AIMC Topic: Obesity

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The role of the digital rectal examination as diagnostic test for prostate cancer detection in obese patients.

Journal of B.U.ON. : official journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology
PURPOSE: Digital rectal examination (DRE) is a routine part of prostate cancer Purpose: Digital rectal examination (DRE) is a routine part of prostate cancer (PCa) screening and provides important prognostic information. The purpose of this study was...

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

Indian journal of cancer
BACKGROUND: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia survivors are predisposed to obesity. However, the exact underlying mechanisms are not known.

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

International journal of bioinformatics research and applications
This paper aims to enlighten the complex etiology beneath obesity by analysing data from a large nutrigenetics study, in which nutritional and genetic factors associated with obesity were recorded for around two thousand individuals. In our previous ...

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

International journal of data mining and bioinformatics
Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) have resulted in many discovered risk variants for several obesity-related traits. However, before clinical relevance of these discoveries can be achieved, molecular or physiological mechanisms of these risk var...