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Handgrip strength improves prediction of type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohor...
We aimed to determine whether handgrip strength (HGS)improves type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk prediction beyond conventional risk factors. Handgrip strength was assessed at baseline... -
Association of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate exposure with chronic kidney dis...
Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)-based regimens have been associated with impaired kidney function and loss of bone mineral density among patients living with HIV (PLWH). We... -
Knowledge and awareness toward menopause and hormone therapy among premenopau...
Menopause is a natural important transition in women’s life. Having adequate knowledge and perception about menopause at a young age is critical for women to cope better with... -
Association between cotinine-verified smoking status and hypertension in 167,...
Purpose: Previous studies showed inconsistent results concerning the relationship between chronic smoking and blood pressure. Most of the studies involved self-reported smoking... -
Age at puberty and accelerometer-measured physical activity: Findings from tw...
It is unclear if puberty timing influences future physical activity (PA). To investigate the association of puberty timing with PA across adolescence and adulthood. Data were... -
Expression of ADR-α1, 2 and ADR-β2 in cumulus cell culture of infertile women...
Alpha and beta-adrenoceptors (ADR-α1, 2, and β2) play a regulatory role in the folliculogenesis and steroidogenesis in the ovarian follicles. This study aimed to measure these... -
Predictive Value of Blood Interleukin-6 Level in Patients with Acute Coronary...
Conflicting results have been reported on the association between blood level of interleukin-6 and adverse outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The current... -
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EEJA in Action: “The Development of the Jewish People Over the Last 100 Years” by Yakov Leshchinsky -
Estimation of bias-corrected intraclass correlation coefficient for unbalance...
Intraclass correlation coefficient for data in a clustered study is traditionally estimated from a one-way random-effects model. This model assumes normality for the random... -
Evaluation of Model Fit in Structural Equation Models with Ordinal Missing Da...
In many applied situations, the questionnaire items in measurement instruments do not approximate continuous, normally distributed variables but instead are ordinal. Properties... -
Methylation Status of VDR Gene and its Association with Vitamin D Status and ...
Deficiency in circulatory vitamin D level and vitamin D receptor DNA methylation could be associated with weakened innate immune response and increased susceptibility to... -
Allocating outreach resources for disease control in a dynamic population wit...
Infected individuals must be aware of disease symptoms to seek care, so outreach and education programs are critical to disease control. However, public health organizations... -
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Solid tissues collected from patient-driven clinical settings are composed of both normal and cancer cells, which often precede complications in data analysis and epigenetic... -
The Cold War as an Aesthetic Phenomenon: An Afterthought on Boris Groys
The Cold War as an Aesthetic Phenomenon: An Afterthought on Boris Groys -
The association between upper limb function and variables at the different do...
To investigate the variables per International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)-domain that are associated with upper limb (UL) function in women after... -
Bias Correction for Replacement Samples in Longitudinal Research
Missing data are commonly encountered problem in longitudinal research. One way researchers handle missing data is through the use of supplemental samples (i.e., the addition of... -
Inter- and intra-city networks: how networks are shaping China’s film industry
While existing studies have mapped out various networks with some visualization techniques, we move one step forward by examining if city/firm performance is dependent not only... -
Scalable module detection for attributed networks with applications to breast...
The objective of network module detection is to identify groups of nodes within a network structure that are tightly connected. Nodes in a network often have attributes (aka... -
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between self-reported osteoarthritis (OA) and reproductive factors in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). METHOD We used multivariable... -
Two-Step Estimation of Incomplete Information Social Interaction Models with ...
In this study, we consider linear social interaction models under incomplete information that allow for missing outcome data due to sample selection. For model estimation,...
