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Global variation in diabetes diagnosis and prevalence based on fasting glucose ...
Zhou, Bin; Sheffer, Kate E.; Bennett, James E.; Gregg, Edward W.; Danaei, Goodarz; Singleton, Rosie K.; Shaw, Jonathan E.; Mishra, AnuFasting plasma glucose (FPG) and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) are both used to diagnose diabetes, but these measurements can identify different people as having diabetes. We used data from 117 population-based studies and quantified, in different world regions, the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes, and whether those who were previously undiagnosed and detected as having diabetes in survey screening, had elevated FPG,...
Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in...
Brown, Peter; Tan, Aik-Choon; El-Esawi, Mohamed A.; Liehr, Thomas; Blanck, Oliver; Gladue, Douglas P.; Almeida, Gabriel M. F.; Cernava, TomislavMade available in DSpace on 2020-12-11T01:57:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2019-10-29; Griffith University Gowonda HPC Cluster; Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation; Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents tha...
Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analy...
Afshin, Ashkan; Sur, Patrick John; Fay, Kairsten A.; Cornaby, Leslie; Ferrara, Giannina; Salama, Joseph S.; Mullany, Erin C.; Abate, Kalkidan HassenBackground Suboptimal diet is an important preventable risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs); however, its impact on the burden of NCDs has not been systematically evaluated. This study aimed to evaluate the consumption of major foods and nutrients across 195 countries and to quantify the impact of their suboptimal intake on NCD mortality and morbidity. Methods By use of a comparative risk assessment...