Obesity

Improving robotic stroke rehabilitation by incorporating neural intent detection: Preliminary results from a clinical trial.

This paper presents the preliminary findings of a multi-year clinical study evaluating the effective...

Soft brain-machine interfaces for assistive robotics: A novel control approach.

Robotic systems offer the possibility of improving the life quality of people with severe motor disa...

THE EFFECT OF TOTAL AND PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY ON THE PHARMACOKINETICS OF INTRAVENOUS PARACETAMOL IN HUMANS.

Paracetamol is one of the most common analgesic and antipyretic drugs. Recently intravenous paraceta...

Robotic pancreas transplantation in a type 1 diabetic patient with morbid obesity: A case report.

RATIONALE: Obesity is considered a relative contraindication to pancreas transplantation due to incr...

Editorial Comment: Feasibility of Robot - assisted Segmental Ureterectomy and Ureteroureterostomy in Patient with High Medical Comorbidity.

Reasoning and Data Representation in a Health and Lifestyle Support System.

Case-based reasoning and data interpretation is an artificial intelligence approach that capitalizes...

Prevalence and risk factors of chronic kidney disease in an african semi-urban area: Results from a cross-sectional survey in Gueoul, Senegal.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health priority worldwide; however, its prevalence and inci...

Detecting Signals of Interactions Between Warfarin and Dietary Supplements in Electronic Health Records.

Drug and supplement interactions (DSIs) have drawn widespread attention due to their potential to af...

Evidence for Alteration in Serum Concentrations of Leptin in Infertile Men Categorized Based on BMI.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to compare serum and seminal level of leptin in the context of ...

Assessing the association between 25-OH vitamin D levels and ROMA score in a population of obese women.

The “Risk of Malignancy Algorithm” (ROMA) combines the diagnostic power of the CA125 and HE4 markers...

A Testa Extract of Black Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) suppresses Adipogenic Activity of Adipose-derived Stem Cells.

Black soybean teata is helpful to preventing obesity through enhancing energy expenditure and suppre...

EEG error potentials detection and classification using time-frequency features for robot reinforcement learning.

In thought-based steering of robots, error potentials (ErrP) can appear when the action resulting fr...

Supplementation with α-Lipoic Acid Alone or in Combination with Eicosapentaenoic Acid Modulates the Inflammatory Status of Healthy Overweight or Obese Women Consuming an Energy-Restricted Diet.

BACKGROUND: The proinflammatory state induced by obesity plays an important role in obesity-related ...

Obesity is not associated with increased operative complications in single-site robotic partial nephrectomy.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the impact of high body mass index (BMI) on outcomes following robotic laparoen...

Discovery of phenotypic networks from genotypic association studies with application to obesity.

Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) have resulted in many discovered risk variants for several ob...

Mining nutrigenetics patterns related to obesity: use of parallel multifactor dimensionality reduction.

This paper aims to enlighten the complex etiology beneath obesity by analysing data from a large nut...

Adiponectin correlates with obesity: A study of 159 childhood acute leukemia survivors from India.

BACKGROUND: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia survivors are predisposed to obesity. However, the exact un...

Association between thyroid hormone levels and insulin resistance and body mass index.

OBJECTIVE: Previous studies have shown an association between thyroid function and insulin resistanc...

Evaluation of insulin resistance and plasma levels for visfatin and resistin in obese and non-obese patients with polycystic ovary syndrome.

This study was designed to evaluate insulin resistance and plasma levels of visfatin and resistin in...