Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JECH)

Link between tooth loss and health expectancy: findings from a prospective Singaporean population-based cohort study of older adults

Background We evaluated the impact of the number of teeth on health expectancy, measured as years of life without limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) and physical function, among adults ...
AHA/ASA Journals

Criteria to Assess the Predictive and Clinical Utility of Novel Models, Biomarkers, and Tools for Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart ...

Risk prediction has been used in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease for >3 decades. Contemporary cardiovascular risk assessment relies on multivariable models, which integrate ...
Medycyna Praktyczna

Assessment of the risk of type 2 diabetes using the FINDRISC (FINnish Diabetes RIsk Score) questionnaire and its predictors at the population level in Poland

Introduction: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) represents a major public health challenge in Poland. This study investigated geographical heterogeneity and municipality-level ecological predictors of high T2D ...
IEEE

Multisample aCGH Data Analysis via Total Variation and Spectral Regularization

Abstract: DNA copy number variation (CNV) accounts for a large proportion of genetic variation. One commonly used approach to detecting CNVs is array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH).
qualitysafety.bmj

Use of statistical process control charts in stroke medicine to determine if clinical evidence and changes in service delivery were associated with improvements in the quality ...

Background and objective: Monitoring the effect of service changes on quality of care is essential. By using statistical process control (SPC) charts, this study aimed to explore the relationship ...
IEEE

Inverse Scattering Solver Based on Deep Neural Network With Total Variation Regularization

Abstract: Deep neural network (DNN) techniques have been applied to solve nonlinear electromagnetic inverse scattering problems (ISP) and shown potentials in superior imaging performances over ...