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Association of ultra-processed food intake with risk of inflammatory bowel disease: prospective cohort study

Generous consumption of ultra-processed foods may increase an individual's predisposition to inflammatory bowel disease.

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  • 2023
  • Neeraj Narula, Emily C L Wong, Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Sumathy Rangarajan, Fernando Lanas, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Priyanka Rohatgi, P V M Lakshmi, Ravi Prasad Varma, Andres Orlandini, Alvaro Avezum, Andreas Wielgosz, Paul Poirier, Majid A Almadi, Yuksel Altuntas, Kien Keat Ng, Jephat Chifamba, Karen Yeates, Thandi Puoane, Rasha Khatib, Rita Yusuf Kristina Bengtsson Boström, Katarzyna Zatonska, Romaina Iqbal, Liu Weida, Zhu Yibing, Li Sidong, Antonio Dans, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Noushin Mohammadifard, John K Marshall, Paul Moayyedi, Walter Reinisch, Salim Yusuf
  • Department of Medicine (Division of Gastroenterology) and Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada neeraj.narula@medportal.ca. Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada. Department of Medicine (Division of Gastroenterology) and Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. Department of Internal Medicine, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile. Masira Research Institute, Universidad de Santander (UDES) Fundación Oftalmológica de Santander-FOSCAL-Bucaramanga, Colombia. Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, India. School of Public Health, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, SCTIMST and Health Action by People, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Department of Cardiology, Estudios Clinicos Latinoamerica ECLA Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. International Research Centre, Hospital Alemao Oswaldo Cruz, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Universidade Santo Amaro (UNISA), Sao Paulo, Brazil. Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Faculté de pharmacie, Université Laval Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Québec, Canada. Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. University of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Health Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Endocrinology and Metabolism Sisli/Istanbul, Turkey. Faculty of Medicine and Defence Health, National Defence University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Department of Physiology, University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe. Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada. School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville. South Africa. Institute for Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine. Advocate Research Institute, Advocate Health Care, IL, USA. School of Life Sciences, Independent University, Bangladesh Bashundhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh. School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden. Department of Social Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland. Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. Medical Research and Biometrics Center, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Mentougou District, Beijing, China. Section of Adult Medicine and Medical Research Unit, University of Philippines, Manila, Philippines. Hatta Hospital, Dubai Medical University, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Phytochemicals for the Prevention and Treatment of Gastric Cancer: Effects and Mechanisms

High dietary exposure to phytochemicals from plant foods may help hinder the development of gastric (stomach) cancer.

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  • 2021
  • Qian-Qian Mao, Xiao-Yu Xu, Ao Shang, Ren-You Gan, Ding-Tao Wu, Atanas G Atanasov, Hua-Bin Li
  • Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Food, Nutrition and Health, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China. Research Center for Plants and Human Health, Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China. Department of Food Science & Technology, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China. Institute of Food Processing and Safety, College of Food Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an 625014, China. Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, 05-552 Magdalenka, Poland. Institute of Neurobiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 23 Acad. G. Bonchev str., 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria. Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
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Meat Intake Is Associated with a Higher Risk of Ulcerative Colitis in a Large European Prospective Cohort Studyø

The likelihood of being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis may be high among consumers of meaty diets.

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  • 2022
  • Catherine Dong, Simon S M Chan, Prevost Jantchou, Antoine Racine, Bas Oldenburg, Elisabete Weiderpass, Alicia K Heath, Tammy Y N Tong, Anne Tjønneland, Cecilie Kyrø, Bas Bueno de Mesquita, Rudolf Kaaks, Verena A Katzke, Manuela M Bergman, Heiner Boeing, Domenico Palli, Giovanna Masala, Rosario Tumino, Carlotta Sacerdote, Sandra M Colorado-Yohar, Maria-Jose Sánchez, Olof Grip, Stefan Lindgren, Robert Luben, Inge Huybrechts, Marc J Gunter, Yahya Mahamat-Saleh, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Franck Carbonnel
  • INSERM, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Institut Gustave Roussy, Université Paris Saclay, Villejuif, France. Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Bicêtre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France. Norwich Medical School, Department of Medicine, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Department of Gastroenterology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norwich, UK. Sainte Justine University Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands. International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK. Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [RIVM], Bilthoven, The Netherlands. Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany. Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Unit, Cancer Research and Prevention Institute, Florence, Italy. Cancer Registry and Histopathology Department, Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale, Ragusa, Italy. Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Città della Salute e della Scienza University-Hospital, Turin, Italy. Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain. CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública [CIBERESP], Madrid, Spain. National School of Public Health, Research Group on Demography and Health, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública [EASP], Granada, Spain. Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria, Granada, Spain. Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden. Strangeways Research Laboratory, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Cruciferous vegetable intake is inversely associated with extensive abdominal aortic calcification in elderly women: a cross-sectional study

Eating cruciferous vegetables may cut down an older woman's odds of suffering from calcification of the abdominal aorta.

