Dr Kyoko Miura
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Biomedical Sciences
Researcher biography
Dr Miura's research focus is the role of nutrition and dietary intake in prevention of chronic disease, especially skin cancer and cardiovascular disease. Dr Miura is currently leading projects to studying nutritional status and dietary intake among heart transplant recipients. Her research areas also extend to health of airline pilots in relation to radiation exposure.
Journal Articles
Majidi, Azam, Hughes, Maria Celia B., Webb, Imogen K., Miura, Kyoko and van der Pols, Jolieke C. (2024). Inflammatory potential of diet and mortality in Australian adults. Public Health Nutrition, 27 (1) e129, 1-20. doi: 10.1017/s1368980024000909
Yu, Regina, Miura, Kyoko, Chambers, Daniel C., Hopkins, Peter M., Proby, Charlotte M., Bibee, Kristin, Plasmeijer, Elsemieke I. and Green, Adele C. (2023). Multimodal transplant-clinic–based skin cancer prevention education for organ transplant recipients: feasibility study. Transplantation Direct, 9 (7) e1492, 1-5. doi: 10.1097/txd.0000000000001492
Tay, Tricia, Cook, Martin G., Miura, Kyoko, Grant, Megan, Marais, Richard and Green, Adele (2023). The Changing Epidemiology of Desmoplastic Melanoma. Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 103 adv00852, adv00852. doi: 10.2340/actadv.v103.4574
Miura, Kyoko, Yu, Regina, Entwistle, Timothy R., McKenzie, Scott C. and Green, Adèle C. (2023). Association of diet quality and weight increase in adult heart transplant recipients. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 37 (2), 408-417. doi: 10.1111/jhn.13263
Miura, Kyoko, Yu, Regina, Entwistle, Timothy R., McKenzie, Scott C. and Green, Adèle C. (2022). Long‐term changes in body weight and serum cholesterol in heart transplant recipients. Clinical Transplantation, 36 (12) e14819, e14819. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14819
Miura, Kyoko, Yu, Regina, Entwistle, Timothy R., McKenzie, Scott C. and Green, Adèle C. (2022). Changes in body weight and serum cholesterol after heart transplant in relation to ventricular assist device implantation. The International Journal of Artificial Organs, 45 (12), 1037-1041. doi: 10.1177/03913988221118942
Miura, Kyoko, Coroneo, Minas, Dusingize, Jean Claude, Olsen, Catherine M., Tinker, Rick, Karipidis, Ken, Hosegood, Ian and Green, Adèle C. (2022). Prevalence of cataract among Australian commercial airline pilots. Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 78 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.1080/19338244.2022.2056110
Miura, Kyoko, Yu, Regina, Sivapalan, Krishnaa, Liyanage, Upekha E, Entwistle, Timothy, McKenzie, Scott C and Green, Adèle C (2021). Weight gain after heart transplantation in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis. ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992), Publish Ahead of Print (9), 1107-1116. doi: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000001566
Entwistle, Timothy R., Miura, Kyoko, Keevil, Brian G., Morris, Julie, Yonan, Nizar, Pohl, Matthew, Green, Adele C. and Fildes, James E. (2020). Modifying dietary patterns in cardiothoracic transplant patients to reduce cardiovascular risk: The AMEND-IT Trial. Clinical Transplantation, 35 (2) e14186, e14186. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14186
Na, Renhua, Miura, Kyoko, O’Brien, Suzanne, Eslick, Guy D., Kendall, Bradley J., Hourigan, Luke F., Bourke, Michael, Cox, Michael R., Farrokhzadi, Laal, Levert-Mignon, Angelique J., Barbour, Andrew P., Clemons, Nicholas J., Duong, Cuong P., Lord, Reginald V., Phillips, Wayne A., Watson, David I. and Whiteman, David C. (2020). Clinical pathways and outcomes of patients with Barrett’s esophagus in tertiary care settings: a prospective longitudinal cohort study in Australia, 2008–2016. Diseases of the Esophagus, 34 (8) doaa119. doi: 10.1093/dote/doaa119
Shao, Emily, Green, Adele C. and Miura, Kyoko (2020). Inflammatory dietary patterns and risk of keratinocyte cancers in kidney transplant recipients: prospective cohort study. Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland), 237 (6), 1-6. doi: 10.1159/000509875
Miura, Kyoko, Way, Mandy, Jiyad, Zainab, Marquart, Louise, Plasmeijer, Elsemieke I., Campbell, Scott, Isbel, Nicole, Fawcett, Jonathan, Ferguson, Lisa E., Davis, Marcia, Whiteman, David C., Soyer, H. Peter, O’Rourke, Peter and Green, Adèle C. (2020). Omega-3 fatty acid intake and decreased risk of skin cancer in organ transplant recipients. European Journal of Nutrition, 60 (4), 1897-1905. doi: 10.1007/s00394-020-02378-y
