Prediction models of atrial fibrillation (AF) have been developed; however, there was no AF prediction model validated in Chinese population. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the incidence of AF in ...

1. We describe analytical and simulation models of metapopulations consisting of local populations that obey a random walk between a reflecting upper boundary (population `ceiling') and an absorbing ...

In addition to the 35 notifiable infectious diseases, 95 infectious diseases not required to be reported to public health authorities were also uncovered by the population-based observational study.

Background A thorough knowledge of the epidemiology of health problems in youth female elite sports is lacking, as most studies define health problems as time loss from participation. Objective To ...

Increased Incidence of Visceral Metastases in Scottish Patients With BRCA1/2-Defective Ovarian Cancer: An Extension of the Ovarian BRCAness Phenotype The surgical work force distribution at the county ...

Femoral neck bone mineral density can predict knee and hip radiographic osteoarthritis, and vertebral fractures are a risk factor for hand radiographic osteoarthritis, according to data published in ...

An image-only artificial intelligence (AI) model recently authorized by the FDA conferred more precise risk stratification in predicting the 5-year risk of breast cancer compared with ...

Researchers have studied the socio-economic drivers of E. coli and Cryptosporidium infection in Ireland. While incidence cannot be predicted solely based upon metrics such as education and employment, ...

Field experiments were conducted at Jay and Marianna, FL in 1988 and 1989 to determine the effects of sicklepod, Florida beggarweed, and common cocklebur density on chlorothalonil deposition to peanut ...

February 4, 2008 -- In a study on neighborhood ethnic density, collaborating researchers from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and The Hague, Netherlands, report that immigrants who ...

May 2, 2011 (San Diego, California) — Results from the first 2 years of the international multicenter open-label Fracture Reduction Evaluation of Denosumb in Osteoporosis Every 6 Months (FREEDOM) ...