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 Medicine, 19
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Biomarker concentrations in white and British Indian vegetarians and non-vegetarians in the UK Biobank.
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TONG YIN. et al, (2021), The Journal of Nutrition
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Associations Between Macronutrients From Different Dietary Sources and Serum Lipids in 24 639 UK Biobank Study Participants.
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Kelly RK. et al, (2021), Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol
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Circulating insulin-like growth factor-I and risk of 25 common conditions: outcome-wide analyses in the UK Biobank Study
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Papier K. et al, (2021)
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Associations of circulating insulin-like growth factor-I with intake of dietary proteins and other macronutrients
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Watling C. et al, (2021), Clinical Nutrition