A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies suggested that plant-based dietary patterns were associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), even after adjustment for body mass index. The analysis included 9 studies, totaling 307 099 participants with 23 544 cases of incident T2D. A significant inverse association was […]
A Mendelian randomization (MR) study suggests a protective effect of morning preference on breast cancer risk add to other evidence of decreased risk of schizophrenia and depression. The study included 156 848 women in the multivariable regression and one sample MR analysis (7784 with a breast cancer diagnosis) and 122 977 breast […]
The Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH), an independent collaborative of scientists, health professionals, scholars and policy experts from around the world who are working in areas of brain health related to human cognition concluded that there is no convincing evidence to recommend dietary supplements for brain health in healthy […]
Two prospective cohort studies in the US concluded that increases in red meat consumption, especially processed meat, were associated with a higher risk of death; decreases in red meat consumption and simultaneous increases in healthy alternative food choices over time were associated with a lower mortality risk. The studies included […]
A US cross-sectional and prospective analysis suggested that increased variability in sleep duration and timing was associated with higher prevalence and incidence of metabolic abnormalities even after considering sleep duration and other lifestyle factors. Participants completed 7-day actigraphy from 2010 to 2013 and were prospectively followed throughout 2016 to 2017. […]
A US prospective cohort study in older women showed that more steps taken per day are associated with lower mortality rates until approximately 7500 steps/day. The study included 18 289 women by wearing an accelerometer during waking hours for 7 days between 2011 and 2015. 16 741 (mean age 72.0) were compliant […]
A US randomized, controlled clinical trial revealed that a dietary change with increased vegetable, fruit, and grain intake reduced the risk of death from breast cancer in postmenopausal women. A total of 48,835 postmenopausal women, aged 50-79 years, with no previous breast cancer and dietary fat intake ≥32% of total […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring a Boxed Warning, the most prominent warning, to be added to certain common prescription insomnia medicines because of sleep behaviors, including sleepwalking, sleep driving, and engaging in other activities while not fully awake. These complex sleep behaviors have also resulted in deaths. […]
A longitudinal analysis in Australia revealed that sitting is associated with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk among sedentary adults; moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) doses equivalent to meeting the current recommendations attenuate or effectively eliminate such associations. During an 8.9-year (median) follow-up, a total of 8,689 deaths (1,644 due […]
A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 found that suboptimal diet is responsible for more deaths than any other risks and that improvement of diet could potentially prevent one in every five deaths globally. By use of a comparative risk assessment approach and disease-specific population attributable […]