The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, Western diet, and risk of gout in men: prospective cohort study.

Objective To prospectively examine the relation between the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) and Western diets and risk of gout (ie, the clinical endpoint of hyperuricemia) in men. Design: Prospective cohort study.Setting The Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Participants: 44 444 men with no history of gout at baseline. Using validated food frequency questionnaires, each participant […]

Chocolate consumption and cardiometabolic disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association of chocolate consumption with the risk of developing cardiometabolic disorders. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and observational studies. DATA SOURCES: Medline; Embase; Cochrane Library; PubMed; CINAHL; IPA; Web of Science; Scopus; Pascal; reference lists of relevant studies to October 2010; and email contact with authors. STUDY […]

Adherence to Mediterranean diet and health status: meta-analysis

OBJECTIVE: To systematically review all the prospective cohort studies that have analyzed the relation between adherence to a Mediterranean diet; mortality; and incidence of chronic diseases in a primary prevention setting. DESIGN: Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. DATA SOURCES: English and non-English publications in PubMed; Embase; Web of Science; and the Cochrane Central Register of […]