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  1. Considerable evidence has been reported that tobacco use could cause alterations in gut microbiota composition. The microbiota-gut–brain axis also in turn hinted at a possible contribution of the gut microbiot...

    Authors: Jiayao Fan, Yuan Zhou, Ran Meng, Jinsong Tang, Jiahao Zhu, Melinda C. Aldrich, Nancy J. Cox, Yimin Zhu, Yingjun Li and Dan Zhou
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:163
  2. High blood pressure (BP) is a key modifiable determinant of cardiovascular disease and a likely determinant of other adverse health outcomes. While socioeconomic inequalities in BP are well documented, it rema...

    Authors: David Bann, Meg Fluharty, Rebecca Hardy and Shaun Scholes
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:338
  3. Norway is a high-income nation with universal tax-financed health care and among the highest per person health spending in the world. This study estimates Norwegian health expenditures by health condition, age...

    Authors: Jonas Minet Kinge, Joseph L. Dieleman, Øystein Karlstad, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Søren Toksvig Klitkou, Simon I. Hay, Theo Vos, Christopher J. L. Murray and Stein Emil Vollset
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:201

    The Comment to this article has been published in BMC Global and Public Health 2023 1:23

  4. The frequency of mental illness amongst adolescents and its potential long-term consequences make it an important topic to research in relation to risk and protective factors. Research on the relationship betw...

    Authors: Catherine Rothon, Phil Edwards, Kamaldeep Bhui, Russell M Viner, Stephanie Taylor and Stephen A Stansfeld
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2010 8:32
  5. Evidence on the role of exogenous female sex steroid hormones in asthma development in women remains conflicting. We sought to quantify the potential causal role of hormonal contraceptives and menopausal hormo...

    Authors: Guoqiang Zhang, Rani Basna, Maya B. Mathur, Cecilia Lässer, Roxana Mincheva, Linda Ekerljung, Göran Wennergren, Madeleine Rådinger, Bo Lundbäck, Hannu Kankaanranta and Bright I. Nwaru
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:337
  6. Heterogeneity of the population in relation to infection, COVID-19 vaccination, and host characteristics is likely reflected in the underlying SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses.

    Authors: Marianna Karachaliou, Gemma Moncunill, Ana Espinosa, Gemma Castaño-Vinyals, Rocío Rubio, Marta Vidal, Alfons Jiménez, Esther Prados, Anna Carreras, Beatriz Cortés, Natàlia Blay, Marc Bañuls, Vanessa Pleguezuelos, Natalia Rodrigo Melero, Pau Serra, Daniel Parras…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:347
  7. Lung function is constantly changing over the life course. Although the relation of cross-sectional lung function measure and adverse outcomes has been reported, data on longitudinal change and subsequent card...

    Authors: Yun-Jiu Cheng, Zhen-Guang Chen, Zhu-Yu Li, Wei-Yi Mei, Wen-Tao Bi and Dong-Ling Luo
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:153
  8. Self-harm is an important predictor of a suicide death. Culturally appropriate strategies for the prevention of self-harm and suicide are needed but the evidence is very limited from low- and middle-income cou...

    Authors: Nusrat Husain, Tayyeba Kiran, Imran Bashir Chaudhry, Christopher Williams, Richard Emsley, Usman Arshad, Moin Ahmed Ansari, Paul Bassett, Penny Bee, Moti Ram Bhatia, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Muhammad Omair Husain, Muhammad Irfan, Ayesha Khaliq, Fareed A. Minhas, Farooq Naeem…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:282
  9. Verbal autopsy (VA) has been proposed to determine the cause of death (COD) distributions in settings where most deaths occur without medical attention or certification. We develop performance criteria for VA-...

    Authors: Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Varun Malhotra, Rajesh Dikshit, Prakash C Gupta, Rajesh Kumar, Jay Sheth, Suresh Kumar Rathi, Wilson Suraweera, Pierre Miasnikof, Raju Jotkar, Dhirendra Sinha, Shally Awasthi, Prakash Bhatia and Prabhat Jha
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:21
  10. The question of whether depression is a causal factor in somatic diseases remains unanswered despite decades of research. In an extensive umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, Machado et al. (B...

    Authors: Annelieke M. Roest and Peter de Jonge
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:147

    The original article was published in BMC Medicine 2018 16:112

  11. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common chronic liver illness with a genetically heterogeneous background that can be accompanied by considerable morbidity and attendant health care costs. The pa...

