Diet & Nutrition

In Vivo Pattern Classification of Ingestive Behavior in Ruminants Using FBG Sensors and Machine Learning.

Pattern classification of ingestive behavior in grazing animals has extreme importance in studies related to animal nutrition, growth and health. In this paper, a system to classify chewing patterns of ruminants in in vivo experiments is developed. The proposal is based on data collected by optical fiber Bragg grating sensors (FBG) that are processed by machine learning techniques. The FBG sensors...

Low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations are associated with total adiposity of children in the United States: National Health and Examination Survey 2005 to 2006.

A negative association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamn D (25[OH]D) concentrations and adiposity has been found in adults. We hypothesized that serum 25(OH)D concentrations of children would correlate positively with vitamin D intake and correlate negatively with adiposity measures. Using a nationally representative sample of children aged 6 to 18 years from the National Health and Nutrition Examina...

Hypercalcemia of Malignancy.

A 60-year-old man initially presented with pain in the right upper quadrant in October 2010. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen pelvis com...

Assessing the feasibility of a mobile health-supported clinical decision support system for nutritional triage in oncology outpatients using Arden Syntax.

BACKGROUND: Nutritional screening procedures followed by regular nutrition monitoring for oncological outpatients are no standard practice in many Eur...

Does bariatric surgery really prevent deterioration of renal function?

BACKGROUND: Obesity is related to impaired renal function; bariatric surgery is associated with an improvement in renal function.

Effectiveness of intragastric balloon for obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis based on randomized control trials.

BACKGROUND: Obesity has become a worldwide epidemic, and many methods are currently used to reduce obesity. This systematic review shows the effective...

Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in adults presenting for bariatric surgery in Lebanon.

BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency is common among obese patients presenting for bariatric surgery in Europe and North America. The prevalence of vitami...

Deficient serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D is associated with an atherogenic lipid profile: The Very Large Database of Lipids (VLDL-3) study.

BACKGROUND: Cross-sectional studies have found an association between deficiencies in serum vitamin D, as measured by 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D), a...

The association between cardiorespiratory fitness and abdominal adiposity in postmenopausal, physically inactive South Asian women.

In South Asians, a unique obesity phenotype of high abdominal fat is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF...

Exploring the forest instead of the trees: An innovative method for defining obesogenic and obesoprotective environments.

Past research has assessed the association of single community characteristics with obesity, ignoring the spatial co-occurrence of multiple community-...

Clinical implication of monitoring rivaroxaban and apixaban by using anti-factor Xa assay in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.

BACKGROUND: Although patients taking non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) do not require routine coagulation monitoring, high-risk pat...

Adapting existing natural language processing resources for cardiovascular risk factors identification in clinical notes.

The 2014 i2b2 natural language processing shared task focused on identifying cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol...

A Soft Computing Approach to Kidney Diseases Evaluation.

Kidney renal failure means that one's kidney have unexpectedly stopped functioning, i.e., once chronic disease is exposed, the presence or degree of k...

Teriparatide for the rapid resolution of delayed healing of atypical fractures associated with long-term bisphosphonate use.

Bisphosphonates (BPs) are the most widely used drugs to treat osteoporosis. However, recent reports associated to long-term BPs use with atypical low-...

Machine Learning Techniques for Prediction of Early Childhood Obesity.

OBJECTIVES: This paper aims to predict childhood obesity after age two, using only data collected prior to the second birthday by a clinical decision ...

Low Vitamin D Levels in Children with Fractures: a Comparative Cohort Study.

BACKGROUND: The currently accepted ranges for "normal" serum vitamin D have recently been challenged in adults on the basis that healthy bone metaboli...

Aromatase inhibitor treatment for breast cancer: short-term effect on bone health.

AIM OF THIS STUDY: Aim of this study was to examine the effects of aromatase inhibitors (AIs), which are used in every phase of breast cancer treatmen...

Broiler responses to digestible threonine at different ages: a neural networks approach.

Three experiments were conducted with broiler chickens to evaluate the effects of digestible threonine (DThr) and crude protein (CP) on their performa...

A systematic comparison of feature space effects on disease classifier performance for phenotype identification of five diseases.

Automated phenotype identification plays a critical role in cohort selection and bioinformatics data mining. Natural Language Processing (NLP)-informe...

Identifying risk factors for heart disease over time: Overview of 2014 i2b2/UTHealth shared task Track 2.

The second track of the 2014 i2b2/UTHealth natural language processing shared task focused on identifying medical risk factors related to Coronary Art...