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We read the paper by Gomes I et al i . with great interest.1 They showed the existence of patients with thiamine deficiency unrelated to alcohol consumption even in high-income countries, and that alerting healthcare professionals working in clinical practice to this fact contributed to improving the quality of medical care. Wernicke encephalopathy presented in the form of postoperative delirium in a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma and liver cirrhosis: a case report and review of the literature. Early detection and successful treatment of Wernicke encephalopathy in a patient with advanced carcinoma of the external genitalia during chemotherapy. [Extracted from the article]

As a good complement to the focused material in our paper, we are grateful for the helpful review of thiamine deficiency as it relates to cancer that Onishi and colleagues provided in their correspondence. We would like to thank Onishi and colleagues for their interest in our review. Reply to the letter to the editor "Thiamine deficiency unrelated to alcohol consumption in high-income countries: a literature review". [Extracted from the article]

We aimed to investigate whether alcohol intake contributes to lung function levels and which beverage type may have an effect. We investigated 3742 participants from the Wuhai‐Zhuhai Cohort and 12,526 participants from the Dongfeng‐Tongji Cohort, and they were followed up for 3 and 5 years, respectively. Information on the type and daily amount of alcohol intake was collected through face‐to‐face interviews. Lung function was measured by trained physicians using electronic spirometers. Compared with nondrinkers, moderate alcohol intake was significantly associated with a 70.03 and 74.92 mL increase in FEV1 and FVC, respectively (P < 0.05), after adjusting for covariates. With regard to beverage type, red wine was associated with a 105.31 and 98.91 mL increase in FEV1 and FVC, respectively (P < 0.05). Moderate alcohol intake was also associated with a 53.37 and 66.17 mL increase in FEV1 and FVC for liquor, respectively, and a 106.90 and 103.62 mL increase for red wine (all Ps < 0.05). In the longitudinal analyses, moderate alcohol intake and red wine were associated with a 67.77 and 103.77 mL increase in FVC, respectively (P < 0.05). Moderate alcohol intake is associated with increased lung function, especially for red wine. Further studies are needed to investigate the potential mechanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to establish a biological age (BA) predictor and to investigate the roles of lifestyles on biological aging. The 14,848 participants with the available information of multisystem measurements from the Dongfeng–Tongji cohort were used to estimate BA. We developed a composite BA predictor showing a high correlation with chronological age (CA) (r = 0.82) by using an extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) algorithm. The average frequency hearing threshold, forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), gender, systolic blood pressure, and homocysteine ranked as the top five important features for the BA predictor. Two aging indexes, recorded as the AgingAccel (the residual from regressing predicted age on CA) and aging rate (the ratio of predicted age to CA), showed positive associations with the risks of all‐cause (HR (95% CI) = 1.12 (1.10–1.14) and 1.08 (1.07–1.10), respectively) and cause‐specific (HRs ranged from 1.06 to ∼1.15) mortality. Each 1‐point increase in healthy lifestyle score (including normal body mass index, never smoking, moderate alcohol drinking, physically active, and sleep 7–9 h/night) was associated with a 0.21‐year decrease in the AgingAccel (95% CI: −0.27 to −0.15) and a 0.4% decrease in the aging rate (95% CI: −0.5% to −0.3%). This study developed a machine learning–based BA predictor in a prospective Chinese cohort. Adherence to healthy lifestyles showed associations with delayed biological aging, which highlights potential preventive interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]