Background The Seven Countries study in the 1960s showed that populations in the
Mediterranean region experienced lower coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality probably …

A relationship between lifestyle, diet, and atrial fibrillation (AF) remains unclear. Except for
alcohol consumption, AF guidelines do not differentiate specific advice for this rhythm …

Background Obesity is a major risk factor for the global burden of disease in countries that
are economically developed or not. This study aimed to investigate the association between …

Introduction Obesity and physical inactivity are known to affect cancer's development and
prognosis. In this context, physical aerobic and resistance training as well as a …

Health literacy became an important competence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite
outpatient caregivers being a particularly vulnerable occupational group, their health literacy …

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a complex metabolic derangement that has a strong genetic basis.
There is substantial population-specificity in the association of genetic variants with T2D …

The human gutome is a mosaic of nutrients, gut flora/bacteria, and genomic biomarkers that
play a role in human health and disease 1, 2. One can look at the gutome in 2 distinct ways …

Background: Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and other markers of insulin resistance (IRm)
might influence the penetrance of BRCA gene mutation. In a demonstration project on BRCA …

Background Breast cancer onset is determined by a genetics-environment interaction.
BRCA1/2 gene alterations are often genetically shared in familial context, but also food …

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected outpatient caregivers in a particular way. While the
German population becomes increasingly older, the number of people in need of care has …