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  1. Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity is an established risk factor for childhood obesity. Investigating epigenetic alterations induced by maternal obesity during fetal development could gain mechanistic insight into...

    Authors: Jiahui Si, Anat Yaskolka Meir, Xiumei Hong, Guoying Wang, Wanyu Huang, Colleen Pearson, William G. Adams, Xiaobin Wang and Liming Liang
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:317
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  2. Of 70,421 participants (35–70 years, 58.6% women) from the Lifelines cohort study, dietary intake was assessed with a food frequency questionnaire. UPF was identified according to the NOVA classification. Princip...

    Authors: Ming-Jie Duan, Petra C. Vinke, Gerjan Navis, Eva Corpeleijn and Louise H. Dekker
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:7
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  3. Amino acid metabolism is dysregulated in colorectal cancer patients; however, it is not clear whether pre-diagnostic levels of amino acids are associated with subsequent risk of colorectal cancer. We investiga...

    Authors: Joseph A. Rothwell, Jelena Bešević, Niki Dimou, Marie Breeur, Neil Murphy, Mazda Jenab, Roland Wedekind, Vivian Viallon, Pietro Ferrari, David Achaintre, Audrey Gicquiau, Sabina Rinaldi, Augustin Scalbert, Inge Huybrechts, Cornelia Prehn, Jerzy Adamski…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:80
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  4. Mitochondrial (MT) dysfunction is a hallmark of liver diseases. However, the effects of functional variants such as protein truncating variants (PTVs) in MT-related genes on the risk of liver diseases have not...

    Authors: Huangbo Yuan, Zhenqiu Liu, Mingyang Chen, Qiaoyi Xu, Yanfeng Jiang, Tiejun Zhang, Chen Suo and Xingdong Chen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:239
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  5. The immunologic milieu at the maternal–fetal interface has profound effects on propelling the development of the fetal brain. However, accessible epidemiological studies concerning the association between plac...

    Authors: Jixing Zhou, Juan Tong, Xue Ru, Yuzhu Teng, Menglong Geng, Shuangqin Yan, Fangbiao Tao and Kun Huang
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:449
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  6. Studies on physical activity (PA) and mental health are largely limited to self-reported PA. This study aims to use prospective cohort data to investigate the association between device-measured PA and affecti...

    Authors: Frederick K. Ho, Fanny Petermann-Rocha, Solange Parra-Soto, Jirapitcha Boonpor, Jason M. R. Gill, Stuart R. Gray, Jill P. Pell and Carlos Celis-Morales
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:290
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  7. Previous cohort studies have investigated the relationship between self-reported physical activity (PA) and dementia. Evidence from objective device-measured PA data is lacking. This study aimed to explore the...

    Authors: Fanny Petermann-Rocha, Donald M. Lyall, Stuart R. Gray, Jason M. R. Gill, Naveed Sattar, Paul Welsh, Terence J. Quinn, William Stewart, Jill P. Pell, Frederick K. Ho and Carlos Celis-Morales
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:305
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  8. Data were gathered from the Swedish National study of Aging and Care in Kungsholmen (SNAC-K), an ongoing population-based study of subjects aged 60+ (N = 3363). The study included a subsample (n...= 1189) without...

    Authors: Shireen Sindi, Laura Monica Pérez, Davide L. Vetrano, Federico Triolo, Ingemar Kåreholt, Linnea Sjöberg, Alexander Darin-Mattsson, Miia Kivipelto, Marco Inzitari and Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:382
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  9. After a median follow-up period of 4.91 years (interquartile range, 2.81 to 6.98), 271 out of 6,103 patients developed all-site cancer. At baseline, patients with incident cancers were older, had longer disease d...

    Authors: Alice PS Kong, Xilin Yang, Wing-Yee So, Andrea Luk, Ronald CW Ma, Risa Ozaki, Kitty KT Cheung, Heung-Man Lee, Linda Yu, Gang Xu, Chun-Chung Chow and Juliana CN Chan
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:76
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  10. Undiagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a global problem. Current strategies for diagnosis in Sweden include screening individuals within primary healthcare who are of high risk, such as those with hypertension, ...

