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Muscle-Strengthening and Conditioning Activities and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Study in Two Cohorts of US Women
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Background: It is well established that aerobic physical activity can lower the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), but whether muscle-strengthening activities are beneficial for the prevention of T2D is unclear. This study ...
Walnut Consumption Is Associated with Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women12
(American Society for Nutrition, 2013)
Walnuts are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids and have been shown to improve various cardiometabolic risk factors. We aimed to investigate the association between walnut intake and incident type 2 diabetes in 2 large ...
Dietary and Plasma Magnesium and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Among Women
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013)
Background: Magnesium is associated with lower risk of sudden cardiac death, possibly through antiarrhythmic mechanisms. Magnesium influences endothelial function, inflammation, blood pressure, and diabetes, but a direct ...
Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D and risk of premenstrual syndrome in a prospective cohort study
(BioMed Central, 2014)
Background: Moderate to severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS) affects 8–20 percent of premenopausal women. Previous studies suggest that high dietary vitamin D intake may reduce risk. However, vitamin D status is influenced ...
Fruit consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from three prospective longitudinal cohort studies
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2013)
Objective: To determine whether individual fruits are differentially associated with risk of type 2 diabetes. Design: Prospective longitudinal cohort study. Setting: Health professionals in the United States. Participants: ...
Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in US Men and Women: Results from Three Prospective Cohort Studies
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
Background: 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 association of an overall plant-based diet and ...
Consumption of soy foods and isoflavones and risk of type 2 diabetes: a pooled analysis of three US cohorts
(2016)
Background: Evidence regarding the consumption of soy foods and isoflavones in relation to risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is scarce. Objective: Our study was to evaluate the association between soy food and isoflavone ...
Lifestyle‐Based Prediction Model for the Prevention of CVD: The Healthy Heart Score
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014)
Background: Clinical practice focuses on the primary prevention of cardiovascular (CV) disease (CVD) through the modification and pharmacological treatment of elevated risk factors. Prediction models based on established ...
Birth weight and later life adherence to unhealthy lifestyles in predicting type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort study
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2015)
Objectives To prospectively assess the joint association of birth weight and established lifestyle risk factors in adulthood with incident type 2 diabetes and to quantitatively decompose the attributing effects to birth ...
Dairy consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: 3 cohorts of US adults and an updated meta-analysis
(BioMed Central, 2014)
Background: The relation between consumption of different types of dairy and risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) remains uncertain. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the association between total dairy and individual types of dairy ...