Ben Cairns

• Body mass index and healthcare costs: a systematic literature review of individual participant data studies

  Journal article

  Kent S. et al, (2017), Obesity Reviews

• Antidepressants, Depression, and Venous Thromboembolism Risk: Large Prospective Study of UK Women.

  Journal article

  Parkin L. et al, (2017), J Am Heart Assoc, 6

• Hospital costs in relation to body mass index in 1.1 million women in England: a prospective cohort study

  Journal article

  Kent S. et al, (2017), Lancet Public Health

• Association between physical activity and body fat percentage, with adjustment for BMI: a large cross-sectional analysis of UK Biobank.

  Journal article

  Bradbury KE. et al, (2017), BMJ Open, 7, e011843 - e011843

• Clinical information has low sensitivity for postmortem diagnosis of heart valve disease.

  Journal article

  Coffey S. et al, (2017), Heart

• The effects of age, adiposity, and physical activity on the risk of 7 site-specific fractures

  Conference paper

  Lacombe J. et al, (2016), EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 26

• The role of health-related behavioural factors in accounting for inequalities in coronary heart disease risk by education and area deprivation: prospective study of 1.2 million UK women

  Journal article

  Floud SK. et al, (2016), BMC Medicine

• The effects of age, adiposity, and physical activity on the risk of 7 site-specific fractures in postmenopausal women

  Journal article

  Lacombe J. et al, (2016), Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

• Body size in early life and risk of lymphoid malignancies and histological subtypes in adulthood.

  Journal article

  Yang TO. et al, (2016), International journal of cancer, 139, 42 - 49

• Relationship of height to site-specific fracture risk in postmenopausal women

  Journal article

  Armstrong ME. et al, (2016), Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

• The modern epidemiology of heart valve disease.

  Journal article

  Coffey S. et al, (2016), Heart (British Cardiac Society), 102, 75 - 85

• Variations in vascular mortality trends, 2001-2010, among 1.3 million women with different lifestyle risk factors for the disease.

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. et al, (2015), Eur J Prev Cardiol, 22, 1626 - 1634

• Validity over time of self-reported anthropometric variables during follow-up of a large cohort of UK women.

  Journal article

  Wright FL. et al, (2015), BMC Med Res Methodol, 15

• Social participation and coronary heart disease risk in a large prospective study of UK women

  Journal article

  Floud S. et al, (2015), European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

• Tea and coffee and risk of endometrial cancer: cohort study and meta-analysis.

  Journal article

  Yang TO. et al, (2015), Am J Clin Nutr, 101, 570 - 578

• Frequent physical activity may not reduce vascular disease risk as much as moderate activity: large prospective study of women in the United Kingdom.

  Journal article

  Armstrong ME. et al, (2015), Circulation, 131, 721 - 729

• Age at menarche and risks of coronary heart and other vascular diseases in a large UK cohort.

  Journal article

  Canoy D. et al, (2015), Circulation, 131, 237 - 244

• Excessive Physical Activity may not be as Beneficial as Moderate Physical Activity for Vascular Disease Risk in UK Women.

  Conference paper

  Armstrong ME. et al, (2015), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 44, 127 - 127

• Age at Menarche and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in the UK Million Women Study.

  Conference paper

  Canoy D. et al, (2015), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 44, 52 - 53

• Adiposity in Early Life and Risk of Lymphoid Malignancies in Middle Age: a UK-based Prospective Study.

  Conference paper

  Yang TO. et al, (2015), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 44, 61 - 62

• Cancer and high body-mass index: global burden, global effort?

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ., (2015), Lancet Oncol, 16, 3 - 4

• Response to letter regarding article, "frequent physical activity may not reduce vascular disease risk as much as moderate activity: Large prospective study of women in the United Kingdom"

  Journal article

  Armstrong MEG. et al, (2015), Circulation, 132

• Dietary patterns derived with multiple methods from food diaries and breast cancer risk in the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium.

  Journal article

  Pot GK. et al, (2014), Eur J Clin Nutr, 68, 1353 - 1358

• HAVING BEEN BREASTFED AS AN INFANT AND RISK OF CANCER IN ADULT WOMEN: COHORT STUDY

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. et al, (2014), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 68, A15 - A15

• SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AND ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY IN MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY

  Journal article

  Floud S. et al, (2014), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 68, A17 - A18

• Source of dietary fibre and diverticular disease incidence: a prospective study of UK women.

  Journal article

  Crowe FL. et al, (2014), Gut, 63, 1450 - 1456

• SHIFT WORK, MELATONIN AND BREAST CANCER RISK: REVIEW AND RESULTS FROM THE GUERNSEY AND MILLION WOMEN STUDY COHORTS

  Journal article

  Travis RC. et al, (2014), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 68, A79 - A79

• Birth weight and adult cancer incidence: large prospective study and meta-analysis.

  Journal article

  Yang TO. et al, (2014), Ann Oncol, 25, 1836 - 1843

• Air pollution and traffic noise: do they cause atherosclerosis?

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. and Baigent C., (2014), Eur Heart J, 35, 826 - 828

• Hospital admissions in relation to body mass index in UK women: a prospective cohort study.

