Diet & Nutrition

Vitamin D Level in Women with Uterine Fibroid: An Observational Study in Eastern Indian Population.

PURPOSE: Vitamin D deficiency has been proposed to be a risk factor in the pathogenesis of uterine fibroid in few recently published studies conducted in Europe and Africa. Nevertheless, no study has ever addressed similar query in Indian women where hypovitaminosis is very common.

Diabetes and Obesity Associated with Poor Food Environments in American Indian Communities: the Tribal Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE) Study.

BACKGROUND: American Indians (AIs) have significantly higher rates of diet-related chronic diseases than other racial/ethnic groups, and many live in environments with limited access to healthy food.

Exploring the interactions between serum free fatty acids and fecal microbiota in obesity through a machine learning algorithm.

Serum free fatty acids (FFA) are generally elevated in obesity. The gut microbiota is involved in the host energy metabolism through the regulation of...

Insulin resistance and adrenal incidentalomas: A bidirectional relationship.

An adrenal incidentaloma (AI) is an adrenal mass incidentally found via a radiological modality, independent of an endocrinological investigation. In ...

Disease Trajectories and End-of-Life Care for Dementias: Latent Topic Modeling and Trend Analysis Using Clinical Notes.

Despite the increasing prevalence, growing costs, and high mortality of dementia in older adults in the U.S., little is known about the course of thes...

Can low-frequency guided waves at the tibia paired with machine learning differentiate between healthy and osteopenic/osteoporotic subjects? A pilot study.

PURPOSE: Axial transmission quantitative acoustics (ax-QA) has shown to be a promising tool for assessing bone health and properties in a safe, inexpe...

A Unique Case of Severe Anemia Secondary to Copper Deficiency in an Adult Patient.

Anemia is a frequently encountered problem in the healthcare system. Common causes of anemia include blood loss, followed by impaired red blood cell p...

Machine learning based classification of cells into chronological stages using single-cell transcriptomics.

Age-associated deterioration of cellular physiology leads to pathological conditions. The ability to detect premature aging could provide a window for...

The Healthy Children, Strong Families 2 (HCSF2) Randomized Controlled Trial Improved Healthy Behaviors in American Indian Families with Young Children.

BACKGROUND: American Indian (AI) families experience a disproportionate risk of obesity due to a number of complex reasons, including poverty, histori...

Vitamin D in the ICU: More sun for critically ill adult patients?

Critical illness in patients is characterized by systemic inflammation and oxidative stress. Vitamin D has a myriad of biological functions relevant t...

Choline: The Underconsumed and Underappreciated Essential Nutrient.

Choline has been recognized as an essential nutrient by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Medicine since 1998. Its metabolites...

Could Robots Help Older People with Age-Related Nutritional Problems? Opinions of Potential Users.

The rapid development of new technologies has recently raised interest in the use of assistive robots in the care of older people. The success or fai...

Influence of Mineral Supplementation on the Results from Analysis of Flavonol Glycoside Content in Dietary Supplements.

Flavonoids are a major component of extract (GBE). Several studies have investigated chelate formation and the redox reaction between flavonoids and ...

Simultaneous separation of arsenic and cadmium from interfering salt matrix of multivitamin/mineral supplements by sequential coprecipitation and determination by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

Multivitamin/mineral (MVM) supplements possess highly saline matrix which, unless eliminated, precludes accurate determination of trace amounts of tox...

Risky Business: Judging the Use of Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants for Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Renal Dysfunction.

Warfarin, for many years, was the only oral anticoagulant availablt on the market for the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation. D...

High Prevalent Hypovitaminosis D Is Associated with Dysregulation of Calcium-parathyroid Hormone-vitamin D Axis in Patients with Chronic Liver Diseases.

Although hypovitaminosis D is common among patients with chronic liver disease (CLD), the data are inconsistent on its prevalence and its relationshi...

Low vitamin D at ICU admission is associated with cancer, infections, acute respiratory insufficiency, and liver failure.

OBJECTIVES: Vitamin D deficiency may be associated with comorbidities and poor prognosis. However, this association in patients in the intensive care ...

Effect of combined vitamin D administration plus dietary intervention on oxidative stress markers in patients with metabolic syndrome: A pilot randomized study.

BACKGROUND: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) patients can have low 25-hydroxyvitamin D 25(OH)VitD levels, which may be associated with increased oxidative st...

A multi-strain probiotic administered via drinking water enhances feed conversion efficiency and meat quality traits in indigenous chickens.

Whereas the use of probiotics is commonplace in commercial production of improved chicken strains, little is known about the impact of these live micr...

Vitamin D status in relation to age, bone mineral density of the spine and femur in obese Saudi females - A hospital-based study.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between Bone mineral density in lumber spine and femoral neck with serum total levels of ...