# EPIC-Oxford study

> https://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/research/epic-oxford-1

https://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/research/epic-oxford-1

[EPIC-Europe study](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/EPIC-Europe%20study.txt)의 일환으로 <옥스퍼드 대학>에서 진행하는 연구.

> EPIC-Oxford is the Oxford component of the [European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/EPIC-Europe%20study.txt). The study began in the [1990s](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/1990s.txt) and follows the health of 65,000 men and women living throughout the UK, many of whom are <vegetarian>. The main objective of EPIC Oxford is to examine how diet influences the risk of <cancer>, particularly for the most common types of cancer in <Britain>, as well as the risks of other <chronic diseases>. … To date, research in EPIC-Oxford has focused on the associations of diet, especially [vegetarian diets](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Vegetarian%20diet.txt), with the risks of cancer, [Ischemic heart disease](https://wiki.g15e.com/pages/Ischemic%20heart%20disease.txt), other chronic diseases and mortality, as well as studies of the associations of diet with blood levels of <nutrients>, <hormones>, <cholesterol> and other biomarkers.