    Authors: Hrafnhildur Gudjonsdottir, Per Tynelius, Nouha Saleh Stattin, Diego Yacamán Méndez, Anton Lager and Boel Brynedal
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:168
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  11. Child maltreatment is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), but mediation pathways have not been fully elucidated. The aim of the current study was to determine and quantify the underlying pathways lin...

    Authors: Frederick K. Ho, Carlos Celis-Morales, Stuart R. Gray, Fanny Petermann-Rocha, Donald Lyall, Daniel Mackay, Naveed Sattar, Helen Minnis and Jill P. Pell
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:143
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  12. The global burden of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes could be decreased by improving dietary factors, but identification of groups suitable for interventional approaches can be difficult. Reporting ...

    Authors: Einar Smith, Ulrika Ericson, Sophie Hellstrand, Marju Orho-Melander, Peter M. Nilsson, Céline Fernandez, Olle Melander and Filip Ottosson
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:122
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  13. Accelerated biological aging has been verified to be a critical risk factor for a number of age-related diseases, but its role in dementia remained unclear. Whether it modified the effects of genetic factors w...

    Authors: Zirong Ye, Haoxiang Lang, Zishan Xie, Siyu Duan, Bihao Peng, Xiaochun Chen, Ya Fang and Jiawei Xin
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:425
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  14. Data on the relations between kidney function abnormalities and stroke in type 2 diabetes are limited. We evaluated the associations of kidney function abnormalities and chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages wit...

    Authors: Arnaud D. Kaze, Bernard G. Jaar, Gregg C. Fonarow and Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:127
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  15. Among 1,251,619 Million Women Study participants, 50- to 64-years old at entry into the study, routine data on hospital admissions were used to estimate hospitalization rates according to BMI after standardizatio...

    Authors: Gillian K Reeves, Angela Balkwill, Benjamin J Cairns, Jane Green and Valerie Beral
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:45
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  16. The risk of hip fracture in women on plant-based diets is unclear. We aimed to investigate the risk of hip fracture in occasional meat-eaters, pescatarians, and vegetarians compared to regular meat-eaters in t...

    Authors: James Webster, Darren C. Greenwood and Janet E. Cade
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:275
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  17. To the best of our knowledge, no study has investigated the potential joint effect of large for gestational age (LGA) and assisted reproductive technology (ART) on the long-term health of children.

    Authors: Yiyuan Zhang, Kexin Dai, Xiaojing Chen, Linlin Cui and Zi-Jiang Chen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:203
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  18. Adding salt at the table is a prevalent eating habit, but its long-term relationship with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality remains unclear. We evaluated the associations of adding salt at t...

    Authors: Fengping Li, Liangkai Chen, Buyun Liu, Victor W. Zhong, Yan Deng, Dan Luo, Chao Gao, Wei Bao and Shuang Rong
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:486
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  19. Whether the associations of time spent in screen-based sedentary activities with CHD vary by genetic susceptibility is currently unknown. The objective of this study was to examine the interplay of genetic sus...

    Authors: Youngwon Kim, Shiu Lun Au Yeung, Stephen J. Sharp, Mengyao Wang, Haeyoon Jang, Shan Luo, Soren Brage and Katrien Wijndaele
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:188
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  20. Epidemiological evidence on weight change and atrial fibrillation (AF) remains limited and inconsistent. Previous studies on body mass index (BMI) in youth and AF rarely considered subsequent BMI. This study a...

    Authors: Yufeng Du, Lu Qi, Yan Borné and Emily Sonestedt
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:345
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  21. Observational studies have investigated the association of risk factors with breast cancer prognosis. However, the results have been conflicting and it has been challenging to establish causality due to potential...

