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PS166 Efficacy and Safety of Alirocumab According to Smoking Status

2016

Goals are Not Enough: Building Public Sector Capacity for Chronic Disease Prevention

2013

The rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) challenges the public health sector to develop, support and implement effective interventions to reduce this global epidemic. The United Nations has responded with a global action plan that includes goals and voluntary targets for the prevention and control of NCDs. However, setting goals is not enough. To achieve meaningful outcomes, governments must act and invest to improve key enabling capacities. Political and other public sector leadership at every jurisdictional level is needed to implement health-in-all-policies initiatives and to measure progress against set objectives, while technological and human resources for health should b…

Nevus epidérmico verrugoso unilateral

2007

Editorial: Why do We Choose to Address Health 2020?

2013

Recommended Citation: Flahault A, Martin-Moreno JM. Why do we choose to address health 2020? Public Health Reviews. 2013;35: epub ahead of print.What can we predict for 2020? Solar and lunar eclipses? Without a doubt. Climate change? Most likely. Rising sea levels? Signs point to yes. Beyond that, however, in the world of human events, it is best to be cautious. In the field of health and medicine (or anywhere else, for that matter), no one predicted the most important discoveries of the twentieth century. Economists were no more successful in foreseeing financial or economic crises. The pundits did not forecast any of the recent wars, disruptions or even the recent Arab Spring movements-in…

THORACIC SYRINGOMYELIA IN A PATIENT WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS

2015

We report a patient with bulba r - onset, clinically defined, sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis bearing an isolated syringomyelia of the lower thoracic portion of the spinal cord. This is a very unusual association between two rare and progressive disorders, both affecting the spinal motoneurons. Syringomyelia might have acted as a phenotypic modifier in this ALS patient.

Comparison of WSN and IoT approaches for a real-time monitoring system of meal distribution trolleys: A case study

2018

Abstract International regulations determine that food in hospitals and elderly homes must be served at given temperature ranges. However, the real-time surveillance of the meal distribution trolleys along all the institutions facilities, guaranteeing conformity to rules from the instant when all the meals are put in the distribution trolley until they are delivered to the patients, is still a challenge. In this paper, we present a comparison of two approaches based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for implementing a Real-Time Monitoring System of Meal Distribution Trolleys in a hospital. The performance evaluation results show that the IoT impleme…

Managing sensor data streams in a smart home application

2020

A challenge in developing an ambient activity recognition system for use in elder care is finding a balance between the sophistication of the system and a cost structure that fits within the budgets of public and private sector healthcare organisations. Much activity recognition research in the context of elder care is based on dense networks of sensors and advanced methods, such as supervised machine learning algorithms. This paper presents the data processing aspects of an activity recognition system based on a simpler, knowledge-based unsupervised approach, designed for a sparse network of sensors. By structuring sensor data management as a streaming system, we provide a simple programmi…

MIPPIE: the mouse integrated protein–protein interaction reference

2020

Abstract Cells operate and react to environmental signals thanks to a complex network of protein–protein interactions (PPIs), the malfunction of which can severely disrupt cellular homeostasis. As a result, mapping and analyzing protein networks are key to advancing our understanding of biological processes and diseases. An invaluable part of these endeavors has been the house mouse (Mus musculus), the mammalian model organism par excellence, which has provided insights into human biology and disorders. The importance of investigating PPI networks in the context of mouse prompted us to develop the Mouse Integrated Protein–Protein Interaction rEference (MIPPIE). MIPPIE inherits a robust infr…

Exercise as the master polypill of the 21st century for the prevention of cardiovascular disease

2015

To the Editor,The growing pandemic of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) has para-doxically paralleled advances in pharmacology, and CVD remains theleading cause of death worldwide. Therapeutic strategies aiming atcontrolling several CVD risk factors simultaneously in individualswithout evidence of CVD are expensive and difficult to implement.Thus, the development of fixed-dose drug combinations of antiplatelettogether with blood pressure (BP) and cholesterol-lowering drugs,i.e., polypills, is gaining attention to prevent CVD [1,2] and all-causemortality [3], even after an acute coronary syndrome [4]. Despite thepotential of polypills to increase adherence at a lower cost [5], peoplerandomized to …

Perceived-Value-driven Optimization of Energy Consumption in Smart Homes

2020

Residential energy consumption has been rising rapidly during the last few decades. Several research efforts have been made to reduce residential energy consumption, including demand response and smart residential environments. However, recent research has shown that these approaches may actually cause an increase in the overall consumption, due to the complex psychological processes that occur when human users interact with these energy management systems. In this article, using an interdisciplinary approach, we introduce a perceived-value driven framework for energy management in smart residential environments that considers how users perceive values of different appliances and how the us…