraries

The scientist collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, among them:

  • Ruth J. F. Loos
  • Shengxu Li
  • Cecilia M. Lindgren
  • Sonja I. Berndt
  • Eleanor Wheeler

Overall, Sheila Bingham's work contributed to medical research with a particular emphasis on genetics, nutrition, and the physiological mechanisms affecting body weight regulation and cardiovascular health.

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

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • Triglycerides and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease 10 158 Incident Cases Among 262 525 Participants in 29 Western Prospective Studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;John Danesh;Gudny Eiriksdottir;Gunnar Sigurdsson

  • Association of hemoglobin A1c with cardiovascular disease and mortality in adults: the European prospective investigation into cancer in Norfolk.

    Kay-Tee Khaw;Nicholas Wareham;Sheila Bingham;Robert Luben

  • A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

    Rayjean J. Hung;James D. Mckay;Valerie Gaborieau;Paolo Boffetta

  • 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

  • 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

  • Glycated haemoglobin, diabetes, and mortality in men in Norfolk cohort of european prospective investigation of cancer and nutrition (EPIC-Norfolk).

    Kay-Tee Khaw;Nicholas Wareham;Robert Luben;Sheila Bingham

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

    Teresa Norat;Sheila Bingham;Pietro Ferrari;Nadia Slimani

  • Using Intake Biomarkers to Evaluate the Extent of Dietary Misreporting in a Large Sample of Adults: The OPEN Study

    Amy F. Subar;Victor Kipnis;Richard P. Troiano;Douglas Midthune

  • Combined Impact of Health Behaviours and Mortality in Men and Women: The EPIC-Norfolk Prospective Population Study

    Kay-Tee Khaw;Nicholas J. Wareham;Sheila Bingham;Ailsa A. Welch

  • Comparison of dietary assessment methods in nutritional epidemiology: weighed records v . 24 h recalls, food-frequency questionnaires and estimated-diet records

    S. A. Bingham;C. Gill;A. Welch;K. Day

  • Endogenous Testosterone and Mortality Due to All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer in Men European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer in Norfolk (EPIC-Norfolk) Prospective Population Study

    Kay-Tee Khaw;Mitch Dowsett;Elizabeth Folkerd;Sheila Bingham

  • EPIC-Norfolk: study design and characteristics of the cohort. European Prospective Investigation of Cancer.

    Day N;Oakes S;Luben R;Khaw Kt

  • Structure of Dietary Measurement Error: Results of the OPEN Biomarker Study

    Victor Kipnis;Amy F. Subar;Douglas Midthune;Laurence S. Freedman

  • 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

  • Association of hemoglobin A1c with cardiovascular disease and mortality in adults: The European prospective investigation into cancer in Norfolk

    K.T. Khaw;N. Wareham;S. Bingham;R. Luben

Frequent Co-Authors

Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Robert Luben
Robert Luben University College London
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Ailsa Welch
Ailsa Welch University of East Anglia
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University

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