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- Short-term use of HRT associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer
- Statin treatment reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease in women
- Research Presented at AHA Annual Meeting Shows Extent of Damage Caused by Smoking
- Premature deaths could be reduced by 40% over next 20 years
- New studies show that two classes of inexpensive generic drugs can reduce breast cancer deaths
- Adverse consequences of uncontrolled hypertension in China
- Smoking set to kill one in three young men in China
- Men in China Face Increasing Tobacco-Related Cancer Risks
- Regular consumption of spicy foods linked to lower risk of death
- Benefits of Vitamin B12 supplements for older people questioned
- Fresh fruit associated with lower risk of heart attack and stroke
- The impact of new technologies on healthcare research
- Happiness and unhappiness have no direct effect on mortality
- Introducing the new MRC Population Health Research Unit
- Study sheds light on link between cholesterol and diabetes
- The Lancet publishes major review about the use of statins
- Sir Richard Peto Receives CDC Foundation Hero Award
- Diabetes complications cause one third of adult deaths in Mexico City
- Diabetes shortens adult lifespan in Mexico City
- Chinese adults with diabetes lose 9 years of life
- Radiotherapy risks are much higher for smokers
- Fresh fruit associated with lower risk of diabetes and related complications in Chinese adults
- REVEAL study results announced
- Physical activity associated with lower risk of heart attack and stroke in China
- Breast cancer recurrence risk persists for 20 years
- Genetic study in Chinese adults shows no benefit of raising “good” cholesterol
- Increasing chemotherapy dose intensity may lower the risk of breast cancer recurrence and death
- Long-term effects of giving chemotherapy before surgery in early breast cancer
- Fish oil supplements may not protect against heart disease
- Gastroprotectant drugs of substantial benefit in peptic ulcer disease
- New genetic risk factors for stroke identified
- Smoking associated with higher risk of type 2 diabetes
- Diabetes causes half of all cardiovascular, kidney and infection deaths in middle-aged Mexicans
- Household air pollution linked to higher risk of cardiovascular disease
- Use of genetic data to predict effects of vitamin D supplements on risk of diabetes
- Sex differences in vascular mortality for people with diabetes
- BMI, blood pressure and cause-specific mortality in India: a prospective study of 500 000 adults
- ASCEND trial results announced: bleeds and benefit with aspirin balanced in patients with diabetes and no effect on cancer
- ASCEND trial results announced: fish oils do not prevent heart attack or strokes in people with diabetes
- Statin safety
- Convincing evidence that type 2 diabetes is a cause of erectile dysfunction
- Professor Jane Armitage recognised for services to medical research
- Hypertension and cardiovascular mortality in Cuba
- Statin therapy reduces cardiovascular disease risk in older people
- Increasing dose intensity of chemotherapy reduces the risk of breast cancer recurrence and death
- Do null results on cognitive function in cardiovascular trials exclude worthwhile benefit?
- High cholesterol strongly linked to risk of stroke
- Moderate alcohol consumption does not protect against stroke
- Professor Sarah Darby elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
- CDC Foundation, Amgen announce programme to support studies of cardiovascular diseases globally
- NDPH scientists join prestigious Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship
- Disappointing results in trial of minocycline in people with mild Alzheimer's disease
- Why we need large prospective studies in different populations
- Combined vitamin D and calcium supplements reduce fracture risk
- New heart disease drug to be made available to NHS patients through ground-breaking collaboration
- Red meat and fish consumption in China associated with risk of diabetes
- £10 million for cancer epidemiology studies
