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  1. The Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated Protein (FTO) gene rs9939609 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) has been associated with obesity, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance (IR), and type 2 diabetes mellitus in...

    Authors: Daniel Pineda-Tenor, Juan Berenguer, María A Jiménez-Sousa, Mónica García-Alvarez, Teresa Aldámiz-Echevarria, Ana Carrero, Sonia Vázquez-Morón, Pilar García-Broncano, Cristina Diez, Francisco Tejerina, María Guzmán-Fulgencio and Salvador Resino
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:198
  2. Medical costs and the burden associated with cardiovascular disease are on the rise. Therefore, to improve the overall economy and quality assessment of the healthcare system, we developed a predictive model o...

    Authors: Tomoyuki Takura, Keiko Hirano Goto and Asao Honda
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:15
  3. Understanding the temporal trends in the burden of overall and type-specific cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in youths and young adults and its attributable risk factors is important for effective and targeted ...

    Authors: Jiahong Sun, Yanan Qiao, Min Zhao, Costan G. Magnussen and Bo Xi
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:222

    The Comment to this article has been published in BMC Global and Public Health 2023 1:14

  4. Comorbidities affect outcomes in heart failure (HF), but are not reflected in current HF classification. The aim of this study is to characterize HF groups that account for higher-order interactions between co...

    Authors: Claudia Gulea, Rosita Zakeri and Jennifer K. Quint
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:9
  5. Physical activity (PA) increases a person’s inhalation of air pollutants due to greater ventilation, possibly leading to larger adverse health effects. This study aims to investigate the combined effects of lo...

    Authors: Cui Guo, Yacong Bo, Ta-Chien Chan, Zilong Zhang, Changqing Lin, Tony Tam, Alexis K. H. Lau, Ly-yun Chang, Gerard Hoek and Xiang Qian Lao
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:134
  6. Thymidine phosphorylase (TP), encoded by the TYMP gene, is a cytosolic enzyme essential for the nucleotide salvage pathway. TP catalyzes the phosphorylation of the deoxyribonucleosides, thymidine and 2′-deoxyurid...

    Authors: Jérémie Gautheron, Lara Lima, Baris Akinci, Jamila Zammouri, Martine Auclair, Sema Kalkan Ucar, Samim Ozen, Canan Altay, Bridget E. Bax, Ivan Nemazanyy, Véronique Lenoir, Carina Prip-Buus, Cécile Acquaviva-Bourdain, Olivier Lascols, Bruno Fève, Corinne Vigouroux…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:95
  7. Homelessness has been associated with multiple detrimental health outcomes across observational studies. However, relatively few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted on people who experience...

    Authors: Michele Fornaro, Elena Dragioti, Michele De Prisco, Martina Billeci, Anna Maria Mondin, Raffaella Calati, Lee Smith, Simon Hatcher, Mark Kaluzienski, Jess G. Fiedorowicz, Marco Solmi, Andrea de Bartolomeis and André F. Carvalho
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:224
  8. Interpersonal violence is a leading cause of death and disability globally, has immediate and long-term impacts on individuals’ health and wellbeing, and impacts global health care expenditures and national ec...

    Authors: Nadia Butler, Zara Quigg and Mark A. Bellis
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:325
  9. In December 2019, a new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and associated disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was identified in China. This virus spread quickly...

    Authors: Godfrey Bwire, Alex Riolexus Ario, Patricia Eyu, Felix Ocom, Joseph F. Wamala, Kwadwo A. Kusi, Latif Ndeketa, Kondwani C. Jambo, Rhoda K. Wanyenze and Ambrose O. Talisuna
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:167
  10. Observational studies have reported maternal short/long sleep duration to be associated with adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes. However, it remains unclear whether there are nonlinear causal effects. Ou...

    Authors: Qian Yang, Maria C. Magnus, Fanny Kilpi, Gillian Santorelli, Ana Gonçalves Soares, Jane West, Per Magnus, John Wright, Siri Eldevik Håberg, Eleanor Sanderson, Deborah A. Lawlor, Kate Tilling and Maria Carolina Borges
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:295
  11. Polypharmacy is common among older people and is associated with an increased mortality risk. However, little is known about whether the mortality risk is related to specific medications among older adults wit...

    Authors: Yun-Ting Huang, Andrew Steptoe, Li Wei and Paola Zaninotto
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:321
  12. Improved survival means that cancer is increasingly becoming a chronic disease. Understanding and improving functional outcomes are critical to optimising survivorship. We quantified physical and mental health...

    Authors: Grace Joshy, Joanne Thandrayen, Bogda Koczwara, Phyllis Butow, Rebekah Laidsaar-Powell, Nicole Rankin, Karen Canfell, John Stubbs, Paul Grogan, Louise Bailey, Amelia Yazidjoglou and Emily Banks
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:372
  13. The World Health Organisation estimates that by 2030 there will be approximately 350 million people with type 2 diabetes. Associated with renal complications, heart disease, stroke and peripheral vascular dise...

