Background Public health policies reflect concerns that certain fruit sources may not have
the intended benefits and that vegetables should be preferred to fruit. We assessed the …

Objectives Physical inactivity is a risk factor for premature mortality and several non-
communicable diseases. The purpose of this study was to estimate the global burden …

More than 40 years after the 1978 Bethesda Conference on the Declining Mortality from
Coronary Heart Disease provided the scientific community with a blueprint for systematic …

Background BMI is known to be strongly associated with all-cause mortality, but few studies
have been large enough to reliably examine associations between BMI and a …

China has emerged as a leading electric vehicle (EV) market, accounting for approximately
half of the global EV sales volume. We employed an atmospheric chemistry model to …

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to update national estimates of the economic burden
of undiagnosed diabetes, prediabetes, and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in the …

Introduction Structural racism has attracted increasing interest as an explanation for racial
disparities in health, including differences in adiposity. Structural racism has been measured …

Diagnostic criteria for complex medical conditions caused by a multitude of both genetic and
environmental factors should be descriptive and avoid any attribution of causality …

Importance Excess body weight (EBW) is an established cause of cancer. Despite variations
in the prevalence of EBW among US states, there is little information on the EBW-related …

Aims Maternal overweight and obesity in pregnancy are known to increase the risk of a
range of complications and adverse pregnancy outcomes. This study estimates the …