    Authors: Maria Escala-Garcia, Anna Morra, Sander Canisius, Jenny Chang-Claude, Siddhartha Kar, Wei Zheng, Stig E. Bojesen, Doug Easton, Paul D. P. Pharoah and Marjanka K. Schmidt
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:327
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  22. After 30 years of consensus-derived diagnostic categories in mental health, it is time to head in new directions. Those categories placed great emphasis on enhanced reliability and the capacity to identify the...

    Authors: Ian B Hickie, Jan Scott, Daniel F Hermens, Elizabeth M Scott, Sharon L Naismith, Adam J Guastella, Nick Glozier and Patrick D McGorry
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2013 11:125
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  23. Prospective studies in non-Mediterranean populations have consistently related increasing nut consumption to lower coronary heart disease mortality. A small protective effect on all-cause and cancer mortality ...

    Authors: Marta Guasch-Ferré, Mònica Bulló, Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, Emilio Ros, Dolores Corella, Ramon Estruch, Montserrat Fitó, Fernando Arós, Julia Wärnberg, Miquel Fiol, José Lapetra, Ernest Vinyoles, Rosa Maria Lamuela-Raventós, Lluís Serra-Majem, Xavier Pintó, Valentina Ruiz-Gutiérrez…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2013 11:164
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  24. The variant MTHFR 677TT genotype was identified in 12% of adults. From 18 to 70 years, this genotype was associated with an increased risk of hypertension (i.e. systolic BP ≥ 140 and/or a diastolic BP ≥ 90 mmHg):...

    Authors: Mary Ward, Catherine F. Hughes, J. J. Strain, Rosie Reilly, Conal Cunningham, Anne M. Molloy, Geraldine Horigan, Miriam Casey, Kevin McCarroll, Maurice O’Kane, Michael J. Gibney, Albert Flynn, Janette Walton, Breige A. McNulty, Adrian McCann, Laura Kirwan…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:318
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  25. Cigarette smoking is a well-known risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), but whether smokeless tobacco such as snuff is associated with the risk of CVD is still unclear. We investigated the association ...

    Authors: Olga E. Titova, John A. Baron, Karl Michaëlsson and Susanna C. Larsson
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:111
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  27. Data on the association between free-living daytime sunlight exposure and incident dementia are scarce. The objective is to evaluate whether the time spent in outdoor light is related to the dementia risk and ...

    Authors: Ling-Zhi Ma, Ya-Hui Ma, Ya-Nan Ou, Shi-Dong Chen, Liu Yang, Qiang Dong, Wei Cheng, Lan Tan and Jin-Tai Yu
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:132
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  28. Cross-sectional studies found that frailty was associated with prevalent diabetic microvascular complications (DMC). Longitudinal evidence in this regard is inconclusive and insufficient. We aimed to prospecti...

    Authors: Yuanjue Wu, Ting Xiong, Xiao Tan and Liangkai Chen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:473
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  29. Accumulating evidence now indicates that the presence of faecal haemoglobin, in the absence of gastrointestinal bleeding, may be an indicator of systemic inflammation and is linked to the development of human ...

    Authors: Choong-Kyun Noh, Eunyoung Lee, Bumhee Park and Sung Soo Ahn
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:226
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  31. Residing in a disadvantaged neighborhood has been linked to increased mortality. However, the impact of residential segregation and social vulnerability on cause-specific mortality is understudied. Additionall...

    Authors: Kui Deng, Meng Xu, Melis Sahinoz, Qiuyin Cai, Martha J. Shrubsole, Loren Lipworth, Deepak K. Gupta, Debra D. Dixon, Wei Zheng, Ravi Shah and Danxia Yu
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:249
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  32. It is unclear whether an ‘obesity survival paradox’ exists for pneumonia. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis to assess the associations between increased body mass index (BMI), pneumonia risk, and mortali...

