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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. Ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk have been known for decades, but a systematic exploration of how exposure and susceptibility to risk factors may contribute is lacking. This study aimed ...

    Authors: Frederick K. Ho, Stuart R. Gray, Paul Welsh, Jason M. R. Gill, Naveed Sattar, Jill P. Pell and Carlos Celis-Morales
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:149
  21. Little is known about the effects of night shifts and their interactions with genetic factors on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this study, we aim to investigate relationships between long-te...

    Authors: Jia Li, Liangle Yang, Yuxin Yao, Pei Gu, Yujia Xie, Haoyu Yin, Mingyue Xue, Yu Jiang, Jianghong Dai and Jixuan Ma
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2024 22:16
  22. The three models with the highest discrimination (Ma (Cox model) AUC 0.70 [95% CI 0.69–0.71]; Aleksandrova 0.70 [0.69–0.71]; Hong 0.69 [0.67–0.71]) included the variables age, smoking, and alcohol. These models p...

    Authors: Roxanna E. Abhari, Blake Thomson, Ling Yang, Iona Millwood, Yu Guo, Xiaoming Yang, Jun Lv, Daniel Avery, Pei Pei, Peng Wen, Canqing Yu, Yiping Chen, Junshi Chen, Liming Li, Zhengming Chen and Christiana Kartsonaki
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:302
  23. Cocaine is a stimulant that leads to the rapid accumulation of catecholamines and serotonin in the brain due to prevention of their re-uptake into the neuron that released the neurotransmitter. Cocaine depende...

    Authors: Daryl Shorter and Thomas R Kosten
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2011 9:119
  24. We used routinely collected data from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) GOLD. Adults registered with a general practice in CPRD (1997–2019) were eligible for inclusion. Individuals with eczema/pso...

    Authors: Alasdair D. Henderson, Elizabeth Adesanya, Amy Mulick, Julian Matthewman, Nhung Vu, Firoza Davies, Catherine H. Smith, Joseph Hayes, Kathryn E. Mansfield and Sinéad M. Langan
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:285
  25. Most studies investigating the association between physical activity (PA) and the risk of type 2 diabetes are derived from self-reported questionnaires, with limited evidence using device-based measurements. T...

    Authors: Jirapitcha Boonpor, Solange Parra-Soto, Fanny Petermann-Rocha, Nathan Lynskey, Verónica Cabanas-Sánchez, Naveed Sattar, Jason M. R. Gill, Paul Welsh, Jill P. Pell, Stuart R. Gray, Frederick K. Ho and Carlos Celis-Morales
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:191
  26. Water intake and hydration status have been suggested to impact cognition; however, longitudinal evidence is limited and often inconsistent. This study aimed to longitudinally assess the association between hy...

    Authors: Stephanie K. Nishi, Nancy Babio, Indira Paz-Graniel, Lluís Serra-Majem, Jesús Vioque, Montserrat Fitó, Dolores Corella, Xavier Pintó, Aurora Bueno-Cavanillas, Josep A. Tur, Laura Diez-Ricote, J. Alfredo Martinez, Carlos Gómez-Martínez, Andrés González-Botella, Olga Castañer, Andrea Alvarez-Sala…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:82
  27. The 1996 Australian National Firearms Agreement introduced strict access limitations. However, reports on the effectiveness of the new legislation are conflicting. This study, accessing all cases of suicide 19...

    Authors: Helen Klieve, Jerneja Sveticic and Diego De Leo
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2009 7:52
  28. Epidemiological studies have demonstrated a favorable association of whole grain intake with coronary heart disease (CHD) risk, although whether such an inverse association holds true for individual whole grai...

    Authors: Yang Hu, Walter C. Willett, Jo Ann E. Manson, Bernard Rosner, Frank B. Hu and Qi Sun
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:192
  29. Whether coffee consumption affects the risk of developing atrial fibrillation (AF) remains unclear. We sought to investigate the association between coffee consumption and incidence of AF in two prospective co...

