Table of contents

Original research

• Impact of supervised beego, a traditional Chinese water-only fasting, on thrombosis and haemostasis (5 January, 2021)

  Yixuan Fang, Yue Gu, Chen Zhao, Yaqi Lv, Jiawei Qian, Lingjiang Zhu, Na Yuan, Suping Zhang, Li Wang, Mengli Li, Qing Zhang, Li Xu, Wen Wei, Lei Li, Li Ji, Xueqin Gao, Jingyi Zhang, Yueping Shen, Zixing Chen, Guanghui Wang, Kesheng Dai, Jianrong Wang
• Possible causalities between malnutrition and academic performances among primary schoolchildren: a cross-sectional study in rural Madagascar (18 January, 2021)

  Hirotsugu Aiga, Kanae Abe, Emmanuel Randriamampionona, Angèle Razafitompo Razafinombana
• Assessment of vitamin B₁₂ deficiency and B₁₂ screening trends for patients on metformin: a retrospective cohort case review

  (4 January, 2021)

  Darby Martin, Jeet Thaker, Maria Shreve, Lois Lamerato, Kartazyna Budzynska
• Body mass index, prudent diet score and social class across three generations: evidence from the Hertfordshire Intergenerational Study (6 January, 2021)

  Sarah Carter, Camille Parsons, Kate Ward, Michael Clynes, Elaine M Dennison, Cyrus Cooper
• No evidence that vitamin D is able to prevent or affect the severity of COVID-19 in individuals with European ancestry: a Mendelian randomisation study of open data (7 January, 2021)

  Hasnat A Amin, Fotios Drenos
• Estimating the potential impact of Australia’s reformulation programme on households’ sodium purchases (12 January, 2021)

  Daisy Coyle, Maria Shahid, Elizabeth Dunford, Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Sarah Mckee, Myla Santos, Barry Popkin, Kathy Trieu, Matti Marklund, Bruce Neal, Jason Wu
• Three-year review of a capacity building pilot for a sustainable regional network on food, nutrition and health systems education in India (1 February, 2021)

  Luke Buckner, Harrison Carter, Anand Ahankari, Rinku Banerjee, Somnath Bhar, Shivani Bhat, Yagnaseni Bhattacharya, Debashis Chakraborty, Pauline Douglas, Laura Fitzpatrick, Sudeshna Maitra-Nag, Sagarika Muhkerjee, Sabyasachi Ray, Ananya Roy, Aparjita Saha, Marietta Sayegh, Minha Rajput-Ray, Ianthi Tsimpli, Sumantra Ray
• Prevalence and predictors of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in Dodoma region, Tanzania: an analytical cross-sectional study (19 March, 2021)

  Mwajuma Bakari Mdoe, Stephen Matthew Kibusi, Mariam John Munyogwa, Alex Ibolinga Ernest
• Gender-specific association between carbohydrate consumption and blood pressure in Chinese adults (13 January, 2021)

  Ruru Liu, Baibing Mi, Yaling Zhao, Qiang Li, Shaonong Dang, Hong Yan
• Genetic factors associated with obesity risks in a Kazakhstani population (5 February, 2021)

  Madina Razbekova, Alpamys Issanov, Mei-Yen Chan, Robbie Chan, Dauren Yerezhepov, Ulan Kozhamkulov, Ainur Akilzhanova, Chee-Kai Chan
• Weight loss, hypertension and mental well-being improvements during COVID-19 with a multicomponent health promotion programme on Zoom: a service evaluation in primary care (15 February, 2021)

  Louise Walker, Natalie Smith, Christine Delon
• Effect of overweight/obesity on caesarean section occurrence among reproductive-aged women in Ethiopia: a secondary data analysis (15 February, 2021)

  Melese Linger Endalifer, Gedefaw Diress, Hunegnaw Almaw, Bedilu Linger Endalifer
• How fragile are Mediterranean diet interventions? A research-on-research study of randomised controlled trials (9 March, 2021)

  Maria G Grammatikopoulou, Meletios P Nigdelis, Xenophon Theodoridis, Konstantinos Gkiouras, Antigoni Tranidou, Theodora Papamitsou, Dimitrios P Bogdanos, Dimitrios G Goulis
• COVID-19 illness in relation to sleep and burnout (22 March, 2021)

  Hyunju Kim, Sheila Hegde, Christine LaFiura, Madhunika Raghavan, Eric Luong, Susan Cheng, Casey M Rebholz, Sara B Seidelmann
• Random forest approach for determining risk prediction and predictive factors of type 2 diabetes: large-scale health check-up data in Japan (11 March, 2021)

  Tadao Ooka, Hisashi Johno, Kazunori Nakamoto, Yoshioki Yoda, Hiroshi Yokomichi, Zentaro Yamagata
• Modest effects of dietary supplements during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from 445 850 users of the COVID-19 Symptom Study app (19 April, 2021)

  Panayiotis Louca, Benjamin Murray, Kerstin Klaser, Mark S Graham, Mohsen Mazidi, Emily R Leeming, Ellen Thompson, Ruth Bowyer, David A Drew, Long H Nguyen, Jordi Merino, Maria Gomez, Olatz Mompeo, Ricardo Costeira, Carole H Sudre, Rachel Gibson, Claire J Steves, Jonathan Wolf, Paul W Franks, Sebastien Ourselin, Andrew T Chan, Sarah E Berry, Ana M Valdes, Philip C Calder, Tim D Spector, Cristina Menni
• Empirical study of the 30-s chair-stand test as an indicator for musculoskeletal disorder risk of sedentary behaviour in Japanese office workers: a cross-sectional empirical study (22 March, 2021)