- About 5000 heart attack sufferers in England missed out on lifesaving hospital treatment due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- New study enables identification of people at particular risk of rare, but serious, muscle-related side effect of statin therapy
- Breast cancer study wins 2020 ONS Research Excellence Award
- New research confirms obesity is a cause of kidney disease
- Professor Sir Rory Collins awarded the MRC Millennium Medal 2020
- Thousands of patients may have undiagnosed and untreated bowel cancer due to COVID-19 disruption
- Novel statistical methods find previously unidentified patterns of diseases
- Drinking alcohol regularly increases cancer risk in Chinese populations
- Alcohol consumption in Cuba
- Care for older people at home can be as good, or better, than hospital care
- Study provides new insights into causal mechanisms for atrial fibrillation
- High blood pressure, BMI and diabetes are major risk factors for cardiovascular death in Cuba
- Major new study could help protect millions with type 2 diabetes from cardiovascular disease
- New study reveals diverging trends in obesity by gender and region in China
- Scientists discover new gene mutations that protect against obesity
- Largest trial of carotid artery surgery and stenting finds similar long-term effects on stroke risk
- Multiple measures of body composition important for predicting risk of atrial fibrillation
- Long-term, low-dose aspirin did not affect risk of dementia in adults with type 2 diabetes
- European Society of Cardiology COVID-19 guidance launched today
- RECOVERY trial team members appointed MBEs
- Dramatic fall in hospital admissions for child infections since start of COVID-19 pandemic
- Aromatase inhibitors are better than tamoxifen at reducing the risk of breast cancer recurrence in premenopausal as well as postmenopausal women
- AMALFI study reaches target recruitment thanks to phenomenal response
- Combination therapy may delay need for heart surgery in people with Marfan syndrome
- New study shows muscle pain is not due to statins in over 90% of those taking the treatment
- Introducing minimum tumour-free margins in breast cancer surgery may reduce recurrence and improve survival
- New study shows strong association between educational level and premature mortality in Cuba, with substantial impact from smoking
- Empagliflozin reduces the risk of kidney disease progression or cardiovascular death in people with chronic kidney disease
- SGLT-2 inhibitors reduce the risk of cardiovascular death or hospitalisation for heart failure in adults with chronic kidney disease
- Study provides new insight into the metabolic profile of body fat distribution in a large-scale study of Mexican adults
- Study identifies gene variants that reduce the risk of developing diabetes
- Triglycerides may be the key to understanding ‘residual risk’ for coronary heart disease
- Taxane and anthracycline combination therapy is shown to be most effective chemotherapy for early stage breast cancer
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Oxford Population Health team up with DNAnexus and AWS to improve access to Mexico City Prospective Study data / La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y Oxford Population Health se asocian con DNAnexus y AWS para optimizar el acceso a los datos del Estudio Prospectivo de la Ciudad de México
- China Kadoorie Biobank
- Randomised Trials
- Prospective Studies
- Meta-Analyses of Randomised Trials
- Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies
- Methods
- UK Biobank
- British Doctors Study
- Studies of Smoking and Death in India
- Mortality From Smoking in Developed Countries
- PROCARDIS Sibling-pair Studies of Genetic Determinants of MI
- Mexico City Prospective Study
- Prospective Study of 500,000 adults in Chennai, India
- Re-survey and Follow-up of 1970 Whitehall Study
- 3C: A CAMPATH, Calcineurin inhibitor reduction and Chronic allograft nephropathy trial
- ASCEND: A Study of Cardiovascular Events iN Diabetes
- ATLAS: International ATLAS (Adjuvant Tamoxifen Longer Against Shorter) Breast Cancer Treatment Trial
- BEST-D: Biochemical Efficacy and Safety Trial of Vitamin D
- HPS: Heart Protection Study
