Brigid Lynch

Latent Class Trajectory Modeling of Adult Body Mass Index and Risk of Obesity-Related Cancer: Findings from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study.

Yi Yang, Brigid M Lynch, Pierre-Antoine Dugué, Amalia Karahalios, Robert J MacInnis, Julie K Bassett, Alison McAleese, Craig Sinclair, Graham G Giles, Roger L Milne, Allison M Hodge, Dallas R English

Journal article  |  2021  |  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

BACKGROUND: Obesity increases the risk of 13 cancer types. Given the long process of carcinogenesis, it is important to determine ..

Worldwide surveillance of self-reported sitting time: a scoping review

M Mclaughlin, AJ Atkin, L Starr, A Hall, L Wolfenden, R Sutherland, J Wiggers, A Ramirez, P Hallal, M Pratt, BM Lynch, K Wijndaele

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

BACKGROUND: Prolonged sitting time is a risk factor for chronic disease, yet recent global surveillance is not well described. The..

Effects of a wearable technology-based physical activity intervention on sleep quality in breast cancer survivors: the ACTIVATE Trial

Nga H Nguyen, Jeff K Vallance, Matthew P Buman, Melissa M Moore, Marina M Reeves, Dori E Rosenberg, Terry Boyle, Shakira Milton, Christine M Friedenreich, Dallas R English, Brigid M Lynch

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Cancer Survivorship

INTRODUCTION: Physical activity interventions can improve sleep quality in breast cancer survivors. This paper examines the effect..

Leisure-Time Physical Activity Versus Sedentary Behaviour in Relation to Colorectal Adenoma and Cancer: Are these Two Distinct Risk Factors?

Shahid Mahmood, Robert J MacInnis, Amalia Karahalios, Dallas R English, Brigid M Lynch

Journal article  |  2020  |  Current Colorectal Cancer Reports

Appraising causal relationships of dietary, nutritional and physical-activity exposures with overall and aggressive prostate cancer: two-sample Mendelian-randomization study based on 79148 prostate-cancer cases and 61106 controls

Nabila Kazmi, Philip Haycock, Konstantinos Tsilidis, Brigid M Lynch, Therese Truong, Richard M Martin, Sarah J Lewis

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer is the second most common male cancer worldwide, but there is substantial geographical variation, sugg..

Amount and Intensity of Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Lower Cancer Risk

Charles E Matthews, Steven C Moore, Hannah Arem, Michael B Cook, Britton Trabert, Niclas Hakansson, Susanna C Larsson, Alicja Wolk, Susan M Gapstur, Brigid M Lynch, Roger L Milne, Neal D Freedman, Wen-Yi Huang, Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, Cari M Kitahara, Martha S Linet, Eric J Shiroma, Sven Sandin, Alpa Patel, I-Min Lee

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

PURPOSE: To determine whether recommended amounts of leisure-time physical activity (ie, 7.5-15 metabolic equivalent task [MET] ho..

A quantitative bias analysis to estimate measurement error-related attenuation of the association between self-reported physical activity and colorectal cancer risk

Shahid Mahmood, Nga H Nguyen, Julie K Bassett, Robert J MacInnis, Amalia Karahalios, Neville Owen, Fiona J Bruinsma, Roger L Milne, Graham G Giles, Dallas R English, Brigid M Lynch

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: Self-reported physical activity is inaccurate, yet few investigators attempt to adjust for measurement error when esti..

Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis

Nikos Papadimitriou, Niki Dimou, Konstantinos K Tsilidis, Barbara Banbury, Richard M Martin, Sarah J Lewis, Nabila Kazmi, Timothy M Robinson, Demetrius Albanes, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Sonja I Berndt, D Timothy Bishop, Hermann Brenner, Daniel D Buchanan, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Peter T Campbell, Sergi Castellvi-Bel, Andrew T Chan, Jenny Chang-Claude, Merete Ellingjord-Dale, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

Physical activity has been associated with lower risks of breast and colorectal cancer in epidemiological studies; however, it is ..

Approaches to Improve Causal Inference in Physical Activity Epidemiology

Brigid M Lynch, Suzanne C Dixon-Suen, Andrea Ramirez Varela, Yi Yang, Dallas R English, Ding Ding, Paul A Gardiner, Terry Boyle

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Physical Activity and Health

BACKGROUND: It is not always clear whether physical activity is causally related to health outcomes, or whether the associations a..

Introducing the Epidemiology Council of the International Society for Physical Activity and Health

Brigid M Lynch, Andrea Ramirez Varela, Terry Boyle

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Physical Activity and Health