Green, Adele C., Way, Mandy, Oster, Mariella, Plasmeijer, Elsemieke I., Jiyad, Zainab, O’Rourke, Peter, Miura, Kyoko, Campbell, Scott, Isbel, Nicole, Chambers, Daniel C., Hopkins, Peter, Ferguson, Lisa E., Davis, Marcia Batista, Whiteman, David C., Soyer, H. Peter and Marquart, Louise (2020). Destructive and topical treatments of skin lesions in organ transplant recipients and relation to skin cancer. Archives of Dermatological Research, 314 (2), 203-206. doi: 10.1007/s00403-020-02136-4
Mahamat-Saleh, Yahya, Hughes, Maria Celia B., Miura, Kyoko, Malt, Maryrose K., von Schuckmann, Lena, Khosrotehrani, Kiarash, Smithers, B. Mark and Green, Adèle C. (2020). Patterns of Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acid Dietary Intake and Melanoma Thickness at Diagnosis. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 29 (8), 1647-1653. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-20-0319
Way, M., Marquart, L., Chambers, D. C., Hopkins, P., Miura, K., Jiyad, Z., Plasmeijer, E. I., Ferguson, L. E., Davis, M., Whiteman, D. C., Soyer, H. P., O'Rourke, P. and Green, A. C. (2020). Skin cancer multiplicity in lung transplant recipients: a prospective population‐based study. British Journal of Dermatology, 183 (3) bjd.18812, 503-508. doi: 10.1111/bjd.18812
Dusingize, Jean Claude, Olsen, Catherine M., Miura, Kyoko, Hosegood, Ian, Tinker, Rick, Karipidis, Ken and Green, Adèle C. (2020). Flying hours of Australian commercial pilots and risk of cutaneous melanoma. Journal of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine, 11 (1), 1-7. doi: 10.21307/asam-2019-008
Plasmeijer, Elsemieke I., Jiyad, Zainab, Way, Mandy, Marquart, Louise, Miura, Kyoko, Campbell, Scott, Isbel, Nikky, Fawcett, Jonathan, Ferguson, Lisa E., Davis, Marcia, Whiteman, David C., Soyer, H. Peter, O'Rourke, Peter and Green, Adele C. (2019). Extreme incidence of skin cancer in kidney and liver transplant recipients living with high sun exposure. Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 99 (10), 929-930. doi: 10.2340/00015555-3234
Olsen, Catherine M., Miura, Kyoko, Dusingize, Jean Claude, Hosegood, Ian, Brown, Russell, Drane, Michael, Clem, Peter, Marsden, Jerry, Tinker, Rick, Karipidis, Ken, Coroneo, Minas and Green, Adele C. (2019). Melanoma incidence in Australian commercial pilots, 2011-2016. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 76 (7), 462-466. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2018-105676
Miura, K., Olsen, C. M., Rea, S., Marsden, J. and Green, A. C. (2019). Do airline pilots and cabin crew have raised risks of melanoma and other skin cancers? Systematic review and meta-analysis. British Journal of Dermatology, 181 (1), 55-64. doi: 10.1111/bjd.17586
Miura, Kyoko, Vail, Andy, Chambers, Daniel, Hopkins, Peter M., Ferguson, Lisa, Grant, Michelle, Rhodes, Lesley E. and Green, Adèle C. (2018). Omega-3 fatty acid supplement skin cancer prophylaxis in lung transplant recipients: A randomized, controlled pilot trial. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 38 (1), 59-65. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2018.09.009
Hartman, Rebecca I., Green, Adele C., Gordon, Louisa G., Isbel, Nicole, Campbell, Scott, Soyer, H. Peter, Fawcett, Jonathan, Chambers, Daniel, Hopkins, Peter, Whiteman, David C., Marquart, Louise, O'Rourke, Peter, Ferguson, Lisa, Davis, Marcia, Way, Mandy, Iannacone, Michelle R., Lawton, Therese, Grant, Michelle, Jiyad, Zainab, Plasmeijer, Elsemieke and Miura, Kiyoko (2018). Sun protection among organ transplant recipients after participation in a skin cancer research study. JAMA Dermatology, 154 (7), 842-844. doi: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2018.1164
Miura, Kyoko, Hughes, Maria Celia B., Ungerer, Jacobus P. J., Smith, David D. and Green, AdSle C. (2018). Absolute versus relative measures of plasma fatty acids and health outcomes: example of phospholipid omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids and all-cause mortality in women. European Journal of Nutrition, 57 (2), 713-722. doi: 10.1007/s00394-016-1358-y
Entwistle, Timothy R., Green, Adele C., Fildes, James E. and Miura, Kyoko (2018). Adherence to Mediterranean and low-fat diets among heart and lung transplant recipients: a randomized feasibility study. Nutrition Journal, 17 (1) 22, 22. doi: 10.1186/s12937-018-0337-y
Miura, K., Ballard, E., Clemens, Susan L., Harper, C. M., Begum, N., O'Rourke, P. K. and Green, A. C. (2017). Sex-specific associations with youth obesity in Queensland, Australia. Public Health, 145, 146-148. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2016.12.029
Miura, Kyoko, Hughes, Maria Celia B., Ungerer, Jacobus P. J. and Green, Adele C. (2016). Plasma eicosapentaenoic acid is negatively associated with all-cause mortality among men and women in a population-based prospective study. Nutrition Research, 36 (11), 1202-1209. doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2016.09.006
