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Long-term effects of ad-libitum low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets on body weight and serum lipid in overweight subjects with metabolic syndrome.

High consumption of low-fat, high complex carbohydrate diets is associated with healthy weight and lipid profile in overweight metabolic syndrome patients.

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Consumption of red meat and whole grain bread in relation to biomarkers of obesity, inflammation, glucose metabolism, and oxidative stress.

Low serum concentrations of ALT, GGT, and hs-CRP and high plasma levels of GGT and hs-CRP are associated with high consumption of whole-grain bread and red meat respectively.

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  • 2013
  • Montonen J, Boeing H, Fritsche A, Schleicher E, Joost HG, Schulze MB, Steffen A, Pischon T.
  • Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Arthur-Scheunert-Allee 114-116, 14558, Nuthetal, Germany.
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  • Yes. Source of funding disclosure found
  • This study was partly supported by grants from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Förderkennzeichen 0315381A).
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
    
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Association between phthalates and attention deficit disorder and learning disability in U.S. children, 6-15 years.

Increased exposure to phthalate may elevate the risk of developing attention deficit disorder alone and both attention deficit disorder and learning disability in children.

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  • 2014
  • Chopra V, Harley K, Lahiff M, Eskenazi B.
  • Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH), School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: choprav@obgyn.ucsf.edu. Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH), School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH), School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: eskenazi@berkeley.edu.
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  • Yes. Source of funding disclosure found
  • This work was supported by Grants PO1 ES009605 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and RD83451301 from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
    
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High caloric intake at breakfast vs. dinner differentially influences weight loss of overweight and obese women.

Regular intake of high-calorie breakfast and low-calorie dinner may promote weight loss and improve the conditions of obese women with metabolic syndrome.

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Intensive lifestyle changes for reversal of coronary heart disease.

A lifestyle that involves the regular intake of low-fat vegetarian diets, aerobic exercise, and stress reduction may improve and reverse the conditions of coronary heart disease patients.

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Vascular endothelium and human disease.

Endothelial dysfunction may be a good indicator of the presence of various diseases, such as diabetes, stroke, cancer, and atherosclerosis.

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Postprandial angina pectoris: clinical and angiographic correlations.

Postprandial angina pectoris is associated with severe coronary artery disease.

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Interactions of dietary whole grain intake with fasting glucose- and insulin-related genetic loci in individuals of European descent: a meta-analysis of 14 cohort studies.

Genes may influence the plasma insulin-reducing activity of whole grains in persons of European descent.

