Study Connects the Dots Between Smoking and Stroke Risk in African Americans
Risk increases as more cigarettes are smoked According to the Office of Minority Health of the...
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Asthma
CME: Obstructive Lung Disease: Comparing Inhaler Education Approaches
This course discusses a study that explored if the virtual teach-to-goal (TTG) intervention was as...
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Major Roadway Proximity & Asthma Severity
Research suggests that urban minority children of low socioeconomic status endure...
Read MorePhenotypic and functional translation of IL1RL1 locus polymorphisms in lung tissue and asthmatic airway epithelium.
The IL1RL1 (ST2) gene locus is robustly associated with asthma; however, the contribution of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in this locus to specific asthma subtypes and the functional mechanisms underlying these...
Read MoreCrude Methanol Extract of Rosin Gum Exhibits Specific Cytotoxicity against Human Breast Cancer Cells via Apoptosis Induction.
Rosin (Colophony) is a natural resin derived from species of the pine family Pinaceae. It has wide industrial applications including printing inks, photocopying paper, adhesives and varnishes, soap and soda. Rosin and its...
Read MoreUse of Resident-Sensitive Quality Measure Data in Entrustment Decision-Making: A Qualitative Study of Clinical Competency Committee Members at One Pediatric Residency.
Resident-sensitive quality measures (RSQMs) are quality measures that are likely performed by an individual resident and are important to care quality for a given illness of interest. This study sought to explore how individual...
Read MoreFeature engineering with clinical expert knowledge: A case study assessment of machine learning model complexity and performance.
Incorporating expert knowledge at the time machine learning models are trained holds promise for producing models that are easier to interpret. The main objectives of this study were to use a feature engineering approach to...
Read MoreNeonatal therapy with clenbuterol and salmeterol restores spinogenesis and dendritic complexity in the dentate gyrus of the Ts65Dn model of Down syndrome.
Down syndrome (DS), a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by triplication of chromosome 21, is characterized by intellectual disability. In DS, defective neurogenesis causes an overall reduction in the number of neurons...
Read MoreInhibition of uric acid or IL-1β ameliorates respiratory syncytial virus immunopathology and development of asthma.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) affects most infants early in life and is associated with increased asthma risk. The specific mechanism remains unknown.To Investigate the role of uric acid (UA) and IL-1β in RSV immunopathology...
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