    Authors: Wei Nie, Yi Zhang, Sun Ha Jee, Keum Ji Jung, Bing Li and Qingyu Xiu
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:61
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  33. Pregnant women consume caffeine daily. The aim of this study was to examine the association between maternal caffeine intake from different sources and (a) gestational length, particularly the risk for spontan...

    Authors: Verena Sengpiel, Elisabeth Elind, Jonas Bacelis, Staffan Nilsson, Jakob Grove, Ronny Myhre, Margaretha Haugen, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Jan Alexander, Bo Jacobsson and Anne-Lise Brantsæter
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2013 11:42
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  34. Higher maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) is associated with adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes. However, whether these associations are causal remains unclear.

    Authors: Maria Carolina Borges, Gemma L. Clayton, Rachel M. Freathy, Janine F. Felix, Alba Fernández-Sanlés, Ana Gonçalves Soares, Fanny Kilpi, Qian Yang, Rosemary R. C. McEachan, Rebecca C. Richmond, Xueping Liu, Line Skotte, Amaia Irizar, Andrew T. Hattersley, Barbara Bodinier, Denise M. Scholtens…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:32
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  35. Salivary amylase, encoded by the AMY1 gene, initiate the digestion of starch. Whether starch intake or AMY1 copy number is related to disease risk is currently rather unknown. The aim was to investigate the assoc...

    Authors: Huiping Li, Yan Borné, Yaogang Wang and Emily Sonestedt
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:27
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  36. A few observational studies have found an inverse association between adherence to a Mediterranean diet and the risk of depression. Randomized trials with an intervention based on this dietary pattern could pr...

    Authors: Almudena Sánchez-Villegas, Miguel Angel Martínez-González, Ramón Estruch, Jordi Salas-Salvadó, Dolores Corella, Maria Isabel Covas, Fernando Arós, Dora Romaguera, Enrique Gómez-Gracia, José Lapetra, Xavier Pintó, Jose Alfredo Martínez, Rosa María Lamuela-Raventós, Emilio Ros, Alfredo Gea, Julia Wärnberg…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2013 11:208
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  37. Hypnotics are widely used by the elderly, and their impact on mortality remains controversial. The inconsistent findings could be due to methodological limitations, notably the lack of control for underlying s...

    Authors: Isabelle Jaussent, Marie-Laure Ancelin, Claudine Berr, Karine Pérès, Jacqueline Scali, Alain Besset, Karen Ritchie and Yves Dauvilliers
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2013 11:212
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  38. Diabetes patients are at higher risk for mortality than the general population; however, little is known about whether the excess mortality risk associated with diabetes could be mitigated or nullified via con...

    Authors: Jian Zhou, Xuan Wang, Rui Tang, Minghao Kou, Hao Ma, Xiang Li, Yoriko Heianza, Vivian Fonseca and Lu Qi
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:108
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  39. We conducted a longitudinal birth cohort study (Hamamatsu Birth Cohort for Mother and Children Study) to investigate the association of genetic risk for ADHD and low birth weight with ADHD traits among Japanes...

    Authors: Md Shafiur Rahman, Nagahide Takahashi, Toshiki Iwabuchi, Tomoko Nishimura, Taeko Harada, Akemi Okumura, Nori Takei, Yoko Nomura and Kenji J. Tsuchiya
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:229
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  40. Female reproductive factors are gaining prominence as factors that enhance cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk; nonetheless, menstrual cycle characteristics are under-recognized as a factor associated with CVD. ...

    Authors: Kelvin Okoth, William Parry Smith, G. Neil Thomas, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar and Nicola J. Adderley
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:104
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  41. Bilirubin, a byproduct of hemoglobin breakdown and purported anti-oxidant, is thought to be cancer preventive. We conducted complementary serological and Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses to investigate wh...

    Authors: Nazlisadat Seyed Khoei, Mazda Jenab, Neil Murphy, Barbara L. Banbury, Robert Carreras-Torres, Vivian Viallon, Tilman Kühn, Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Amanda J. Cross, Elisabete Weiderpass, Magdalena Stepien, Andrew Bulmer, Anne Tjønneland, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Gianluca Severi…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:229
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  42. In sub-Saharan Africa, less than 1% of treatment-eligible chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients receive antiviral therapy. Experiences from local CHB programs are needed to inform treatment guidelines and policie...