    Authors: Bahram Namjou, Todd Lingren, Yongbo Huang, Sreeja Parameswaran, Beth L. Cobb, Ian B. Stanaway, John J. Connolly, Frank D. Mentch, Barbara Benoit, Xinnan Niu, Wei-Qi Wei, Robert J. Carroll, Jennifer A. Pacheco, Isaac T. W. Harley, Senad Divanovic, David S. Carrell…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:135
  12. Cancer survivors are advised to follow lifestyle recommendations on diet, physical activity, and body fatness proposed by the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute of Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) for ca...

    Authors: Dora Romaguera, Heather Ward, Petra A Wark, Anne-Claire Vergnaud, Petra H Peeters, Carla H van Gils, Pietro Ferrari, Veronika Fedirko, Mazda Jenab, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Laure Dossus, Laureen Dartois, Camilla Plambeck Hansen, Christina Catherine Dahm, Genevieve Buckland, María José Sánchez…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2015 13:107
  13. Risk prediction models are commonly used in practice to inform decisions on patients’ treatment. Uncertainty around risk scores beyond the confidence interval is rarely explored. We conducted an uncertainty an...

    Authors: Alexander Pate, Richard Emsley, Darren M. Ashcroft, Benjamin Brown and Tjeerd van Staa
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:134

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medicine 2019 17:158

  14. Multimorbidity is an emerging public health priority. Physical activity (PA) is recommended as one of the main lifestyle behaviours, yet the benefits of PA for people with multimorbidity are unclear. We assess...

    Authors: Yogini V. Chudasama, Kamlesh K. Khunti, Francesco Zaccardi, Alex V. Rowlands, Thomas Yates, Clare L. Gillies, Melanie J. Davies and Nafeesa N. Dhalwani
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:108
  15. Cognitive impairment is very common in late-life depression, principally affecting executive skills and information processing speed. The aim of the study was to examine the effect of antidepressant treatment ...

    Authors: Isabelle Carrière, Joanna Norton, Amandine Farré, Marilyn Wyart, Christophe Tzourio, Pernelle Noize, Karine Pérès, Annie Fourrier-Réglat, Karen Ritchie and Marie Laure Ancelin
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:81
  16. In low-incidence countries, clinical experience of tuberculosis is becoming more limited, with potential consequences for patient outcomes. In 2007, the Department of Health released a guidance ‘toolkit’ recom...

    Authors: Helen R. Stagg, Ibrahim Abubakar, James Brown, Maeve K. Lalor, H. Lucy Thomas, Tehreem Mohiyuddin, Debora Pedrazzoli and Corinne S. Merle
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2016 14:52
  17. The use of cardiovascular medication for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is potentially inappropriate when potential risks outweigh the potential benefits. It is unknown whether deprescr...

    Authors: Clare H. Luymes, Rosalinde K. E. Poortvliet, Nan van Geloven, Margot W. M. de Waal, Yvonne M. Drewes, Jeanet W. Blom, Nynke Smidt, Willem J. J. Assendelft, Wilbert B. van den Hout, Wouter de Ruijter and Mattijs E. Numans
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:5
  18. There is evidence that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a prevalent and disabling disorder. However, most of the available data on the epidemiology of this condition originate from high income countries in the...

    Authors: Dan J. Stein, Carmen C. W. Lim, Annelieke M. Roest, Peter de Jonge, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Ali Al-Hamzawi, Jordi Alonso, Corina Benjet, Evelyn J. Bromet, Ronny Bruffaerts, Giovanni de Girolamo, Silvia Florescu, Oye Gureje, Josep Maria Haro, Meredith G. Harris, Yanling He…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:143
  19. Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health problem in Canadian Inuit communities. In 2016, Canadian Inuit had an incidence rate 35 times the Canadian average. Tobacco use is an important risk factor...

    Authors: Dieynaba S. N’Diaye, Ntwali Placide Nsengiyumva, Aashna Uppal, Olivia Oxlade, Gonzalo G. Alvarez and Kevin Schwartzman
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:26
  20. Salivary (AMY1) and pancreatic (AMY2) amylases hydrolyze starch. Copy number of AMY1A (encoding AMY1) was reported to be higher in populations with a high-starch diet and reduced in obese people. These results ba...

