Obesity and dyslipidemia in South Asians

A Misra, U Shrivastava - Nutrients, 2013 - mdpi.com
Obesity and dyslipidemia are emerging as major public health challenges in South Asian
countries. The prevalence of obesity is more in urban areas than rural, and women are more …

Intelligible support vector machines for diagnosis of diabetes mellitus

N Barakat, AP Bradley… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease and a major public health challenge worldwide.
According to the International Diabetes Federation, there are currently 246 million diabetic …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of logistic regression, logic regression, classification tree, and random forests to identify effective gene-gene and gene-environmental …

W Yoo, BA Ference, ML Cote… - International journal of …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) that are associated with a variety of common human diseases. Due …

Classification of patients with tumor using MR FLAIR images

T Gupta, TK Gandhi, RK Gupta, BK Panigrahi - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a fast growing imaging tool for
neurodiagnosis. The radiologists time is at a premium due to increase in patient studies …

Randomized control trial for reduction of body weight, body fat patterning, and cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight worksite employees in Delhi, India

U Shrivastava, M Fatma, S Mohan… - Journal of Diabetes …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background. We studied the impact of the multicomponent interventions on body weight and
cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight individuals working in corporate worksites …

Proteomic expression signature distinguishes cancerous and nonmalignant tissues in hepatocellular carcinoma

NP Lee, L Chen, MC Lin, FH Tsang… - Journal of proteome …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive liver cancer but clinically validated
biomarkers that can predict natural history of malignant progression are lacking. The present …

Exploring the forest instead of the trees: An innovative method for defining obesogenic and obesoprotective environments

C Nau, H Ellis, H Huang, BS Schwartz, A Hirsch… - Health & place, 2015 - Elsevier
Past research has assessed the association of single community characteristics with obesity,
ignoring the spatial co-occurrence of multiple community-level risk factors. We used …

A semi-parametric approach to estimate risk functions associated with multi-dimensional exposure profiles: application to smoking and lung cancer

DI Hastie, S Liverani, L Azizi, S Richardson… - BMC medical research …, 2013 - Springer
Background A common characteristic of environmental epidemiology is the multi-
dimensional aspect of exposure patterns, frequently reduced to a cumulative exposure for …

High plasma glucagon levels correlate with waist‐to‐hip ratio, suprailiac skinfold thickness, and deep subcutaneous abdominal and intraperitoneal adipose tissue …

S Anoop, A Misra, SP Bhatt, S Gulati… - Journal of Diabetes …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We aimed to correlate plasma glucagon levels with anthropometric measures and
abdominal adipose tissue depots. Nonobese males (n= 81; BMI< 25 kg/m2) with T2DM of …

An ensemble model for diabetes diagnosis in large-scale and imbalanced dataset

X Wei, F Jiang, F Wei, J Zhang, W Liao… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Diabetes is becoming a more and more serious health challenge worldwide with the yearly
rising prevalence, especially in developing countries. The vast majority of diabetes are type …