chronic disease Articles
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A Bayesian decision analysis with fuzzy interpretability for aging chronic disease
This paper presents ideas on the applications of fuzzy concept to decision making for aging chronic disease. A Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP) with a power-law intensity function is used in this study. In general, classical Bayesian decision methods presume that future states of nature can be characterised as probability events. However, we do not know what the future will entail ...
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Integrative Medicine, chronic disease and Tibb
Integrative Medicine (IM) incorporates elements of complementary and conventional medicine into diagnosis and treatment of diseases. It focuses on health and healing by supporting the body's innate healing abilities. The complementary arm of IM can resort to specific therapeutic techniques like acupuncture, or broadly adopt particular medical paradigms such as Homeopathy or Tibb. IM has a role to ...
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Differences in dietary consumption patterns and obesity rates between immigrants from the former USSR and a country's native population
This study compared dietary intake, obesity rates and chronic disease prevalence between former USSR immigrants and the native Israeli population using random sample survey and dietary intake assessment. USSR immigrants had significantly higher BMI (27.6 ± 5.0 vs. 26.5 ± 4.7kg/m², P = 0.002) despite lower energy intake (1547.8 ± status (51% vs. 74%, P Keywords: fruit, vegetables, vegetable ...
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Public Health Ecology
The objective of this column is to offer public health ecology as a method to conceptualize the deleterious connections between land conservation and human health. A vital part of our efforts in sustainability and creating ecologically sensitive and health-supporting environments is the conservation and rehabilitation of the green infrastructure that delivers not only basic environmental needs ...
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Pandemic of chronic diseases, its roots and policy development
In this paper, an up-to-date problem of chronic diseases and mental disorders is considered at the global scale and its major socio-economic and environmental roots are identified (excessive consumerism, stressful unhealthy lifestyle, undeveloped social services, pollution). The specific institutional (public arts, sports facilities and recreational areas for systemic human development, ...
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Medtronic’s ‘reducing energy use’ strategy
Sector: Health Region: US Organisation: Medtronic was founded in 1949 as a medical equipment repair shop. Since then, it has become a multinational company that partners with medical professionals to develop life-changing technologies that improve the way chronic diseases are treated and to create therapies to help patients. Project summary: In 2010 and 2011, Medtronic received several ...
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Association between Diabetes Mellitus and chronic kidney disease with Muscle loss and weight loss
Muscle loss / muscle wasting is the condition in which, proteolytic systems for protein degradation are activated, while protein synthesis decreases, thereby resulting in muscle fiber shrinkage. This condition may be due age or might be due some chronic conditions like Diabetes mellitus (DM) or chronic kidney disease (CKD). Extreme muscle wasting often results in weight loss. Such a condition is ...
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A Break Through in Diabetes Testing and Monitoring: Exclusive Interview with Asad Zaidi CEO of Epinex Diagnostics, Inc.
Not a day goes by without any news on diabetes. It is one the world’s most debilitating chronic disease. The number of people with diabetes is estimated to be over 500 Million, and it is increasing at an alarming rate of 9% every year. Diabetes is also rising more rapidly in the middle and low-income countries. It is one of the leading causes of death in the world. More than 100 million ...
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Drug adherence in Parkinson`s disease
Abstract Physicians modify drug schedules in response to their patients' clinical responses. Failure to relieve patients' symptoms or the emergence of drug-related side effects may reflect nonadherence to a prescribed drug schedule rather than incorrect therapeutic physician decisions. Using a medication questionnaire and a computerized medication event monitoring system (MEMS) to monitor ...
By Sensidose AB
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The role of nanotechnology in diabetes treatment: current and future perspectives
Diabetes is a chronic disease that currently affects approximately 8% of the US population, and that number is expected to increase significantly by the year 2030. It is imperative that effective monitoring and treatment options be available to patients. Nanotechnology is a focal point in diabetes research, where nanoparticles in particular are showing great promise in improving the treatment and ...
