Determining the probability of juvenile delinquency by using support vector machines and designing a clinical decision support system.

abstract：:High level contamination by natural and industrial sources of the alkali earth metal, barium (Ba) has been identified in the ecosystems/workplaces that are associated with high incidence clustering of multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases such as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TS...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Purdey M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inverse association between maternal folate status and incidence of infants born with neural tube defects (NTD's) was recognized over twenty years ago and led the US health agencies in the early 1990s to recommend that women of childbearing age consume 400 microg of folic acid each day. The FDA followed by mandati...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rogers EJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new prion diseases that have emerged in the last 15 years are bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (variant CJD). Although initially confined to the UK, these diseases have recently emerged in other European countries. The accepted cause of the human disease is that BSE spre...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Brown DR

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that sulfite oxidase deficient persons may be at increased risk to toxicity from SO2 and dietary sulfites widely used for food preservation. Sulfite oxidase is believed to be responsible for the detoxification of SO2 and/or sulfite to sulfate for excretion. Human and animal studies have shown ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Calabrese E,Sacco C,Moore G,DiNardi S

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is hypothesized that Alzheimer's disease is a human phylogenetic disease which has a common multifactorial pathogenesis in sporadic and familial cases and in Down syndrome, related to a genomic character function G(x). Increments in G(x) accompanied the increased gene expression that sustained brain growth and diff...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Rapoport SI

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies implicate cellular immunological effector systems in the partial containment of virus replication during the early stages of HIV infection. Immunostimulatory therapeutic regimes designed to enhance virus clearance are therefore theoretically attractive, but are accompanied by the risk of concomitant a...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Wrightham MN,Cann AJ,Sewell HF

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pancreatic leakage is a lethal postoperative complication to the patients after duodenopancreatectomy for carcinoma of head of pancreas. However, we found that the patients who survived this lethal postoperative complication could potentially acquire a longer survival time comparing with those without postoperativ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Liu H,Liu M,Yuan T,Tang C,Chen P

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of ion transport across the airway mucosa may be involved in the mechanisms producing hyperreactivity and asthma. Atrial Natriuretic Peptide (ANP) has been proposed to participate in the pathogenesis of asthma, and it has been found to have a bronchodilatory effect on asthmatic patients. Experimental eviden...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Almirall JJ,Hedenstierna G

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence and prevalence of Crohn's disease (CD) among children in developed countries is extremely high. Although, dietary factors have long been implicated, to date no single causative element has been identified. Risks or benefits for CD from dietary elements would depend on their appropriate metabolism within ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： K Amre D,G Seidman E

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tourette syndrome is a chronic, idiopathic, childhood onset neuropsychiatric disorder with both motor and vocal tics. Tourette syndrome occurs worldwide and the clinical features are similar irrespective of the country of origin, with genetic causes suspected, but to date not proven. A link between red hair colour and...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sterling-Levis K,Williams K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Goldberger discovered human pellagra was a non-infectious disease, affecting mostly the small and the timid in overcrowded institutions. Symptoms were diarrhoea, dermatitis and dementia. The staff and older children escaped the disease. They ate the meat and left the small and timid with the gravy. The 'Goldberger syn...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Reid G

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I hypothesize that the intermediates of the kynurenine (Kyn) pathway (KP) of tryptophan (Trp) degradation kynurenic acid (KA) and quinolinic acid (QA) play opposite roles in inflammatory diseases, with KA being antiinflammatory and QA being immunosuppressant. Darlington et al. have demonstrated a decrease in the ratio...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Badawy AA

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:September 17th, 2009 marks the 15th anniversary of Sir Karl Popper's death. Popper was an outspoken champion of critical rationalism, and a constant critic of authoritarian tendencies in science and society. He was also one of the spiritual founders of this journal and served on its first editorial advisory board. Pop...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Notturno MA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although all multicellular organisms undergo structural and functional deterioration with age, senescence is not a uniform process. Rather, each organism experiences a constellation of changes that reflect the heterogeneous effects of age on molecules, cells, organs and systems, an idiosyncratic pattern that we refer ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Walker LC,Herndon JG

