Rita Peila

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

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Rita Peila is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rita Peila has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 14 papers in Physiology and 13 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Rita Peila's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (10 papers), Cancer Risks and Factors (8 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (7 papers). Rita Peila is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (10 papers), Cancer Risks and Factors (8 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (7 papers). Rita Peila collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Saudi Arabia. Rita Peila's co-authors include Lenore J. Launer, Beatriz L. Rodríguez, Lon R. White, Kamal Masaki, Helen Petrovitch, Qian‐Li Xue, Robert Stewart, Marjolein Visser, Tamara B. Harris and Lewis H. Kuller and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Neurology and Diabetes Care.

In The Last Decade

Rita Peila

53 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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Type 2 Diabetes, APOE Gene, and the Risk for Dementia and Related Pathologies

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The association between the healthy lifestyle index and MRI-derived body composition measurements in the UK Biobank study 2025 ·Scientific Reports ·Rita Peila, Thomas E. Rohan	0
2	Associations of Lifestyle and Genetic Risks with Obesity and Related Chronic Diseases in the UK Biobank: A Prospective Cohort Study 2024 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Yanbo Zhang, Yang Li, Rita Peila, Tao Wang, Xiaonan Xue, Robert C. Kaplan, Andrew J. Dannenberg, Qibin Qi, Thomas E. Rohan	6
3	Healthy Lifestyle Index and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Among Postmenopausal Women With Normal Body Mass Index 2023 ·Journal of the American Heart Association ·Rita Peila, Xiaonan Xue, Qibin Qi, Andrew J. Dannenberg, Matthew Allison, Karen Johnson, Michael J. LaMonte, Robert A. Wild, Bernhard Haring, Kathy Pan, Hilary A. Tindle, Randi E. Foraker, Nazmus Saquib, Ana Barac, Thomas E. Rohan	11
4	Menopausal hormone therapy and change in physical activity in the Women's Health Initiative hormone therapy clinical trials 2023 ·Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society ·Rita Peila, Xiaonan Xue, Michael J. LaMonte, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Jean Wactawski‐Wende, Su Yon Jung, Karen Johnson, Mace Coday, Phyllis A. Richey, Charles P. Mouton, (unknown), Rowan T. Chlebowski, Kathy Pan, Yvonne L. Michael, Meryl S. LeBoff, JoAnn E. Manson, Thomas E. Rohan	3
5	Association of Prediagnostic Serum Levels of Vitamin D with Risk of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast in the UK Biobank Cohort Study 2022 ·Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Rita Peila, Thomas E. Rohan	1
6	Low-Fat Dietary Modification and Risk of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast in the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial 2021 ·Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Rita Peila, Rowan T. Chlebowski, JoAnn E. Manson, Tracy E. Crane, Dorothy S. Lane, Nazmus Saquib, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Fred K. Tabung, Ana Barac, Zhenzhen Zhang, Kathy Pan, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Thomas E. Rohan	4
7	Sex hormones, SHBG and risk of colon and rectal cancer among men and women in the UK Biobank 2020 ·Cancer Epidemiology ·Rita Peila, Rhonda Arthur, Thomas E. Rohan	8
8	Longitudinal multi-gene panel assessment of circulating tumor DNA revealed tumor burden and molecular characteristics along treatment course of non-small cell lung cancer 2020 ·Translational Lung Cancer Research ·Gloria Y. F. Ho, Tao Wang, Hoi‐Hin Kwok, (unknown), Rita Peila, María G. Guzmán, Msm Ip, David Lam	4
9	Risk factors for ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast in the UK Biobank cohort study 2019 ·Cancer Epidemiology ·Rita Peila, Rhonda Arthur, Thomas E. Rohan	16
10	Smoking and alcohol drinking effect on radiotherapy associated risk of second primary cancer and mortality among breast cancer patients 2018 ·Cancer Epidemiology ·(unknown), Rita Peila, Oonagh Dowling, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Karen Kostroff, Gloria Y. F. Ho	23
11	Enhanced Risk for Alzheimer Disease in Persons With Type 2 Diabetes and APOE ε4 2008 ·Archives of Neurology ·Fumiko Irie, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, Oscar L. López, Lewis H. Kuller, Rita Peila, Anne B. Newman, Lenore J. Launer	246
12	Inflammation and dementia: epidemiologic evidence 2006 ·Acta Neurologica Scandinavica ·Rita Peila, Lenore J. Launer	34
13	A TGF-β1 polymorphism association with dementia and neuropathologies: The HAAS 2006 ·Neurobiology of Aging ·Rita Peila, Berran Yücesoy, Lon R. White, Victor J. Johnson, Michael L. Kashon, (unknown), Helen Petrovitch, Michael I. Luster, Lenore J. Launer	25
14	Is a Fall Just a Fall: Correlates of Falling in Healthy Older Persons. The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study 2003 ·Journal of the American Geriatrics Society ·Nathalie de Rekeneire, Marjolein Visser, Rita Peila, Michael C. Nevitt, Jane A. Cauley, Frances A. Tylavsky, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Tamara B. Harris	281
15	p53 loss and point mutations are associated with suppression of apoptosis and progression of CML into myeloid blastic crisis 1997 ·Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics ·Liborio Stuppia, Giuseppe Calabrese, Rita Peila, Paolo Guanciali‐Franchi, Elisena Morizio, Antonio Spadano, Giandomenico Palka	41
16	Complex chromosome translocations of standard t(8;21) and t(15;17) arise from a two-step mechanism as evidenced by fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis 1996 ·Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics ·G Calabrese, Toon Min, Liborio Stuppia, R Powles, John Swansbury, Elisena Morizio, Rita Peila, Emilio Donti, Giuseppe Fioritoni, Giandomenico Palka	19
17	Microdeletions in interval 6 of the Y chromosome detected by STS-PCR in 6 of 33 patients with idiopathic oligo- or azoospermia 1996 ·Cytogenetic and Genome Research ·Liborio Stuppia, (unknown), G Calabrese, Rita Peila, R. Tenaglia, Giandomenico Palka	106
18	Duplication Xp22.2 and pseudoisodicentric Yq detected by FISH and PCR in a sterile male 1995 ·Clinical Genetics ·Giandomenico Palka, G Calabrese, Rita Mingarelli, P. Guanciali Franchi, Liborio Stuppia, Elisena Morizio, Rita Peila, Adriano Torres Antonucci	3
19	A woman with an apparent non‐mosaic 45,X delivered a 46,X,der(X) liveborn female 1994 ·Clinical Genetics ·Giandomenico Palka, Giuseppe Calabrese, Liborio Stuppia, P. Guanciali Franchi, Elisena Morizio, Rita Peila, Adriano Torres Antonucci	25
20	Complex translocations of the Ph chromosome and Ph negative CML arise from similar mechanisms, as evidenced by FISH analysis 1994 ·Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics ·Giuseppe Calabrese, Liborio Stuppia, Paolo Guanciali Franchi, Rita Peila, Elisena Morizio, A. M. Liberati, Antonio Spadano, Roberto Di Lorenzo, Emilio Donti, Adriano Torres Antonucci, Giandomenico Palka	39

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