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Isolation and identification of airborne fungi that can cause asthma: a case study from Eastern Puerto Rico
Asthma is a growing worldwide chronic disease increasing in both prevalence and exacerbations throughout the late 20th century. The US. Centre for Disease Control reports showed that Puerto Rico had a higher overall prevalence of lifetime (19.6%) and current (11.6%) asthma. The central eastern region of the island has the highest prevalence in the age range of 0-17. The goal of this study was to ...
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Dietary fibre and human health
Food habits of new lifestyle have contributed to the appearance of chronic diseases such as obesity or cardiovascular diseases, which are mainly due to bad eating habits. Solutions can be found in providing the consumers with functional foods and health capability. Such food is rich in dietary fibre, with specific physicochemical behaviour and healthy properties. Dietary fibre rich food products ...
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Editorial: Research, Development and Clinical Trials for Peptide-Based Vaccines
From the eradication of smallpox through to the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines have been a cornerstone in the fight against infectious diseases in humans and livestock since the 18th century. Although vaccines against COVID-19 are unlikely to eradicate the disease in the way that the smallpox vaccine did, they have proved very effective in preventing death and hospitalisation, ...
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Tang Jing's Stand Up Reading Desk In
The recently broadcasted TV series "My First Half Life" believes that everyone has heard of it and Tang Jing's capable workplace hero image has also been well received by the audience. Baobao found that there is a frequently appearing item which is very practical, that is the stand up reading desk. Whether you are at the study in your home or at your desk in the office, you can use a stand up ...
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Immunostimulants in the prevention of respiratory infections
Immunomodulation promises to be an effective prophylactic and therapeutic modality for chronic and recurrent respiratory infections. As opposed to vaccines, the term Immunostimulant (IS) refers to a compound that produces a state of non-specific immunity. Most IS are oral formulations of bacterial lysates that have been used in clinical practice for decades. One of the main obstacles in the ...
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What Clinical Trial Speed Factors Can Sponsors Actually Control?
When promising drug candidates are identified for further investigation in clinical trials, sponsor companies are usually optimistic about outcomes. But there are times, when after years of sunk effort and resources, clinical trials fail to bring a viable drug to market. Frequently, a drug fails for safety or efficacy reasons that are beyond a sponsor’s control. However, to some degree, ...
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Modeling NAFLD using 3D bioprinted human liver tissue
Publication Summary: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a chronic condition that originates as lipid accumulation within hepatocytes (steatosis) and progresses into nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), characterized by lipid accumulation, inflammation, oxidative stress, and fibrosis. NAFLD is now recognized as the most common cause of chronic liver disease, with a prevalence of 25% ...
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Mechanism of action and therapeutic efficacy of the biotechnology-derived immunostimulating extract OM-85 in respiratory tract infections
The burden of Respiratory Tract Infections (RTIs) in children and adults is very high, especially in developing countries. At least 1.9 million children throughout the world died from acute RTIs in 2000, 70% of them in Africa and Southeast Asia. As causative therapies of these frequently recurring infections have substantial limits, preventive measures deserve priority. Among these, non-specific ...
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Stand Up Office Makes Your Afternoon More Energetic
How to improve your efficiency? Here's a look at the benefits of using a movable stand up desk. Sedentary is the root cause of many chronic diseases. The movable stand up desk can alleviate the adverse effects of sedentary. This new office method can not only relieve stress, but also adjust your body to make your energy more abundant. Working at the desk all day, sitting still for a long time, ...
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Worldwide Prevalence of Atrial Fibrillation
The prevalence of Atrial Fibrillation globally is rising at a significant rate. However, researchers, scientists and clinicians remain uncertain as to how many people may have the heart irregularity because of this rapid growth. In addition, there are concerns that because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there may be millions of people worldwide with Atrial Fibrillation (AF) who have not been ...
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