The term Mediterranean diet refers to dietary patterns found in olive-growing areas of the
Mediterranean region and described in the 1960s and beyond. There are several variants of …

Background: Although the effects of individual foods or nutrients on the development of
diseases and their risk factors have been investigated in many studies, little attention has …

Objective: To determine whether physical inactivity and obesity increase risk for colon
cancer and adenomas, which are precursors of cancer, and whether the abdominal …

Background Alcohol consumption has both adverse and beneficial effects on survival. We
examined the balance of these in a large prospective study of mortality among US adults …

Background Television (TV) watching, a major sedentary behavior in the United States, has
been associated with obesity. We hypothesized that prolonged TV watching may increase …

Background—Trait optimism (positive future expectations) and cynical, hostile attitudes
toward others have not been studied together in relation to incident coronary heart disease …

Background The association between alcohol consumption and risk of gout has been
suspected since ancient times, but has not been prospectively confirmed. Additionally …

Objective To prospectively examine the associations between long-term dietary flavonoids
and subjective cognitive decline (SCD). Methods We followed 49,493 women from the …

Objective. To estimate parameters of the function relating alcohol consumption with the risk
of coronary heart disease and to identify the sources of heterogeneity in the parameter …

Limited data exist on the performance of high‐throughput proteomics profiling in
epidemiological settings, including the impact of specimen collection and within‐person …