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Determining sample size adequacy for animal model studies in nutrition research: limits and ethical challenges of ordinary power calculation procedures
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
Animal models are widely used in the field of nutrition research. Scientifically and ethically sound experiments need an adequate number of experimental units. The use of 5-10 units is common, but such sample sizes can be ...
Treatment outcomes and determinants of mortality in children aged 0-59 months diagnosed with complicated severe acute malnutrition in two referral hospitals in Ghana
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
Background: Complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) poses an enormous threat to the survival of children. However, the relationship between admission characteristics and recovery, weight gain and the risk of mortality ...
Diet and sedentary behaviour in relation to mortality in US adults with a cardiovascular condition: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey linked to the US mortality registry
(Cambridge Univ Pess, 2020)
CVD is the most common chronic condition and the highest cause of mortality in the USA. The aim of the present work was to investigate diet and sedentary behaviour in relation to mortality in US CVD survivors. The National ...
Drink types unmask the health risks associated with alcohol intake: prospective evidence from the general population
(Elsevier, 2020)
Background & aims
Uncertainty still exists on the impact of low to moderate consumption of different drink types on population health. We therefore investigated the associations of different drink types in the form of ...
Missing data imputation via the expectation-maximization algorithm can improve principal component analysis aimed at deriving biomarker profiles and dietary patterns
(Elsevier, 2020)
Principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular statistical tool. However, despite numerous advantages, the good practice of imputing missing data before PCA is not common. In the present work, we evaluated the hypothesis ...
The effects of anti-inflammatory agents as host-directed adjunct treatment of tuberculosis in humans: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(BMC, 2020)
Background
The potential role of adjunctive anti-inflammatory therapy to enhance tuberculosis (TB) treatment has recently received increasing interest. There is, therefore, a need to broadly examine current host-directed ...
Evaluation of the treatment guidelines, practices and outcomes of complicated severe acute malnutrition in children aged 0-59 months in sub-Saharan Africa: a study protocol for the SAMAC study
(Pan African Medical Journal, 2020)
Introduction: in hospitals across Africa, the case
fatality rates of severe acute malnutrition (SAM)
have remained consistently high (over 20%),
despite the existence of the WHO treatment
guideline. This has been ...
Trends in alcohol consumption in relation to cause-specific and all-cause mortality in the United States: a report from the NHANES linked to the US mortality registry
(Oxford Univ Press, 2020)
Background
Excessive alcohol use is the third leading cause of mortality in the United States, where alcohol use consistently increased over the last decades. This trend is currently maintained, despite regulatory policies ...
Lifestyle factors and risk of multimorbidity of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases: a multinational cohort study
(BioMed Central, 2020)
Background
Although lifestyle factors have been studied in relation to individual non-communicable diseases (NCDs), their association with development of a subsequent NCD, defined as multimorbidity, has been scarcely ...
Diet and sedentary behaviour in relation to cancer survival. A report from the national health and nutrition examination survey linked to the U.S. mortality registry
(Elsevier, 2020)
Background & aims
Cancer is the second most common chronic disease and cause of death in the United States. Our aim was to evaluate the associations of sedentary behavior and nutrient intakes with total and cancer-specific ...