    Authors: Hailemichael Desalegn, Stian Magnus Staurung Orlien, Hanna Aberra, Eyerusalem Mamo, Sine Grude, Kristina Hommersand, Nega Berhe, Svein Gunnar Gundersen and Asgeir Johannessen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:373
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  43. To examine the association between regular use of proton pump inhibitors and the risk of incident dementia, including dementia subtypes, and whether the association differs between APOE genotypes.

    Authors: Peidong Zhang, Zhihao Li, Peiliang Chen, Ao Zhang, Yu Zeng, Xiru Zhang, Qingmei Huang, Dan Liu, Songtao Qi and Chen Mao
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:271
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  44. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) caused by air pollution poses a considerable burden on public health. We aim to examine whether lifestyle factors mediate the associations of air pollutant exposure with the risk o...

    Authors: Xiangming Hu, Luke D. Knibbs, Yingling Zhou, Yanqiu Ou, Guang-Hui Dong and Haojian Dong
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:93
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  45. Guideline-concordant care over an 8-year period (financial years 2002 to 2009) was examined in a nationwide sample of 49,173 male veterans with schizophrenia, who were aged 50 years or older. Administrative datab...

    Authors: Jack Y Tsan, Eileen M Stock, Jazmin M Gonzalez, David S Greenawalt, John E Zeber, Emran Rouf and Laurel A Copeland
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2012 10:147
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  46. Polyphenols may lower the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and other chronic diseases due to their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, as well as their beneficial effects on blood pressure, lipid...

    Authors: Anna Tresserra-Rimbau, Eric B Rimm, Alexander Medina-Remón, Miguel A Martínez-González, M Carmen López-Sabater, María I Covas, Dolores Corella, Jordi Salas-Salvadó, Enrique Gómez-Gracia, José Lapetra, Fernando Arós, Miquel Fiol, Emili Ros, Lluis Serra-Majem, Xavier Pintó, Miguel A Muñoz…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:77
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  47. Black Americans suffer disparities in risk for cardiometabolic and other chronic diseases. Findings from the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) cohort have shown associations of plant-based dietary patterns and ...

    Authors: Fayth M. Butler, Jason Utt, Roy O. Mathew, Carlos A. Casiano, Suzanne Montgomery, Seth A. Wiafe, Johanna W. Lampe and Gary E. Fraser
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:408
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  48. Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is a serious cause of mortality and disability. AIS is a serious cause of mortality and disability. Early diagnosis of atherosclerosis, which is the major cause of AIS, allows thera...

    Authors: Takaki Hiwasa, Hao Wang, Ken-ichiro Goto, Seiichiro Mine, Toshio Machida, Eiichi Kobayashi, Yoichi Yoshida, Akihiko Adachi, Tomoo Matsutani, Mizuki Sata, Kazumasa Yamagishi, Hiroyasu Iso, Norie Sawada, Shoichiro Tsugane, Mitoshi Kunimatsu, Ikuo Kamitsukasa…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:131
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  49. To assess the association between the reproductive factors of age at menarche, age at menopause, and reproductive span and the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) and ischemic stroke (IS).

    Authors: Su-Min Jeong, Jung Eun Yoo, Keun Hye Jeon, Kyungdo Han, Heesun Lee, Dong-Yun Lee and Dong Wook Shin
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:64
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  50. Psychological and trauma-related factors are associated with many diseases and mortality. However, a comprehensive assessment of the association between psycho-trauma exposures and aging acceleration is curren...

    Authors: Junren Wang, Xin Han, Yao Yang, Yu Zeng, Yuanyuan Qu, Huazhen Yang, Jie Song, Changjian Qiu and Huan Song
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:359
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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