    Authors: Gary S Collins, Susan Mallett, Omar Omar and Ly-Mee Yu
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2011 9:103
  14. Endoglin is involved in the regulation of endothelial function, but there are no studies concerning its relation with hypertension- and diabetes-associated pathologies. Thus, we studied the relationship betwee...

    Authors: Ana M Blázquez-Medela, Luis García-Ortiz, Manuel A Gómez-Marcos, José I Recio-Rodríguez, Angel Sánchez-Rodríguez, José M López-Novoa and Carlos Martínez-Salgado
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2010 8:86
  15. Few studies have investigated the joint effects of sleep traits on the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). No previous study has used factorial Mendelian randomization (MR) which may reduce confounding,...

    Authors: Nikhil Arora, Laxmi Bhatta, Eivind Schjelderup Skarpsno, Håvard Dalen, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Ben Michael Brumpton, Rebecca Claire Richmond and Linn Beate Strand
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:385
  16. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including childhood maltreatment, have been linked with increased risk of diabetes and obesity during adulthood. A comprehensive assessment on the associations between chi...

    Authors: Shu Wen, Jianwei Zhu, Xin Han, Yuchen Li, Haowen Liu, Huazhen Yang, Can Hou, Shishi Xu, Junren Wang, Yao Hu, Yuanyuan Qu, Di Liu, Thor Aspelund, Fang Fang, Unnur A. Valdimarsdóttir and Huan Song
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:59
  17. The etiologies of chronic neurological diseases, which heavily contribute to global disease burden, remain far from elucidated. Despite available umbrella reviews on single contributing factors or diseases, no...

    Authors: Alexios-Fotios A. Mentis, Efthimios Dardiotis, Vasiliki Efthymiou and George P. Chrousos
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:6

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medicine 2021 19:297

  18. The current food system in England promotes a population diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS). To address this, the UK government has implemented legislation to restrict the promotion of HFSS produc...

    Authors: Sarah Muir, Preeti Dhuria, Emma Roe, Wendy Lawrence, Janis Baird and Christina Vogel
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:33
  19. Healthcare workers’ (HCW) well-being has a direct effect on patient care. However, little is known about the prevalence and patterns of long-term medical conditions in HCWs, especially those from ethnic minori...

    Authors: Winifred Ekezie, Christopher A. Martin, Rebecca F. Baggaley, Lucy Teece, Joshua Nazareth, Daniel Pan, Shirley Sze, Luke Bryant, Katherine Woolf, Laura J. Gray, Kamlesh Khunti and Manish Pareek
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:433
  20. Obesity and metabolic syndrome are healthcare problems that continue to rise in frequency worldwide. Both phenotypes are a strong predictor for development of liver steatosis in the context of non-alcoholic fa...

    Authors: Bark Betzel and Joost PH Drenth
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:152
  21. This comment relates to articles published in archived content of the journal Head and Neck Oncology and is not related to the content of BMC Medicine in any way.

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    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:24
  22. Hypovitaminosis D has been recently recognized as a worldwide epidemic. Since vitamin D exerts significant metabolic activities, comprising free fatty acids (FFA) flux regulation from the periphery to the live...

    Authors: Ilaria Barchetta, Francesco Angelico, Maria Del Ben, Marco Giorgio Baroni, Paolo Pozzilli, Sergio Morini and Maria Gisella Cavallo
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2011 9:85
  23. Depression in tuberculosis increases the risk for adverse health outcomes. However, little is known about comorbid depression and tuberculosis in the general population. Thus, we assessed the association betwe...

    Authors: Ai Koyanagi, Davy Vancampfort, André F. Carvalho, Jordan E. DeVylder, Josep Maria Haro, Damiano Pizzol, Nicola Veronese and Brendon Stubbs
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:209
  24. The risk of psoriasis in patients with breast cancer is largely unknown, as available evidence is limited to case findings. We systematically examined the incidence and risk factors of psoriasis in patients wi...

    Authors: Haomin Yang, Judith S. Brand, Jingmei Li, Jonas F. Ludvigsson, Emilio Ugalde-Morales, Flaminia Chiesa, Per Hall and Kamila Czene
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:154
  25. Acute gout arthritis flares contribute dominantly to gout-specific impaired health-related quality of life, representing a progressively increasing public health problem. Flares can be complex and expensive to...

    Authors: Robert Terkeltaub
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:158
  26. Antibiotic-induced disturbances of the human microbiota have been implicated in the development of chronic autoimmune conditions. This study aimed to assess whether antibiotic use is associated with the onset ...

    Authors: Alyshah Abdul Sultan, Christian Mallen, Sara Muller, Samantha Hider, Ian Scott, Toby Helliwell and Lindsay J. Hall
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:154
  27. Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a common complication of tuberculosis treatment. We utilised data from the REMoxTB clinical trial to describe the incidence of predisposing factors and the natural history i...

    Authors: Conor Duncan Tweed, Genevieve Helen Wills, Angela M. Crook, Rodney Dawson, Andreas H. Diacon, Cheryl E. Louw, Timothy D. McHugh, Carl Mendel, Sarah Meredith, Lerato Mohapi, Michael E. Murphy, Stephen Murray, Sara Murthy, Andrew J. Nunn, Patrick P. J. Phillips, Kasha Singh…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:46
  28. Telomere attrition is extremely rapid during the first years of life, while lifestyle during adulthood exerts a minor impact. This suggests that early life is an important period in the determination of telome...

