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Another goal of the HealthFerm project is to support the transition to more sustainable, more plant-based diets.

The doctoral thesis sheds light on the diverse possibilities of how nutrient-related metabolites could contribute to NAFLD pathogenesis and related clinical phenotypes.

An egg a day doesn’t seem to prevent or promote memory disorders. However, an egg a day may otherwise be beneficial for brain function, write UEF's nutrition researchers in Frontiers for Young Minds, a scientific journal aimed at children.

In the young population, arterial stiffness, an emerging risk factor for hypertension, indirectly raises blood pressure via an increase in insulin resistance but not via an increase in body fat.

For the first time, a combination of the diabetes medicine metformin and a lifestyle intervention is being tested in the prevention of memory disorders.

An extensive meta-analysis suggests that vitamin D supplementation may alleviate depressive symptoms in adults with depression.

Emerging evidence suggests that arterial stiffness may be a novel risk factor to be targeted in the prevention and treatment of vascular and metabolic diseases from a young age, a review of studies published in the Journal of Hypertension concludes.

A new study analysing the link between people’s reduced movement and the spread of coronavirus in 2020 shows that in some countries, the virus spread more rapidly when people stayed at home.

The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected healthcare service usage among patients with type 2 diabetes in North Karelia, but essential care was facilitated by processes that strongly relied on telemedicine already before the pandemic.

Nearly 30% of the 250 older care clients studied reported poor appetite, 20% had problems with chewing, 14% had problems with swallowing, and nearly 20% reported eating problems related to teeth or dentures.