“…Two cross-sectional studies were conducted at baseline within respective European cohort studies [34,38], and another cross-sectional analysis was conducted within a clinical trial, i.e., European Diet, Obesity and Genes Trial (DIOGenes) [36]. Of the 9 cohort studies, 6 were conducted in the United States [10,[30][31][32][33]35], 2 in Europe [7,37] and 1 in Japan [29], with mean or median follow-up time ranging from 7 years [37] to the longest 27 years [10]. A total of 156,064 overall deaths including 55,505 deaths from cancer and 41,836 deaths from CVD were identified from 5 cohort studies [10,[29][30][31]35] while a total of 29,851 incident cases of various aging-related diseases were identified from the other 4 cohort studies [31][32][33]37], which consisted of 13,838 cancer cases, 15,580 T2D cases, 298 hypertension cases, and 135 microalbuminuria cases.…”