  Journal article

  Reeves GK. et al, (2014), BMC Med, 12

• Marital status and ischemic heart disease incidence and mortality in women: a large prospective study.

  Journal article

  Floud S. et al, (2014), BMC Med, 12

• Incidence of gastrointestinal cancers by ethnic group in England, 2001-2007.

  Journal article

  Ali R. et al, (2013), Gut, 62, 1692 - 1703

• Coronary heart disease incidence in women by waist circumference within categories of body mass index.

  Journal article

  Canoy D. et al, (2013), Eur J Prev Cardiol, 20, 759 - 762

• Good news for "Alice": height and sex differences in cancer risk.

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. and Green J., (2013), J Natl Cancer Inst, 105, 841 - 843

• Metformin and mortality. Reply to Lund SS [letter].

  Other

  Stevens RJ. et al, (2013), Diabetologia, 56, 939 - 940

• Childhood cancer incidence in British Indians & Whites in Leicester, 1996-2008.

  Journal article

  Sayeed S. et al, (2013), PLoS One, 8

• Body mass index and incident coronary heart disease in women: a population-based prospective study

  Journal article

  Canoy D. et al, (2013), BMC Medicine, 11

• Erratum to: Cancer outcomes and all-cause mortality in adults allocated to metformin: systematic review and collaborative meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials.

  Other

  Stevens RJ. et al, (2012), Diabetologia, 55, 3399 - 3400

• Vascular disease in women: comparison of diagnoses in hospital episode statistics and general practice records in England.

  Journal article

  Wright FL. et al, (2012), BMC Med Res Methodol, 12

• Cancer outcomes and all-cause mortality in adults allocated to metformin: systematic review and collaborative meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials.

  Journal article

  Stevens RJ. et al, (2012), Diabetologia, 55, 2593 - 2603

• A short-term increase in cancer risk associated with daytime napping is likely to reflect pre-clinical disease: prospective cohort study.

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. et al, (2012), Br J Cancer, 107, 527 - 530

• Estimating the alcohol-breast cancer association: a comparison of diet diaries, FFQs and combined measurements.

  Journal article

  Keogh RH. et al, (2012), Eur J Epidemiol, 27, 547 - 559

• Postmenopausal endometrial cancer risk and body size in early life and middle age: prospective cohort study.

  Journal article

  Yang TY. et al, (2012), Br J Cancer, 107, 169 - 175

• Different effects of age, adiposity and physical activity on the risk of ankle, wrist and hip fractures in postmenopausal women.

  Journal article

  Armstrong ME. et al, (2012), Bone, 50, 1394 - 1400

• Vitamin C intake from diary recordings and risk of breast cancer in the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium.

  Journal article

  Hutchinson J. et al, (2012), Eur J Clin Nutr, 66, 561 - 568

• BIRTH WEIGHT AND CANCER IN ADULT FEMALES AFTER MIDDLE AGE

  Conference paper

  Yang T. et al, (2011), PEDIATRIC RESEARCH, 70, 362 - 362

• Dietary fat and breast cancer: comparison of results from food diaries and food-frequency questionnaires in the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium.

  Journal article

  Key TJ. et al, (2011), Am J Clin Nutr, 94, 1043 - 1052

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  Other

  Wang XS. et al, (2011), Occupational Medicine, 61

• Shift work and chronic disease: the epidemiological evidence Reply

  Other

  Wang X-S. et al, (2011), OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE-OXFORD, 61, 444 - 444

• Height and cancer incidence in the Million Women Study: prospective cohort, and meta-analysis of prospective studies of height and total cancer risk.

  Journal article

  Green J. et al, (2011), Lancet Oncol, 12, 785 - 794

• VALIDATION OF NHS HOSPITAL ADMISSION RECORDS FOR ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE IN THE MILLION WOMEN STUDY

  Conference paper

  Wright L. et al, (2011), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 65, A160 - A160

• INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT ANALYSIS OF SECULAR TRENDS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY IN UK WOMEN, 2000-2009

  Conference paper

  Cairns B. et al, (2011), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 65, A14 - A14

• DIFFERENT EFFECTS OF BODY MASS INDEX AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON THE RISK OF ANKLE, WRIST AND HIP FRACTURES IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN

  Conference paper

  Armstrong M. et al, (2011), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 65, A89 - A89

• CHILDHOOD, EARLY ADULTHOOD, AND MIDDLE AGE ADIPOSITY AND RISK OF POSTMENOPAUSAL ENDOMETRIAL CANCER

  Conference paper

  Yang TO. et al, (2011), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 65, A20 - A20

• BODY MASS INDEX AND RISK OF INCIDENT ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE IN WOMEN: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY

  Conference paper

  Canoy D. et al, (2011), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 65, A229 - A229

• Reported frequency of physical activity in a large epidemiological study: relationship to specific activities and repeatability over time.

  Journal article

  Armstrong ME. et al, (2011), BMC Med Res Methodol, 11

• Body mass index and physical activity in relation to the incidence of hip fracture in postmenopausal women.