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite extensive research, a link between the assumed mechanisms of death and known risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has not yet been established. Modifiable risk factors such as prone sleeping position, nicotine exposure and thermal stress and non-avoidable risk factors like male gender and some ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Flaig C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyol pathway consists of two enzymes aldose reductase (AR) and sorbitol dehydrogenase (SDH); the former is the first enzyme in the polyol pathway, that catalyzes the reduction of glucose to sorbitol, the latter is the second one, that converts sorbitol to fructose using by NAD(+) as a cofactor. We along with oth...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Amano S,Yamagishi S,Koda Y,Tsuneoka M,Soejima M,Okamoto T,Inagaki Y,Yamada K,Kimura H

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological findings on the relation between foods and colon cancer are inconsistent. Many, but far from all, found positive associations for meat and fat and negative ones for vegetables and fruits. Explanations so far have focused on direct biochemical conversions in the colon or transit time, but they remain un...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Holmqvist OH

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the lithium ion against DNA type viruses is explained by its competition with magnesium ions. Magnesium acts as the cofactor of the enzymes responsible for the replicative building of viral proteins and nucleosides. When lithium replaces magnesium, it appears to render the polymerase enzymes impotent. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Bach RO

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant tumor of bone. Except for the improvement in five-year survival achieved by the adoption of neoadjuvant chemotherapy strategy, there are nearly no improvement for the treatment of osteosarcoma in the past 30 years, especially for the patients with metastatic disease. I...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Weibo P,Zhaoming Y

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Space adaptation syndrome (SAS) incapacitates about 50% of the astronauts with symptoms of headache, malaise, vomiting, vertigo, etc. A hypothesis that SAS is caused by elevated intracranial pressure secondary to the cephalad fluid shift in zero G is proposed. A mechanism of how the cephalad fluid shift could cause el...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jennings T

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several earlier observations by us and other investigators led us to propose a thesis that B lymphocytes, when activated by a virus, allo-antigen or bacterial protein would enter into effector arm of the immune response and cause allograft and tumor rejection or GVH-type of lesion in immunosuppressed animals. These ef...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Krishnan G

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma cruzi is thought to selectively destroy the postganglionic cardiac vagal neurons of chagasic cardiac patients. This theory is based on morphologic and functional evidences obtained from chagasic individuals who were in very advanced stages of the disease. We have studied chagasic patients who were in both ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Davila DF,Donis JH,Torres A,Gottberg CF,Rossell O

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerning the damage to back muscles and posterior ligament complex (PLC) by posterior open approach for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), the oblique lateral intervertebral fusion (OLIF) is pretty popular nowadays. However, oblique lateral approach has obvious drawbacks, which are limited vision and operative scope for ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Du C,Wu T,Mao T,Jia F,Hai B,Zhu B,Liu X

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown previously that the precipitator hypothesis of causation is able to account for certain key features of the epidemiological evidence that conflict with initiator and promoter hypotheses. The precipitator hypothesis states that the carcinogenic risk depends linearly in the average rate of smoking at a...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Burch PR

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have the potential to provide a surrogate for "real-time biopsy" of tumor biological activity. Enumeration and molecular characterization of CTCs in pancreatic cancer could play an important role in diagnosis, predicting the risk for tumor recurrence, and providing novel target therapy b...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Ren C,Chen H,Han C,Jin G,Wang D,Wang D,Tang D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In early 2012 deaths (all-cause mortality) in England and Wales showed an unexpected and unexplained increase which continued for 18 months before abating. The highest percentage increase in deaths was noted to be for neurological degenerations (mainly dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's). This study seeks to understan...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Jones RP,Goldeck D

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late luteal phase dysphoric disorder is described as a classic biopsychosocial disorder resulting from complex interactions of biological, psychological, socioeconomic and cultural forces on women. To understand women suffering from the disorder, one must understand how the genetically designed female brain and body i...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Severino SK

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many risk factors that promote cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been identified. These include hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, decreased estrogen in post-menopausal women, increased homocysteine, and cigarette smoking. It has recently become clear that a mechanism common to these risk factors is oxidati...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Castelao JE,Gago-Dominguez M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbs and minerals are the integral parts of traditional systems of medicine in many countries. Kushta is a form of herbo-mineral preparations used in traditional systems of medicine (Unani and Ayurvedic) of Indo-Pak subcontinent. These preparations have long been used and claimed to be the most effective and potent d...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Aziz N,Gilani AH,Rindh MA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An association between Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and low CSF and serum vitamin B12 (B12) has recently been described (1, 2, 3). This is apparently independent of nutritional intake (4). It has been suggested that such patients may exhibit an atypical form of cobalamin deficiency (3, 4). It is therefore proposed that th...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： McCaddon A,Kelly CL

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00