Yutao Du

Abstract Current dietary patterns based on general consumption trends may not fully capture factors influencing arterial stiffness, a subclinical marker of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We aimed to identify data-driven dietary patterns and evaluate their associations with arterial stiffness in a population without known CVD.

We read with great interest Kelly et al.’s work regarding the importance of the language used to describe the retinal fundal reflex [1]. The retinal fundal reflex test (“red reflex”) screens for sight threatening eye conditions in newborns. Classically described as the “red reflex”, as this is the normal appearance in Caucasians, Kelly et al. have proposed changing the terminology to the “fundal reflex test” to counter the false implication that a ‘normal’ reflex must be red in colour [1].