Diet & Nutrition

Machine learning approaches infer vitamin D signaling: Critical impact of vitamin D receptor binding within topologically associated domains.

The vitamin D-modulated transcriptome of highly responsive human cells, such as THP-1 monocytes, comprises more than 500 genes, half of which are primary targets. Recently, we proposed a chromatin model of vitamin D signaling demonstrating that nearly all vitamin D target genes are located within vitamin D-modulated topologically associated domains (TADs). This model is based on genome-wide bindin...

Emerging Relationships Between Vitamin D Status, Physical Activity Habits, and Immune Indices in College-Aged Females.

It has been determined that individuals who are regularly physically active have more favorable inflammatory profiles; less is known about how vitamin D levels can impact inflammation. This study explored the relationship between inflammatory indices in physically active (PA) and not physically active (NPA) individuals with 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) concentrations either above or below optimal c...

Association of Vitamin D and Parathyroid Hormone Levels in Overweight and Obese Adolescents.

Vitamin D deficiency in known to be high in obese and overweight adolescents. Few studies in other countries have shown lower parathyroid hormone (PTH...

Inflammation in the subcutaneous adipose tissue does not attenuate endothelial function in subjects with diabetes mellitus and subjects with dyslipidaemia and hypertension: A cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND: Obesity is associated with low-grade inflammation that may be related to vascular disease. We hypothesized that inflammation in the subcut...

Factors associated with dementia in elderly.

We analyzed the factors associated with dementia in the elderly attended at a memory outpatient clinic of the University of Southern Santa Catarina (U...

Vitamin D Deficiency in a Portuguese Cohort of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Prevalence and Relation to Disease Activity.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Vitamin D deficiency is more common in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients than in the general population. However, there a...

Productive performance, egg quality, hematological parameters and serum chemistry of laying hens fed diets supplemented with certain fat-soluble vitamins, individually or combined, during summer season.

This present study aimed to determine the efficacy of supplementing layer diets with vitamin A (0, 8,000 and 16,000 IU/kg diet) and vitamin E (0, 250 ...

Prevalence of Nutritional Anemia and Hyperhomocysteinemia in Urban Elderly.

The data on the prevalence of nutritional anemia among the urban elderly population in India was limited. Hence, the present study was carried out wit...

Machine Learning-Augmented Propensity Score-Adjusted Multilevel Mixed Effects Panel Analysis of Hands-On Cooking and Nutrition Education versus Traditional Curriculum for Medical Students as Preventive Cardiology: Multisite Cohort Study of 3,248 Trainees over 5 Years.

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) annually claims more lives and costs more dollars than any other disease globally amid widening health dispar...

A Novel Method of Building Functional Brain Network Using Deep Learning Algorithm with Application in Proficiency Detection.

Functional brain network (FBN) has become very popular to analyze the interaction between cortical regions in the last decade. But researchers always ...

Bone mineral density in midlife long-term users of hormonal contraception in South Africa: relationship with obesity and menopausal status.

BACKGROUND: In South Africa, hormonal contraception is widely used in women over the age of 40 years. One of these methods and the most commonly used ...

Comparative Performance Analysis of Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, Logistic Regression and k-Nearest Neighbours in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss) Classification Using Image-Based Features.

The main aim of this study was to develop a new objective method for evaluating the impacts of different diets on the live fish skin using image-based...

Structure-function properties of hypolipidemic peptides.

This review addresses the structure-function properties of hypolipidemic peptides. The cholesterol-lowering peptide (lactostatin: IIAEK) operates via ...

Obesity as an independent predictive factor for pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant chemoradiation in rectal cancer.

PURPOSE: The predictive role of obesity on pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemoradiation (nCRT) in rectal cancer remains controv...

Combining deep residual neural network features with supervised machine learning algorithms to classify diverse food image datasets.

Obesity is increasing worldwide and can cause many chronic conditions such as type-2 diabetes, heart disease, sleep apnea, and some cancers. Monitorin...

A review of machine learning in obesity.

Rich sources of obesity-related data arising from sensors, smartphone apps, electronic medical health records and insurance data can bring new insight...

Interaction of Vitamin E Intake and Pro12Ala Polymorphism of PPARG with Adiponectin Levels.

BACKGROUND/AIM: One of the beneficial effects associated with vitamin E intake is the enhancement of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma ...

Quantitative approaches to energy and glucose homeostasis: machine learning and modelling for precision understanding and prediction.

Obesity is a major global public health problem. Understanding how energy homeostasis is regulated, and can become dysregulated, is crucial for develo...

Cockcroft-Gault, Modification of Diet in Renal Disease, and Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equations for estimating glomerular filtration rates in cancer patients receiving cisplatin-based chemotherapy.

BACKGROUND: Although the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation has been recommended for accurate estimates of glomerula...

Anti-Obesity Property of Lichen Extract in 3T3-L1 Cells and Diet-Induced Obese Mice.

(TV) is an edible lichen that is prevalent in the alpine zone of East Asia. This study evaluated the feasibility of using TV acetone extracts as a fu...