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Monitoring cancer prognosis, diagnosis and treatment efficacy using metabolomics and lipidomics [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction: Cellular metabolism is altered during cancer initiation and progression, which allows cancer cells to increase anabolic synthesis, avoid apoptosis and adapt to low nutrient and oxygen availability.
Armitage, Emily G., Southam, Andrew D.
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Nonparametric Bayes modeling of count processes [PDF]

, 2013
Data on count processes arise in a variety of applications, including longitudinal, spatial and imaging studies measuring count responses. The literature on statistical models for dependent count data is dominated by models built from hierarchical ...
Canale, Antonio, Dunson, David B.
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Knowledge assimilation processes of rapidly internationalising firms: longitudinal case studies of Scottish SMEs [PDF]

, 2011
<p>Purpose – The accumulation of knowledge and learning by firms has been identified as being critical to their internationalisation. This paper aims to explore the knowledge assimilation processes of rapidly internationalising small to medium ...
Fletcher, M., Prashantham, S.
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Ankle‐Brachial Index and Energy Production in People Without Peripheral Artery Disease: The BLSA

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022
Background Lower ankle‐brachial index (ABI) values within the 0.90 to 1.40 range are associated with poorer mitochondrial oxidative capacity of thigh muscles in cross‐sectional analyses.
Matt T. Oberdier, Majd AlGhatrif, Fatemeh Adelnia, Marta Zampino, Christopher H. Morrell, Eleanor Simonsick, Kenneth Fishbein, Edward G. Lakatta, Mary M. McDermott, Luigi Ferrucci   +9 more
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A systematic review on health resilience to economic crises [PDF]

, 2015
Background The health effects of recent economic crises differ markedly by population group. The objective of this systematic review is to examine evidence from longitudinal studies on factors influencing resilience for any health outcome or health ...
A Antonovsky, A Dregan, A Hauksdottir, A Lammintausta, A Ostamo, A Reeves, AA Agudelo-Suarez, Aaron Reeves, AM Almedom, AM Doherty, B Barr, Bayard Roberts, BH Thomas, C Bambra, CB McClure, D Moher, D Pyper, D Stuckler, D Stuckler, DA Leon, Daisuke Nishi, David Stuckler, DG Gudmundsdottir, F Borgonovi, F Walsh, H Viinamaki, IH Kim, J Bor, JA Lopez Bernal, JT Macy, K Sargent-Cox, K Wada, Ketevan Glonti, M Castleden, M Economou, M Gili, M Karanikolos, M Rahmqvist, M Rutter, M Suhrcke, Martin McKee, N Garmezy, N Kondo, P Hajdu, P Martikainen, R Johnson, S Evans-Lacko, S Luthar, S Montgomery, SV Katikireddi, T Astell-Burt, Vladimir S. Gordeev, WY Lee, Y Goryakin, Yevgeniy Goryakin   +54 more
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Risk factors relate to the variability of health outcomes as well as the mean: A GAMLSS tutorial

eLife, 2022
Background: Risk factors or interventions may affect the variability as well as the mean of health outcomes. Understanding this can aid aetiological understanding and public health translation, in that interventions which shift the outcome mean and ...
David Bann, Liam Wright, Tim J Cole
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Detection of risk factors for obesity in early childhood with quantile regression methods for longitudinal data [PDF]

, 2008
This article compares and discusses three different statistical methods for investigating risk factors for overweight and obesity in early childhood by means of the LISA study, a recent German birth cohort study with 3097 children.
Fahrmeir, Ludwig, Fenske, Nora, Höhle, Michael, Rzehak, Peter   +3 more
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Sex Differences in Longitudinal Determinants of Carotid Intima Medial Thickening With Aging in a Community‐Dwelling Population: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background Common carotid intima medial thickness (IMT) increases with aging. However, the longitudinal association between IMT and other age‐associated hemodynamic alterations in men and in women are not fully explored.
Ajoy C. Karikkineth, Majd AlGhatrif, Matt T. Oberdier, Chris Morrell, Elango Palchamy, James B. Strait, Luigi Ferrucci, Edward G. Lakatta   +7 more
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Weakening of the cognition and height association from 1957 to 2018: Findings from four British birth cohort studies

eLife, 2023
Background: Taller individuals have been repeatedly found to have higher scores on cognitive assessments. Recent studies have suggested that this association can be explained by genetic factors, yet this does not preclude the influence of environmental ...
David Bann, Liam Wright, Neil M Davies, Vanessa Moulton   +3 more
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Changes in knee extension peak torque and body composition and their relationship with change in gait speed

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2019
Background Slow gait speed is a powerful predictor of disability in activities of daily living and mortality. Muscle strength and body composition change over time, but their changes differ by sex.
Yusuke Osawa, Nancy Chiles Shaffer, Michelle D. Shardell, Stephanie A. Studenski, Luigi Ferrucci   +4 more
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