Purpose: To estimate “population attributable fraction” (PAF) for coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in a population of first-degree relatives of patients with monogenic familial ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a global study, more than 50% of CVD cases could be attributed to five modifiable risk factors. The ...

Up to 19% of prevalent dementia cases may be attributable to impaired vision, a cross-sectional analysis suggested. Contrast sensitivity impairment showed the strongest relationship, followed by near ...

A multi‑institution research team including Columbia, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins and others, report that nearly one in three new dementia cases in older adults is associated with hearing loss, based on ...

Socioeconomic gaps in life expectancy have widened substantially in the United States since 2000. Yet the contribution of specific causes to these growing disparities remains unknown. We used death ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the prospective associations between consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and fruit juice with type 2 diabetes before and after adjustment ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nguyen and colleagues analyzed data from 3,700 adults (2,320 women; mean age, 69 years) aged at least 50 years, ...

A new study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) finds four in 10 cancer cases and about one-half of all cancer deaths in adults 30 years old and older in the United States (or ...