Associate Professor Ben Lacey
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Ben Lacey
MBChB MSc DPhil FFPH
Associate Professor
Ben Lacey is an epidemiologist and public health physician at the University of Oxford, where he leads the UK Biobank Epidemiology Group. His research interests are in large-scale observational epidemiology, population health metrics, and health inequalities. He qualified in medicine from the University of Edinburgh, and received an MSc in Global Health Science and a DPhil in Epidemiology from the University of Oxford. He was elected as a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians in 2012, and was subsequently appointed as an Honorary Consultant Physician in Public Health at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Recent publications
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Association between Coeliac disease and Cardiovascular Disease: A prospective analysis in UK Biobank
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CONROY M. et al, (2023), BMJ Medicine
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Adiposity, Body Fat Distribution, and Risk of Major Stroke Types Among Adults in the United Kingdom.
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Pillay P. et al, (2022), JAMA Netw Open, 5
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UK Biobank: a globally important resource for cancer research.
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Conroy MC. et al, (2022), Br J Cancer
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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on secondary care for cardiovascular disease in the UK: an electronic health record analysis across three countries.
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Wright FL. et al, (2022), Eur Heart J Qual Care Clin Outcomes
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Educational inequalities and premature mortality: the Cuba Prospective Study.
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Ross S. et al, (2022), Lancet Public Health, 7, e923 - e931
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Central adiposity raises serum calcium concentrations and increases risk of kidney stone disease
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Lovegrove C. et al, (2022), Endocrine Abstracts