Search Results - "Walter C Willett"
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Impact of Healthy Lifestyle Factors on Life Expectancies in the US Population
Published in Circulation (New York, N.Y.) (24-07-2018)“…BACKGROUND:Americans have a shorter life expectancy compared with residents of almost all other high-income countries. We aim to estimate the impact of…”
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Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in US Men and Women: Results from Three Prospective Cohort Studies
Published in PLoS medicine (14-06-2016)“…Plant-based diets have been recommended to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, not all plant foods are necessarily beneficial. We examined the…”
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Dietary fat: From foe to friend?
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (16-11-2018)“…For decades, dietary advice was based on the premise that high intakes of fat cause obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and possibly cancer. Recently, evidence…”
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Long-Term Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Mortality in US Adults
Published in Circulation (New York, N.Y.) (30-04-2019)“…BACKGROUND:Whether consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) or artificially sweetened beverages (ASBs) is associated with risk of mortality is of public…”
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Toward a Life Cycle-Based, Diet-level Framework for Food Environmental Impact and Nutritional Quality Assessment: A Critical Review
Published in Environmental science & technology (19-11-2013)“…Supplying adequate human nutrition within ecosystem carrying capacities is a key element in the global environmental sustainability challenge. Life cycle…”
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Predicted lean body mass, fat mass, and all cause and cause specific mortality in men: prospective US cohort study
Published in BMJ (Online) (03-07-2018)“…AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the association of predicted lean body mass, fat mass, and body mass index (BMI) with all cause and cause specific mortality in…”
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Determinants and Consequences of Obesity
Published in American journal of public health (1971) (01-09-2016)“…To review the contribution of the Nurses' Health Studies (NHS and NHS II) in addressing hypotheses regarding risk factors for and consequences of obesity…”
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Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy free of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study
Published in BMJ (Online) (08-01-2020)“…AbstractObjectiveTo examine how a healthy lifestyle is related to life expectancy that is free from major chronic diseases.DesignProspective cohort…”
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Origin, Methods, and Evolution of the Three Nurses' Health Studies
Published in American journal of public health (1971) (01-09-2016)“…We have summarized the evolution of the Nurses' Health Study (NHS), a prospective cohort study of 121 700 married registered nurses launched in 1976; NHS II,…”
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Does the High Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency in African Americans Contribute to Health Disparities?
Published in Nutrients (01-02-2021)“…African Americans have higher incidence of, and mortality from, many health-related problems than European Americans. They also have a 15 to 20-fold higher…”
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Marine n−3 Fatty Acids and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer
Published in The New England journal of medicine (03-01-2019)“…This article reports the n−3 fatty acid portion of a randomized, placebo-controlled, two-by-two factorial trial of vitamin D and marine n−3 fatty acids in the…”
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Rotating night shift work and adherence to unhealthy lifestyle in predicting risk of type 2 diabetes: results from two large US cohorts of female nurses
Published in BMJ (Online) (21-11-2018)“…To prospectively evaluate the joint association of duration of rotating night shift work and lifestyle factors with risk of type 2 diabetes risk, and to…”
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The gut microbiome modulates the protective association between a Mediterranean diet and cardiometabolic disease risk
Published in Nature medicine (01-02-2021)“…To address how the microbiome might modify the interaction between diet and cardiometabolic health, we analyzed longitudinal microbiome data from 307 male…”
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Association Between Healthy Eating Patterns and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Published in JAMA internal medicine (01-08-2020)“…The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend multiple healthy eating patterns. However, few studies have examined the associations of adherence to…”
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Understanding Nutritional Epidemiology and Its Role in Policy
Published in Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) (01-01-2015)“…Nutritional epidemiology has recently been criticized on several fronts, including the inability to measure diet accurately, and for its reliance on…”
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Light to moderate intake of alcohol, drinking patterns, and risk of cancer: results from two prospective US cohort studies
Published in BMJ (Online) (18-08-2015)“…Objectives To quantify risk of overall cancer across all levels of alcohol consumption among women and men separately, with a focus on light to moderate…”
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Dietary Linoleic Acid and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies
Published in Circulation (New York, N.Y.) (28-10-2014)“…Previous studies on intake of linoleic acid (LA), the predominant n-6 fatty acid, and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk have generated inconsistent results. We…”
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Intake of individual saturated fatty acids and risk of coronary heart disease in US men and women: two prospective longitudinal cohort studies
Published in BMJ (Online) (23-11-2016)“…Objectives To investigate the association between long term intake of individual saturated fatty acids (SFAs) and the risk of coronary heart disease, in two…”
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Changes in Intake of Fruits and Vegetables and Weight Change in United States Men and Women Followed for Up to 24 Years: Analysis from Three Prospective Cohort Studies
Published in PLoS medicine (01-09-2015)“…Current dietary guidelines recommend eating a variety of fruits and vegetables. However, based on nutrient composition, some particular fruits and vegetables…”
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Healthy Eating Patterns and Risk of Total and Cause-Specific Mortality
Published in JAMA internal medicine (01-02-2023)“…The current Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend multiple healthy eating patterns. However, few studies have examined the associations of adherence to…”
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