Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
Early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has a major impact on the progress of research on dementia. To address the problems involved in diagnosing AD in its ear...
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Caltech-256 Object Category Dataset
We introduce a challenging set of 256 object categories containing a total of 30607 images. The original Caltech-101 [1] was collected by choosing a set of object categories, do...
Vitamin D Deficiency and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Background— Vitamin D receptors have a broad tissue distribution that includes vascular smooth muscle, endothelium, and cardiomyocytes. A growing body of evidence suggests that ...
An improved Bonferroni procedure for multiple tests of significance
Journal Article An improved Bonferroni procedure for multiple tests of significance Get access R. J. SIMES R. J. SIMES Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Sydney...
Global and regional effects of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with acute stroke in 32 countries (INTERSTROKE): a case-control study
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Canadian Stroke Network, Health Research Board Ireland, Swedish Research Council, Swedish Heart an...
Age and the Explanation of Crime
One of the few facts agreed on in criminology is the age distribution of crime. This fact has been used to criticize social theories of crime causation, to provide the foundatio...
Introduction to the recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
Background Criteria for the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) were established in 1984. A broad consensus now exists that these criteria should be revised to incorp...
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Introduction In this report we are describing a progressive brain disease featured by supranuclear ophthalmoplegia affecting chiefly vertical gaze, pseudobulbar palsy, dysarthr...
Cancer Disparities by Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status
This article highlights disparities in cancer incidence, mortality, and survival in relation to race/ethnicity, and census data on poverty in the county or census tract of resid...
Assessing the Probability That a Positive Report is False: An Approach for Molecular Epidemiology Studies
Abstract Too many reports of associations between genetic variants and common cancer sites and other complex diseases are false positives. A major reason for this unfortunate si...
Problems of Spectrum and Bias in Evaluating the Efficacy of Diagnostic Tests
To determine why many diagnostic tests have proved to be valueless after optimistic introduction into medical practice, we reviewed a series of investigations and identified two...