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Nutritional status and Cardiometabolic health among adolescents; findings fro...
Abstract Background Obesity has been associated with an increased risk for cardio-metabolic diseases. The prevalence of obesity among adolescents is increasing worldwide,... -
Development of predictive risk models for major adverse cardiovascular events...
Abstract Background There exist several predictive risk models for cardiovascular disease (CVD), including some developed specifically for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus... -
Access and utilization of maternal healthcare in a rural district in the fore...
Abstract Background Poor maternal health delivery in developing countries results in more than half a million maternal deaths during pregnancy, childbirth or within a few weeks... -
Prospective observations study protocol to investigate cost-effectiveness of ...
Abstract Background Among the non-invasive screening methods for the identification of fetal aneuploidy, NIPT (non-invasive prenatal testing) shows the highest sensitivity and... -
Differences in reported sepsis incidence according to study design: a literat...
Abstract Background Sepsis and severe sepsis are common conditions in hospital settings, and are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality, but reported incidences... -
Predicting potential adverse events using safety data from marketed drugs
Abstract Background While clinical trials are considered the gold standard for detecting adverse events, often these trials are not sufficiently powered to detect difficult to... -
ISSEC: inferring contacts among protein secondary structure elements using de...
Abstract Background The formation of contacts among protein secondary structure elements (SSEs) is an important step in protein folding as it determines topology of protein... -
Additional file 1: of The prognostic value of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes ...
Table S1. General characteristics of the studies included in this meta-analysis (XLSX 15 kb) -
Development of a prediction model for bacteremia in hospitalized adults with ...
Abstract Background Cellulitis is a common infectious disease. Although blood culture is frequently used in the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of cellulitis, it is a... -
On asymptotic risk of selecting models for possibly nonstationary time-series
Model selection criteria are often assessed by the so-called asymptotic risk. Asymptotic risk is defined either with the mean-squared error of estimated parameters; or with the... -
A method for sensitivity analysis to assess the effects of measurement error ...
Abstract Background Measurement error in self-reported dietary intakes is known to bias the association between dietary intake and a health outcome of interest such as risk of a... -
Climate factors driven typhus group rickettsiosis incidence dynamics in Xishu...
Abstract Background Typhus group rickettsiosis (TGR), which is a neglected vector-borne infectious disease, including epidemic typhus and endemic typhus. We explored the lag... -
Vulnerability in elderly patients with gastrointestinal cancer – translation,...
Abstract Background “Vulnerable Elders Survey” (VES-13) is a questionnaire accurate in predicting functional decline and highly correlated with comprehensive geriatric... -
External quality assessment (EQA) program for the immunohistochemical detecti...
Abstract Background An External Quality Assessment (EQA) program was developed to investigate the status of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and Ki-67... -
Sensor-based characterization of daily walking: a new paradigm in pre-frailty...
Abstract Background Frailty is a highly recognized geriatric syndrome resulting in decline in reserve across multiple physiological systems. Impaired physical function is one of... -
A novel framework for horizontal and vertical data integration in cancer stud...
Abstract Background Recently high-throughput technologies have been massively used alongside clinical tests to study various types of cancer. Data generated in such large-scale... -
Assessing the external validity of algorithms to estimate EQ-5D-3L from the W...
Abstract Background The use of mapping algorithms have been suggested as a solution to predict health utilities when no preference-based measure is included in the study.... -
Prognostic values of the SYNTAX score II and the erythrocyte sedimentation ra...
Abstract Background There is a paucity of evidence on the combination of the SYNTAX score II (SSII) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) in assessing the long-term prognosis... -
Feasibility study to identify women of childbearing age at risk of pregnancy ...
Abstract Background Worldwide the rate of unplanned pregnancies is more than 40%. Identifying women at risk of pregnancy can help prevent negative outcomes and also reduce... -
DNA methylation and obesity traits: An epigenome-wide association study. The ...
Obesity is associated with increased risk of several diseases and has become epidemic. Obesity is highly heritable but the genetic variants identified by genome-wide association...