    Authors: Amélie Bonnefond, Loïc Yengo, Aurélie Dechaume, Mickaël Canouil, Maxime Castelain, Estelle Roger, Frédéric Allegaert, Robert Caiazzo, Violeta Raverdy, Marie Pigeyre, Abdelilah Arredouani, Jean-Michel Borys, Claire Lévy-Marchal, Jacques Weill, Ronan Roussel, Beverley Balkau…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:37
  21. Varenicline, bupropion and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) are three effective pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation, but data about their safety in pregnancy are limited. We assessed the risk of adverse ...

    Authors: Duong Thuy Tran, David B. Preen, Kristjana Einarsdottir, Anna Kemp-Casey, Deborah Randall, Louisa R. Jorm, Stephanie K. Y. Choi and Alys Havard
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:15
  22. Whilst observational studies establish that lower plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) levels are associated with higher risk of colorectal cancer (CRC), establishing causality has proven challenging. Since vit...

    Authors: Yazhou He, Maria Timofeeva, Susan M. Farrington, Peter Vaughan-Shaw, Victoria Svinti, Marion Walker, Lina Zgaga, Xiangrui Meng, Xue Li, Athina Spiliopoulou, Xia Jiang, Elina Hyppönen, Peter Kraft, Douglas P. Kiel, Caroline Hayward, Archie Campbell…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:142
  23. There is emerging evidence of the role of certain nutrients as risk factors for frailty. However, people eat food, rather than nutrients, and no previous study has examined the association between dietary patt...

    Authors: Luz M León-Muñoz, Esther García-Esquinas, Esther López-García, José R Banegas and Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2015 13:11
  24. Inflammation contributes to the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder (MDD), and anti-inflammatory strategies might therefore have therapeutic potential. This trial aimed to determine whether adjunctive...

    Authors: Michael Berk, Mohammadreza Mohebbi, Olivia M. Dean, Sue M. Cotton, Andrew M. Chanen, Seetal Dodd, Aswin Ratheesh, G. Paul Amminger, Mark Phelan, Amber Weller, Andrew Mackinnon, Francesco Giorlando, Shelley Baird, Lisa Incerti, Rachel E. Brodie, Natalie O. Ferguson…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:16
  25. Antidepressant exposure during pregnancy has been associated with an increased risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in several observational studies. We pe...

    Authors: Daniel R. Morales, Jim Slattery, Stephen Evans and Xavier Kurz
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:6
  26. First metabolomics studies have indicated that metabolic fingerprints from accessible tissues might be useful to better understand the etiological links between metabolism and cancer. However, there is still a...

    Authors: Tilman Kühn, Anna Floegel, Disorn Sookthai, Theron Johnson, Ulrike Rolle-Kampczyk, Wolfgang Otto, Martin von Bergen, Heiner Boeing and Rudolf Kaaks
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2016 14:13
  27. Rates of diseases and death from tobacco smoking are substantially higher among those with a mental health condition (MHC). Vaping can help some people quit smoking, but little is known about vaping among peop...

    Authors: Eve Taylor, Leonie S Brose, Ann McNeill, Jamie Brown, Loren Kock and Debbie Robson
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:211
  28. Accumulating evidence has suggested an oncogenic effect of diurnal disruption on cancer progression. To test whether targeting circadian rhythm by dietary strategy suppressed lung cancer progression, we adopte...

    Authors: Dan Shi, Gaofeng Fang, Qianyao Chen, Jianling Li, Xiongzhong Ruan and Xuemei Lian
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:417
  29. Research on the association between telomere length (TL) and incident non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is limited. This study examined this association and further assessed how TL contributes to the a...

    Authors: Linxi Tang, Dankang Li, Yudiyang Ma, Feipeng Cui, Jianing Wang and Yaohua Tian
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:427
  30. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as important regulators in a variety of human diseases. The dysregulation of liver sinusoidal endothelial cell (LSEC) phenotype is a critical early event in the fibro...

    Authors: Ting Chen, Zhemin Shi, Yanmian Zhao, Xiaoxiang Meng, Sicong Zhao, Lina Zheng, Xiaohui Han, Zhimei Hu, Qingbin Yao, Huajiang Lin, Xiaoxiao Du, Kun Zhang, Tao Han and Wei Hong
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:335
  31. The 2012 World Health Assembly set a target for Member States to reduce premature non-communicable disease (NCD) mortality by 25% over the period 2010 to 2025. This reflected concerns about increasing NCD mort...

