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Teresa Norat is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, encompassing several specialized subfields such as Oncology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, and Epidemiology. Their scholarly work focuses on various topics including Cancer Risks and Factors, Cancer Survivorship and Care, Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging, Birth, Development, and Health, Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control, and Physical Activity and Health.

Recent publications illustrate a concentration on the intersections of physical activity, body fatness, diet, and their impacts on disease prognosis and general health outcomes. Notable papers include:

  • Physical activity and the risk of heart failure: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies (2020), published in European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Physical Activity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Women With Breast Cancer: A Meta-Analysis (2022), published in JNCI Cancer Spectrum
  • Postdiagnosis body fatness, weight change and breast cancer prognosis: Global Cancer Update Program (CUP global) systematic literature review and meta-analysis (2022), published in International Journal of Cancer
  • Postdiagnosis recreational physical activity and breast cancer prognosis: Global Cancer Update Programme (CUP Global) systematic literature review and meta-analysis (2022), published in International Journal of Cancer
  • Postdiagnosis dietary factors, supplement use and breast cancer prognosis: Global Cancer Update Programme (CUP Global) systematic literature review and meta-analysis (2022), published in International Journal of Cancer

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Norat include Dagfinn Aune, Elio Ríboli, Ellen Kampman, Helen Croker, and Doris S.M. Chan.

Their publications appear often in journals such as:

  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Health Open Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • European Journal of Epidemiology
  • JNCI Cancer Spectrum

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

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

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

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

  • Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all-cause mortality-a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies.

    Dagfinn Aune;Dagfinn Aune;Edward Giovannucci;Edward Giovannucci;Paolo Boffetta;Lars T. Fadnes

  • Epidemiologic evidence of the protective effect of fruit and vegetables on cancer risk

    Elio Riboli;Teresa Norat

  • 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

  • Dietary fibre, whole grains, and risk of colorectal cancer: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies

    Dagfinn Aune;Doris S M Chan;Rosa Lau;Rui Vieira

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

    Teresa Norat;Sheila Bingham;Pietro Ferrari;Nadia Slimani

  • Body mass index and survival in women with breast cancer—systematic literature review and meta-analysis of 82 follow-up studies

    D. S.M. Chan;A. R. Vieira;D. Aune;D. Aune;E. V. Bandera

  • Red and Processed Meat and Colorectal Cancer Incidence: Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies

    Doris S. M. Chan;Rosa Lau;Dagfinn Aune;Rui Vieira

  • Whole grain consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all cause and cause specific mortality: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies

    Dagfinn Aune;NaNa Keum;Edward Giovannucci;Lars T Fadnes

  • BMI and all cause mortality: systematic review and non-linear dose-response meta-analysis of 230 cohort studies with 3.74 million deaths among 30.3 million participants

    Dagfinn Aune;Dagfinn Aune;Abhijit Sen;Manya Prasad;Teresa Norat

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

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

  • Physical activity and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis

    Dagfinn Aune;Teresa Norat;Michael Leitzmann;Serena Tonstad

  • 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

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

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

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