The UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in September, 2011,
is an unprecedented opportunity to create a sustained global movement against premature …

Obesity is a serious international health problem that increases the risk of several common
diseases. The genetic factors predisposing to obesity are poorly understood. A genome-wide …

Associations between modifiable exposures and disease seen in observational epidemiology
are sometimes confounded and thus misleading, despite our best efforts to improve the …

Obesity is globally prevalent and highly heritable, but its underlying genetic factors remain
largely elusive. To identify genetic loci for obesity susceptibility, we examined associations …

The burden of chronic diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and mental disorders
is high in low-income and middle-income countries and is predicted to increase with the …

Preamble Guidelines aim to present all the relevant evidence on a particular issue in order
to help physicians to weigh the benefits and risks of a particular diagnostic or therapeutic …

… Shah Ebrahim … Ian Graham, Dan Atar, Knut Borch-Johnsen, Gudrun Boysen, Gunilla
Burell, Renata Cifkova, Jean Dallongeville, Guy De Backer, Shah Ebrahim, Bjørn Gjelsvik …

PURPOSE: To review the effectiveness of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation in patients
with coronary heart disease. METHODS: A systematic review and meta-analysis of …

Background Reducing high blood cholesterol, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD)
events in people with and without a past history of coronary heart disease (CHD) is an …

Background The burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) world-wide is one of great concern
to patients and health care agencies alike. Circulatory diseases, including myocardial …