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Showing 1 to 20 of 344 for “"disease risk"”.
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Improving Equity In Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk
… categorization in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) risk, limits assessment of confounders beyond cholesterol. The Life’s Essential Eight (LE8) categories of healthy diet, sleep, physical activity, smoking, body mass index, hypertension, total cholesterol, and blood glucose could …
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Relationships between Urban Environments and Crdiovascular Disease Risk
Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity globally. An environmental approach to increasing physical activity, by creating walkable neighbourhoods where individuals can accumulate active minutes by walking to work, local stores, and …
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Modelling multiple disease risk factors for microsimulation studies
… and compare health policies to reduce the risk of chronic diseases. This requires simulating realistic trajectories of multiple risk factors for a synthetic population. A variety of methods have been used to model the progression through time of multiple disease risk factors, such as blood …
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Gene-regulatory circuitry of disease risk and progression
Complex diseases act heterogeneously through a remarkable diversity of cellular and functional outcomes across the human body, primarily through epigenetic organization and gene regulation. Genetics is a powerful tool to shed light on genes involved in disease, but we need maps of gene regulation …
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Motivational Interviewing Group to Address Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
… manual for adults diagnosed with cardiovascular disease, who were displaying adverse health behaviors that were modifiable by lifestyle change. In order to create the manual, an extensive literature review was conducted in the areas of the prevalence of chronic illness in the United States, …
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The eco-epidemiology of Chagas disease risk in Panama
Chagas disease is a vector-borne disease affecting between 5 to10 million people world-wide. It is spread by dozens of species of blood-feeding triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Trypanosoma cruzi, a kinetoplastid protozoan parasite and causative agent of Chagas disease, is shed in the feces of …
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Butyrophilin family genes as putative coeliac disease risk loci
Coeliac disease (CeD) is a T-cell mediated autoimmune enteropathy (1). CeD is triggered by the consumption of gluten, the collective name of a group of proteins present in wheat, rye, and barley (1, 2). The prevalence of CeD in the United Kingdom (UK) is around 1% and the number of new CeD …
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The Associations Between Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Cognitive Function
Cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) are known to contribute to vascular cognitive impairment and dementia in later life. Their modifiability provides a promising avenue for reducing the risk of cognitive decline and dementia. This thesis summarizes the associations the current literature identifies …
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Improving Estimation of Coronary Artery Disease Risk Using Haptoglobin Genotyping
<p>Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide. While several risk factors contributing to disease progression are well-known, pitfalls and limitations exist for estimating if or when an individual will develop the disease. Coronary artery …
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Depressive Symptoms in Women Being Screened for Cardiovascular Disease Risk
… Depressive symptomology is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Over 15% of persons with cardiovascular disease have depressive symptoms, and women are twice as likely to experience these symptoms as men. Depressive symptoms in women “ at risk ” for …
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Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Postmenopausal Women
<p>In spite of the reductions in cardiovascular disease mortality over the last several years, cardiovascular disease remains the number one cause of death in the U.S. Prior to menopause, women have approximately 2.5-4.5 times lower risk of cardiovascular disease than do men of a similar age. …
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Does military combat-related traumatic injury increase cardiovascular disease risk?
… associated with an increased cardiovascular (CV) disease (CVD) risk. However, data from a contemporary military population with CRTI is lacking. Hypotheses: The main hypotheses addressed in this thesis are: 1. Military servicemen who have had suffered severe CRTI with limb amputations have …
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Bayesian spatio-temporal modelling, mapping and prediction of disease risk
Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πραγματεύεται τη Bayesian χωροχρονική μοντελοποίηση και χαρτογράφηση του κινδύνου εμφάνισης νόσων, με στόχο την εκτίμηση και πρόβλεψη του σχετικού κινδύνου στον χώρο και στον χρόνο. Η ανάλυση βασίζεται σε ιεραρχικά Bayesian μοντέλα για δεδομένα μετρήσεων τύπου Poisson, …
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Cardiovascular disease risk prediction models: does one-score-fit-all?
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death globally and is a major contributor to the global burden of disability and impaired quality of life. Individuals with existing or prior health conditions, including diabetes, cancer, depression, and severe COVID-19 are particularly at …
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Development of prediction models for cardiovascular disease risk in China
Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading causes of death in China. Since population CVD incidence and risk factor levels vary considerably across regions in China, prevention of CVD taking into account heterogeneity in risk factors and disease rated across China could be …
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Evaluating and enhancing cardiovascular disease risk prediction with algorithmic fairness
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with risk prediction models in widespread clinical use. Yet much remains unknown about the performance of CVD risk prediction models in specific subgroups, and disparities in predictions can exacerbate health …
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Sleep characteristics and cardiometabolic disease risk factors in corporate executives
… deaths globally are related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs), most of which are attributed to cardiometabolic diseases (CMD). While there is clear evidence linking short sleep duration with CMD risk in the general population, similar data in a unique subset of the workforce, namely corporate …
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