- HPS2 -THRIVE: Treatment of HDL to Reduce the Incidence of Vascular Events
- HPS3 / TIMI 55 - REVEAL : Randomised Evaluation of the Effects of Anacetrapib through Lipid-modification
- SEARCH: Study of the Effectiveness of Additional Reductions in Cholesterol and Homocysteine
- SHARP: Study of Heart and Renal Protection
- ATT: Antithrombotic Trialists' Collaboration
- Coxib and traditional NSAID (CNT) Collaboration
- CTT: Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' Collaboration
- STT: Stroke Thrombolysis Trialists' Collaboration
- MTT: Marfan Treatment Trialists' Collaboration
- PSC
- Statistics
- NDPH Wolfson Laboratories
- Computing
- Trials Methodology
- Research Regulation
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Cholesterol
- Cancer
- Smoking
- Kidney disease
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Big Data
- Oxford Cholesterol Study
- Blood Pressure
- Aspirin and other antiplatelet drugs
- The Trivandrum Tobacco Study
- The Cuba Prospective Study
- The Russia Retrospective and Prospective Studies
- UK HARP III
- Ascend site
- Other Chronic Diseases
- ATLAS2
- ATTILA
- MADE
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Acute Care at Home (Hospital at Home) Trial
- Tobacco
- LENS: Lowering Events in Non-proliferative retinopathy in Scotland
- List of supporting references
- Gas_Thrive
- Gas_Reveal
- Gas_Search
- Gas_ebctcg
- Gas_hps
- Gas_deathsfromsmoking
- Gas_sharp
- gas_threec
- Gastroprotectant Trialists' (GPT) Collaboration
- EMPA-KIDNEY: the study of heart and kidney protection with empagliflozin
- ORION-4
- Participant Panel
- AMALFI - Active Monitoring for Atrial Fibrillation
- The Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group (EBCTCG)
- Impact of COVID-19 on hospital admissions for acute coronary syndromes
- International Study of Infarct Survival (ISIS)
- Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC)
- Infectious Diseases
- Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on childhood infection in England
- Renal Studies Group
- Kelly Davies
- Kate Wilson
- Lisa Holland
- Heather Halls
- Colin Baigent
- Zhengming Chen
- Robert Clarke
- Rory Collins
- Sarah Darby
- Alan Young
- Louise Bowman
- Michael Hill
- Richard Bulbulia
- Huaidong Du
- Richard Haynes
- Jonathan Emberson
- Will Herrington
- Jemma Hopewell
- Paul McGale
- Hongchao Pan
- Max Parkin
- Christina Reith
- Robin Walters
- Ling Yang
- Naomi Allen
- Sarah Lewington
- Richard Gray
- Charlie Harper
- Ben Lacey
- Martin Landray
- Om Kurmi
- Gurdeep Mannu
- Iona Millwood
- David Preiss
- Lisa Blackwell
- Marion Mafham
- Derrick Bennett
- Christiana Kartsonaki
- Martin Radley
- Yiping Chen
- Michael Lay
- Natalie Staplin
- Mike Clarke
- Liz MacKinnon
- Carolyn Taylor
- Rosie Bradley
- David Dodwell
- Jeremy Braybrooke
- Lucy Davies
- Valerie Beral
- Georgina Buck
- Fiona MacLean
- Mei Sum Chan
- Usama Ali
- Robert Hills
- Peter KaHung Chan
- Jenny Ingell
- Goylette Chami
- Stephanie Ross
- Jane Armitage
- Georgios Ntentas
- Amanda Kerr
- Johanna Rankin Ramroth
- Rebecca Shakir
- Guilherme Pessoa-Amorim
- Michelle Goonasekera
- Richard Peto
- Sasha Shepperd
- Neil Wright
- Elizabeth Hamilton
- Dani Kim
- Anqi Yu
- Federico Murgia
- Julie Hechler
- Francesca Holt
- Jacqueline Murphy
- Nazrul Islam
- Rachel Clack
- Katherine Newell
- Claire Shenton
- Stewart Moffat
- Parminder Judge
- Sarah Clark
- Michelle Nunn
- Eirini Trichia
- Jason Torres
- Mohammed Zayed
- Paul Miller
- Najaf Amin
- Andrea Cradduck-Bamford
- Pek Kei Im
- Olimpia Lamberti
- Vichithranie Madurasinghe
- Rachel Wade
- Rebecca Sardell
- Jennifer Carter
- Megan Conroy
- Jonathan Clarke
- Louise Messinger
- Mohsen Mazidi
- Qi Feng
- Louisa Gnatiuc
- Yunhe Wang
- Rui Huang
- Marwa Maweya Abdelbagi Elbasheer
- Bastian Bohrmann
- Bowen Liu
- Valirie Ndip
- Mark Campbell
- Lianhan Shang
- Jo Holliday
- Patrick Coakes
- Will Stevens
- Karl Wallendszus
- Alex Baxter
- Diego Aguilar Ramirez
- Michael Turner
- Fiona Bragg
- Sam Morris
- Rohan Wijesurendra
- Zhe Wang
- Leon Peto
- Judith Cole
- Peter Jüni
- Tianshu Liu
- Graham Beake
- Jake Probert
- Hannah Taylor
- Amy Mallorie
- James Liu
- David Cutter
- Mariko Nakahara
- Anouska Riahi
- Laura Bramley
- Sarah Parish