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Eating legumes may help avert the development of colorectal cancer, according to a study that has found an inverse association between legume consumption and colorectal cancer risk.

A Scandinavian population-based birth cohort study reveals that children who were exposed to tobacco smoke during their early childhood have an increased risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) later in life.

A dietary pattern intervention may offer some help in reducing the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD), including both motor and nonmotor symptoms, reports a study.

Use of aspirin at 100 mg per day proved unsuccessful at reducing the incidence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in a large cohort of older healthy individuals, according to medium-term data from the AMD substudy of the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) trial.

Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have developed a novel machine learning–based model for predicting 1-year risk of severe hypoglycaemia in older patients with diabetes mellitus (DM).

Overuse of short-acting β2 agonists (SABA) is prevalent among patients with asthma in Hong Kong and associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality and hospital admissions, according to a local retrospective cohort study, which was part of the global SABINA (SABA Use in Asthma) research programme.