Despite advances in treatment, childhood cancer survivors continue to experience substantial comorbidities stemming from chronic health conditions and face an elevated risk of premature mortality compared to the general population [...]
Different Population-based Algorithms (PbAs) have been used in recent years to solve all types of optimization problems related to water resource issues. However, the performances of these techniques depend heavily on correctly setting some specific...
Background: Obesity is a heterogeneous chronic disease, yet it is still commonly defined and managed using body mass index alone. Identifying clinically meaningful subgroups may support more efficient, precise and practical care. Objective: To identi...
3 April 2014
Objective: The association between Kawasaki disease and autism has rarely been studied in Asian populations. By using a nationwide Taiwanese population-based claims database, we tested the hypothesis that Kawasaki disease may increase the risk of aut...
Background/Objectives: Adolescence is a critical period in terms of mental health, with the family environment being a key determinant. Parental resilience, the ability to adapt and recover from stress, is a parental psychological resource that may s...
Objective: To provide an evaluation of incidence and six-month mortality rates of polymicrobial Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (p-SAB) in the United States (US). Methods: A retrospective population-based study of all incident adults with monomicrob...
This trio-based whole-genome sequencing (WGS) study enhances the accuracy of variant detection by leveraging parental genotypes, which facilitates the identification of de novo mutations and population-specific variants. Nonetheless, the comprehensiv...
Thalassemia is the most common form of hereditary anemia. Here, we aimed to investigate the 13-year trend of the epidemiologic profiles and risk of comorbidities in thalassemia using a nationwide population-based registry in Korea. Diagnosis of thala...
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is increasingly used to monitor public health trends and chemical consumption by analyzing biomarkers in untreated wastewater. As a complementary approach to traditional epidemiological surveillance, WBE provides i...
Purpose: The objective of the present study was to use a large, population-based cohort to examine the association between metformin and breast cancer stage at diagnosis while accounting for mammography differences. Methods: We used data from Ontario...
This report considers optimization of aircraft maneuvers in the vertical plane based on direct control methods. It proposes an object model for longitudinal motion suitable for optimal control, algorithms for control approximation and a numerical sol...
Background: Population-based studies of patients with bone metastases in the appendicular skeleton (aBM) requiring surgery for complete or impending fracture are rare. In this epidemiologically-based observational study we created a large population-...
Objective: Imaging biomarkers of bone, muscle, and fat by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may depict osteopenia, sarcopenia, and adiposity as the three different conditions of osteosarcopenic adiposity (OSA). Methods: Subjects from a prospective, po...
Ensuring sufficient iodine intake is a public health priority, but we lack knowledge about the status of iodine in a nationally representative population in Norway. We aimed to assess the current iodine status and intake in a Norwegian adult populati...
Context: Population segmentation is a critical health system planning activity that enables more integrated, needs-responsive, and sustainable care. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a Systemic Health System Population Segmentati...
The identifying code problem for a given graph involves finding a minimum subset of vertices such that each vertex of the graph is uniquely specified by its nonempty neighborhood within the identifying code. The combinatorial optimization problem has...
Background: Conflicting evidence supports a role for vitamin D in women with reproductive disorders such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) but studies on large, unselected populations have been lacking. Methods: We conducted a general population-ba...
(1) Background: To compare macular pigment optical density (MPOD) and its spatial distribution between eyes with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and control eyes in an elderly population. (2) Methods: The Montrachet study (Maculopathy Optic Nerve...
Background: Fewer than half of all patients with metastatic melanoma survive more than 1 year. Standard treatments have had little success, but recent therapeutic advances offer the potential for an improved prognosis. In the present study, we used p...
Traditional performance evaluation metrics for metaheuristics focus primarily on the best solution obtained or the computational resources required to solve a problem. However, further valuable insights into algorithmic components and design can be e...
Background and Objective. To date, the epidemiological studies of noncommunicable diseases in Latvia were more episodic and covered only selected areas. The first national crosssectional population-based survey of cardiovascular risk factors after re...
Previous experimental studies showed that increasing high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) cholesterol shortens cardiac ventricular repolarization and the QT interval corrected for heart rate (QTc). However, little is known about the epidemiolog...
Train operation strategy optimization is a multi-objective optimization problem affected by multiple conditions and parameters, and it is difficult to solve it by using general optimization methods. In this paper, the parallel structure and double-po...
22 February 2021
Although the conceptual underpinnings of needs-based health workforce planning have developed over the last two decades, lingering gaps in empirical models and lack of open access tools have partly constrained its uptake in health workforce planning...
Population-based cancer registries are crucial for tracking cancer trends, supporting research, guiding policy decisions, and ensuring efficient healthcare resource allocation. However, their effectiveness relies heavily on data quality, specifically...
