Coffee consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes and heart diseaseHannia Campos
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Nutr Rev 65:173-9. 2007
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- Transient exposure to coffee as a trigger of a first nonfatal myocardial infarction
Ana Baylin
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Epidemiology 17:506-11. 2006
..We hypothesize that coffee in the presence of predisposing factors can induce a cascade of events that, through sympathetic nervous activation, can induce the onset of myocardial infarction...
- Genetic variation in stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 is associated with metabolic syndrome prevalence in Costa Rican adults
Jian Gong
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
J Nutr 141:2211-8. 2011
..No gene-fatty acid interactive effects were observed. Our results suggest that genetic variation in the SCD1 gene may play a role in the development of MetS...
- Does genetic variation in the Delta6-desaturase promoter modify the association between alpha-linolenic acid and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome?
Hong Truong
Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 89:920-5. 2009
..The Delta(6)-desaturase enzyme converts ALA into EPA and DHA, and genetic variation in the Delta(6)-desaturase gene (FADS2) may affect this conversion...
- Dietary patterns are associated with metabolic syndrome in adult Samoans
Julia R Dibello
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Nutr 139:1933-43. 2009
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- Triggers of nonfatal myocardial infarction in Costa Rica: heavy physical exertion, sexual activity, and infection
Ana Baylin
Department of Community Health, Brown University, 121 South Main Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Ann Epidemiol 17:112-8. 2007
..There are no data for factors that could trigger myocardial infarction (MI) in the context of lifestyles in developing countries...
- Development of a cardiovascular risk score for use in low- and middle-income countries
Stella Aslibekyan
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
J Nutr 141:1375-80. 2011
..26)]. Performance of the score in different subsets of the study population showed c-statistics ranging from 0.63 to 0.67. The new score presents a quantitative summary of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in the study population...
- Comparison of 3 methods for identifying dietary patterns associated with risk of disease
Julia R Dibello
Department of Community Health, International Health Institute, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:1433-43. 2008
..The most effective method for deriving dietary patterns related to disease may vary depending on the study goals...
- Adipose tissue palmitoleic acid and obesity in humans: does it behave as a lipokine?
Jian Gong
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 93:186-91. 2011
..Because carbohydrate intake can increase hepatic SCD1 activity, it could be used as a stratifying variable to disentangle the effects of adipose tissue SCD1 compared with the effects of liver SCD1 activity on obesity...
- alpha-Linolenic acid, Delta6-desaturase gene polymorphism, and the risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction
Ana Baylin
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 85:554-60. 2007
..Delta(6)-Desaturase (FADS2) is the rate-limiting step in the polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) biosynthetic pathway...
- Adiponectin and type 2 diabetes in Samoan adults
Julia R Dibello
Department of Community Health, International Health Institute, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Am J Hum Biol 21:389-91. 2009
..It is unclear whether adiponectin will be useful among Samoan Islanders, characterized by markedly elevated levels of obesity, in differentiating those at risk of developing type 2 diabetes...
- Predictors of usage and fatty acid composition of cooking fats in Bogotá, Colombia
Ana Baylin
Department of Community Health, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Public Health Nutr 12:531-7. 2009
..To examine correlates of home usage of commercially available cooking fats in Bogotá, Colombia and to determine their fatty acid composition...
- Maternal smoking during pregnancy and anger temperament among adult offspring
Tianli Liu
Institute of Population Research, Peking University, No 5, YiHeYuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100871, PR China
J Psychiatr Res 45:1648-54. 2011
..We concluded that prenatal exposure to heavy cigarette smoke was associated with an increased level of anger temperament, a stable personality trait that may carry the influence of prenatal smoking through the life course...
- Nonfatal acute myocardial infarction in Costa Rica: modifiable risk factors, population-attributable risks, and adherence to dietary guidelines
Edmond K Kabagambe
Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health, 1665 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
Circulation 115:1075-81. 2007
..Cardiovascular disease, including myocardial infarction (MI), is increasing in developing countries. Knowledge of risk factors and their impact on the population could offer insights into primary prevention...
- Alcohol intake, drinking patterns, and risk of nonfatal acute myocardial infarction in Costa Rica
Edmond K Kabagambe
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 82:1336-45. 2005
..Similar to a few other populations, apparent protection was observed at very low alcohol intakes. CONCLUSION: Low to moderate consumption of alcohol 1-2 d/wk is independently associated with a reduced risk of MI...
- Some dietary and adipose tissue carotenoids are associated with the risk of nonfatal acute myocardial infarction in Costa Rica
Edmond Kato Kabagambe
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Nutr 135:1763-9. 2005
..The mechanism underlying the positive association between lutein + zeaxanthin and the risk of MI warrants investigation...
- Alpha-linolenic acid and risk of nonfatal acute myocardial infarction
Hannia Campos
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Circulation 118:339-45. 2008
..Intake of long-chain n-3 fatty acids found in fish is low in many countries worldwide. alpha-Linolenic acid could be a viable cardioprotective alternative to these fatty acids in these countries...
