Tammy Tong
BSc, MPhil, PhD
Nutritional Epidemiologist
Tammy Tong joined the Cancer Epidemiology Unit in January 2017. Her main research interest is the role of diet in health, with a particular focus on cardiovascular diseases. Tammy’s current research examines the health effects of a vegetarian diet, using data from EPIC-Oxford and the UK Biobank. Tammy received her PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge, for which she examined the applicability of the Mediterranean diet in a UK context and its association with cardio-metabolic diseases. She also holds a BSc in Human Sciences (University College London) and an MPhil in Epidemiology (University of Cambridge).
Recent publications
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Meat consumption and risk of 25 common conditions: outcome-wide analyses in 475,000 men and women in the UK Biobank study.
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Papier K. et al, (2021), BMC Med, 19
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Sleep duration and breast cancer incidence: results from the Million Women Study and meta-analysis of published prospective studies.
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Wong ATY. et al, (2021), Sleep, 44
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Urinary Melatonin in Relation to Breast Cancer Risk: Nested Case-Control Analysis in the DOM Study and Meta-analysis of Prospective Studies.
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Wong ATY. et al, (2021), Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 30, 97 - 103
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Vegetarian and vegan diets and risks of total and site-specific fractures: results from the prospective EPIC-Oxford study.
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Tong TYN. et al, (2020), BMC Med, 18
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Replacement of Red and Processed Meat With Other Food Sources of Protein and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in European Populations: The EPIC-InterAct Study.
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Ibsen DB. et al, (2020), Diabetes Care, 43, 2660 - 2667