British Journal of Nutrition is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes original papers and review articles across the full spectrum of nutritional science. The focus of all manuscripts submitted to the journal should be to increase knowledge in nutritional science relevant to human or animal nutrition. The BJN welcomes manuscripts that report studies in nutritional epidemiology, nutritional requirements, metabolic studies, body composition, energetics, appetite and obesity. Manuscripts that address interactions of nutrition with endocrinology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience and physiology and that report outcomes relevant to health, behaviour and well-being are also within scope for the BJN.

>> Nutritional Immunology
Select Profiling inflammatory cytokines following zinc supplementation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials
Profiling inflammatory cytokines following zinc supplementation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials
Amir Hossein Faghfouri, Behzad Baradaran, Alireza Khabbazi, Yaser Khaje Bishak, Meysam Zarezadeh, Omid Mohammad Tavakoli-Rouzbehani, Elnaz Faghfuri, Laleh Payahoo, Maedeh Alipour, Beitullah Alipour

>> Human and Clinical Nutrition
a. Select Vitamin C improves healing of foot ulcers: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Vitamin C improves healing of foot ulcers: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Jenny E. Gunton, Christian M. Girgis, Timothea Lau, Mauro Vicaretti, Lindy Begg, Victoria Flood

b. The effects of whole grain intake on anthropometric measures in overweight and obese children: a crossover randomised clinical trial
Parisa Hajihashemi, Leila Azadbakht, Mahin Hashemipour, Roya Kelishadi, Parvane Saneei, Ahmad Esmaillzadeh

c. Bone mineral density at age 7 years does not associate with adherence to vitamin D supplementation guidelines in infancy or vitamin D status in pregnancy and childhood: an Odense Child Cohort study
Signe Monrad Nørgaard, Christine Dalgård, Malene Søborg Heidemann, Anders Jørgen Schou, Henrik Thybo Christesen

d. Select Associations between newborn thyroid-stimulating hormone concentration and neurodevelopment and growth of children at 18 months
Associations between newborn thyroid-stimulating hormone concentration and neurodevelopment and growth of children at 18 months
Molla Mesele Wassie, Lisa Gaye Smithers, Lisa Nicole Yelland, Maria Makrides, Shao Jia Zhou

e. Diets, nutrients, genes and the microbiome: recent advances in personalised nutrition
Nathan V. Matusheski, Aoife Caffrey, Lars Christensen, Simon Mezgec, Shelini Surendran, Mads F. Hjorth, Helene McNulty, Kristina Pentieva, Henrik M. Roager, Barbara Koroušić Seljak, Karani Santhanakrishnan Vimaleswaran, Marcus Remmers, Szabolcs Péter

>> Dietary Surveys and Nutritional Epidemiology
a. Low selenium intake is associated with postpartum weight retention in Chinese women and impaired physical development of their offspring
Feng Han, Yiqun Liu, Xuehong Pang, Qin Wang, Liping Liu, Yingjuan Chai, Jie Zhang, Shijin Wang, Jiaxi Lu, Licui Sun, Shuo Zhan, Zhenwu Huang

b. Select Higher dietary fibre intake is associated with lower CVD mortality risk among maintenance haemodialysis patients: a multicentre prospective cohort study
Higher dietary fibre intake is associated with lower CVD mortality risk among maintenance haemodialysis patients: a multicentre prospective cohort study
Zizhen Lin, Xianhui Qin, Yaya Yang, Yan Huang, Jieyu Wang, Yaozhong Kong, Yumin Li, Shenglin Yang, Yongxin Lu, Yanhong Zhao, Youbao Li, Qijun Wan, Qi Wang, Sheng Huang, Yan Liu, Aiqun Liu, Fanna Liu, FanFan Hou, Min Liang

c. The overall plant-based diet index during pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort study in China
Huanzhuo Wang, Li Huang, Lixia Lin, Xi Chen, Chunrong Zhong, Qian Li, Nan Li, Duan Gao, Xuezhen Zhou, Renjuan Chen, Yu Zhang, Beizhu Ye, Liping Hao, Xuefeng Yang, Nianhong Yang, Sheng Wei

d. Association between serum zinc concentrations and metabolic risk factors among Chinese children and adolescents
Qianrang Zhu, Yue Dai, Jingxian Zhang, Wei Xie, Hui Zuo, Jian Zhang, Yonglin Zhou

e. Estimation of sodium and potassium intakes assessed by two 24-hour urine collections in a city of Indonesia
Dianis Wulan Sari, Maiko Noguchi-Watanabe, Satoshi Sasaki, Junaiti Sahar, Noriko Yamamoto-Mitani

f. Associations between intake of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus and risk of pancreatic cancer: a population-based, case–control study in Minnesota
Hao Fan, Yunpeng Yu, Haocheng Nan, Margaret Hoyt, Michael K. Reger, Anna Prizment, Kristin E. Anderson, Jianjun Zhang

g. Folic acid supplementation and risk for fetal abdominal wall defects in China: results from a large population-based intervention cohort study
Jufen Liu, Zhiwen Li, Rongwei Ye, Aiguo Ren, Jianmeng Liu

>> Innovative Techniques
Probiotics and Coronavirus disease 2019: think about the link
Suresh Kumar Angurana, Arun Bansal

>> Behaviour, Appetite and Obesity
a. Effects of energy balance on appetite and physiological mediators of appetite during strenuous physical activity: secondary analysis of a randomised crossover trial
J. Philip Karl, Adrienne Hatch-McChesney, Jillian T. Allen, Heather S. Fagnant, Patrick N. Radcliffe, Graham Finlayson, Jess A. Gwin, Lee M. Margolis, Stephen R. Hennigar, James P. McClung, Stefan M. Pasiakos

b. Eating and drinking habits and its association with obesity in Japanese healthy adults: retrospective longitudinal big data analysis using a health check-up database
Tomotsugu Seki, Masato Takeuchi, Koji Kawakami

c. Select Sex- and weight-specific changes in the frequency of sweet treat consumption during early adolescence: a longitudinal study
Sex- and weight-specific changes in the frequency of sweet treat consumption during early adolescence: a longitudinal study
Sohvi Lommi, Elina Engberg, Hely Tuorila, Kaija-Leena Kolho, Heli Viljakainen