Benefits


Colonoscopy Screening Reduced Colorectal Cancer Incidence but No Significant Mortality Benefit

A 13-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial found that a single colonoscopy screening significantly reduced colorectal cancer incidence but did not significantly lower mortality. In this multicountry study involving 84,583 adults aged 55–64 years from Norway, Poland, and Sweden, participants were randomized to receive colonoscopy screening or no screening. […]


Healthy Lifestyle’s Benefits Go beyond Weight Loss

A pooled analysis of lifestyle intervention trials suggested that adopting a healthy lifestyle can confer metabolic benefits beyond weight loss (WL) alone. The study investigated how individual responses to long-term lifestyle interventions for WL affect cardiometabolic risk by pooling data from three long-term lifestyle WL-intervention trials with adherence rates of […]