Miura, Kyoko, Zens, Michael S., Peart, Tessa, Holly, Elizabeth A., Berwick, Marianne, Gallagher, Richard P., Mack, Thomas M., Elwood, J. Mark, Karagas, Margaret R. and Green, Adele C. (2015). Alcohol consumption and risk of melanoma among women: pooled analysis of eight case-control studies. Archives of Dermatological Research, 307 (9), 819-828. doi: 10.1007/s00403-015-1591-x
Nagle, Christina M., Wilson, Louise F., Hughes, Maria Celia B., Ibiebele, Torukiri I., Miura, Kyoko, Bain, Christopher J., Whiteman, David C. and Webb, Penelope M. (2015). Cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to the consumption of red and processed meat. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 39 (5), 429-433. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12450
Whiteman, David C., Webb, Penelope M., Green, Adele C., Neale, Rachel E., Fritschi, Lin, Bain, Christopher J., Parkin, D. Max, Wilson, Louise F., Olsen, Catherine M., Nagle, Christina M., Pandeya, Nirmala, Jordan, Susan J., Antonsson, Annika, Kendall, Bradley J., Hughes, Maria Celia B., Ibiebele, Torukiri I., Miura, Kyoko, Peters, Susan and Carey, Renee N. (2015). Cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to modifiable factors: summary and conclusions. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 39 (5), 477-484. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12471
Whiteman, David C., Webb, Penelope M., Green, Adele C., Neale, Rachel E., Fritschi, Lin, Bain, Christopher J., Parkin D. Max, Wilson, Louise F., Olsen, Catherine M., Nagle, Christina M., Pandeya, Nirmala, Jordan, Susan J., Antonsson, Annika, Kendall, Bradley J., Hughes, Maria Celia B., Ibiebele, Torukiri I., Miura, Kyoko, Peters, Susan and Carey, Renee N. (2015). Cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to modifiable factors: Introduction and overview. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 39 (5), 403-407. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12468
Nagle, Christina M., Wilson, Louise F., Hughes, Maria Cellia B., Ibiebele, Torukiri I., Miura, Kyoko, Bain, Christopher J., Whiteman, David C. and Webb, Penelope M. (2015). Cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to inadequate consumption of fruit, non-starchy vegetables and dietary fibre. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 39 (5), 422-428. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12449
Miura, Kyoko., Hughes, Maria Celia B., Arovah, Novita Intan., van der Pols, Jolieke C. and Green, Adele C. (2015). Black Tea Consumption and Risk of Skin Cancer: An 11-Year Prospective Study. Nutrition and Cancer, 67 (7), 1049-1055. doi: 10.1080/01635581.2015.1073759
Miura, Kyoko and Green, Adele C. (2015). Dietary antioxidants and melanoma: evidence from cohort and intervention studies. Nutrition and Cancer: an international journal, 67 (6), 867-876. doi: 10.1080/01635581.2015.1053499
Miura, Kyoko and Turrell, Gavin (2014). Contribution of psychosocial factors to the association between socioeconomic position and takeaway food consumption. PloS One, 9 (9) e108799, e108799. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108799
Miura, Kyoko and Turrell, Gavin (2014). Reported consumption of takeaway food and its contribution to socioeconomic inequalities in body mass index. Appetite, 74, 116-124. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2013.12.007
Miura, Kyoko, Hughes, Maria Celia B., Green, Adele C. and Van Der Pols, Jolieke C. (2014). Caffeine intake and risk of basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin in an 11-year prospective study. European Journal of Nutrition, 53 (2), 511-520. doi: 10.1007/s00394-013-0556-0
Miura, Kyoko, Giskes, Katrina and Turrell, Gavin (2011). Contribution of take-out food consumption to socioeconomic differences in fruit and vegetable intake: a mediation analysis. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 111 (10), 1556-1562. doi: 10.1016/j.jada.2011.07.009
Miura, Kyoko, Giskes, Katrina and Turrell, Gavin (2011). Socio-economic differences in takeaway food consumption among adults. Public Health Nutrition, 15 (2), 218-226. doi: 10.1017/s136898001100139x
Miura, K, Giskes, K and Turrell, G (2009). Socioeconomic differences in takeaway food consumption and their contribution to inequalities in dietary intakes. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 63 (10), 820-826. doi: 10.1136/jech.2008.086504
Conference Paper
Shao, E., Miura, K. and Green, A. (2019). Association between dietary patterns and keratinocyte cancers in organ transplant recipients. Australasian College of Dermatologists, 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting , Melbourne, Australia, 18-21 May 2019. Richmond, VIC, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia. doi: 10.1111/ajd.13027