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  • 2010
  • Nettleton JA, McKeown NM, Kanoni S, Lemaitre RN, Hivert MF, Ngwa J, van Rooij FJ, Sonestedt E, Wojczynski MK, Ye Z, Tanaka T, Garcia M, Anderson JS, Follis JL, Djousse L, Mukamal K, Papoutsakis C, Mozaffarian D, Zillikens MC, Bandinelli S, Bennett AJ, Borecki IB, Feitosa MF, Ferrucci L, Forouhi NG, Groves CJ, Hallmans G, Harris T, Hofman A, Houston DK, Hu FB, Johansson I, Kritchevsky SB, Langenberg C, Launer L, Liu Y, Loos RJ, Nalls M, Orho-Melander M, Renstrom F, Rice K, Riserus U, Rolandsson O, Rotter JI, Saylor G, Sijbrands EJ, Sjogren P, Smith A, Steingrímsdóttir L, Uitterlinden AG, Wareham NJ, Prokopenko I, Pankow JS, van Duijn CM, Florez JC, Witteman JC; MAGIC Investigators, Dupuis J, Dedoussis GV, Ordovas JM, Ingelsson E, Cupples L, Siscovick DS, Franks PW, Meigs JB.
  • Dupuis J, Claudia L, Prokopenko I, Saxena R, Soranzo N, Jackson AU, Wheeler E, Glazer NL, Bouatia-Naji N, Lindgren CM, Mägi R, Morris AP, Randal J, Rybin D, Johnson T, Henneman P, Gieger C, Thorleifsson G, Steinthorsdottir V, Dehghan A, Hottenga JJ, Franklin CS, Navarro P, Song K, Goe A, Perry JR, Lajunen T, Grallert H, Li M, Stringham HM, Kumari M, Timpson NJ, Shrader P, Ingelsson E, Zabena C, O'Connell J, Cavalcanti-Proença C, Luan J, Elliott A, McCarroll SA, Payne F, Roccasecca RM, Sethupathy P, Andrew T, Ariyurek Y, Balkau B, Barter P, Bennett AJ, Ben-Shlomo Y, Bergmann S, Bochud M, Boerwinkle E, Bonnefond A, Bonnycastle LL, Böttcher Y, Brunner E, Bumpstead SJ, Chen YD, Chines P, Clarke R, Coin LJ, Crawford GJ, Crisponi L, Day IN, Geus Ed, Dina C, Doney A, Egan JM, Elliott P, Erdos MR, Fischer-Rosinsky A, Forouhi NG, Fox CS, Frants R, Franzosi MG, Galan P, Goodarzi MO, Graessler J, Groves CJ, Grundy S, Gwilliam R, Hallmans G, Hammond N, Han X, Hartikainen AL, Hayward C, Heath SC, Hercberg S, Herder C, Hicks AA, Hingorani AD, Hofman A, Isomaa B, Jula A, Kaakinen M, Kanoni S, Kesaniemi YA, Kivimaki M, Knight B, Koskinen S, Kovacs P, Lathrop GM, Lawlor DA, Li Y, Lyssenko V, Mahley R, Mangino M, Manning AK, Martínez-Larrad MT, McAteer JB, McPherson R, Meisinger C, Melzer D, Meyre D, Mitchell BD, Morken MA, Naitza S, Narisu N, Neville MJ, Oostra BA, Orrù M, Pakyz R, Palmer CN, Paolisso G, Pattaro C, Pearson D, Peden JF, Perola M, Pfeiffer AF, Pichler I, Polasek O, Posthuma D, Potter SC, Pouta A, Psaty BM, Rathmann W, Rayner NW, Rice K, Ripatti S, Rivadeneira F, Rolandsson O, Sandhu M, Sanna S, Sayer AA, Scheet P, Scott LJ, Seedorf U, Sharp SJ, Shields B, Sijbrands EJ, Silveira A, Singleton A, Smith NL, Sovio U, Swift A, Syddall H, Syvänen AC, Tanaka T, Tönjes A, Tuomi T, Uitterlinden AG, van Dijk KW, Varma D, Visvikis-Siest S, Vitart V, Vogelzangs N, Waeber G, Wagner PJ, Watkins H, Weedon MN, Wild SH, Willemsen G, Witteman JC, Yarnell JW, Zelenika D, Zethelius B, Zhai G, Zhao JH, Zillikens MC, GIANT Consortium, Global BPgen Consortium, Loos RJ, Meneton P, Nathan DM, Williams GH, Hattersley AT, Silander K, Salomaa V, Smith GD, Bornstein SR, Schwarz P, Spranger J, Karpe F, Shuldiner AR, Cooper C, Dedoussis GV, Serrano-Ríos M, Morris AD, Lind L, Franks PW, Ebrahim S, Marmot M, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Kao WH, Pankow JS, Pramstaller PP, Wichmann HE, Illig T, Rudan I, Wright A, Stumvoll M, Campbell H, Wilson JF, Hamsten A, Bergman RN, Buchanan TA, Collins FS, Mohlke KL, Tuomilehto J, Valle TT, Altshuler D, Rotter JI, Siscovick DS, Penninx BW, Boomsma D, Deloukas P, Spector TD, Frayling TM, Ferrucci L, Kong A, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K, van Duijn CM, Aulchenko YS, Cao A, Scuteri A, Schlessinger D, Uda M, Ruokonen A, Jarvelin MR, Waterworth DM, Vollenweider P, Peltonen L, Mooser V, Abecasis GR, Wareham NJ, Sladek R, Froguel P, Watanabe RM, Meigs JB, Groop L, Boehnke M, McCarthy MI, Florez JC, Barroso I.
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Intestinal microbiota metabolism and atherosclerosis.

Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO), a metabolite produced by intestinal microbes, is associated with elevated atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease risk.

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Intestinal microbial metabolism of phosphatidylcholine and cardiovascular risk.

High serum and urine concentrations of TMAO, produced from intestinal microbial metabolism of phosphatidylcholine, may increase an individual’s susceptibility to adverse cardiac events and cardiovascular diseases.

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  • 2013
  • Tang WH, Wang Z, Levison BS, Koeth RA, Britt EB, Fu X, Wu Y, Hazen SL.
  • Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland 44195, USA.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • Yes. Source of funding disclosure found
  • Supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and its Office of Dietary Supplements (R01HL103866 and 1P20HL113452). The clinical study GeneBank was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (P01HL098055, P01HL076491, R01HL103931, and R01DK080732) and a Cleveland Clinic/Case Western Reserve University Clinical and Translational Science Award (UL1TR000439). Dr. Hazen was supported by a gift from the Leonard Krieger Fund. Mass spectrometry instrumentation used was housed within the Cleveland Clinic Mass Spectrometry Facility with partial support through a Center of Innovation by AB SCIEX.
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
    
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The effect of a low-fat, plant-based lifestyle intervention on serum HDL levels and the implications for metabolic syndrome status - a cohort study.

Low-fat, plant-based diets are associated with low plasma levels of High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) and improved cardiovascular health.

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  • 2013
  • Kent L, Morton D, Rankin P, Ward E, Grant R, Gobble J, Diehl H.
  • Avondale College of Higher Education, 582 Freemans Drive (PO BOX 19), Cooranbong NSW 2265, Australia Australasian Research Institute, 185 Fox Valley Rd, Wahroonga, NSW 2076, Australia Medical Nutrition Therapy Northwest, 13568 SE 97th Ave. Suite 203 Clackamas, Oregon 97015, USA Lifestyle Medicine Institute, PO Box 818, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
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Low-carbohydrate diets and all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.

Diets low on carbohydrates may increase total mortality risk.

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  • 2013
  • Noto H, Goto A, Tsujimoto T, Noda M.
  • Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Medicine, Center Hospital, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. noto-tky@umin.net
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • Yes. Source of funding disclosure found
  • This study was supported by a Health Sciences Research Grant (Comprehensive Research on Diabetes/Cardiovascular and Life-Style Related Diseases H22-019) from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan.
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
    
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