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Farhad Islami

Researcher at American Cancer Society

Publications -  245
Citations -  74220

Farhad Islami is an academic researcher from American Cancer Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 223 publications receiving 52150 citations. Previous affiliations of Farhad Islami include Tehran University of Medical Sciences & Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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Helicobacter pylori and esophageal cancer risk: a meta-analysis.

Farhad Islami, +1 more
- 01 Oct 2008 - 
TL;DR: The results suggest an inverse association between CagA-positive H. pylori colonization and risk of EAC, which may be partly responsible for the recent increase in EAC incidence in Western countries.
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Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

Rafael Lozano, +905 more
- 17 Oct 2020 - 
TL;DR: To assess current trajectories towards the GPW13 UHC billion target—1 billion more people benefiting from UHC by 2023—the authors estimated additional population equivalents with UHC effective coverage from 2018 to 2023, and quantified frontiers of U HC effective coverage performance on the basis of pooled health spending per capita.

Alcohol consumption and ethyl carbamate

Naomi E. Allen, +61 more
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Tea drinking habits and oesophageal cancer in a high risk area in northern Iran: population based case-control study

Farhad Islami, +18 more
- 27 Mar 2009 - 
TL;DR: Drinking hot tea, a habit common in Golestan province, was strongly associated with a higher risk of oesophageal cancer, and a strong agreement was found between responses to the questions on temperature at which tea was drunk and interval from tea being poured to being drunk.
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Global patterns in excess body weight and the associated cancer burden.

Hyuna Sung, +11 more
- 01 Mar 2019 - 
TL;DR: The rapid increase in both the prevalence of excess body weight and the associated cancer burden highlights the need for a rejuvenated focus on identifying, implementing, and evaluating interventions to prevent and control excess body body weight.