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  1. Prediction of hypertension using traditional regression and machine learning models: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  2. Unmet Healthcare Needs Among Migrant Populations in Canada: Exploring the Research Landscape Through a Systematic Integrative Review
  3. Mobilising knowledge on newcomers: Engaging key stakeholders to establish a research hub for Alberta
  4. Identifying the facilitators, constraints and barriers of community indoor walking programmes: protocol for a realist synthesis
  5. Factors associated with willingness to share health information: A rapid review (Preprint)
  6. Community engagement with immigrant communities involving health and wellness research: a systematic review protocol towards developing a taxonomy of community engagement definitions, frameworks, and methods
  7. Knowledge mobilisation in bridging community-practice–academia-policy through meaningful engagement: systematic integrative review protocol focusing on studies conducted on health and wellness among immigrant communities
  8. Summarising and synthesising regression coefficients through systematic review and meta-analysis for improving hypertension prediction using metamodelling: protocol
  9. Online Information for Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Content Analysis of YouTube Videos
  10. Ethical dilemmas and legal ambivalence affects the midwives’ perception for providing sexual and reproductive health consultation to women with intellectual disability
  11. Active and Fit Communities. Associations between Neighborhood Walkability and Health-Related Fitness in Adults
  12. Variable selection strategies and its importance in clinical prediction modelling
  13. Perceived Challenges and Unmet Primary Care Access Needs among Bangladeshi Immigrant Women in Canada
  14. Hypercholesterolemia and Lifetime Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in the General Japanese Population: Results from the Suita Cohort Study
  15. Evaluating practice variance among family physicians to identify targets for laboratory utilization management
  16. Provider-level characteristics influences decision making regarding the treatment choices.
  17. Association of genetic risk score and chronic kidney disease in a Japanese population
  18. Effect of CPAP therapy on kidney function in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea and chronic kidney disease: a protocol for a randomised controlled clinical trial
  19. Genome-wide association meta-analysis and Mendelian randomization analysis confirm the influence of ALDH2 on sleep durationin the Japanese population
  20. Asset Mapping as a Tool for Identifying Resources in Community Health: A Methodological Overview
  21. Prognostic tools for cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of C-statistics
  22. Injury among the immigrant population in Canada: exploring the research landscape through a systematic scoping review
  23. Barriers to cervical cancer screening faced by immigrant women in Canada: a systematic scoping review
  24. Conducting Comprehensive Environmental Scans in Health Research: A Process for Assessing the Subject Matter Landscape
  25. Prevalence of cardiovascular disease among Bangladeshi adult population: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the studies
  26. Mass gathering health: Considering triggering factors associated with acute cardiovascular events using linked registry data
  27. Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in Bangladesh: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the studies
  28. Enhancing Understanding of Postpartum Pain Among Migrant and Non-migrant Women Through a Qualitative Lens
  29. Genome-Wide Association Study of Renal Function Traits: Results from the Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort Study
  30. Diabetes and lifetime risk of coronary heart disease
  31. Hospital treatment costs and length of stay associated with hypertension and multimorbidity after hemorrhagic stroke
  32. Risk of stroke and heart failure attributable to atrial fibrillation in middle-aged and elderly people: Results from a five-year prospective cohort study of Japanese community dwellers
  33. Sociodemographic Correlates of Clinical Laboratory Test Expenditures in a Major Canadian City
  34. Diabetes and lifetime risk of stroke and subtypes in an urban middle-aged population
  35. A Clinical Risk Prediction Tool for 6-Month Mortality After Dialysis Initiation Among Older Adults
  36. User-driven conversations about dialysis through Facebook: A qualitative thematic analysis
  37. Social Networking Sites for Peer-Driven Health Communication: Diabetes-Related Communities in Google+
  38. Social Media as a Platform for Information About Diabetes Foot Care: A Study of Facebook Groups
  39. Implementation of an intervention to reduce population-based screening for vitamin D deficiency: a cross-sectional study
  40. Knowledge Translation for Cardiovascular Disease Research and Management in Japan
  41. Breast cancer information communicated on a public online platform: an analysis of ‘Yahoo! Answer Japan’
  42. Content analysis of Canadian newspapers articles and readers’ comments related to schizophrenia
