Recent advances in high-throughput technologies have led to the emergence of systems
biology as a holistic science to achieve more precise modeling of complex diseases. Many …

The genetic background of childhood body mass index (BMI), and the extent to which the
well-known associations of childhood BMI with adult diseases are explained by shared genetic …

Aims/hypothesis The relevance of the OGTT in predicting type 2 diabetes is unclear. We
assessed the performance of 14 OGTT glucose traits in type 2 diabetes prediction. Methods We …

Although hundreds of genome-wide association studies-implicated loci have been reported
for adult obesity-related traits, less is known about the genetics specific for early-onset …

A growing number of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been associated with
body mass index (BMI) and obesity, but whether the effects of these obesity-susceptibility loci …

Background: Burnout among postgraduate medical trainees (PMTs) is increasingly being
recognized as a crisis in the medical profession. We aimed to establish the prevalence of …

Background Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients are at high risk of loco-regional
recurrence and 5-year survival rates are about 50%. Identification of patients at high risk of …

Objective To conduct (1) a systematic survey of the reporting quality of simulation studies
dealing with how to handle missing participant data (MPD) in randomized control trials and (2) …

Background Screening for vascular risk factors is commonly assessed through self-report,
despite reports of low sensitivity using this approach in healthy populations. The validity of self-…

The Pro12Ala (rs1801282) polymorphism in peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ2 (PPAR-γ2)
has been convincingly associated with insulin resistance (IR) and type 2 diabetes (…