    Authors: Susanna C. Larsson, Nikola Drca, Mats Jensen-Urstad and Alicja Wolk
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2015 13:207
  30. Halfway through the 20th century, views on pain in labour encompassed almost everything from women's self-blame to blaming nurses, midwives, doctors or partners for 'bad experiences'. Soon after that, giving birt...

    Authors: Judith Lumley
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2008 6:8
  31. It is unknown whether individuals at high cardiovascular risk sustain a benefit in cardiovascular disease from increased olive oil consumption. The aim was to assess the association between total olive oil int...

    Authors: Marta Guasch-Ferré, Frank B Hu, Miguel A Martínez-González, Montserrat Fitó, Mònica Bulló, Ramon Estruch, Emilio Ros, Dolores Corella, Javier Recondo, Enrique Gómez-Gracia, Miquel Fiol, José Lapetra, Lluís Serra-Majem, Miguel A Muñoz, Xavier Pintó, Rosa M Lamuela-Raventós…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:78
  32. Recent data indicate that chronic use of coxibs leads to an increased occurrence of thrombotic cardiovascular events. This raises the question as to whether traditional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (t...

    Authors: Luis A García Rodríguez and Antonio González-Pérez
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2005 3:17
  33. This retrospective cohort study utilized the Colorado Birth Registry. All singleton, normal birth weight infants born from 1989 to 1998 were identified and linked to the Colorado Infant Death registry. Multivaria...

    Authors: Mark E Anderson, Daniel C Johnson and Holly A Batal
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2005 3:4
  34. Low levels of physical activity may increase the risk of developing metabolic syndrome, a cluster of metabolic factors that are associated with the risk of premature death. It has been suggested that physical ...

    Authors: Dorthe Stensvold, Javaid Nauman, Tom IL Nilsen, Ulrik Wisløff, Stig A Slørdahl and Lars Vatten
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2011 9:109
  35. It is critically important to conduct research on stigmatized conditions, to include marginalized groups that experience stigma, and to develop interventions to reduce stigma. However, such research is ethical...

    Authors: Joseph Millum, Megan Campbell, Florencia Luna, Arianne Malekzadeh and Quarraisha Abdool Karim
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:84
  36. Studies have suggested sex differences in the mortality rate associated with diabetes. We conducted a meta-analysis to estimate the relative effect of diabetes on the risk of all-cause, cancer, cardiovascular ...

    Authors: Yafeng Wang, Adrienne O’Neil, Yurui Jiao, Lijun Wang, Jingxin Huang, Yutao Lan, Yikun Zhu and Chuanhua Yu
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:136
  37. Across strata, hypertension prevalence ranged from 16 % (95 % confidence interval (CI): 12 % to 22 %) to 17 % (CI: 14 % to 22 %) in Tanzania, and from 19 % (CI: 14 % to 26 %) to 26 % (CI: 23 % to 30 %) in Uganda....

    Authors: Bazil Kavishe, Samuel Biraro, Kathy Baisley, Fiona Vanobberghen, Saidi Kapiga, Paula Munderi, Liam Smeeth, Robert Peck, Janneth Mghamba, Gerald Mutungi, Eric Ikoona, Jonathan Levin, Maria Assumpció Bou Monclús, David Katende, Edmund Kisanga, Richard Hayes…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2015 13:126
  38. Leakage of bacterial products across the gut barrier may play a role in liver diseases which often precede the development of liver cancer. However, human studies, particularly from prospective settings, are l...

    Authors: Veronika Fedirko, Hao Quang Tran, Andrew T. Gewirtz, Magdalena Stepien, Antonia Trichopoulou, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Anja Olsen, Anne Tjønneland, Kim Overvad, Franck Carbonnel, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Gianluca Severi, Tilman Kühn, Rudolf Kaaks, Heiner Boeing, Christina Bamia…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:72
  39. The Twenty-07 study recruited participants aged approximately 15, 35, and 55 years in 1987 and followed them up over 20 years. The primary outcome was development of multimorbidity (2+ health conditions). The rel...

