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Overview

Valeria Pala is affiliated with the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Italy. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a strong emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health, oncology, genetics, physiology, and molecular biology.

The topics extensively covered in their work include nutritional studies and diet, obesity, physical activity, and diet, cancer risks and factors, diet and metabolism studies, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, consumer attitudes and food labeling, as well as metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Nutrients
  • Scientific Reports
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Collaborations have been numerous with notable frequent co-authors such as Elisabete Weiderpass, Matthias B. Schulze, Anne Tjønneland, Rosario Tumino, and Rudolf Kaaks.

Among their recent papers are:

  • 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
  • Breast cancer risk after recent childbirth: A pooled analysis of 15 prospective studies, 2024, PubMed
  • Exercise Levels and Preferences in Cancer Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Metabolic Signatures of Healthy Lifestyle Patterns and Colorectal Cancer Risk in a European Cohort, 2020, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Dietary intake of trans fatty acids and breast cancer risk in 9 European countries, 2021, BMC Medicine

Best Publications

  • Body mass index, serum sex hormones, and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women.

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

  • Differences in the prospective association between individual plasma phospholipid saturated fatty acids and incident type 2 diabetes: the EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study.

    Nita G. Forouhi;Albert Koulman;Stephen J. Sharp;Fumiaki Imamura

  • Physical Activity and Mortality in Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus: A Prospective Study and Meta-analysis.

    Diewertje Sluik;Brian Buijsse;Rebecca Muckelbauer;Rudolf Kaaks

  • Structure of the standardized computerized 24-h diet recall interview used as reference method in the 22 centers participating in the EPIC project

    Nadia Slimani;Geneviève Deharveng;Ruth U. Charrondière;Anne Linda van Kappel

  • Dietary Fibre Intake and Risks of Cancers of the Colon and Rectum in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Neil Murphy;Teresa Norat;Pietro Ferrari;Mazda Jenab

  • Mediterranean dietary pattern and cancer risk in the EPIC cohort

    E. Couto;E. Couto;P. Boffetta;P. Boffetta;P. Lagiou;P. Ferrari

  • Dietary fibre and incidence of type 2 diabetes in eight European countries: the EPIC-InterAct Study and a meta-analysis of prospective studies

    Anneleen Kuijsten;Dagfinn Aune;Matthias B. Schulze;Teresa Norat

  • Smoking as a major risk factor for cervical cancer and pre‐cancer: Results from the EPIC cohort

    Esther Roura;Xavier Castellsagué;Michael Pawlita;Noémie Travier

  • Fruit and vegetable intake and mortality from ischaemic heart disease: Results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Heart study

    Francesca L. Crowe;Andrew W. Roddam;Timothy J. Key;Paul N. Appleby

  • Use of dietary supplements in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition calibration study

    G. Skeie;T. Braaten;A. Hjartaker;M. Lentjes

  • Physical activity and risk of endometrial cancer : The European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition

    Christine Friedenreich;Anne Cust;Anne Cust;Anne Cust;Petra H. Lahmann;Karen Steindorf

  • Plasma phospholipid fatty acid profiles and their association with food intakes: results from a cross-sectional study within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

    Mitra Saadatian-Elahi;Nadia Slimani;Véronique Chajès;Mazda Jenab

  • Erythrocyte membrane fatty acids and subsequent breast cancer: a prospective Italian study.

    Valeria Pala;Vittorio Krogh;Paola Muti;Véronique Chajès

  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Risk Factors and Disease Burden in a European Cohort: A Nested Case–Control Study

    Dimitrios Trichopoulos;Dimitrios Trichopoulos;Christina Bamia;Pagona Lagiou;Pagona Lagiou;Pagona Lagiou;Veronika Fedirko

  • Reducing bioavailable sex hormones through a comprehensive change in diet: the diet and androgens (DIANA) randomized trial.

    Franco Berrino;Cristina Bellati;Giorgio Secreto;Edgarda Camerini

  • Oral contraceptive use and reproductive factors and risk of ovarian cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.

    K K Tsilidis;N E Allen;T J Key;L Dossus

  • Eating out of home and its correlates in 10 European countries. The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study.

    Philippos Orfanos;Androniki Naska;Dimitrios Trichopoulos;Nadia Slimani

  • Diet in the Italian EPIC cohorts: presentation of data and methodological issues.

    Valeria Pala;Sabina Sieri;Domenico Palli;Simonetta Salvini

  • Lower educational level is a predictor of incident type 2 diabetes in European countries: The EPIC-InterAct study

    Carlotta Sacerdote;Fulvio Ricceri;Olov Rolandsson;Ileana Baldi

  • Dietary fat and breast cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

    Sabina Sieri;Vittorio Krogh;Pietro Ferrari;Franco Berrino

Frequent Co-Authors

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

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