Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids Study of 1950s sugar rationing in the United Kingdom also suggests risk to babies whose mums ate a high-sugar diet during pregnancy. Heidi Ledford New
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease that predominantly affects the joints. The prevalence of RA varies globally, with generally a higher prevalence in industrialized countries, which may be explained by exposures to environmental risk factors, but also by genetic factors, differin...
41:1183–1189. This study is one of the first to provide substantial evidence that the International League of Associations for Rheumatology subgroups of JIA have some genetic basis for their differences, though the evidence
Measurable impacts of enzootic and epizootic rabies and the “tip-of-the-iceberg” concept. 2. Global Epidemiology The disease rabies is defined as an acute fatal encephalomyelitis in mammals, resulting from infection by any of the viruses in the genus Lyssavirus. As of 2012, the number of ...
(e.g., per 100,000) or as a percentage or proportion, because time is not incorporated into the metric.Period prevalenceis defined as the number of people with the disease divided by the total population during a defined period of time (typically 1 year). Although incidence is often used...
In the United States (US), the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program is the only comprehensive source of population-based information that includes stage of cancer at the time of diagnosis and patient survival data. This program aims to provide a database about cancer incide...
Likewise, the island of Hispaniola (Haiti in the west, the Dominican Republic in the east), with its long and often tragic past, is divided by a border as superficial as a pen stroke but also by differences in culture and history that run far deeper. The average life expectancy fo...
This automated information curation paradigm will not only effectively empower development of the NIH Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD), but also support the public health of the rare disease community.Introduction In the United States of America, a rare disease is defined as one ...
Metabolomic epidemiology is the high-throughput study of the relationship between metabolites and health-related traits. This emerging and rapidly growing field has improved our understanding of disease aetiology and contributed to advances in precision medicine. As the field continues to develop, metabolom...
Thus, such approaches are very useful for informing health policy and decision making, particularly regarding control and mitigation measures in response to the societal impacts of epidemics and pandemics. While an epidemic is defined as “the occurrence in a community or region of cases of an ...