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Association between new Life’s Essential 8 and the risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with hypertension: a cohort study | BMC Public Health

2024-06-28 10:23 PM

Study population The NHANES is an ongoing, nationally representative study in the United States that tracks participants biennially since 1999, accumulating data on the health and nutritional conditions of non-institutionalized US citizens. The protocol of the NHANES study received approval from the Research Ethics Review Committee of the National Centers for Health Statistics (NCHS), and …

Temporal trends in population attributable fractions of modifiable risk factors for dementia: a time-series study of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2004–2019) | BMC Medicine

2024-06-27 01:39 AM

$Temporal trends in population attributable fractions of modifiable risk factors for dementia: a time-series study of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2004–2019) | BMC Medicine$

Statement of principal findings In England, although the PAF of modifiable risk factors for dementia showed a downward trend across 2004–2019, this temporal trend was slight and insignificant, with a substantial proportion of dementia cases (38%) still attributable, assuming causal relationships, to MRFs in 2018/2019. Hypertension has been the primary MRF driving the dementia burden, …

The longitudinal associations between ambient air pollution exposure and dementia in the UK: results from the cognitive function and ageing study II and Wales | BMC Public Health

2024-05-04 09:40 AM

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Physical activity during pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis | BMC Public Health

2024-02-23 10:42 PM

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NHS Health Check attendance is associated with reduced multiorgan disease risk: a matched cohort study in the UK Biobank | BMC Medicine

2024-01-23 08:06 AM

This is an observational, case–control study reported in accordance with the STROBE guidelines (see Additional file 1: Checklist S1). Study sample The UK Biobank is a UK-wide prospective cohort study, with baseline recruitment taking place between March 2006 and October 2010. At the time of this study, there were 227,297 participants who had completed consent …

Environmental quality and its impact on total fertility rate: an econometric analysis from a new perspective | BMC Public Health

2023-12-02 02:32 PM

Ecological footprints As highlighted by Dasgupta et al. [15], the demand for biosphere products and services dramatically surpasses the environmental capacity to deliver these things sustainably. It has also been suggested that far exceeds the sustainable capacity of the environment to provide them [15]. It has been widely observed that as prosperity and development levels increase, so does the …

Body mass index and cancer risk among adults with and without cardiometabolic diseases: evidence from the EPIC and UK Biobank prospective cohort studies | BMC Medicine

2023-11-23 07:36 AM

Study population The UKB is a prospective cohort study of around 500,000 individuals aged 40–69 years enrolled between 2006 and 2010 across 22 centers located in England, Scotland, and Wales. At recruitment, information on socio-demographic characteristics, lifestyle factors, diet, anthropometry, and biological samples were collected [23]. Participants were followed from recruitment until the earliest of cancer, …

The association between telomere length and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a prospective study | BMC Medicine

2023-11-09 08:21 AM

Powell EE, Wong VW, Rinella M. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Lancet. 2021;397(10290):2212–24. CAS PubMed Google Scholar Chalasani N, Younossi Z, Lavine JE, Diehl AM, Brunt EM, Cusi K, et al. The diagnosis and management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: practice guideline by the American Gastroenterological Association, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and …