Obesity

Adiponectin levels may help assess the clinical repercussions of obesity irrespective of body mass index.

OBJECTIVE: Adiponectin is the major product of adipose tissue. The aim of this study was to associat...

Design of a wearable interface for lightweight robotic arm for people with mobility impairments.

Many common activities of daily living like open a door or fill a glass of water, which most of us t...

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...

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...

[Medical imaging in tumor precision medicine: opportunities and challenges].

Tumor precision medicine is an emerging approach for tumor diagnosis, treatment and prevention, whic...

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...

Automatic Estimation of Volumetric Breast Density Using Artificial Neural Network-Based Calibration of Full-Field Digital Mammography: Feasibility on Japanese Women With and Without Breast Cancer.

Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer among women and its incidence is increasing. Risk a...

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...

Automatically Identifying Topics of Consumer Health Questions in Chinese.

In health question answering (QA) system development, question topic identification is crucial to un...

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...

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...

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...

Renal Function in Type 2 Diabetes Following Gastric Bypass.

BACKGROUND: Metabolic surgery for obese patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) yields short- and long-t...

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 ...

Trans-oral glasses-free three-dimensional endoscopic thyroidectomy-preliminary single center experiences.

Glass-free three-dimensional (3D) endoscopic provide excellent depth perception without decreasing l...

Combining a hybrid robotic system with a bain-machine interface for the rehabilitation of reaching movements: A case study with a stroke patient.

Reaching and grasping are two of the most affected functions after stroke. Hybrid rehabilitation sys...

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...

[Variability of Cytochrome b Gene and Adjacent Section of Gene tRNA-Thr of Mitochondrial DNA in the Northern Mole Vole Ellobius talpinus (Mammalia, Rodentia)].

The Northern mole vole E. talpinus, despite its wide distribution, is characterized by a stable kary...

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...

Robotic Hysterectomy for Endometrial Cancer in Obese Patients With Comorbidities: Evaluating Postoperative Complications.

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to determine (1) if there is a relationship between incre...