Background India is currently facing a rising epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Identification of modifiable risk factors is of paramount importance to curb this menace. Fishermen are one of the most vulnerable occupational groups with unique characteristics that make them prone to acquire...
The burden of non-communicable diseases is increasing in Malaysia. Insufficient Physical Activity, which is an important risk factor for non-communicable diseases, is less researched in Malaysia. We aimed to assess the level of physical activity and identify its correlates. An online survey was carr...
especially in the western part of Africa, need to address the lack of essential domestic infrastructure. Missing infrastructure prevents societies from limiting the spread of communicable diseases by undermining the effectiveness of governmental regulations on physical distancing. We also provide high-resolut...
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates ∼6 million deaths per year from tobacco smoke exposure, resulting from both chronic and communicable diseases.1,2 In smokers, a decline in immunity and an increased risk of inflammatory diseases, such as atherosclerosis, make the argument that ...
Drug susceptibility tests were carried out according to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) standard16. The tests were conducted by using the agar proportion method utilizing Middlebrook 7H10 agar supplemented individually with the following antibiotics: isoniazid (0.2 or 1 mg/L),...
We conducted prospective clinical studies to validate the importance of CD4+ T cells in 13 diseases from the following ICD-10-CM chapters: neoplasms (breast cancer, chronic lymphocytic leukemia); endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (type I diabetes, obesity); diseases of the circulatory ...
An information specialist searched the following electronic databases for articles published from 1969 until 17 July 2017: MEDLINE (PubMed), EMBASE (OVID), the Cochrane Library (including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials), DARE (Database ...
In brief, we scored each of the 286 biological candidate genes by adopting the following six selection criteria and calculating the number of satisfied criteria as follows: (1) genes for which T2D risk SNPs or any of the SNPs in LD (r2Z0.80) with them were annotated as missense variants;...
Breast cancer (BC) risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers varies by genetic and familial factors. About 50 common variants have been shown to modify BC risk for mutation carriers. All but three, were identified in general population studies. Other mu
To find the associative parameters, we calculate the feature importance values for every machine learning model. The coefficient values of each feature represent the corresponding contribution of model training to separate an unknown instance among classes. The explanations of the following matrices are ...