Diet & Nutrition

Comparative Study in Efficacy and Safety of Intralesional Injections of Vitamin D3, Measles Rubella (MR) Vaccine, and Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) in the Management of Cutaneous Warts.

INTRODUCTION: Cutaneous warts caused by human papillomavirus are the most common dermatological diseases being contagious, recurrent, and recalcitrant. Most routinely used treatment modalities are destructive and can cause scarring. Immunotherapy is emerging as new modality of treatment, which enhances cell-mediated immunity against human papillomavirus for clearance of both treated and distant wa...

Alpha-tocopheryl Succinate in Extender Improves the Post Thaw Quality of Water Buffalo Spermatozoa.

BACKGROUND: Alpha-tocopheryl succinate, a major chain-splitting antioxidant, is the most effective form of vitamin E and may be used in the semen extender for cryopreservation of buffalo spermatozoa.

Vitamin D in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. A study in older Greek adults.

BACKGROUND: In recent years, accumulating evidence has linked vitamin D deficiency to cognitive dysfunction and dementia. This study aimed at determin...

Vitamin D deficiency among children aged 10-18 years in Sri Lanka.

BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) and insufficiency (VDI) are public health problems in many countries, and limited data is available on the prev...

Fuzzy cognitive map based approach for determining the risk of ischemic stroke.

Stroke is the third major cause of mortality in the world. The diagnosis of stroke is a very complex issue considering controllable and uncontrollable...

Anticoagulant treatment in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation: a position paper.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common in the elderly. The treatment of this condition is based on anticoagulation to prevent stroke and systemic arterial...

Randomized controlled trial of OnTrack, a just-in-time adaptive intervention designed to enhance weight loss.

Individual instances of nonadherence to reduced calorie dietary prescriptions, that is, dietary lapses, represent a key challenge for weight managemen...

Designing nanoparticle release systems for drug-vitamin cancer co-therapy with multiplicative perturbation-theory machine learning (PTML) models.

Nano-systems for cancer co-therapy including vitamins or vitamin derivatives have showed adequate results to continue with further research studies to...

Sarcopenia feature selection and risk prediction using machine learning: A cross-sectional study.

The purpose of this study was to verify the usefulness of machine learning (ML) for selection of risk factors and development of predictive models for...

Interaction Effects of Gene Polymorphisms and Obesity on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Effects of In Ovo Vitamin D Injection on Subsequent Growth of Broilers.

This study was conducted to investigate the influence of vitamin D (Vit D) administration on growth of broiler chickens when Vit D was dissolved in s...

FREGEX: A Feature Extraction Method for Biomedical Text Classification using Regular Expressions.

In this work, we present FREGEX a method for automatically extracting features from biomedical texts based on regular expressions. Using Smith-Waterma...

Assessment of In-Meal Eating Behaviour using Fuzzy SVM.

Certain patterns of eating behaviour during meal have been identified as risk factors for long-term abnormal eating development in healthy individuals...

A case study of cesium sorption onto concrete materials and evaluation of wash agents: Implications for wide area recovery.

To support the viability of a wash-down approach to mitigating nuclear contamination, this study presents a characterization of the aggregate of a com...

Cardiovascular calcification: artificial intelligence and big data accelerate mechanistic discovery.

Cardiovascular calcification is a health disorder with increasing prevalence and high morbidity and mortality. The only available therapeutic options ...

ASN-ASAS SYMPOSIUM: FUTURE OF DATA ANALYTICS IN NUTRITION: Mathematical modeling in ruminant nutrition: approaches and paradigms, extant models, and thoughts for upcoming predictive analytics1,2.

This paper outlines typical terminology for modeling and highlights key historical and forthcoming aspects of mathematical modeling. Mathematical mode...

Unhealthy Behaviors, Prevention Measures, and Neighborhood Cardiovascular Health: A Machine Learning Approach.

This study identifies and ranks predictors of cardiovascular health at the neighborhood level in the United States. We merged the 500 Cities Data and ...

Automatic hip geometric feature extraction in DXA imaging using regional random forest.

BACKGROUND: Hip fracture is considered one of the salient disability factors across the global population. People with hip fractures are prone to beco...

Artificial Neural Networks Help to Better Understand the Interplay Between Cognition, Mediterranean Diet, and Physical Performance: Clues from TRELONG Study.

BACKGROUND: Nutrition plays an important role in the aging process. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) has been shown to be associated with...

DOES THE 25-OH-VITAMIN D LEVEL AFFECT THE INSULIN RESISTANCE IN THE PATIENTS WITH NON-DIABETIC CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE?

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of vitamin D deficiency on insulin resistance in patients with non-diabetic chronic...