… Jacques Genest MD1, Ruth McPherson MD PhD2, Jiri Frohlich MD3, Todd Anderson
MD4, Norm Campbell MD4, André Carpentier MD5, Patrick Couture MD6, Robert Dufour …

Objective Comparison of recent national survey data on prevalence, awareness, treatment
and control of hypertension in England, the USA and Canada, and correlation of these …

The detection of atypical observations from multivariate data sets can be enhanced by examining
probabilityplots of Mahalanobis squared distances using robust M-estimates of means …

Background The relation between sodium intake and cardiovascular disease remains
controversial, owing in part to inaccurate assessment of sodium intake. Assessing 24-hour urinary …

Marketing of foods and beverages high in fat, sugar and salt are suggested to contribute to
poor dietary behaviours in children and diet‐related diseases later in life. This systematic …

Objective To quantify progress with the initiation of salt reduction strategies around the world
in the context of the global target to reduce population salt intake by 30% by 2025. Methods …

We designed this study to explore to what extent the excess risk of cardiovascular events in
diabetic individuals is attributable to hypertension. We retrospectively analyzed prospectively …

Background Suboptimal diets are a leading risk factor for death and disability. Nutrition
labelling is a potential method to encourage consumers to improve dietary behaviour. This …

Background Analyses of medication databases indicate marked increases in prescribing of
antihypertensive drugs in Canada over the past decade. This study was done to examine the …

It is suggested in the literature 2, 1] that there is a natural pairing between the softmax activation
function and the cross {entropy penalty function. We clarify a reason for this pairing and …