  Journal article

  Armstrong ME. et al, (2011), J Bone Miner Res, 26, 1330 - 1338

• Shift work and chronic disease: the epidemiological evidence.

  Journal article

  Wang XS. et al, (2011), Occup Med (Lond), 61, 78 - 89

• Lifetime body size and reproductive factors: comparisons of data recorded prospectively with self reports in middle age.

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. et al, (2011), BMC Med Res Methodol, 11

• That rising obesity levels will greatly add to the burden of cancer: misconceptions I.

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. et al, (2011), Br J Cancer, 104, 4 - 5

• SLEEP DURATION AND BREAST CANCER RISK: A META-ANALYSIS

  Conference paper

  Wang X. et al, (2010), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 64, A32 - A32

• CHILDHOOD ADIPOSITY AND BREAST CANCER INCIDENCE IN WOMEN IN MIDDLE AGE

  Conference paper

  Cairns BJ. et al, (2010), EJC SUPPLEMENTS, 8, 17 - 17

• ASSOCIATION BETWEEN BIRTHWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN ADULT FEMALES

  Conference paper

  Yang TYO. et al, (2010), JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH, 64, A18 - A19

• Alcohol intake and risk of colorectal cancer: results from the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium.

  Journal article

  Park JY. et al, (2010), Br J Cancer, 103, 747 - 756

• Sudden increases in listeriosis rates in England and Wales, 2001 and 2003.

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. and Payne RJ., (2009), Emerg Infect Dis, 15, 465 - 468

• Quantitative models of in vitro bacteriophage-host dynamics and their application to phage therapy.

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. et al, (2009), PLoS Pathog, 5

• Evaluating the Expected Time to Population Extinction with Semi-Stochastic Models

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ., (2009), MATHEMATICAL POPULATION STUDIES, 16, 199 - 220

• Bacteriophage therapy and the mutant selection window.

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. and Payne RJ., (2008), Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 52, 4344 - 4350

• How patch configuration affects the impact of disturbances on metapopulation persistence.

  Journal article

  Vuilleumier S. et al, (2007), Theor Popul Biol, 72, 77 - 85

• A note on extinction times for the general birth, death and catastrophe process

  Journal article

  Pollett P. et al, (2007), Journal of Applied Probability, 44, 566 - 569

• A comparison of models for predicting population persistence

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. et al, (2007), Ecological Modelling, 201, 19 - 26

• The role of habitat disturbance and recovery in metapopulation persistence.

  Journal article

  Wilcox C. et al, (2006), Ecology, 87, 855 - 863

• Uniqueness criteria for continuous-time Markov chains with general transition structures

  Journal article

  Chen A. et al, (2005), Advances in Applied Probability, 37, 1056 - 1074

• Models for predicting extinction times: Shall we dance (or walk or jump)?

  Conference paper

  Cairns BJ. et al, (2005), MODSIM05 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings, 2061 - 2067

• Maximally rugged NK landscapes contain the highest peaks

  Conference paper

  Skellett B. et al, (2005), GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 579 - 584

• Approximating persistence in a general class of population processes.

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. and Pollett PK., (2005), Theor Popul Biol, 68, 77 - 90

• Extinction times for a general birth, death and catastrophe process

  Journal article

  Cairns B. and Pollett PK., (2004), Journal of Applied Probability, 41, 1211 - 1218

• Evaluating persistence times in populations that are subject to local catastrophes

  Conference paper

  Cairns BJ. et al, (2003), MODSIM 2003: INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION, VOLS 1-4, 747 - 752

• A replicated, genome-wide significant association of aortic stenosis with a genetic variant for Lp(a): meta-analysis of published and novel data

  Journal article

  Cairns BJ. et al, Circulation

• Cancer risk among 21st century blood transfusion recipients

  Journal article

  Yang TO. et al, Annals of Oncology

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

  Journal article

  Woodward M. et al, Lancet

• Hypertension in pregnancy and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: a prospective study in a large UK cohort

  Journal article

  Canoy D. et al, International Journal of Cardiology

• Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Frequent Physical Activity May Not Reduce Vascular Disease Risk as Much as Moderate Activity: Large Prospective Study of Women in the United Kingdom”

  Journal article

  Armstrong ME. et al, Circulation

Recent Publications

• Body mass index and healthcare costs: a systematic literature review of individual participant data studies

  Journal article

  Kent S. et al, (2017), Obesity Reviews

• Antidepressants, Depression, and Venous Thromboembolism Risk: Large Prospective Study of UK Women.

  Journal article

  Parkin L. et al, (2017), J Am Heart Assoc, 6

• Hospital costs in relation to body mass index in 1.1 million women in England: a prospective cohort study

  Journal article

  Kent S. et al, (2017), Lancet Public Health

• Association between physical activity and body fat percentage, with adjustment for BMI: a large cross-sectional analysis of UK Biobank.

  Journal article

  Bradbury KE. et al, (2017), BMJ Open, 7, e011843 - e011843

• Clinical information has low sensitivity for postmortem diagnosis of heart valve disease.

  Journal article

  Coffey S. et al, (2017), Heart