Diet & Nutrition

Machine learning with sparse nutrition data to improve cardiovascular mortality risk prediction in the USA using nationally randomly sampled data.

OBJECTIVES: We aimed to test whether or not adding (1) nutrition predictor variables and/or (2) using machine learning models improves cardiovascular death prediction versus standard Cox models without nutrition predictor variables.

Biotin supplement interference with immunoassays for parathyroid hormone and 25-hydroxyvitamin D in a patient with metabolic bone disease on maintenance hemodialysis.

Biotin (vitamin B7) is a dietary supplement that can lead to falsely abnormal endocrine function tests. The impact of biotin on both 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) have not been previously described in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). A woman with ESRD on hemodialysis taking biotin 10 mg daily had a 25(OH)D spike from 25 to >100 ng/mL and an iPTH decrease from 9...

Flocculation-dewatering prediction of fine mineral tailings using a hybrid machine learning approach.

Polymer-assisted flocculation-dewatering of mineral processing tailings (MPT) is crucial for its environmental disposal. To reduce the number of labor...

Different spexin level in obese vs normal weight children and its relationship with obesity related risk factors.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Spexin (SPX) is a novel peptide recently discovered as an important regulatory adipokine in obesity and related metabolic disease...

The exploration of feature extraction and machine learning for predicting bone density from simple spine X-ray images in a Korean population.

OBJECTIVE: Osteoporosis is hard to detect before it manifests symptoms and complications. In this study, we evaluated machine learning models for iden...

Vitamin D deficiency and its association with fatigue and quality of life in multiple sclerosis patients.

BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency is associated with the incidence and prevalence of a variety of neurologic disorders, including multiple sclerosis. H...

: The Impact of Obesity in Patients Undergoing Robotic Partial Nephrectomy by Rosen et al. (J Endourol 2019;33(6):431-437; DOI: 10.1089/end.2019.0018).

Genetic Variation in Cytochrome P450 2R1 and Vitamin D Binding Protein Genes are associated with Vitamin D Deficiency in Adolescents.

Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) have evaluated several genes related to vitamin D synthesis, metabolism and transport. They have proposed a ge...

Autoantibodies production and immunological abnormalities after bariatric surgery.

OBJECTIVE: Bariatric surgery is a widely used procedure for the treatment of obesity. Our aim is to describe the main immunological changes in patient...

The low-protein diet for chronic kidney disease: 8 years of clinical experience in a nephrology ward.

BACKGROUND: Guidelines indicate that a low-protein diet (LPD) delays dialysis in severe chronic kidney disease (CKD). We assessed the value of these g...

Profiling movement behaviours in pre-school children: A self-organised map approach.

Application of machine learning techniques has the potential to yield unseen insights into movement and permits visualisation of complex behaviours an...

Is obesity a contraindication for kidney donation?

INTRODUCTION: To enlarge the donor pool, kidney donors with obesity have been considered. We hypothesized that it is safe for patients with obesity to...

Machine learning of human plasma lipidomes for obesity estimation in a large population cohort.

Obesity is associated with changes in the plasma lipids. Although simple lipid quantification is routinely used, plasma lipids are rarely investigated...

Hypervitaminosis D without toxicity.

Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent and there are an increasing number of reports of vitamin D toxicity, mostly related to the misuse of over-the...

Association of vitamin D deficiency with clinical outcomes in critically ill Korean children.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Vitamin D is a pleiotropic hormone that affects various body organ systems. We evaluated the prevalence of a vitamin D deficien...

Optimization of Growth Medium and Fermentation Conditions for the Production of Laccase3 from Using Recombinant .

Statistical experimental methods were used to optimize the medium for mass production of a novel laccase3 (Lac3) by recombinant TYEGLAC3-1. The basic...

Nutritional, biochemical and microbiological composition of Mart. sap in Burkina Faso.

The palmyra palm Mart. grow wild and gives natural stands in several localities of central-eastern and eastern regions of Burkina Faso. This work aim...

Prediction and Experimental Confirmation of Novel Peripheral Cannabinoid-1 Receptor Antagonists.

Small molecules targeting peripheral CB1 receptors have therapeutic potential in a variety of disorders including obesity-related, hormonal, and metab...

Dietary reference values for sodium.

Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens (NDA) derived dietary reference values (...

Predicting Drug-Disease Associations via Using Gaussian Interaction Profile and Kernel-Based Autoencoder.

Computational drug repositioning, designed to identify new indications for existing drugs, significantly reduced the cost and time involved in drug de...