Lazaros Belbasis

TL;DR: A biomarker of Epstein-Barr virus (anti-EBNA IgG seropositivity), infectious mononucleosis, and smoking showed the strongest consistent evidence of an association with multiple sclerosis.

TL;DR: A healthy lifestyle pattern could lead to decreased risk for T2DM, and future randomized clinical trials should focus on identifying efficient strategies to modify harmful daily habits and predisposing dietary patterns.

TL;DR: Many environmental factors have substantial evidence of association with Parkinson's disease, but several, perhaps most, of them may reflect reverse causation, residual confounding, information bias, sponsor conflicts or other caveats.

TL;DR: Dementia is a heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease, whose etiology results from a complex interplay between environmental and genetic factors.

TL;DR: There is weak evidence that birth weight constitutes an effective public health intervention marker and the range of outcomes convincingly associated with birth weight might be narrower than originally described under the “fetal origin hypothesis” of disease.