introduction: inappropriate body composition represents impaired energy and nutrient intake and can be a risk factor for many diseases, especially for cardiovascular disease. different methods have been suggested for the estimation of body fat volume and its distribution. however, they may be either expensive or hazardous for some groups of patients. sonography is a very accessible technique, w...

We examined the relation between maximal adult change in body mass and breast cancer in the Epidemiological Follow-up Study of the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. A total of 5599 women ages 25 to 74 years at the baseline examination in 1971 to 1975 were analyzed. Adult body mass change was calculated from baseline interview questions on lowest and highest adult weights, ...

Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is a bipartite graphical model that is used as the building block in energy-based deep generative models. Due to its numerical stability and quantifiability of its likelihood, RBM is commonly used with Bernoulli units. Here, we consider an alternative member of the exponential family RBM with leaky rectified linear units – called leaky RBM. We first study the ...

This paper proposes a rapid inverse analysis approach based on the reduced-basis method (RBM) and neural network (NN) to identify the "unknown" elastic modulus (Young's modulus) of the interfacial tissue between a dental implant and the surrounding bones. In the present RBM-NN approach, a RBM model is first built to compute displacement responses of dental implant-bone structures subjected to a...

High body mass index has been associated with increased risk of several chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, and, recently, Alzheimer’s disease. There are few data on the association of body mass index with Parkinson’s disease, and results have been inconsistent. The authors conducted a prospective study among 10,812 men in the Harvard Alumni Health Study, followed from 1988 to 1...

AIMS Obesity leads to hypertension and metabolic disturbances, as well as left ventricular hypertrophy and altered left ventricular geometry. However, the underlying mechanisms behind these relationships are not clear. The aim of this study was to investigate how body composition, blood pressure and metabolic factors relate to left ventricular mass and geometry. METHODS AND RESULTS We include...

inappropriate feeding grounds for many common diseases such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. this study was conducted to determine knowledge, attitude and nutrition and its relationship with body mass index (bmi) was to allow students using data and recognize the status quo and in order to increase awareness, attitude and nutrition of students and strengthen the indicators and t...

conclusions our study obtained some evidences on the association of micro albuminuria with diastolic dysfunction in obese normotensive no diabetic individuals. nonetheless, more assessment is necessary for obtaining a causal relationship between micro albuminuria and diastolic dysfunction. background recently, an association between impaired diastolic function and increased urinary albumin excr...

objective: this study aimed to evaluate the correlation between plasma lipid levels at first trimester of pregnancy and results of oral glucose challenge test (ogct). materials and methods:  in a cross - sectional descriptive analytic study, two hundred eligible primigravida women without history of diabetes mellitus referring to vali-e-asr hospital were evaluated. plasma levels of triglyceride...