Prevention

Finding Predictive Factors of Stabilization Exercise Adherence in Randomized Controlled Trials on Low Back Pain: An Individual Data Reanalysis Using Machine Learning Techniques.

OBJECTIVE: To identify predictors of adherence in supervised and self-administered exercise interventions for individuals with low back pain.

Exercise improves body composition, physical fitness, and blood levels of C-peptide and IGF-1 in 11- to 12-year-old boys with obesity.

INTRODUCTION: Exercise is vital in preventing and treating obesity. Despite its importance, the understanding of how exercise influences childhood obesity at the biochemical level is limited. In this study, we explore the effects of a 16-week exercise program (EP) on body composition, physical fitness, and the blood levels of hormones related to obesity.

Utilising causal inference methods to estimate effects and strategise interventions in observational health data.

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for evaluating health interventions but often face ethical and practical challenges. When RC...

Digital phenotyping from heart rate dynamics: Identification of zero-poles models with data-driven evolutionary learning.

Heart rate response to physical activity is widely investigated in clinical and training practice, as it provides information on a person's physical s...

MOF-Based Biomimetic Enzyme Microrobots for Efficient Detection of Total Antioxidant Capacity of Fruits and Vegetables.

Green and efficient total antioxidant capacity (TAC) detection is significant for healthy diet and disease prevention. This work first proposed the co...

StUdy of Gestational diabetes And Risk using Electronic Data (SUGARED): a population-based cohort study-study protocol.

INTRODUCTION: The incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Australia has tripled in the last 20 years. Consequently, over 40 000 pregnancie...

Breath Analyzer for Real-Time Exercise Fat Burning Prediction: Oral and Alveolar Breath Insights with CNN.

The increasing prevalence of obesity and metabolic disorders has created a significant demand for personalized devices that can effectively monitor fa...

Zinc or/and Vitamin E Supplementation Mitigates Oxidative Stress, Neuroinflammation, Neurochemical Changes and Behavioural Deficits in Male Wistar Rats Exposed to Bonny Light Crude Oil.

Crude oil, a major key economic driver in developing countries, is also of environmental concern, linked to neurotoxicity and behavioural problems. D...

Development of a Virtual Robot Rehabilitation Training System for Children with Cerebral Palsy: An Observational Study.

This paper presents the development of a robotic system for the rehabilitation and quality of life improvement of children with cerebral palsy (CP). T...

Machine learning analysis of sex and menopausal differences in the gut microbiome in the HELIUS study.

Sex differences in the gut microbiome have been examined previously, but results are inconsistent, often due to small sample sizes. We investigated se...

Core reference ontology for individualized exercise prescription.

"Exercise is medicine" emphasizes personalized prescriptions for better efficacy. Current guidelines need more support for personalized prescriptions,...

Low-carbohydrate diet score and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a machine learning analysis of NHANES data.

BACKGROUND: Recent research has identified the Low-Carbohydrate Diet (LCD) score as a novel biomarker, with studies showing that LCDs can reduce carbo...

Short-Term Intermittent Normobaric Hypoxia Combined with Light Exercise Improves Acclimatization of Cardiorespiratory Function in Inactive Adults.

BACKGROUND: Un-acclimatized individuals may experience acute altitude illness. Thus, the current study investigated the impact of short-term intermitt...

The roles of cognitive dissonance and normative reasoning in attributions of minds to robots.

As a wide variety of intelligent technologies become part of everyday life, researchers have explored how people conceptualize agents that in some way...

Dietary caffeine and its negative link to serum Klotho concentrations: evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

BACKGROUND: This is the initial investigation assessing the association between caffeine consumption through diet and circulating Klotho concentration...

Unravelling metabolite-microbiome interactions in inflammatory bowel disease through AI and interaction-based modelling.

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBDs) are chronic inflammatory disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and colon affecting approximately 7 million indivi...

Effect of a dietary nutraceutical "STRUCTURE-Joint" on response of horses to intra-articular challenge with IL-1: implications for tissue adaptation to stress.

The purpose was to determine local (articular) and systemic effects of intra-articular interleukin-1 in horses supplemented with a dietary PUFA supple...

Novel study designs and modelling approaches in nutrition research: application of advanced statistical modelling approaches and N-of-1 study designs.

Randomised controlled trials are the 'gold standard' approach in nutrition research to show a causal relationship between a dietary intervention and c...

Estimation of heart dose in left breast cancer radiotherapy: Assessment of vDIBH feasibility using the supervised machine learning algorithm.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The volunteer deep inspiration breath hold (vDIBH) technique is used to reduce the heart dose in left breast cancer radiothe...

AcidAGE: a biological age determination neural network based on urine organic acids.

Organic acids reflect the course of all important metabolic processes and the effects of diet, nutrient deficiency, lifestyle, and microbiota composit...