Dr Keren Papier
Contact information
Colleges
Websites
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Feeding the future study (FEED)
Online study set up to investigate contemporary plant-based diets in UK adults, and the motivations and personal characteristics associated with choosing these diets.
- Richard Doll Seminars
- Diet and Nutrition
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EPIC
EPIC - the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
Research groups
Keren Papier
BSc, BSc Honours (First class), PhD
Senior Nutritional Epidemiologist
Keren Papier is a nutritional epidemiologist whose broad research interests include examining the diet and lifestyle related causes of morbidity and mortality using cohort study methodology. She has a special interest in researching differences in diet-disease associations in diverse populations around the world, and in investigating the health and nutritional status of adults consuming plant-based diets.
Keren is based at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit (CEU), where she leads nutritional research in the Million Women Study cohort. She also manages and overseas usage of the CEU-wide UK Biobank project data. Keren is the principal investigator for the Feeding the Future Study (FEED); this study is being conducted in collaboration with the Wellcome “Our Planet Our Health” programme “Livestock, Environment and People (LEAP)” and the World Health Organization. The aim of this study is to describe contemporary plant-based diets (e.g. flexitarian, vegetarian, and vegan) and diets containing meat and fish in UK adults and to examine the motivations and characteristics of the adults consuming these diets.
Before joining the CEU, Keren received her PhD in Epidemiology from the Australian National University, for which she assessed the incidence and risk factors of emerging type 2 diabetes mellitus in Thailand. She also holds a Bachelor of Public Health Nutrition (Honours I) from Griffith University. Her international research settings include: Thailand, Philippines, Australia, and the UK.
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
Journal article
Papier K. et al, (2021), BMC Medicine, 19
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Higher Meat Intake Is Associated with Higher Inflammatory Markers, Mostly Due to Adiposity: Results from UK Biobank.
Journal article
Papier K. et al, (2021), J Nutr
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Meat consumption and risk of ischemic heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal article
Papier K. et al, (2021), Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr, 1 - 12
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Associations Between Macronutrients From Different Dietary Sources and Serum Lipids in 24 639 UK Biobank Study Participants.
Journal article
Kelly RK. et al, (2021), Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, 41, 2190 - 2200
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Circulating insulin-like growth factor-I and risk of 25 common conditions: outcome-wide analyses in the UK Biobank Study
Journal article
Papier K. et al, (2021)