Multi-robot rescue path planning (MRRPP) is critical for ensuring the rapid and effective completion of post-disaster rescue tasks. Most studies focus on minimizing the length of rescue paths, the number of robots, and rescue time, neglecting the tas...
Agent-based modeling has the potential to deal with the ever-growing complexity of transport systems, including future disrupting mobility technologies and services, such as automated driving, Mobility as a Service, and micromobility. Although differ...
Background: Organised colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programmes have been widely implemented across Europe; however, robust population-level evaluations of their real-world effectiveness, particularly for programmes based exclusively on faecal imm...
Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a rather frequent, preventable disease because the progressive iron overload affecting many organs can be effectively reduced by phlebotomy. Even before the discovery of the major gene, HFE, in 1996, hemochromatosis...
Background: People with schizophrenia may experience altered cancer risk because of lifestyle-, healthcare access-, and treatment-related factors. Evidence on the solid cancer risk associated with clozapine remains limited. We aimed to assess solid c...
13 October 2020
Optimal stroke prevention strategies for women should take into account specific sex-related stroke risk factors. Anemia is a common medical condition in females, particularly in women of reproductive age. This study investigated whether anemia is an...
Background: Infertility and fecundability problems have been linked with lower 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations, but studies conducted with small, heterogenous or selected populations have shown inconsistent results. Methods: This study i...
Tourism-oriented countryside is a development object that cannot be ignored in Chinese rural revitalization. As a special type of countryside, urban expansion and development have led to the gradual reduction of rural areas, which, in turn, has led t...
Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) is a stress-responsive cytokine strongly associated with aging, multimorbidity, and cardiovascular disease. Although prior studies have established its prognostic value in high-risk populations, its role in th...
Ovarian cancer is the second most common cause of death from gynecologic cancer. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of ovarian cancer and the trend of mortality in different histological subtypes of ovarian cancer in Taiwan. Patient...
Flash floods are sudden and highly destructive, posing serious threats to human life. Conventional annual-scale or static susceptibility assessments cannot adequately capture intra-annual dynamics, while susceptibility alone does not directly represe...
Background: Neuroblastoma is the most common embryonal cancer. Since several population-based studies in Europe have revealed differences in 5-year survival across countries and regions. Objectives: We principally investigated the impact of stage at...
To address the utilization challenges of rural settlements in metropolitan suburbs, this study takes the suburban areas of Wuhan as its research object. Based on mobile signaling data and multi-source geographic data, it evaluates their utilization e...
Globally, health education reform is directing efforts to strengthen the health system through collaboration between health education and health services. However, collaborative efforts vary between developed and developing countries as the health ne...
Finding dominating sets in graphs is very important in the context of numerous real-world applications, especially in the area of wireless sensor networks. This is because network lifetime in wireless sensor networks can be prolonged by assigning sen...
In 2022, the European Commission updated its recommendation on cancer screening, inviting the Member States (MSs) to explore the feasibility of stepwise implementation of population-based screening for prostate cancer (PCa). In line with this recomme...
Background: For oncologists and for patients, no site-specific clinical trial evidence has emerged for the use of concurrent chemotherapy with radiotherapy (ccrt) over radiotherapy (rt) alone for cancer of the hypopharynx (hpc) or for other human pap...
Representative epidemiologic data on the average volume of the parotid gland in a large population-based MRI survey is non-existent. Within the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP), we examined the parotid gland in 1725 non-contrast MRI-scans in T1 we...
(1) Background: Little is known about the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in very long-term cancer survivors (VLTCS) 10 and more years post-diagnosis. The objective was to compare cancer survivors’ HRQoL 14–24 years post-diagnosis with that of...
Accurate urban morphology provided by Local Climate Zones (LCZ), a universal surface classification scheme, offers opportunities for studies of urban heat risk, urban ventilation, and transport planning. In recent years, researchers have attempted to...
Background and objectives: In general, a healthy diet is a key lifestyle factor when it comes to guaranteeing a good quality of life (QOL). Evidence of the association between overall diet and QOL in the general adult population, however, remains lim...
Reduction of salt intake is a public health priority and necessitates the surveillance of salt intake in the population. The validity of salt intake assessed by dietary surveys is generally low. We, therefore, aimed to estimate salt intake by 24-h ur...
4 March 2022
Background: Malaysia has the third highest crude mortality rates of bladder cancer within Southeast Asia. We aimed to identify the prognostic factors for bladder cancer patients in Malaysia. Methods: A retrospective population-based study was conduct...
Our objectives were to describe the use of pharmacological treatments in older adults with diabetes and to identify the factors associated with the use of a combination of hypoglycemic, antihypertensive and lipid-lowering agents. Using the Quebec Int...
Vitamin B6 from plant foods may have lower bioavailability than vitamin B6 from animal foods, but studies on objectively measured vitamin B6 status among vegetarians compared to non-vegetarians are lacking. Thus, the vitamin B6 status among vegetaria...
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