Migraine History Linked to Elevated Ischemic Stroke Risk in Postmenopausal Women: WHI Analysis Postmenopausal women with a history of physician-diagnosed migraine face a modestly higher risk of incident ischemic stroke, independent of traditional cardiovascular and sex-specific risk factors, according to a major new analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) cohort published in Neurology. The …
Transculturalizing Cardiometabolic Care: How Chile is Redefining Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Beyond Glycemic Control SANTIAGO, CHILE — Traditional management models for type 2 diabetes (T2D) are facing a paradigm shift. A landmark consensus paper published by the Mechanick Transculturalization Research and Innovation ConSortium (METRICS)—led by Dr. Ramfis Nieto-Martínez in collaboration with Dr. Goodarz Danaei (Bernard …
AI Transforms Standard Chest CTs into Powerful Predictors of Heart Failure and AFib In a paradigm-shifting breakthrough for opportunistic screening, AI-driven cardiac chamber volumetry from non-ECG-gated chest CT scans—the overwhelming majority of scans performed annually—can reliably predict incident Heart Failure (HF) and Atrial Fibrillation (AF), matching the performance of specialized ECG-gated cardiac CTs, according to …
Book Chapters Our team regularly participates in writing book chapters related to lifestyle medicine and transcultural factors. Creating a Lifestyle Medicine Center From Concept to Clinical Practice. 2020 Editors: Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Robert F. Kushner Bridges the gap between theory and practice by providing detailed information on the real-world development and implementation of a Lifestyle …
Chilean Cohort The Chilean cohort includes data from medical records of 509 children and adolescents (6-19 years old) and 4,969 adults (range 20-101 years) evaluated at the Center for Medical and Surgical Treatment of Diabetes and Obesity in Santiago de Chile between 2000 – 2007. With this database, we assessed the frequency of prediabetes and …
Czech Database Data from the Czech European Health Examination Survey (EHES) was used. The initial EHES was conducted in 2014. The survey’s main goal was to obtain actual and relevant information about non-communicable diseases and their risk factors among the Czech middle-aged population. EHES study was a cross-sectional survey conducted in the Czech Republic in …
Transcultural Determinants of Mental Health in Medical Students Medical students tend to have a higher burden of mental health problems compared to their peers due to intense academic pressure, demanding workload, and high expectations. Notably, depressive symptoms are more prevalent in medical students than in their age-matched peers, with a 2016 review finding a 27.2% …
Irani Cohort Study This cohort includes patients who attended the clinic of Vali-Asr Hospital affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran, from February 2002 to March 2020. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of Adiposity-Based Chronic Disease (ABCD) and Dysglucemia-Based Chronic Disease (ABCD) in the attendee population. Research Team Team Leader …
Bayesian networks are probabilistic graphical models representing a network of variables (nodes) and the conditional dependencies between those variables (edges) as a directed acyclic graph.
The EVESCAM study was the first national representative, population-based, observational, cross-sectional, and cluster sampling study, designed to evaluate cardiometabolic risk factors among subjects aged ≥ 20 years in Venezuela from July 2014 to January 2017.