    Authors: Ailiana Santosa, Joacim Rocklöv, Ulf Högberg and Peter Byass
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2015 13:65
  32. Early identification of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) increases the likelihood of treatment success and interrupts transmission. Resource-constrained settings use risk profiling to ration t...

    Authors: Laura J. Martin, Martha H. Roper, Louis Grandjean, Robert H. Gilman, Jorge Coronel, Luz Caviedes, Jon S. Friedland and David A. J. Moore
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2016 14:30
  33. In this Opinion article, we review compelling evidence that weight stigma is harmful to health, over and above objective body mass index. Weight stigma is prospectively related to heightened mortality and other c...

    Authors: A. Janet Tomiyama, Deborah Carr, Ellen M. Granberg, Brenda Major, Eric Robinson, Angelina R. Sutin and Alexandra Brewis
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:123
  34. Although obesity and diabetes commonly co-exist, the evidence base to support obesity as the major driver of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and the mechanisms by which this occurs, are now better appreciated.

    Authors: Naveed Sattar and Jason MR Gill
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:123
  35. Liver fibrosis is a stage of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) which is responsible for liver-related morbidity and mortality in adults. Accordingly, the search for non-invasive markers of liver fibros...

    Authors: Valerio Nobili, Anna Alisi, Andrea Vania, Claudio Tiribelli, Andrea Pietrobattista and Giorgio Bedogni
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2009 7:21
  36. Sepsis is the clinical syndrome derived from the host response to an infection and severe sepsis is the leading cause of death in critically ill patients. Several biomarkers have been tested for use in diagnos...

    Authors: Katia Donadello, Sabino Scolletta, Cecilia Covajes and Jean-Louis Vincent
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2012 10:2
  37. High dose oral ascorbic acid substantially improved myelination and locomotor function in a Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1A mouse model. A phase II study was warranted to investigate whether high dose ascorbic aci...

    Authors: Camiel Verhamme, Rob J de Haan, Marinus Vermeulen, Frank Baas, Marianne de Visser and Ivo N van Schaik
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2009 7:70
  38. Observational studies have shown that milk consumption is inversely associated with colorectal, bladder, and breast cancer risk, but positively associated with prostate cancer. However, whether the association...

    Authors: Susanna C. Larsson, Amy M. Mason, Siddhartha Kar, Mathew Vithayathil, Paul Carter, John A. Baron, Karl Michaëlsson and Stephen Burgess
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:370
  39. Cancer patients are at risk of thromboembolism. However, studies investigating the relationship between ovarian cancer and ischemic stroke are lacking. The objectives of this study were to assess the associati...

    Authors: Ai-Seon Kuan, Chung-Jen Teng, Hua-Hsi Wu, Vincent Yi-Fong Su, Yung-Tai Chen, Sheng-Hsuan Chien, Chiu-Mei Yeh, Li-Yu Hu, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Cheng-Hwai Tzeng and Chia-Jen Liu
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:53
  40. The recurrence of cardiac events in patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (VF) excluding patients with the Brugada syndrome is unclear since this entity remains present in previous studies.

    Authors: Jean Champagne, Peter Geelen, François Philippon and Pedro Brugada
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2005 3:1
  41. Research on the role of diet in the prevention of depression is scarce. Some evidence suggests that depression shares common mechanisms with cardiovascular disease.

    Authors: Almudena Sanchez-Villegas and Miguel A Martínez-González
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2013 11:3
  42. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) is a common condition in which patients lose the hearing in one ear within 3 days. Systemic glucocorticoid treatments have been used as standard therapy for SSHL; howev...

    Authors: Takayuki Nakagawa, Tatsunori Sakamoto, Harukazu Hiraumi, Yayoi S Kikkawa, Norio Yamamoto, Kiyomi Hamaguchi, Kazuya Ono, Masaya Yamamoto, Yasuhiko Tabata, Satoshi Teramukai, Shiro Tanaka, Harue Tada, Rie Onodera, Atsushi Yonezawa, Ken-ichi Inui and Juichi Ito
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2010 8:76
  43. Preterm birth may affect maternal mental health, yet most studies focus on postpartum mental disorders only. We explored the relationship between preterm delivery and the long-term risk of maternal hospitaliza...

    Authors: Gabriel Côté-Corriveau, Gilles Paradis, Thuy Mai Luu, Aimina Ayoub, Marianne Bilodeau-Bertrand and Nathalie Auger
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:447