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Benjamin J. Cairns

MRC Population Health Research Unit, University of Oxford
Verified email at ndph.ox.ac.uk
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Shift work and chronic disease: the epidemiological evidence

XS Wang, MEG Armstrong, BJ Cairns… - Occupational …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Background Shift work, including night work, has been hypothesized to increase the risk of
chronic diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease (CVD), metabolic syndrome and …

The modern epidemiology of heart valve disease

S Coffey, BJ Cairns, B Iung - Heart, 2016 - heart.bmj.com
In this review, we will discuss the current knowledge of heart valve disease (HVD)
epidemiology, how it has changed over time and possible future trends. There are large …

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

RJ Stevens, R Ali, CR Bankhead, MA Bethel, BJ Cairns… - Diabetologia, 2012 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis Observational studies suggest that metformin may reduce cancer risk by
approximately one-third. We examined cancer outcomes and all-cause mortality in …

[HTML][HTML] Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

…, P Gao, S Kaptoge, AB De Gonzalez, BJ Cairns… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Overweight and obesity are increasing worldwide. To help assess their
relevance to mortality in different populations we conducted individual-participant data meta …

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

J Green, BJ Cairns, D Casabonne, FL Wright… - The lancet …, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background Epidemiological studies have shown that taller people are at increased risk of
cancer, but it is unclear if height-associated risks vary by cancer site, or by other factors such …

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

…, FL Wright, ME Kroll, GK Reeves, J Green, BJ Cairns - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Early menarche has been associated with increased risk of coronary heart
disease (CHD), but most studies were relatively small and could not assess risk across a …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative Models of In Vitro Bacteriophage–Host Dynamics and Their Application to Phage Therapy

BJ Cairns, AR Timms, VAA Jansen, IF Connerton… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Phage therapy is the use of bacteriophages as antimicrobial agents for the control of
pathogenic and other problem bacteria. It has previously been argued that successful …

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

…, J Green, GK Reeves, V Beral, BJ Cairns - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Although physical activity has generally been associated with reduced risk of
vascular disease, there is limited evidence about the effects of the frequency and duration of …

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

KE Bradbury, W Guo, BJ Cairns, MEG Armstrong… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives The objective of this study was to examine if, in the general population, physically
active adults have less body fat after taking body mass index (BMI) into account. Design A …

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

FL Crowe, A Balkwill, BJ Cairns, PN Appleby, J Green… - Gut, 2014 - gut.bmj.com
Background Previous prospective studies have found the incidence of intestinal diverticular
disease decreased with increasing intakes of dietary fibre, but associations by the fibre …