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Original Source: Asian Americans have greater prevalence of metabolic syndrome despite lower body mass index.
Objective:To examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and metabolic syndrome for Asian Americans and non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs), given that existing evidence shows racial/ethnic heterogeneity exists in how BMI predicts metabolic syndrome.Research Design and Methods:Electronic health records of 43 507 primary care patients aged 35 years and older with self-identified race/ethnicity of interest (Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese or NHW) were analyzed in a mixed-payer,...
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus SLE
Lupus is an autoimmune disease characterized by acute and chronic inflammation of various tissues of the body. Because the antibodies and accompanying cells of inflammation can affect tissues anywhe...
Huntington's disease is a hereditary disease caused by a defect in a single gene on Chromosome 4 that is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. The defect causes a part of DNA, called a CAG...
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This final installment of the Interpreting Statistics column will focus on non-parametric statistics. As usual, instead of diving into the marsh of the math behind the statistics, this discussion...
Experimental biology: Sometimes Bayesian statistics are better
David Vaux argues that experimental biologists should be better versed in classical statistics (Nature492, 180–181; 201210.1038/492180a). We suggest that they might also join the shift to Bayesian s...
Vital Statistics and Their Importance in Scientific Research
What is demography? It’s the science of population: distribution, structure, change of vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages, etc.). Achille Guillard published “Elements of human statistics...
World Heart Day: New European statistics released on heart disease and stroke
(European Society of Cardiology) New figures released to mark World Heart Day show a significant improvement in Europe's heart health. The European Society of Cardiology and the European Heart Networ...
The statistics show that efforts to reduce heart disease deaths are successful, with mortality now falling in most of the continent. At the same time, the report shows the huge burden CVD presents to...
Statistics: Number-crunching in the raw
David Vaux welcomes a primer on how statistics mesh with life, from salesmen's spin to political polls.
GMO Statistics Part 21. The tests Gilles-Eric rejects part 2.
In the previous post we introduced the reader to the statistics of the discrete counted event, such as the numbers of deaths occurring in a particular time interval. We gave the example of the Poisson...
UofL to host Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference
(University of Louisville) As a way to continue their participation in the International Year of Statistics, the Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics is hosting the Southern Regional Council...
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Evolution of the most common English words and phrases over the centuries.
By determining the most common English words and phrases since the beginning of the sixteenth century, we obtain a unique large-scale view of the evolution of written text. We find that the most commo...
High burden of tick-borne encephalitis in Slovenia-Challenge for vaccination policy.
Slovenia is one of the countries with the highest reported incidence rates of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). Vaccination uptake is low, estimated to be 12.4%. TBE surveillance data for the last 20 yea...
