Yunsheng Ma

TL;DR: Data from the Seasonal Variation of Blood Cholesterol Study were used to evaluate the relation between eating patterns and obesity and indicate that a greater number of eating episodes each day was associated with a lower risk of obesity.

TL;DR: The results from the present study indicate that social desirability and social approval biases appear to vary by gender, which may lead to misclassification of dietary exposure estimates resulting in a distortion in the perceived relation between health-related outcomes and exposure to specific foods or nutrients.

TL;DR: The success of this first-of-a-kind attempt at relating individuals’ intakes of inflammation-modulating foods using this refined DII, and the finding that there is virtually no drop-off in predictive capability using a structured questionnaire in comparison to the 24HR standard, sets the stage for use of the DII in a wide variety of other epidemiological and clinical studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, an Inflammatory Index was developed based on the results of an extensive literature search to assess the inflammatory potential of individuals' diets and the effect of diet on health in humans.

TL;DR: Statin medication use in postmenopausal women is associated with an increased risk for DM, and this may be a medication class effect, which is observed for all types of statin medications.