  Azusa Arimoto, Shoko Ishikawa, Etsuko Tadaka
• Temporal variations in the severity of COVID-19 illness by race and ethnicity (22 March, 2021)

  Joseph E Ebinger, Matthew Driver, Hongwei Ji, Brian Claggett, Min Wu, Eric Luong, Nancy Sun, Patrick Botting, Elizabeth H Kim, Amy Hoang, Trevor Trung Nguyen, Jacqueline Diaz, Eunice Park, Tod Davis, Shehnaz Hussain, Susan Cheng, Jane C Figueiredo
• Effect of ultraprocessed food intake on cardiometabolic risk is mediated by diet quality: a cross-sectional study (7 April, 2021)

  Jennifer Griffin, Anwar Albaloul, Alexandra Kopytek, Paul Elliott, Gary Frost
• Effect of nutrition education by health professionals on pregnancy-specific nutrition knowledge and healthy dietary practice among pregnant women in Asmara, Eritrea: a quasi-experimental study (15 April, 2021)

  Lidia Ghirmai Teweldemedhin, Helen Gebretatyos Amanuel, Soliana Amanuel Berhe, Ghidey Gebreyohans, Zemenfes Tsige, Eyasu Habte
• Pasta meal intake in relation to risks of type 2 diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women : findings from the Women’s Health Initiative (30 April, 2021)

  Mengna Huang, Kenneth Lo, Jie Li, Matthew Allison, Wen-Chih Wu, Simin Liu
• Breast health screening: a UK-wide questionnaire (4 May, 2021)

  Natasha Jiwa, Zoltan Takats, Daniel R Leff, Christopher Sutton
• Genetically predicted serum vitamin D and COVID-19: a Mendelian randomisation study (4 May, 2021)

  Bonnie K Patchen, Andrew G Clark, Nathan Gaddis, Dana B Hancock, Patricia A Cassano
• Supporting people to implement a reduced carbohydrate diet: a qualitative study in family practice (10 May, 2021)

  Caroline Cupit, Emma Redman
• Effects on child growth of a reduction in the general food distribution ration and provision of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements in refugee camps in eastern Chad (14 May, 2021)

  Bridget Fenn, Mark Myatt, Emily Mates, Robert E Black, Caroline Wilkinson, Tanya Khara
• Iodine status in women attending Mnazi Mmoja Hospital in Zanzibar: a matched case-control study (14 May, 2021)

  Olivia Bysheim, Elinor Margrethe Chelsom Vogt, Ingunn Marie S Engebretsen, Naufal Kassim Mohammed, Torgeir Storaas, Hanne Rosendahl-Riise
• Nutrition content of summative examinations within an Australian 4-year graduate entry medical course: 2013–2016 (27 May, 2021)

  Robyn Perlstein, Janet McLeod, Colin Bell, Caryl Nowson
• Plant-based diets, pescatarian diets and COVID-19 severity: a population-based case–control study in six countries (7 June, 2021)

  Hyunju Kim, Casey M Rebholz, Sheila Hegde, Christine LaFiura, Madhunika Raghavan, John F Lloyd, Susan Cheng, Sara B Seidelmann
• Assessment, outcomes and implications of multiple anthropometric deficits in children (7 June, 2021)

  Idzes Kundan, Rajalakshmi Nair, Shashwat Kulkarni, Aparna Deshpande, Raju Jotkar, Mrudula Phadke
• Cost and greenhouse gas emissions of current, healthy, flexitarian and vegan diets in Aotearoa (New Zealand) (9 June, 2021)

  Bruce Kidd, Sally Mackay, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Boyd Swinburn
• Impact of smoking on COVID-19 outcomes: a HOPE Registry subanalysis (17 June, 2021)

  Carolina Espejo-Paeres, Iván J Núñez-Gil, Vicente Estrada, Cristina Fernández-Pérez, Giovanna Uribe-Heredia, Clara Cabré-Verdiell, Aitor Uribarri, Rodolfo Romero, Marcos García-Aguado, Inmaculada Fernández-Rozas, Victor Becerra-Muñoz, Martino Pepe, Enrico Cerrato, Sergio Raposeiras-Roubín, María Barrionuevo-Ramos, Freddy Aveiga-Ligua, Carolina Aguilar-Andrea, Emilio Alfonso-Rodríguez, Fabrizio Ugo, Juan Fortunato García-Prieto, Gisela Feltes, Ibrahim Akin, Jia Huang, Jorge Jativa, Antonio Fernández-Ortiz, Carlos Macaya, Ana Carrero-Fernández, Jaime Signes-Costa
• Potential for elimination of folate and vitamin B₁₂ deficiency in India using vitamin-fortified tea: a preliminary study

  (23 June, 2021)

  Ravindra M Vora, Meryl J Alappattu, Apoorva D Zarkar, Mayur S Soni, Santosh J Karmarkar, Aśok C Antony