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Evaluation of 8q24 and 17q Risk Loci and Prostate Cancer Mortality
(American Association for Cancer Research, 2009)Purpose: Variants at chromosomal loci 8q24 and 17q are established risk factors for prostate cancer. Many studies have confirmed the findings for risk, but few have examined aggressiveness and other clinical variables in ... -
Evaluation of a community health worker intervention and the World Health Organization’s Option B versus Option A to improve antenatal care and PMTCT outcomes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled health systems implementation trial
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Mother-to-child transmission of HIV remains an important public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. As HIV testing and linkage to PMTCT occurs in antenatal care (ANC), major challenges for any PMTCT option ... -
Evaluation of a novel food composition database that includes glutamine and other amino acids derived from gene sequencing data
(Springer Nature, 2009)Objectives: To determine the content of glutamine in major food proteins.Subjects/Methods: We used a validated 131-food item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) to identify the foods that contributed the most to protein ... -
Evaluation of a Population Roster as a Source of Population Controls: The Massachusetts Resident Lists
(Oxford University Press, 1999)Published population rosters can serve as a convenient source of population controls. The authors evaluated one such roster, the Massachusetts Resident Lists, by estimating the completeness of the Lists and by describing ... -
Evaluation of a questionnaire to assess selected infectious diseases and their risk factors: Findings of a multicenter study
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014)Background/objectives The risk to die from an infectious disease in Germany has been continuously decreasing over the last century. Since infections are, however, not only causes of death but risk factors for diseases like ... -
Evaluation of a Typhoid/Paratyphoid Diagnostic Assay (TPTest) Detecting Anti-Salmonella IgA in Secretions of Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes in Patients in Dhaka, Bangladesh
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Background: Rapid and reliable diagnostic assays for enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid) fever are urgently needed. We report the characterization of novel approach utilizing lymphocyte secretions, for diagnosing patients ... -
Evaluation of actigraphy-measured sleep patterns among children with disabilities and associations with caregivers’ educational attainment: results from a cross-sectional study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)Objectives: To use wrist-actrigrphy to collect objective measures of sleep and to characterise actigraphy-measured sleep patterns among children with disabilities. We also assessed the extent to which, if at all, caregivers’ ... -
Evaluation of an Electricity-free, Culture-based Approach for Detecting Typhoidal Salmonella Bacteremia during Enteric Fever in a High Burden, Resource-limited Setting
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Background: In many rural areas at risk for enteric fever, there are few data on Salmonella enterica serotypes Typhi (S. Typhi) and Paratyphi (S. Paratyphi) incidence, due to limited laboratory capacity for microbiologic ... -
Evaluation of Candidate Stromal Epithelial Cross-Talk Genes Identifies Association between Risk of Serous Ovarian Cancer and TERT, a Cancer Susceptibility “Hot-Spot”
(Public Library of Science, 2010)We hypothesized that variants in genes expressed as a consequence of interactions between ovarian cancer cells and the host micro-environment could contribute to cancer susceptibility. We therefore used a two-stage approach ... -
Evaluation of cystatin C as an early biomarker of cadmium nephrotoxicity in the rat
(Springer Netherlands, 2015)Cadmium (Cd) is a nephrotoxic environmental pollutant that causes insidious injury to the proximal tubule that results in severe polyuria and proteinuria. Cystatin C is a low molecular weight protein that is being evaluated ... -
Evaluation of cytotoxic, genotoxic and inflammatory responses of nanoparticles from photocopiers in three human cell lines
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Photocopiers emit nanoparticles with complex chemical composition. Short-term exposures to modest nanoparticle concentrations triggered upper airway inflammation and oxidative stress in healthy human volunteers ... -
Evaluation of early body shape for epidemiological research in absence of objective measurements
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Evaluation of high-dose rifampin in patients with new, smear-positive tuberculosis (HIRIF): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Evidence has existed for decades that higher doses of rifampin may be more effective, but potentially more toxic, than standard doses used in tuberculosis treatment. Whether increased doses of rifampin could ... -
Evaluation of Old and New Tests of Heterogeneity in Epidemiologic Meta-Analysis
(Oxford University Press, 1999)The identification of heterogeneity in effects between studies is a key issue in meta-analyses of observational studies, since it is critical for determining whether it is appropriate to pool the individual results into ... -
Evaluation of stromal HGF immunoreactivity as a biomarker for melanoma response to RAF inhibitors
(2013)Of more than 150,000 published studies evaluating new biomarkers, fewer than 100 biomarkers have been implemented for patient care[1]. One reason for this is lack of rigorous testing by the medical community to validate ... -
Evaluation of the 8q24 prostate cancer risk locus and MYC expression
(American Association for Cancer Research, 2009)Polymorphisms at 8q24 are robustly associated with prostate cancer risk. The risk variants are located in nonprotein coding regions and their mechanism has not been fully elucidated. To further dissect the function of this ... -
Evaluation of the False Recent Classification Rates of Multiassay Algorithms in Estimating HIV Type 1 Subtype C Incidence
(Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2014)Laboratory cross-sectional assays are useful for the estimation of HIV incidence, but are known to misclassify individuals with long-standing infection as recently infected. The false recent rate (FRR) varies widely across ... -
An evaluation of the FDA's analysis of the costs and benefits of the graphic warning label regulation
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products and authorised it to assert jurisdiction over ... -
Evaluation of the first year of the Oxpal Medlink: A web-based partnership designed to address specific challenges facing medical education in the occupied Palestinian territories
(SAGE Publications, 2014)Objectives: To (1) evaluate educational needs of clinical students at Al-Quds University Medical School in the West Bank; (2) address these needs where possible using synchronous distance learning, with clinicians in Oxford ... -
Evaluation of the Potential Impact of Ebola Virus Genomic Drift on the Efficacy of Sequence-Based Candidate Therapeutics
(American Society of Microbiology, 2015)ABSTRACT Until recently, Ebola virus (EBOV) was a rarely encountered human pathogen that caused disease among small populations with extraordinarily high lethality. At the end of 2013, EBOV initiated an unprecedented disease ...