I am thrilled to share my group’s first paper: The Asia Cohort Consortium’s “Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians,” published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. This paper is an amazing accomplishment for our group. The analyses (i.e., time for the project manager and statisticians) were funded by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, but none of the contributing cohorts received any money for their participation. It is a shining example of scientists participating in collaborative activities for the opportunity to be part of something bigger than themselves. That the project resulted in a publication in a top-tier journal is simply icing on the cake!
Zheng W, McLerran DF, Rolland B, Zhang X, Inoue M, Matsuo K, He J, Gupta PC, Ramadas K, Tsugane S, Irie F, Tamakoshi A, Gao YT, Wang R, Shu XO, Tsuji I, Kuriyama S, Tanaka H, Satoh H, Chen CJ, Yuan JM, Yoo KY, Ahsan H, Pan WH, Gu D, Pednekar MS, Sauvaget C, Sasazuki S, Sairenchi T, Yang G, Xiang YB, Nagai M, Suzuki T, Nishino Y, You SL, Koh WP, Park SK, Chen Y, Shen CY, Thornquist M, Feng Z, Kang D, Boffetta P, Potter JD. (2011). “Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians.” New England Journal of Medicine 364(8): 719-729.