  43. Association Between Incretin-Based Drugs and the Risk of Acute Pancreatitis
  44. The VITAH Trial—Vitamin D Supplementation and Cardiac Autonomic Tone in Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease on Hemodialysis: A Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial
  45. Lifetime risk of diabetes among First Nations and non–First Nations people
  46. Web-Based Interventions for Chronic Back Pain: A Systematic Review
  47. Ventricular tachyarrhythmia and sudden cardiac death with domperidone use in Parkinson's disease
  48. A Multicenter Observational Study of Incretin-based Drugs and Heart Failure
  49. Impact of hypertension on the lifetime risk of coronary heart disease
  50. Critical care transition programs and the risk of readmission or death after discharge from ICU
  51. Incretin based drugs and the risk of pancreatic cancer: international multicentre cohort study
  52. Cardiovascular diseases among patients with schizophrenia
  53. What is the scope of improving immigrant and ethnic minority healthcare using community navigators: A systematic scoping review
  54. Renal function trajectory over time and adverse clinical outcomes
  55. Emerging Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases in Bangladesh
  56. Safety of street foods
  57. Ramadan fasting is not usually associated with the risk of cardiovascular events: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  58. Standardized Prevalence Ratios for Atrial Fibrillation in Adult Dialysis Patients in Japan
  59. Canadian family physician knowledge and attitudes toward laboratory utilization management
  60. Hypertension and lifetime risk of stroke
  61. Magnitude of rate of change in kidney function and future risk of cardiovascular events
  62. Prevalence of Stroke in a Rural Population of Bangladesh
  63. Interventions at the laboratory level to reduce laboratory test ordering by family physicians: Systematic review
  64. A Meta-analysis of the Association of Estimated GFR, Albuminuria, Age, Race, and Sex With Acute Kidney Injury
  65. A Meta-analysis of the Association of Estimated GFR, Albuminuria, Diabetes Mellitus, and Hypertension With Acute Kidney Injury
  66. Nocturnal Hypoxemia Severity and Renin–Angiotensin System Activity in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  67. YouTube as a source of useful information on diabetes foot care
  68. Barriers to Access of Primary Healthcare by Immigrant Populations in Canada: A Literature Review
  69. IgA nephropathy with early kidney disease is associated with increased arterial stiffness and renin–angiotensin system activity
  70. Vitamin D Supplementation Is Associated With Stabilization of Cardiac Autonomic Tone in IgA Nephropathy
  71. Yearly Clinical Laboratory Test Expenditures for Different Medical Specialties in a Major Canadian City
  72. Relative and absolute risks of all-cause and cause-specific deaths attributable to atrial fibrillation in middle-aged and elderly community dwellers
  73. Social Media in Communicating Health Information: An Analysis of Facebook Groups Related to Hypertension
  74. Sleep Disturbances among Medical Students: A Global Perspective
  75. Assessing the Validity of Surrogate Outcomes for ESRD: A Meta-Analysis
  76. Serum uric acid level, blood pressure, and vascular angiotensin II responsiveness in healthy men and women
  77. A meta-analysis to derive literature-based benchmarks for readmission and hospital mortality after patient discharge from intensive care
  78. Predictors of successful completion of diagnostic home sleep testing in patients with chronic kidney disease
  79. Polymorphisms of genes involved in lipid metabolism and risk of chronic kidney disease in Japanese - cross-sectional data from the J-MICC study
  80. Acute Case-Fatality Rates of Stroke and Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Japanese Population: Takashima Stroke and AMI Registry, 1989–2005
  81. Short‐Term Change in eGFR and Risk of Cardiovascular Events
  82. Phantom limb pain: a nursing perspective
  83. Limitations of split-night polysomnography for the diagnosis of nocturnal hypoventilation and titration of non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  84. The VITAH Trial Vitamin D supplementation and cardiac autonomic tone in hemodialysis: a blinded, randomized controlled trial
  85. Corrigendum to “High risks of all-cause and cardiovascular deaths in apparently healthy middle-aged people with preserved glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria: A prospective cohort study” [Int J Cardiol 170 (2013) 167–172]
  86. Testosterone is associated with the cardiovascular autonomic response to a stressor in healthy men
  87. Kidney Function, Albuminuria and Life Expectancy
  88. Decline in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate and Subsequent Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease and Mortality
  89. Combining the effects of conventional risk factors and environmental triggering factors while studying seasonality in acute myocardial infarction
  90. Factors Associated with Early Deterioration after Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  91. Vitamin D supplementation is associated with improved modulation of cardiac autonomic tone in healthy humans
