Zhongguo gonggong weishengObjective To investigate associations of changes in waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI) with the variation of fasting blood glucose among middle aged and elderly residents with high cardiovascular risk.
Xun WU +6 more
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An ICT-Based Real-Time Surveillance System for Controlling Dengue in Sri Lanka [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 Dengue is a notifiable communicable disease in Sri Lanka since 1996. Dengue fever spread rapidly among people living in most of the districts of Sri Lanka. The present notification system of dengue communicable diseases which is enforced by law is a passive surveillance system carried out by the public health care professionals.
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A global framework for action to improve the primary care response to chronic non-communicable diseases: a solution to a neglected problem. [PDF]
, 2009 BACKGROUND: Although in developing countries the burden of morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases has often overshadowed that due to chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), there is evidence now of a shift of attention to NCDs.
AD Harries +34 more
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Understanding and measuring mechanical signals in the tumor stroma
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This review discusses cancer‐associated fibroblast subtypes and their functions, particularly in relation to extracellular matrix production, as well as the development of 3D models to study tumor stroma mechanics in vitro. Several quantitative techniques to measure tissue mechanical properties are also described, to emphasize the diagnostic and ...
Fàtima de la Jara Ortiz +3 more
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BMC Public HealthBackground People with the metabolically obese normal weight (MONW) phenotype have been confirmed to significantly increase the risk of unfavorable health consequences.
Yijia Chen +8 more
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background In China, few studies have examined the relationship between the combination of body mass index and waist circumference and the risk of stroke. Moreover, the relationship may also be different in different genders.
Xiangfeng Cong +4 more
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Optimal epidemic control by social distancing and vaccination of an infection structured by time since infection: the covid-19 case study [PDF]
SIAM J. Appl. Math, S199-S224, 2023Motivated by the issue of COVID-19 mitigation, in this work we tackle the general problem of optimally controlling an epidemic outbreak of a communicable disease structured by time since exposure, by the aid of two types of control instruments namely, social distancing and vaccination by a vaccine at least partly effective in protecting from infection.
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Educational Note: Paradoxical Collider Effect in the Analysis of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiological Data: a reproducible illustration and web application [PDF]
, 2018 Classical epidemiology has focused on the control of confounding but it is only recently that epidemiologists have started to focus on the bias produced by colliders. A collider for a certain pair of variables (e.g., an outcome Y and an exposure A) is a third variable (C) that is caused by both.
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Building Extractive Question Answering System to Support Human-AI Health Coaching Model for Sleep Domain [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a leading cause of global deaths, necessitating a focus on primary prevention and lifestyle behavior change. Health coaching, coupled with Question Answering (QA) systems, has the potential to transform preventive healthcare.
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The burden of non communicable diseases in developing countries [PDF]
, 2005 Background: By the dawn of the third millennium, non communicable diseases are sweeping the entire globe, with an increasing trend in developing countries where, the transition imposes more constraints to deal with the double burden of infective and ...
Boutayeb, A, Boutayeb, S
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