- Nutrigenetic association of the 5-lipoxygenase gene with myocardial infarction
Hooman Allayee
Department of Preventive Medicine and the Institute for Genetic Medicine, The University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089 9075, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 88:934-40. 2008
..We previously reported that variants of a 5-LO promoter repeat polymorphism were associated with carotid atherosclerosis in humans, an effect that was exacerbated by high dietary AA but mitigated by high dietary n-3 fatty acids...
- Adipose tissue alpha-linolenic acid and nonfatal acute myocardial infarction in Costa Rica
Ana Baylin
Department of Nutrition, Room 353A, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Circulation 107:1586-91. 2003
..Alpha-linolenic acid may protect against cardiovascular disease. We examined the association between adipose tissue alpha-linolenic acid and nonfatal acute myocardial infarction (MI) in a population-based case-control study in Costa Rica...
- Adipose tissue biomarkers of fatty acid intake
Ana Baylin
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 76:750-7. 2002
..Ideally, adipose tissue and dietary questionnaires should complement, rather than substitute for, each other in epidemiologic studies...
- Individual carotenoid concentrations in adipose tissue and plasma as biomarkers of dietary intake
Ahmed El-Sohemy
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 76:172-9. 2002
..CONCLUSION: The usefulness of adipose tissue and plasma carotenoids as biomarkers of intake is similar, although correlations for individual carotenoids vary substantially...
- Adipose tissue arachidonic acid and the metabolic syndrome in Costa Rican adults
Eric S Williams
Department of Nutrition, Room 1 201, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Nutr 26:474-82. 2007
..We examined the association between adipose tissue arachidonic acid and the metabolic syndrome in Costa Rica, a country in which the metabolic syndrome is highly prevalent...
- High 18:2 trans-fatty acids in adipose tissue are associated with increased risk of nonfatal acute myocardial infarction in costa rican adults
Ana Baylin
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Nutr 133:1186-91. 2003
..Because the use of hydrogenated oils is increasing worldwide, consumers should be aware of the harmful effects of products containing partially hydrogenated oils...
- Arachidonic acid in adipose tissue is associated with nonfatal acute myocardial infarction in the central valley of Costa Rica
Ana Baylin
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Nutr 134:3095-9. 2004
..Better understanding of the metabolic factors that increase AA in adipose tissue is urgently needed...
- Costa Rican adolescents have a deleterious nutritional profile as compared to adults in terms of lower dietary and plasma concentrations of antioxidant micronutrients
Edmond K Kabagambe
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Coll Nutr 24:122-8. 2005
..CONCLUSION: As a proportion of energy, diets of Costa Rican adolescents contain less micronutrients than those of their adult relatives. Parents should be aware of this trend and its association with poor health status...
- Decreased consumption of dried mature beans is positively associated with urbanization and nonfatal acute myocardial infarction
Edmond K Kabagambe
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Nutr 135:1770-5. 2005
..No additional protection was observed at intakes > 1 serving/d. These findings are timely given the trend toward increased obesity, cardiovascular disease, and a reduction in the intake of beans in Latin American countries...
- Fasting whole blood as a biomarker of essential fatty acid intake in epidemiologic studies: comparison with adipose tissue and plasma
Ana Baylin
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:373-81. 2005
..Thus, fasting whole blood could be the sample of choice in epidemiologic studies because of its ability to predict intake, its accessibility, and minimum sample processing...
- The type of oil used for cooking is associated with the risk of nonfatal acute myocardial infarction in costa rica
Edmond K Kabagambe
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA 02115, USA
J Nutr 135:2674-9. 2005
..14; CI: 0.84-1.56). These data suggest that as currently used in Costa Rica, and most likely in many other developing countries, the replacement of palm oil with a polyunsaturated nonhydrogenated vegetable oil would reduce the risk of MI...
- Comparison of dietary intakes of micro- and macronutrients in rural, suburban and urban populations in Costa Rica
Edmond K Kabagambe
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Public Health Nutr 5:835-42. 2002
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- Frequent intake of tropical fruits that are rich in beta-cryptoxanthin is associated with higher plasma beta-cryptoxanthin concentrations in Costa Rican adolescents
Michael S Irwig
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Nutr 132:3161-7. 2002
..Intakes of beta-cryptoxanthin and papaya, a tropical fruit frequently consumed in Latin America, were the best predictors of beta-cryptoxanthin concentrations in plasma...
- Socio-economic status and health awareness are associated with choice of cooking oil in Costa Rica
URIYOAN COLON-RAMOS
National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Public Health Nutr 10:1214-22. 2007
..To examine the socio-economic and lifestyle determinants of cooking oil choice in Costa Rica during the last decade (1994-2004)...
- Dietary and adipose tissue gamma-tocopherol and risk of myocardial infarction
Ahmed El-Sohemy
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Epidemiology 13:216-23. 2002
..01 and 0.05 for trend, respectively). CONCLUSION: These data suggest that gamma-tocopherol does not protect against nonfatal MI...
