John Tierney's article on information cascades and the highly questionable low-fat diet/heart disease relationship, followed a few pages later by Jane Brody's article, "CT Scans of the Heart Come With Tradeoffs" (Personal Health, Oct. 9), in which she mentions, almost in passing, the need to change one's diet to prevent heart disease.
However, given the stringent criteria used to generate DN, it's likely that the number of truly novel disease relationship might go lower.
Besides providing a new way to redefine human diseases and gain a broader understanding of disease mechanism, the genomic profile-based disease relationship can also help us to find potential new indications of existing drugs.
A higher score indicates more confidence level of disease relationship.
No disease relationship has yet been demonstrated for this microbe.
Given the essential role of human relationships in the spread of disease, relationship factors must be taken into account in disease treatment and prevention research.
The OR curve presents readers with more information about the exposure disease relationship than a single OR and 95% confidence interval.
In order to gain a better understanding of molecular mechanism, disease relationship and biomarkers, the genes implicated within similar disorders are need to be focused.
This work pointed out a new direction for biomedical researchers to investigate the molecular interaction network with the known dysfunctional genes to identify disease relationship.
In vitro studies using human cells (fresh tissue, cell lines or tumour cell cultures) or clinical studies were all accepted as evidence for a human disease relationship.
In this mini-monograph, Mather et al. (2004) provide further discussion on ecologic bias in describing the statistical framework for analyzing the exposure, hazard, and disease relationship.
