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Paolo Vineis

Professor of Epidemiology, Imperial College London
Verified email at imperial.ac.uk
Cited by 146294

Tobacco and cancer: recent epidemiological evidence

P Vineis, M Alavanja, P Buffler… - Journal of the …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
During the 1950s, the evidence was clearly sufficient to establish the carcinogenicity of
tobacco smoking (1). By the end of the 1950s, convincing evidence linking smoking with lung …

[HTML][HTML] Outdoor particulate matter exposure and lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

…, P Vineis, F Forastiere, P Saldiva… - Environmental …, 2014 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
… However, homogeneity tests for PM 2.5 and PM 10 (p = 0.268 and p = 0.484, respectively)
suggested no difference between exposure assessment method subgroups (Table 2). …

Global cancer patterns: causes and prevention

P Vineis, CP Wild - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Cancer is a global and growing, but not uniform, problem. An increasing proportion of the
burden is falling on low-income and middle-income countries because of not only …

[HTML][HTML] General and abdominal adiposity and risk of death in Europe

…, S Sieri, D Palli, R Tumino, P Vineis… - … England Journal of …, 2008 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Previous studies have relied predominantly on the body-mass index (BMI, the
weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) to assess the association of …

European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC): study populations and data collection

…, D Trichopoulos, A Trichopoulou, P Vineis… - Public health …, 2002 - cambridge.org
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is an ongoing
multi-centre prospective cohort study designed to investigate the relationship between nutrition …

Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

…, F Ricceri, V Romanazzi, C Sacerdote, P Vineis… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Elevated blood pressure is a common, heritable cause of cardiovascular disease worldwide.
To date, identification of common genetic variants influencing blood pressure has proven …

Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts: prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

…, A Trichopoulou, C Bamia, P Vineis… - The lancet …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background Ambient air pollution is suspected to cause lung cancer. We aimed to assess
the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and lung cancer …

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

…, L Vatten, J Linseisen, F Clavel-Chapelon, P Vineis… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
… with lung cancer (P = 9 × 10 -10 ). This locus was replicated in five separate lung cancer
studies comprising an additional 2,513 lung cancer cases and 4,752 controls (P = 5 × 10 -20 …

Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

…, E Samoli, P Fischer, M Nieuwenhuijsen, P Vineis… - The lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
… No heterogeneity was noted between individual cohort effect estimates (I 2 p value=0·95).
HRs for PM 2·5 remained significantly raised even when we included only participants …

Dietary fibre in food and protection against colorectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC): an observational study

…, TJ Key, A Trichopoulou, A Naska, P Vineis… - The lancet, 2003 - thelancet.com
… The trend in hazard ratio across quintiles was also significant (p=0·005), the regression
coefficient (β=0·080) predicting an 8% reduction in risk for each quintile increase in fibre. These …