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137
Citations
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World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Valerie Beral is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant number of publications addressing oncology, public health, infectious diseases, health, and epidemiology. The scientist's work spans multiple topics, including nutritional studies and diet, health disparities and outcomes, cancer risks and factors, dementia and cognitive impairment research, colorectal cancer screening and detection, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and chronic disease management strategies.

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, with frequent work appearing in The Lancet Public Health, International Journal of Epidemiology, New England Journal of Medicine, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and Oral Presentations.

Recent notable papers include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Vaccines, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Health impacts and environmental footprints of diets that meet the Eatwell Guide recommendations: analyses of multiple UK studies, 2020, BMJ Open
  • Social isolation and risk of heart disease and stroke: analysis of two large UK prospective studies, 2021, The Lancet Public Health
  • Combined and progestagen-only hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer risk: A UK nested case-control study and meta-analysis, 2023, PLoS Medicine
  • Placebo-Controlled Trials of Covid-19 Vaccines - Why We Still Need Them, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine

Frequent co-authors of Valerie Beral include:

  • Gillian Reeves
  • Sarah Floud
  • Jane Green
  • Angela Balkwill
  • Isobel Barnes

In 2006, Valerie Beral was awarded the title Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • UK biobank: an open access resource for identifying the causes of a wide range of complex diseases of middle and old age

    Cathie Sudlow;John Edward Gallacher;Naomi Allen;Valerie Beral

  • Circulating microRNAs in sera correlate with soluble biomarkers of immune activation but do not predict mortality in ART treated individuals with HIV-1 infection : a case control study

    Daniel D. Murray;Kazuo Suzuki;Matthew Law;Jonel Trebicka

  • Breast cancer and hormone-replacement therapy in the Million Women Study.

    Valerie Beral

  • Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy: collaborative reanalysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies of 52 705 women with breast cancer and 108 411 women without breast cancer

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;R. J. Coates;J. M. Liff

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives : collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 53.297 women with breast cancer and 100.239 women without breast cancer from 54 epidemiological studies

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;H. L. Miracle-McMahill;R. J. Coates

  • Cancer incidence and mortality in relation to body mass index in the Million Women Study: cohort study.

    Gillian K Reeves;Kirstin Pirie;Valerie Beral;Jane Green

  • Breast cancer and hormone-replacement therapy: the Million Women Study

    Valerie Beral;Emily Banks;Gillian Reeves;Diana Bull

  • Kaposi's sarcoma among persons with AIDS: a sexually transmitted infection?

    V. Beral;T.A. Peterman;R.L. Berkelman;H.W. Jaffe

  • Rethinking ovarian cancer II: Reducing mortality from high-grade serous ovarian cancer

    David D. Bowtell;David D. Bowtell;Steffen Böhm;Ahmed A. Ahmed;Paul Joseph Aspuria

  • Ovarian cancer and hormone replacement therapy in the Million Women Study

    Valerie Beral

  • Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer - Collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58 515 women with breast cancer and 95 067 women without the disease

    N Hamajima;K Hirose;K Tajima;T Rohan

  • Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Ovarian cancer and oral contraceptives: collaborative reanalysis of data from 45 epidemiological studies including 23 257 women with ovarian cancer and 87 303 controls

    V Beral;R Doll;C Hermon

  • UK and USA breast cancer deaths down 25% in year 2000 at ages 20-69 years.

    Richard Peto;Jillian Boreham;Mike Clarke;Christina Davies

  • The 21st century hazards of smoking and benefits of stopping: a prospective study of one million women in the UK

    Kirstin Pirie;Richard Peto;Gillian K Reeves;Jane Green

  • Cohort profile: the 45 and up study.

    Emily Banks;Sally Redman

  • Highly active antiretroviral therapy and incidence of cancer in human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults.

    P. Appleby;V. Beral;R. Newton;G. Reeves

  • AIDS-associated non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

    V Beral;T Peterman;R Berkelman;H Jaffe

  • Breast Cancer Risk in Relation to the Interval Between Menopause and Starting Hormone Therapy

    Valerie Beral;Gillian Reeves;Diana Bull;Jane Green

Frequent Co-Authors

Gillian K Reeves
Gillian K Reeves University of Oxford
Jane Green
Jane Green Memorial University of Newfoundland
Richard Peto
Richard Peto University of Oxford
Robert U. Newton
Robert U. Newton Edith Cowan University
Eve Roman
Eve Roman University of York
Timothy J. Key
Timothy J. Key University of Oxford
Silvia Franceschi
Silvia Franceschi Centro di Riferimento Oncologico
Harold W. Jaffe
Harold W. Jaffe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Julian Peto
Julian Peto London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Donald Maxwell Parkin
Donald Maxwell Parkin University of Oxford

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