  92. Acute-onset atrial fibrillation and ambient air temperature: A linear or a non-linear association?
  93. Cost of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Canada During 1 Decade
  94. Studying Effects of Weather Parameters on Acute Stroke: Considering the Contribution of “Risk Factors” and “Triggering Factors” Together
  95. Gene-Gene Combination Effect and Interactions among ABCA1, APOA1, SR-B1, and CETP Polymorphisms for Serum High-Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol in the Japanese Population
  96. The Reliability and Sensitivity of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale for Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage in an Uncontrolled Setting
  97. GCK, GCKR polymorphisms and risk of chronic kidney disease in Japanese individuals: data from the J-MICC Study
  98. High risks of all-cause and cardiovascular deaths in apparently healthy middle-aged people with preserved glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria: A prospective cohort study
  99. The relationship of brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity to future cardiovascular disease events in the general Japanese population: the Takashima Study
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  101. Sex influences the effect of body mass index on the vascular response to angiotensin II in humans
  102. Microbiological quality of selected street food items vended by school-based street food vendors in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  103. In Reply to ‘Overestimation of Life Expectancy in CKD’
  104. Proteinuria and Rate of Change in Kidney Function in a Community-Based Population
  105. Vitamin D Levels Are Associated with Cardiac Autonomic Activity in Healthy Humans
  106. Burden of Cardio- and Cerebro-vascular Diseases and the Conventional Risk Factors in South Asian Population
  107. The Prevalence of Restless Legs Syndrome across the Full Spectrum of Kidney Disease
  108. Concordance of CKD stages in estimation by the CKD-EPI equation and estimation by the MDRD equation in the Japanese general population: The Iwate KENCO Study
  109. MTHFR, MTR and MTRR polymorphisms and risk of chronic kidney disease in Japanese: cross-sectional data from the J-MICC Study
  110. Change in the estimated glomerular filtration rate over time and risk of all-cause mortality
  111. Geotopographic and Environmental Characteristics of Communities and the Seasonality of Stroke Occurrences
  112. Knowledge and Awareness of Children's Food Safety Among School-Based Street Food Vendors in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  113. Proteinuria and Life Expectancy
  114. Associations of marital status with mortality from all causes and mortality from cardiovascular disease in Japanese haemodialysis patients
  115. Diagnostic Value of Screening Instruments for Identifying Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Kidney Failure
  116. Comparison of Predictability of Future Cardiovascular Events Between Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Stage Based on CKD Epidemiology Collaboration Equation and That Based on Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Equation in the Japanese General Population
  117. Polymorphisms inPPARGenes (PPARD,PPARG, andPPARGC1A) and the Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease in Japanese: Cross-Sectional Data from the J-MICC Study
  118. Polymorphisms in genes encoding antioxidant enzymes (SOD2, CAT, GPx, TXNRD, SEPP1, SEP15 and SELS) and risk of chronic kidney disease in Japanese - cross-sectional data from the J-MICC study
  119. Significant interaction between RETN -420 G/G genotype and lower BMI on decreased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Japanese ^|^mdash; the J-MICC Study [Rapid Communication]
  120. Wake-Up Stroke: Incidence, Risk Factors and Outcome of Acute Stroke during Sleep in a Japanese Population. Takashima Stroke Registry 1988-2003
  121. Serum leptin and total dietary energy intake: the INTERLIPID Study
  122. Decreased Renal Function and the Prevalence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Response
  123. Lifetime Risk of ESRD
  124. Clinical Presentation of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
  125. Hypertension and life expectancy among Japanese: NIPPON DATA80
  126. Short-term change in kidney function and risk of end-stage renal disease
  127. Rates of Treated and Untreated Kidney Failure in Older vs Younger Adults
  128. Declining Kidney Function Increases the Prevalence of Sleep Apnea and Nocturnal Hypoxia
  129. Diabetes and life expectancy among Japanese – NIPPON DATA80
  130. Chronic kidney disease and life expectancy
  131. Impact of gender on the cardiac autonomic response to angiotensin II in healthy humans
  132. Improvement in Kidney Function: A Real Occurrence
  133. Increased urinary protein excretion in the “normal” range is associated with increased renin-angiotensin system activity
  134. Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Gene Polymorphisms and Chronic Kidney Disease
  135. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Short and Standard-Length Consent Forms for a Genetic Cohort Study: Is Longer Better?
