High intakes of dietary sugars in the setting of a worldwide pandemic of obesity and
cardiovascular disease have heightened concerns about the adverse effects of excessive …

PURPOSE Many patients consulting in primary care have multiple conditions
(multimorbidity). Aims of this review were to identify measures of multimorbidity and …

Background: Poor lifestyle behaviors are leading causes of preventable diseases globally.
Added sugars contribute to a diet that is energy dense but nutrient poor and increase risk of …

Background: African-American patients who visit physicians of the same race rate their
medical visits as more satisfying and participatory than do those who see physicians of other …

Objectives. We examined the association between patient race/ethnicity and patient–
physician communication during medical visits. Methods. We used audiotape and …

This study provides information on the caffeine intakes of a representative sample of the US
population using the US Department of Agriculture 1994 to 1996 and 1998 Continuing …

Abstract OBJECTIVES: To determine: 1) whether racial and ethnic differences exist in
patients' perceptions of primary care provider (PCP) and general health care system-related …

OBJECTIVE Hospital hyperglycemia, in individuals with and without diabetes, has been
identified as a marker of poor clinical outcome in cardiac surgery patients. However, the …

The majority of US youth are of healthy weight, but the majority of US adults are overweight
or obese. Therefore, a major health challenge for most American children and adolescents …

Objective This study determined the accuracy of the multiple-pass 24-hour recall method for
estimating energy intake in young children by comparing it with measurements of total …