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Quality of dietary fat and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes: individual participant data meta-analysis.

The EPIC-InterAct study received funding from the European Union (Integrated Project LSHM-CT-2006-037197 in the Framework Programme 6 of the European Community). We thank all EPIC participants and staff for their contribution to the study. We thank Nicola Kerrison (MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) for managing the data...

A commonly occurring genetic variant within the NPLOC4-TSPAN10-PDE6G gene cluster is associated with the risk of strabis...

Increasing healthy life expectancy equitably in England by 5 years by 2035: could it be achieved?

In 2018, the UK Government’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care articulated an ambition to increase healthy life expectancy by five years by 2035 for England, while also reducing the gap in this between the rich and the poor1. While we doubt that England – or indeed any high-income country – could achieve this ambition, we describe a set...

Community knowledge, perceptions and water contact practices associated with transmission of urinary schistosomiasis in ...

Background: In an effort to complement the current chemotherapy based schistosomiasis control interventions in Shinyanga district, community knowledge, perceptions and water contact practices were qualitatively assessed using focus group discussions and semi structured interviews involving 271 participants in one S. haematobium prevalent community ...