Early adulthood BMI and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study from the China Kadoorie Biobank by Chen, Y, Yu, W, Lv, J, Sun, D, Pei, P, Du, H, Yang, L, Chen, Y, Zhang, H, Chen, J, Chen, Z, Li, L, Yu, C

“…We also undertook multiplicative and additive interaction analyses to investigate the potential modification effect of midlife healthy lifestyle factors (a combined score covering smoking, drinking, physical activity, and diet).…”

Retention and storage stability of vitamins A and C in extruded native and pregelatinized starches by Abdul Manan, Siti Farhiah

“…The extrusion conditions were temperatures of 80 °C for zone 1 and 100 °C for zones 2, 3 and 4 of the barrel, 30 rpm of feeder speed, and 60 rpm of screw speed. Native starches used were waxy corn (99.1% amylopectin), regular corn (26.2% amylose), high amylose corn (70.0% amylose), waxy potato (99.1% amylopectin), regular potato (30.1% amylose), waxy or glutinous rice (92.6% amylopectin), regular rice (19.4% amylose), tapioca (25.9% amylose), sweet potato (29.9% amylose) and sago (30.4% amylose) starches. …”
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Development and validation of questionnaire on knowledge, attitudes, practices and perceived barriers related to nutrition care process among clinical dietitians in Malaysia by Bahari, Zaini

“…More than two-third of the respondents (67.9%) were working in government hospitals,21.4% in private hospitals, 6.6% in university hospitals, and 4.1% in health clinics. The mean practice score was 34.65 ± 6.00. The multivariate analysis indicated five factors determine the practice of the NCP namely perceived barriers to implement the NCP (β = -.264, p = <.001), support from the head of department (β = .225, p = <.001), attitude towards the NCP (β = .244, p =.001), utilisation of the NCP at critical care area (β = .153, p = .009), and years of working (β = .132, p = .024). …”
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Adiposity and metabolic health in Asian populations: an epidemiological study using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry in Singapore by Mina, Theresia, Xie, Wubin, Low, Dorrain Yanwen, Wang, Xiaoyan, Lam, Benjamin Chih Chiang, Sadhu, Nilanjana, Ng, Hong Kiat, Nur-Azizah Aziz, Tong, Terry Yoke Yin, Kerk, Swat Kim, Choo, Wee Lin, Low, Guo Liang, Halimah Ibrahim, Lim, Liming, Tai, E Shyong, Wansaicheong, Gervais, Dalan, Rinkoo, Yew, Yik Weng, Elliott, Paul, Riboli, Elio, Loh, Marie, Ngeow, Joanne, Lee, Eng Sing, Lee, Jimmy, Best, James, Chambers, John

“…In a subset of participants on no medication for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolaemia, we tested the relationship of BMI and visceral fat mass index (vFMI) with cardiometabolic phenotypes (glycaemic indices, lipid levels, and blood pressure), disease outcomes (type 2 diabetes, hypercholesterolaemia, and hypertension), and metabolic syndrome score with multivariable regression analyses. Between April 2, 2018, and Jan 28, 2022, 10 004 individuals consented to be part of the HELIOS cohort, of whom 9067 were included in the study (5404 [59·6%] female, 3663 [40·4%] male; 6224 [68·6%] Chinese, 1169 [12·9%] Malay, 1674 [18·5%] Indian; mean age 52·8 years [SD 11·8]). …”
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The combined role of MRI prostate and prostate health index in improving detection of significant prostate cancer in a screening population of Chinese men by Chiu, Peter K. F., Lam, Thomas Y. T., Ng, Chi-Fai, Teoh, Jeremy Y. C., Cho, Carmen C. M., Hung, Hiu-Yee, Hong, Cindy, Roobol, Monique J., Chu, Winnie C. W., Wong, Samuel Y. S., Sung, Joseph Jao Yiu

“…Additional targeted prostate biopsy was offered if they had PI-RADS score ≥3. Clinically significant PCa (csPCa) was defined as the International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) grade group (GG) ≥2 or ISUP GG 1 with involvement of ≥30% of total systematic cores. …”
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Active learning with applications in biomedical document annotation by Han, Xu

“…In this study, we first propose a document scoring based active learn- ing method for ontological event extraction. …”
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The dietetic practice of prescribing amino acid-based formulas in paediatrics patients without cow’s milk allergy: a single centre retrospective study by O’Connor, Graeme, Mansell, Melissa

“…The mean weight-for-age Z-score significantly improved in patients prescribed AAF from -3.7 (1.6SD) at baseline to -2.5 (1.5SD) at 6 months (p-value 0.001). …”
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Therapeutic effects of Cosmos caudatus kunth leaf extract in the prevention and treament of obesity in sprague dawley rats by Abdul Rahman, Hafeedza

“…Lean and obese rats were clearly discriminated from each other on Orthogonal partial least square (OPLS-DA) score plot proving the ability of the high fat diet used in inducing obesity. …”
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