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  • 2021
  • Lauren C Blekkenhorst, Marc Sim, Simone Radavelli-Bagatini, Nicola P Bondonno, Catherine P Bondonno, Amanda Devine, John T Schousboe, Wai H Lim, Douglas P Kiel, Richard J Woodman, Jonathan M Hodgson, Richard L Prince, Joshua R Lewis
  • School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA6027, Australia. Medical School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA6000, Australia. Park Nicollet Osteoporosis Centre and HealthPartners Institute, HealthPartners, Minneapolis, MN55416, USA. Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455, USA. Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02215, USA. Flinders Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA5042, Australia. Centre for Kidney Research, Children's Hospital at Westmead School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW2006, Australia.
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Dietary fiber and prevalence of abdominal aortic calcification in the United States (from the national health and nutrition examination survey data [2013-2014])

Increased intake of foods high in fiber may reduce an individual's risk of having calcium deposited on the abdominal aorta.

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  • 2022
  • YuJiao Sun, HuanRui Zhang, Wen Tian
  • Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, No.155 Nanjing North Street, Shenyang, 110001, China. Department of Geriatrics, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, No.155 Nanjing North Street, Shenyang, 110001, China. wtian56@cmu.edu.cn.
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Association between Smokeless Tobacco Use and Waterpipe Smoking and the Risk of Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Current Epidemiological Evidence

Users of waterpipe and smokeless tobacco may have a high probability of developing lung cancer.

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Modelling the impact of sodium intake on cardiovascular disease mortality in Mexico

Cutting down our rate of consumption of salty foods could save us from dying from cardiovascular disease.

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  • 2023
  • Jorge Vargas-Meza, Eduardo Augusto Fernandes Nilson, Claudia Nieto, Neha Khandpur, Edgar Denova-Gutiérrez, Isabel Valero-Morales, Simón Barquera, Ismael Campos-Nonato
  • Research Center of Nutrition and Health, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico. El Poder del Consumidor A.C., Ciudad de México, Mexico. Center for Epidemiological Research on Nutrition and Health, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. edunilson@gmail.com. Programa de Alimentação, Nutrição e Cultura, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brasília, Brazil. edunilson@gmail.com. Department of Nutrition, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
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Association Between Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake and Mortality Risk in Women: The California Teachers Study

Generous consumption of caloric soft drinks may increase a woman's likelihood of suffering from deaths arising from cancer and other chronic diseases.

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  • 2022
  • Lorena Sonia Pacheco, James Vincent Lacey Jr, Maria Elena Martinez, Hector Lemus, Dorothy Dee Sears, Maria Rosario G Araneta, Cheryl Ann Marie Anderson
  • Department of Family Medicine and Public Health in the School of Medicine at University of California San Diego, La Jolla; School of Public Health at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. Division of Health Analytics, Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine, City of Hope, Duarte, CA. Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla; Moores Cancer Center at University of California San Diego, La Jolla. School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. Departments of Medicine and Family Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla. Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla; diversity and community partnerships, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla. Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla. Electronic address: c1anderson@health.ucsd.edu.
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Plant phytochemicals: potential anticancer agents against gastric cancer

High dietary ingestion of plant phytochemicals may help ward off gastric (stomach) cancer.

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  • 2014
  • Anders Øverby, Chun-Mei Zhao, Duan Chen
  • Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 5, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway; Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7034 Trondheim, Norway. Electronic address: anders.overby@bio.ntnu.no. Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7034 Trondheim, Norway.
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Variety in fruit and vegetable intake and cognitive function in middle-aged and older Puerto Rican adults

Adhering to a diet that promotes the consumption of a variety of fruits and vegetables may help boost cognitive function in middle-aged and elderly individuals.

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Associations between fatty acid intake and diabetic retinopathy in a Japanese population

The odds of suffering from retinopathy may be stacked against diabetic patients who enjoy consuming fatty foods.

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  • 2023
  • Mariko Sasaki, Kenya Yuki, Akiko Hanyuda, Kazumasa Yamagishi, Kaoru Motomura, Toshihide Kurihara, Yohei Tomita, Kiwako Mori, Nobuhiro Ozawa, Yoko Ozawa, Norie Sawada, Kazuno Negishi, Kazuo Tsubota, Shoichiro Tsugane, Hiroyasu Iso
  • Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan. marii.kt@gmail.com. National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center, 2-5-1 Higashigaoka Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8902, Japan. marii.kt@gmail.com. Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan. Department of Public Health Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and Health Services Research and Development Center, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan. yamagishi.kazumas.ge@u.tsukuba.ac.jp. Ibaraki Western Medical Center, 555 Otsuka, Chikusei, Ibaraki, 308-0813, Japan. yamagishi.kazumas.ge@u.tsukuba.ac.jp. St.Luke's International Hospital, 9-1 Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-8560, Japan. Divison of Cohort Research, National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0045, Japan. National Institute of Health and Nutrition, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8636, Japan. Department of Public Health Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and Health Services Research and Development Center, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan. Institute for Global Health Policy Research, Bureau of International Health Cooperation, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, 1-21-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8655, Japan.
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Sedentary behavior and incident cancer: a meta-analysis of prospective studies

Being physically inactive may trigger the development of some types of cancer, including breast, endometrial, colorectal, and lung cancers.

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  • 2014
  • Dong Shen, Weidong Mao, Tao Liu, Qingfeng Lin, Xiangdong Lu, Qiong Wang, Feng Lin, Ulf Ekelund, Katrien Wijndaele
  • Department of Oncology, The Affiliated Jiangyin Hospital of Southeast University Medical College, Jiangyin, China. Department of Sport Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway; MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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