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Overweight status of the primary caregivers of orphan and vulnerable children in 3 Southern African countries: a cross sectional study
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Background: Africa is facing a nutritional transition where underweight and overweight coexist. Although the majority of programs for orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) focus on undernourishment, the association between ...
Association of Types of Life Events with Depressive Symptoms among Puerto Rican Youth
(PLoS (Public Library of Science), 2016-10-27)
The main objective of this study was to examine the association between four types of adverse life events (family environment, separation, social adversity, and death) and the development of depressive symptoms among Puerto ...
The Impact of Excluding Trials from Network Meta-Analyses - An Empirical Study
(PLoS (Public Library of Science), 2016-12-07)
Network meta-analysis (NMA) expands the scope of a conventional pairwise meta-analysis to simultaneously compare multiple treatments, which has an inherent appeal for clinicians, patients, and policy decision makers. Two ...
Association between an Internet-Based Measure of Area Racism and Black Mortality
(PLOS (Public Library of Science), 2015-04-24)
Racial disparities in health are well-documented and represent a significant public health concern in the US. Racism-related factors contribute to poorer health and higher mortality rates among Blacks compared to other ...
Latent and Abnormal Functional Connectivity Circuits in Autism Spectrum Disorder
(Frontiers, 2017-03-21)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with disrupted brain networks. Neuroimaging techniques provide noninvasive methods of investigating abnormal connectivity patterns in ASD. In the present study, we compare ...
National substance use patterns on Twitter
(PLoS (Public Library of Science), 2017-11-06)
Purpose: We examined openly shared substance-related tweets to estimate prevalent sentiment around substance use and identify popular substance use activities. Additionally, we investigated associations between substance-related ...
Logic minimization and rule extraction for identification of functional sites in molecular sequences
(2012-08-16)
Background
Logic minimization is the application of algebraic axioms to a binary dataset with the purpose of reducing the number of digital variables and/or rules needed to express it. Although logic minimization techniques ...
Externalizing behavior in early childhood and body mass index from age 2 to 12 years: longitudinal analyses of a prospective cohort study
(2010-07-14)
Background: Some evidence suggests that obesity and behavior problems are related in children, but studies have
been conflicting and have rarely included children under age 4. An association between behavior problems in ...
Reproductive and Hormonal Factors in Relation to Lung Cancer Among Nepali Women
(Frontiers Media, 2019-05-07)
Background: Of the 1.8 million global incident lung cancer cases estimated in 2012, approximately 60% occurred in less developed regions. Prior studies suggest sex differences in lung cancer risk and a potential role for ...
Trends in neonicotinoid pesticide residues in food and water in the United States, 1999–2015
(Springer Nature, 2019-01-11)
Neonicotinoids are a class of systemic insecticides widely used on food crops globally. These pesticides may be found in “off-target” food items and persist in the environment. Despite the potential for extensive human ...