Antonis Zampelas

TL;DR: Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls, and by contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia forboth sexes, and southeast Asia for boys.

TL;DR: In this article, a Bayesian hierarchical model was used to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and the proportion of people with hypertension who had a previous diagnosis (detection), who were taking medication for hypertension (treatment), and whose hypertension was controlled to below 140/90 mm Hg (control).

TL;DR: Girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries and boys in central and western Europe had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI.

TL;DR: An inverse association between dairy products consumption and levels of various inflammatory markers among healthy adults with no evidence of cardiovascular or other chronic disease is identified.

TL;DR: Acute ingestion of red wine without alcohol led to higher FMD than ingestion of regular red wine in CAD patients, suggesting that the acute effect of redwine on endothelial function may be different than its long-term effect and it could be attributed to its constituents other than alcohol.