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IT is now well established that hypercholesterolemia is an important cause of coronary heart disease, and clinical intervention studies have demonstrated the therapeutic value o...
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Metabolic syndrome—a new world‐wide definition. A Consensus Statement from the International Diabetes Federation
Abstract Aims To establish a unified working diagnostic tool for the metabolic syndrome (MetS) that is convenient to use in clinical practice and that can be used world‐wide so ...
Validation of a combined comorbidity index
The basic objective of this paper is to evaluate an age-comorbidity index in a cohort of patients who were originally enrolled in a prospective study to identify risk factors fo...
Global Burden of Diabetes, 1995–2025: Prevalence, numerical estimates, and projections
OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of diabetes and the number of people with diabetes who are ≥20 years of age in all countries of the world for three points in time, i.e., th...
2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
The ESC Guidelines represent the views of the ESC and were produced after careful consideration of the scientific and medical knowledge and the evidence available at \nthe t...
A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists
MaxEnt is a program for modelling species distributions from presence-only species records. This paper is written for ecologists and describes the MaxEnt model from a statistica...
Dapagliflozin in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction
BACKGROUND In patients with type 2 diabetes, inhibitors of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) reduce the risk of a first hospitalization for heart failure, possibly through ...
Conjugated Polymer-Based Organic Solar Cells
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTConjugated Polymer-Based Organic Solar CellsSerap Günes, Helmut Neugebauer, and Niyazi Serdar SariciftciView Author Information Linz ...
Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2000
The increases in the prevalences of obesity and overweight previously observed continued in 1999-2000. The potential health benefits from reduction in overweight and obesity are...
A working guide to boosted regression trees
1. Ecologists use statistical models for both explanation and prediction, and need techniques that are flexible enough to express typical features of their data, such as nonline...