Nutrients, required by human bodies to perform life-sustaining functions, are obtained from
the diet. They are broadly classified into macronutrients (carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins) …

Aims The prevalence of diabetes in China is among the highest in the world. For this reason,
findings from the 2016 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study were used to calculate the …

Our understanding of food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been hampered by
limitations in the temporal and spatial representativeness of data. Food balance sheets …

Self-home blood pressure (BP) monitoring is recommended to guide clinical decisions on
hypertension and is used worldwide for cardiovascular risk management. People usually …

Background The causal relevance of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) for risk of site-
specific cancers remains uncertain. Methods Using a Mendelian randomization (MR) …

Abstract The Lancet Commission on Hypertension identified that a key action to address the
worldwide burden of high blood pressure (BP) was to improve the quality of BP …

Background Changes in the use of psychoactive substances and medications and in the
occurrence of substance-related disorders enable assessment of the magnitude of the …

Environmental pollution in the era of sustained economic development is an inevitable
occurrence. However, the rising levels of pollutant emissions hamper air quality, hence …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the first cause of mortality in Western countries.
Among cardiometabolic risk factors, dyslipidemia, and especially high low-density …

Objective Quantifying the spatial and socioeconomic variation of mortality burden
attributable to particulate matters with aerodynamic diameter≤ 2.5 µm (PM 2.5) has …