    Authors: Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Kathryn Skivington, Alastair H. Leyland, Kate Hunt and Stewart W Mercer
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:152
  40. DAA-based therapy was initiated in 512 patients. The cohort was socioeconomically disadvantaged (56% uninsured and 13% Medicaid), with high historic rates of alcohol (41%) and substance (50%)...P = 0.98) or alcohol

    Authors: Christina Yek, Carolina de la Flor, John Marshall, Cindy Zoellner, Grace Thompson, Lisa Quirk, Christian Mayorga, Barbara J. Turner, Amit G. Singal and Mamta K. Jain
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:204
  41. The built environment influences behaviour, like physical activity, diet and sleep, which affects the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This study systematically reviewed and meta-analysed evidence on t...

    Authors: N. R. den Braver, J. Lakerveld, F. Rutters, L. J. Schoonmade, J. Brug and J. W. J. Beulens
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:12

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medicine 2021 19:63

  42. Dementia incidence was 1.88 (95 % CI, 1.83–1.93) and 16.53 (95 % CI, 16.15–16.92) per 1000 PYAR for those aged 60–79 (n = 6017) and 80–95 years (n = 7104), respectively. Predictors for those aged 60–79 included a...

    Authors: K. Walters, S. Hardoon, I. Petersen, S. Iliffe, R. Z. Omar, I. Nazareth and G. Rait
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2016 14:6
  43. Multimorbidity is associated with higher mortality, but the relationship with cancer and cardiovascular mortality is unclear. The influence of demographics and type of condition on the relationship of multimor...

    Authors: Bhautesh Dinesh Jani, Peter Hanlon, Barbara I. Nicholl, Ross McQueenie, Katie I. Gallacher, Duncan Lee and Frances S. Mair
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:74
  44. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of liver disease worldwide. It affects an estimated 20% of the general population, based on cohort studies of varying size and heterogeneous s...

    Authors: Myriam Alexander, A. Katrina Loomis, Jolyon Fairburn-Beech, Johan van der Lei, Talita Duarte-Salles, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, David Ansell, Alessandro Pasqua, Francesco Lapi, Peter Rijnbeek, Mees Mosseveld, Paul Avillach, Peter Egger, Stuart Kendrick, Dawn M. Waterworth, Naveed Sattar…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:130

    The Commentary to this article has been published in BMC Medicine 2018 16:148

  45. Previous evidence indicates that sauna bathing is related to a reduced risk of fatal cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in men. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sauna habits a...

    Authors: Tanjaniina Laukkanen, Setor K. Kunutsor, Hassan Khan, Peter Willeit, Francesco Zaccardi and Jari A. Laukkanen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:219
  46. A prospective study of 188,167 CVD- and cancer-free individuals aged ≥ 45 years from the Australian general population joining the 45 and Up Study from 2006 to 2009, with linked questionnaire, hospitalisation and...

    Authors: Emily Banks, Grace Joshy, Rosemary J. Korda, Bill Stavreski, Kay Soga, Sam Egger, Cathy Day, Naomi E. Clarke, Sarah Lewington and Alan D. Lopez
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:128
  47. Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit substance amongst people with psychosis. Continued cannabis use following the onset of psychosis is associated with poorer functional and clinical outcomes. However, ...

    Authors: Luke Sheridan Rains, Louise Marston, Mark Hinton, Steven Marwaha, Thomas Craig, David Fowler, Michael King, Rumana Z. Omar, Paul McCrone, Jonathan Spencer, Joanne Taylor, Sophie Colman, Catherine Harder, Eleanor Gilbert, Amie Randhawa, Kirsty Labuschagne…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:161

    The Commentary to this article has been published in BMC Medicine 2019 17:194