In March, 7 new articles entered our top ten most read list. 5 articles present the protocol for, or results from, systematic reviews. The Top 10 is compiled based on full text views, including downloads of the full article PDFs.

Diet and Tinnitus: Our most-read new entry is a systematic review and meta-analyses from Zhang et al. looking at the association between dietary patterns and tinnitus incidence in observational studies. The authors found 8 observational studies which met the inclusion criteria for the analysis (totalling over 300,000 participants), and found potential associations between intake of fibres, fruit, and other factors, with reduced risk of tinnitus occurrence, although the authors emphasise that more high-quality studies are needed. Please see a previous blog from Tom Phillips, who presents a more detailed write up of this study. 

Vaping and Lung outcomes: Another new entry is a protocol presented by Burns et al. The authors describe the rationale and experimental plan for a 3-year observational study to assess the association between e-cigarettes and respiratory outcomes in 100 adolescents and 400 adults. 

Workplace culture and lifestyle medicine: Durrwachter et al. present a qualitative study which investigated how workplace culture may affect the development of lifestyle medicine programming in health systems. Administrative leaders and physicians were invited to participate, and the authors report various facilitators of lifestyle medicine that were identified in their study.