Although there are indications for modulatory effects of PUFA on associations between SNP and obesity risk, scientific evidence in human subjects is still scarce. The present analyses investigated interaction effects between SNP in candidate genes for obesity and PUFA in erythrocyte membranes on obesity risk. Within the second Bavarian Food Consumption Survey (cross-sectional, population-based)...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) still remains the leading cause of death worldwide, especially in Europe where the prevalence of hypertension is 60% higher compared with the United States and Canada and the clustering of hypertension and the metabolic disorders central adiposity, dyslipidemia and dysglycemia, known as the metabolic syndrome (MetS), affects 25% of the population. Despite...

Within-host competition is an important factor in host-parasite relationships, yet most studies consider interactions involving only single parasite species. We investigated the interaction between a virulent obligate entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae var. anisopliae, and a normally avirulent, opportunistic fungal pathogen, Aspergillus flavus, in their leaf-cutting ant host, Acrom...

BACKGROUND Experimental and epidemiologic studies have yielded conflicting results on the relation between vitamin C intake and breast cancer risk. OBJECTIVE We investigated the relation between vitamin C supplement intake and breast cancer risk while considering dietary vitamin C intake. DESIGN Between 1995 and 2008, 2482 invasive breast cancer cases occurred in 57,403 postmenopausal women...

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Copyright: Ó 2009 Hay et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Background Efficient allocation of resources to in...

Although it is well known and identified that drug-drug interactions exist, the recognition of importance of food and drug interactions to practice has been growing much slower. On the other hand, drug-food/nutrient interactions continue to grow with the common use of medications. Beside the awareness of this type of interactions, food-drug interaction studies are critical to evaluate appropria...