Colorectal cancer is a major cause of cancer mortality and is considered to be largely
attributable to inappropriate lifestyle and behavior patterns. The purpose of this review was to …

Methods. A systematic review of available literature was conducted to investigate the impact
of BMI on sperm count in men according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic …

Background Coffee consumption has been reported to be inversely associated with risk of
type 2 diabetes mellitus. Similar associations have also been reported for decaffeinated coffee …

Few studies have examined both the relative magnitude of association and the discriminative
capability of multiple indicators of obesity with cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk. …

Objective To investigate whether dietary supplementation with B vitamins or omega 3 fatty
acids, or both, could prevent major cardiovascular events in patients with a history of …

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Liver stiffness measurement by transient elastography is a very
promising non-invasive method for the diagnosis of fibrosis in chronic liver diseases. However, …

Background The burden of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasing globally,
and a major priority is to identify patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) who are …

Genome-wide association studies have revealed that common noncoding variants in
MTNR1B (encoding melatonin receptor 1B, also known as MT 2 ) increase type 2 diabetes (T2D) …

Aim The metabolically healthy obese (MHO) phenotype refers to obese individuals with a
favourable metabolic profile. Its prognostic value is unclear and may depend on the health …

Mutations in PCSK1 cause monogenic obesity. To assess the contribution of PCSK1 to
polygenic obesity risk, we genotyped tag SNPs in a total of 13,659 individuals of European …