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Vegan diets and hypothyroidism.

Vegans may have a low probability of developing hypothyroidism.

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Protective effects of dietary carotenoids on risk of hip fracture in men: the Singapore Chinese Health Study.

Eating foods rich in carotenoids regularly may brighten a man's chances of avoiding hip fracture.

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Vegetarian diet and risk of gout in two separate prospective cohort studies.

Vegetarian diets may confer individuals with significant protection against gout.

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  • 2019
  • Chiu THT, Liu CH, Chang CC, Lin MN, Lin CL.
  • Department of Nutritional Science, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan. Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan. Department of Medical Research, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi County, Taiwan. Department of Family Medicine, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi County, Taiwan; Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan. Department of Cardiology, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi County, Taiwan; Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan. Electronic address: cllinmd@tzuchi.com.tw.
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Anti-Hypertensive Medication Use, Soluble Receptor for Glycation End Products and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer in the Women's Health Initiative Study.

Regular use of short-acting calcium channel blockers, such as Nifedipine, Amlodipine, and Verapamil, may facilitate the onset of pancreatic cancer in postmenopausal women.

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  • 2018
  • Wang Z, White DL, Hoogeveen R, Chen L, Whitsel EA, Richardson PA, Virani SS, Garcia JM, El-Serag HB, Jiao L.
  • Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. zhenshew@bcm.edu. Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. dwhite1@bcm.edu. Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. dwhite1@bcm.edu. Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. dwhite1@bcm.edu. Texas Medical Center Digestive Disease Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. dwhite1@bcm.edu. Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. dwhite1@bcm.edu. Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases (CTRID), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. dwhite1@bcm.edu. Section of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. ronh@bcm.edu. Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. liangc@bcm.edu. Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. liangc@bcm.edu. Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. liangc@bcm.edu. Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, Gillings School of Global Public Health and School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. eric_whitsel@med.unc.edu. Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. peter.richardson2@va.gov. Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. peter.richardson2@va.gov. Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. virani@bcm.edu. Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. virani@bcm.edu. Section of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. virani@bcm.edu. Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), Puget Sound Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98108, USA. Jg77@uw.edu. Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Jg77@uw.edu. Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. hasheme@bcm.edu. Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. hasheme@bcm.edu. Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. hasheme@bcm.edu. Texas Medical Center Digestive Disease Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. hasheme@bcm.edu. Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. hasheme@bcm.edu. 25 Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jiao@bcm.edu. 26 Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jiao@bcm.edu. 27 Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jiao@bcm.edu. 28 Texas Medical Center Digestive Disease Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jiao@bcm.edu. 29 Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jiao@bcm.edu. 30 Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases (CTRID), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jiao@bcm.edu.
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Quantified relations between exposure to tobacco smoking and bladder cancer risk: a meta-analysis of 89 observational studies.

Tobacco smoking may increase an individual's susceptibility to bladder cancer.

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  • 2016
  • van Osch FH, Jochems SH, van Schooten FJ, Bryan RT, Zeegers MP.
  • Department of Complex Genetics, NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Department of Complex Genetics, NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, f.vanosch@maastrichtuniversity.nl. Department of Complex Genetics, NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands and. Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Department of Complex Genetics, NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, Department of Complex Genetics, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Coffee consumption and coronary heart disease: a mini-review.

The odds of avoiding coronary heart disease may be stacked against coffee lovers.

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Water intake and bladder cancer risk in Los Angeles County.

Daily intake of 6 or more glasses of water may help to fend off bladder cancer.

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Alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of erosive esophagitis and Barrett's epithelium in Japanese men.

Alcohol consumption may make erosive esophagitis and Barrett's esophagus more likely to occur in men.

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  • 2008
  • Akiyama T, Inamori M, Iida H, Mawatari H, Endo H, Hosono K, Yoneda K, Fujita K, Yoneda M, Takahashi H, Goto A, Abe Y, Kobayashi N, Kubota K, Saito S, Nakajima A.
  • Gastroenterology Division, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan. t066002g@yokohama-cu.ac.jp
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The association between coffee consumption and bladder cancer in the bladder cancer epidemiology and nutritional determinants (BLEND) international pooled study.

Regular consumption of coffee may promote the development of bladder cancer.

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  • 2019
  • Yu EY, Wesselius A, van Osch F, Stern MC, Jiang X, Kellen E, Lu CM, Pohlabeln H, Steineck G, Marshall J, Allam MF, La Vecchia C, Johnson KC, Benhamou S, Zhang ZF, Bosetti C, Taylor JA, Zeegers MP.
  • NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, University of Maastricht, Universiteitssingel 40 (Room C5.564), 6229 ER, Maastricht, The Netherlands. evan.yu@maastrichtuniversity.nl. CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. evan.yu@maastrichtuniversity.nl. NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, University of Maastricht, Universiteitssingel 40 (Room C5.564), 6229 ER, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Leuven University Centre for Cancer Prevention (LUCK), Louvain, Belgium. Department of Urology, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital, Dalin Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan. Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, Bremen, Germany. Clinical Cancer Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA. Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, Section of Public Health and Human Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy. Department of Clinical Medicine and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy. Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. INSERM U946, Variabilite Genetique et Maladies Humaines, Fondation Jean Dausset/CEPH, Paris, France. Departments of Epidemiology, UCLA Center for Environmental Genomics, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA. Laboratory of Oncology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri" IRCCS, Milan, Italy. Epidemiology Branch and Epigenetic and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Is knee osteoarthritis related to coffee drinking? A nationwide cross-sectional observational study.

Men who habitual consumers of coffee may have a higher propensity to develop osteoarthritis of the knee joint compared to their counterparts who refrained from drinking coffee.

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  • 2019
  • Bang CH, Kim C, Kim JH, Choi SJ, Song GG, Jung JH
  • Korea University College of Nursing, 145, Anam-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, South Korea. Department of Physical Education, Graduate School of Inchon National University, 119 Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 22012, South Korea. Korea University College of Medicine, 73, Inchon-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, South Korea. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Korea University Guro Hospital, 148, Gurodong-ro, Guro-gu, Seoul, 08308, South Korea. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Korea University Ansan Hospital, 123, Jeokgeum-ro, Danwon-gu, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do, 15355, South Korea. Korea University College of Medicine, 73, Inchon-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02841, South Korea. mcfriend82@naver.com. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Korea University Guro Hospital, 148, Gurodong-ro, Guro-gu, Seoul, 08308, South Korea. mcfriend82@naver.com.
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Is alcohol consumption a risk factor for prostate cancer? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

A surge in prostate cancer risk is associated with low, moderate, and heavy consumption of alcohol.

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  • 2016
  • Zhao J, Stockwell T, Roemer A, Chikritzhs T.
  • Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, V8Y 2E4, Canada. zhaoj@uvic.ca. Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, V8Y 2E4, Canada. Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, V8Y 2E4, Canada. National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, GPO box U1987, Perth, 6845, WA, Australia.
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Coffee consumption and risk of myocardial infarction: a dose-response meta-analysis of observational studies.

Habitual intake of coffee may up the risk of myocardial infarction in men.

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  • 2018
  • Mo L, Xie W, Pu X, Ouyang D.
  • Department of Cardiology, Xiangya Hospital of Centre South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, PR China. Institute of Genetic Pharmacology, Xiangya School of Medicine, Centre South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, PR China.
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