Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated
with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate …

RESEARCH Page 1 Efficacy of vitamin and antioxidant supplements in prevention of
cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials OPEN …

Health screening is an important component of health promotion programs, and countries
have promoted general health screening targeting the prevention and early management of …

Adipose tissue, where various metabolic hormones are secreted, plays a role in metabolizing
different substances including androgen. Within fat tissue, enzymes such as aromatase …

Background Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases
and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean …

Membranous Nephropathy (MN) is a rare autoimmune cause of kidney failure. Here we
report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for primary MN in 3,782 cases and 9,038 …

ContextA recently developed whole-blood interferon γ (IFN-γ) assay based on stimulation
with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis–specific antigens early secreted antigenic target 6 and …

Objective The objectives of this study were to develop a coronary heart disease (CHD) risk
model among the Korean Heart Study (KHS) population and compare it with the Framingham …

Background Surgery for cancer is often delayed due to variety of patient-, provider-, and
health system–related factors. However, impact of delayed surgery is not clear, and may vary …

Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17 is a probiotic strain isolated from human breast milk. Animal
studies reported that BNR17 inhibited increases in body weight and adipose tissue weights. …