    Authors: Esmée M. Bijnens, Maurice P. Zeegers, Catherine Derom, Dries S. Martens, Marij Gielen, Geja J. Hageman, Michelle Plusquin, Evert Thiery, Robert Vlietinck and Tim S. Nawrot
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:205
  29. Excess weight and unexpected weight loss are associated with multiple disease states and increased morbidity and mortality, but weight measurement is not routine in many primary care settings. The aim of this ...

    Authors: B. D. Nicholson, P. Aveyard, C. R. Bankhead, W. Hamilton, F. D. R. Hobbs and S. Lay-Flurrie
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:222
  30. Pregnancy and pregnancy loss may be linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the evidence is still inconsistent, especially in East Asians, whose reproductive patterns differ importantly from those in ...

    Authors: Sanne A. E. Peters, Ling Yang, Yu Guo, Yiping Chen, Zheng Bian, Xiaocao Tian, Liang Chang, Shuo Zhang, Jiaqiu Liu, Tao Wang, Junshi Chen, Liming Li, Mark Woodward and Zhengming Chen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:148
  31. In post-stroke atrial fibrillation (AF) patients who have indications for both oral anticoagulant (OAC) and antiplatelet agent (AP), e.g., those with carotid artery stenosis, there is debate over the best anti...

    Authors: Chuan-Tsai Tsai, Yi-Hsin Chan, Jo-Nan Liao, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Gregory Y. H. Lip, Shih-Ann Chen and Tze-Fan Chao
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:113
  32. In women of reproductive age, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) constitutes the most frequent endocrine disorder. Women with PCOS are considered to typically belong to an age and sex group which is at lower ris...

    Authors: Ioannis Kyrou, Emmanouil Karteris, Tim Robbins, Kamaljit Chatha, Fotios Drenos and Harpal S. Randeva
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:220
  33. Cortisol, a steroid hormone frequently used as a biomarker of stress, is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). To clarify whether cortisol causes these outcomes, we ...

    Authors: Man Ki Kwok, Ichiro Kawachi, David Rehkopf and Catherine Mary Schooling
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:363
  34. More than three decades after the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata enshrined the goal of ‘health for all’, high-quality primary care services remain undelivered to the great majority of the world’s poor. This fail...

    Authors: Ashwin Vasan, Andrew Ellner, Stephen D Lawn, Sandy Gove, Manzi Anatole, Neil Gupta, Peter Drobac, Tom Nicholson, Kwonjune Seung, David C Mabey and Paul E Farmer
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:6
  35. Adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a key predictor of the success of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment, and is potentially amenable to intervention. Insight into predictors or ...

    Authors: Nienke Langebeek, Elizabeth H Gisolf, Peter Reiss, Sigrid C Vervoort, Thóra B Hafsteinsdóttir, Clemens Richter, Mirjam AG Sprangers and Pythia T Nieuwkerk
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:142
  36. Excessive sodium consumption is one of the leading dietary risk factors for non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease (CVD), mediated by high blood pressure. Brazil has implemented voluntary ...

    Authors: Eduardo Augusto Fernandes Nilson, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, Brendan Collins, Maria Guzman-Castillo, Simon Capewell, Martin O’Flaherty, Patrícia Constante Jaime and Chris Kypridemos
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:225
  37. Paxlovid has been shown to be effective in reducing mortality and hospitalization rates in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). It is not known whether Paxlovid can reduce the risk of cardiovascu...

    Authors: Weijie Wang, Yu-Hsun Wang, Ching-Hua Huang, Tsung-Hsueh Hsieh, Gema Hernández Ibarburu and James Cheng-Chung Wei
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:117
  38. Peer support for mental health is recommended across international policy guidance and provision. Our systematic umbrella review summarises evidence on the effectiveness, implementation, and experiences of pai...

    Authors: Ruth E. Cooper, Katherine R. K. Saunders, Anna Greenburgh, Prisha Shah, Rebecca Appleton, Karen Machin, Tamar Jeynes, Phoebe Barnett, Sophie M. Allan, Jessica Griffiths, Ruth Stuart, Lizzie Mitchell, Beverley Chipp, Stephen Jeffreys, Brynmor Lloyd-Evans, Alan Simpson…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:72
  39. Each mother–child dyad represents a unique combination of genetic and environmental factors. This constellation of variables impacts the expression of countless genes. Numerous studies have uncovered changes i...

    Authors: Jane W. Y. Ng, Janine F. Felix and David M. Olson
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:466
  40. Cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) are the major cause of death worldwide and are associated with a lower quality of life and high healthcare costs. To prevent a further rise in CMD and related healthcare costs, e...

    Authors: Daphne M. Stol, Eelco A. B. Over, Ilse F. Badenbroek, Monika Hollander, Mark M. J. Nielen, Roderik A. Kraaijenhagen, François G. Schellevis, Niek J. de Wit and G. Ardine de Wit
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:57