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High consumption of dairy products and risk of major adverse coronary events and stroke in a Swedish population
Br J Nutr. 2023 Sep 6:1-28. doi: 10.1017/S0007114523001939. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe association between consumption of dairy products and risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) has been inconsistent. There is a lack of studies in populations with high intakes of dairy products. We aimed to examine the association between intake of dairy products and risk of incident major adverse coronary events and stroke in the Swedish Malmö Diet and Cancer cohort study. We included 26,190 participants without prevalent CVD or diabetes. Dietary habits were obtained from a modified diet history and endpoint data were extracted f...
Source: The British Journal of Nutrition - September 6, 2023 Category: Nutrition Authors: Justine Dukuzimana Suzanne Janzi Caroline Habberstad Shunming Zhang Yan Born é Emily Sonestedt Source Type: research

The final puff: Can New Zealand quit smoking for good?
Smoking kills. Ayesha Verrall has seen it up close. As a young resident physician in New Zealand’s public hospitals in the 2000s, Verrall watched smokers come into the emergency ward every night, struggling to breathe with their damaged lungs. Later, as an infectious disease specialist, she saw how smoking exacerbated illness in individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. She would tell them: “The best thing you can do to promote your health, other than take the pills, is to quit smoking.” Verrall is still urging citizens to give up cigarettes—no longer just one by one, but by the thousands. As New...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 9, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

Substitutions between dairy products and risk of stroke: Results from the EPIC-NL cohort.
In conclusion, whole-fat yoghurt as a substitution for low-fat yoghurt, cheese, butter, buttermilk or milk regardless of fat content was associated with a lower rate of ischemic stroke. PMID: 30868976 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Nutrition - March 13, 2019 Category: Nutrition Authors: Laursen ASD, Sluijs I, Boer JMA, Verschuren WMM, van der Schouw YT, Jakobsen MU Tags: Br J Nutr Source Type: research