A quantitative evaluation of the impact of vaccine roll-out rate and coverage on reducing deaths: insights from the first 2 years of COVID-19 epidemic in Iran
Vaccination has played a pivotal role in reducing the burden of COVID-19. Despite numerous studies highlighting its benefits in reducing the risk of severe disease and death, we still lack a quantitative under... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Mahan Ghafari, Sepanta Hosseinpour, Mohammad Saeid Rezaee-Zavareh, Stefan Dascalu, Somayeh Rostamian, Kiarash Aramesh, Kaveh Madani and Shahram Kordasti Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Periodontitis and systemic inflammation as independent and interacting risk factors for mortality: evidence from a prospective cohort study
This study examines the independe... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Christiane Pink, Birte Holtfreter, Henry V ölzke, Matthias Nauck, Marcus Dörr and Thomas Kocher Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Cardiovascular events and venous thromboembolism after primary malignant or non-malignant brain tumour diagnosis: a population matched cohort study in Wales (United Kingdom)
Elevated standardised mortality ratio of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in patients with brain tumours may result from differences in the CVD incidences and cardiovascular risk factors. We compared the risk of ... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Michael T. C. Poon, Paul M. Brennan, Kai Jin, Cathie L. M. Sudlow and Jonine D. Figueroa Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Advancing the communication of genetic risk for cardiometabolic diseases: a critical interpretive synthesis
Genetics play an important role in risk for cardiometabolic diseases —including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity. Existing research has explored the clinical utility of genetic risk tools suc... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Jing Hui Law, Najia Sultan, Sarah Finer and Nina Fudge Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Trends in the ability of socioeconomic position to predict individual body mass index: an analysis of repeated cross-sectional data, 1991 –2019
The widening of group-level socioeconomic differences in body mass index (BMI) has received considerable research attention. However, the predictive power of socioeconomic position (SEP) indicators at the indi... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Liam Wright, Charis Bridger Staatz, Richard J. Silverwood and David Bann Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Social connection and mortality in UK Biobank: a prospective cohort analysis
This study aimed to examine the independent and comb... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 10, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Hamish M. E. Foster, Jason M. R. Gill, Frances S. Mair, Carlos A. Celis-Morales, Bhautesh D. Jani, Barbara I. Nicholl, Duncan Lee and Catherine A. O ’Donnell Tags: Research article Source Type: research
The association between telomere length and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a prospective study
This study examined this association and further assessed how TL contributes to the a... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 9, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Linxi Tang, Dankang Li, Yudiyang Ma, Feipeng Cui, Jianing Wang and Yaohua Tian Tags: Research article Source Type: research
The case for better governance to mitigate against childhood obesity: the UK experience
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Source: BMC Medicine - November 9, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Can we achieve better trial recruitment by presenting patient information through multimedia? Meta-analysis of ‘studies within a trial’ (SWATs)
People need high-quality information to make decisions about research participation. Providing information in written format alone is conventional but may not be the most effective and acceptable approach. We ... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 8, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Vichithranie W. Madurasinghe, Peter Knapp, Sandra Eldridge, David Collier, Shaun Treweek, Jo Rick, Jonathan Graffy, Adwoa Parker, Chris Salisbury, David Torgerson, Kate Jolly, Manbinder S. Sidhu, Christopher Fife-Schaw, Mark A. Hull, Kirsty Sprange, Eliza Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Impact of vaccination against severe COVID-19 in the French population aged 50 years and above: a retrospective population-based study
Given the widespread implementation of COVID-19 vaccination to mitigate the pandemic from the end of 2020, it is important to retrospectively evaluate its impact, in particular by quantifying the number of sev... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 8, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Laetitia Tan-Lhernould, Cynthia Tamandjou, Guilhem Deschamps, Johnny Platon, C écile Sommen, Fanny Chereau, Isabelle Parent du Châtelet, Simon Cauchemez, Sophie Vaux and Juliette Paireau Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Associations between maternal metabolic conditions and neurodevelopmental conditions in offspring: the mediating effects of obstetric and neonatal complications
Maternal pre-gestational diabetes (PGDM), gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and overweight/obesity have been associated with increased risks of offspring neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs) including autis... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 7, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Shuyun Chen, Xi Wang, Brian K. Lee and Renee M. Gardner Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Does disease incite a stronger moral appeal than health?
Is disease demotion more important than health promotion? The question is crucial for the ethos of medicine and for priority setting in healthcare. When things get tough, where should our attention and resourc... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 6, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Bj ørn Hofmann Tags: Opinion Source Type: research
Plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein as a biomarker of disease progression in Parkinson ’s disease: a prospective cohort study
Reactive astrogliosis has been demonstrated to have a role in Parkinson ’s disease (PD); however, astrocyte-specific plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)’s correlation with PD progression remains unkno... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 6, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Junyu Lin, Ruwei Ou, Chunyu Li, Yanbing Hou, Lingyu Zhang, Qianqian Wei, Dejiang Pang, Kuncheng Liu, Qirui Jiang, Tianmi Yang, Yi Xiao, Bi Zhao, Xueping Chen, Wei Song, Jing Yang, Ying Wu & hellip; Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Six-hour time-restricted feeding inhibits lung cancer progression and reshapes circadian metabolism
Accumulating evidence has suggested an oncogenic effect of diurnal disruption on cancer progression. To test whether targeting circadian rhythm by dietary strategy suppressed lung cancer progression, we adopte... (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 3, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Dan Shi, Gaofeng Fang, Qianyao Chen, Jianling Li, Xiongzhong Ruan and Xuemei Lian Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Associations of ultra-processed food consumption, circulating protein biomarkers, and risk of cardiovascular disease
We aim to examine the association between ultra-processed foods (UPF) consumption and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and to identify plasma proteins associated with UPF. (Source: BMC Medicine)
Source: BMC Medicine - November 3, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Huiping Li, Yaogang Wang, Emily Sonestedt and Yan Born é Tags: Research article Source Type: research