  136. Ambient Air Pollutants and Acute Case-Fatality of Cerebro-Cardiovascular Events: Takashima Stroke and AMI Registry, Japan (1988–2004)
  137. Knowledge translation for nephrologists: strategies for improving the identification of patients with proteinuria
  138. Long-term risk projection and its application to nephrology research
  139. One-Year Change in Kidney Function Is Associated with an Increased Mortality Risk
  140. Relation of dietary and lifestyle traits to difference in serum leptin of Japanese in Japan and Hawaii: The INTERLIPID study
  141. Short-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Incidence of Stroke and Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Japanese Population
  142. Improving Care After Myocardial Infarction Using a 2-Year Internet-Delivered Intervention
  143. Diurnal incidence of acute myocardial infarction in a Japanese population (From the Takashima AMI Registry, 1988–2004)
  144. Increased risk of acute myocardial infarction during colder periods is independent of the conventional cardiovascular risk factors: Takashima AMI Registry, Japan
  145. Change in Kidney Function over Time and Risk for Adverse Outcomes: Is an Increasing Estimated GFR Harmful?
  146. Prognostic Value of ST-T Abnormalities and Left High R Waves With Cardiovascular Mortality in Japanese (24-Year Follow-Up of NIPPON DATA80)
  147. Is there any circadian variation consequence on acute case fatality of stroke? Takashima Stroke Registry, Japan (1990-2003)
  148. Recognizing the risk of cardiovascular diseases: quantifying the short-term and lifetime risk projections
  149. Serum selenium levels are inversely associated with death risk among hemodialysis patients
  150. Ischemic Stroke Subtypes and Risk Factors: The Probable Bias Arisen From the Classification Style Across Studies
  151. Profile of Participants and Genotype Distributions of 108 Polymorphisms in a Cross-Sectional Study of Associations of Genotypes With Lifestyle and Clinical Factors: A Project in the Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort (J-MICC) Study
  152. Residual Lifetime Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases in Japan
  153. Seropositivity for Anti-HCV Core Antigen is Independently Associated With Increased All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Liver Disease-Related Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients
  154. Serum Selenium Levels in Hemodialysis Patients Are Significantly Lower than Those in Healthy Controls
  155. Lifetime Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Japan
  156. Time lag to hospitalisation and the associated determinants in patients with acute myocardial infarction: the Takashima AMI Registry, Japan
  157. Ischemic Stroke Subtypes in a Japanese Population
  158. Risk factors for heart failure and coronary heart disease mortality over 24-year follow-up period in Japan: NIPPON DATA80
  159. Circaseptan variation in case-fatality rate for patients with acute subarachnoid hemorrhage (Takashima Stroke Registry 1988–2003)
  160. Lifetime Risk of Stroke in Japan
  161. Brachial–ankle pulse wave velocity predicts all-cause mortality in the general population: findings from the Takashima study, Japan
  162. Circannual Periodicity of Stroke: the Interrelation between the Stroke Risk Factors and Stroke Triggering Factors
  163. Ambient weather conditions and the onset of acute myocardial infarction: The consociation between triggering factors and conventional risk factors
  164. Relationship of the Polyunsaturated to Saturated Fatty Acid Ratio to Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Metabolic Syndrome in Japanese: the INTERLIPID Study
  165. Calcium Intake and Associated Factors in a General Japanese Population: Baseline Data of NIPPON DATA80/90 and the National Nutrition Survey
  166. Comparison of the National Nutritional Survey in Japan Estimated Individual-Based Nutritional Data and NIPPON DATA80 Food Frequency Questionnaires
  167. Dietary Intake of Potassium and Associated Dietary Factors among Representative Samples of Japanese General Population: NIPPON DATA 80/90
  168. Dietary Salt Intake and Blood Pressure in a Representative Japanese Population: Baseline Analyses of NIPPON DATA80
  169. Diurnal Variation in Onset of Hemorrhagic Stroke Is Independent of Risk Factor Status: Takashima Stroke Registry
  170. Fatty Acids Intakes and Serum Lipid Profiles: NIPPON DATA90 and the National Nutrition Monitoring
  171. Integration of Data from NIPPON DATA80/90 and National Nutrition Survey in Japan: For Cohort Studies of Representative Japanese on Nutrition
  172. J Epidemiol 2010;20(Suppl 3):S506–S514 Integration of Data from NIPPON DATA80/90 and National Nutrition Survey in Japan: For Cohort Studies of Representative Japanese on Nutrition
  173. Iron Intake and Associated Factors in General Japanese Population: NIPPON DATA80, NIPPON DATA90 and National Nutrition Monitoring
  174. Untreated or uncontrolled cardiovascular risk factors are associated with an increased risk of cerebral hemorrhage during colder periods
  175. Relation of Serum Leptin to Blood Pressure of Japanese in Japan and Japanese-Americans in Hawaii
  176. Trend of Stroke Incidence in a Japanese Population: Takashima Stroke Registry, 1990-2001
  177. Association between polymorphism of the AGTR1 and cardiovascular events in a Japanese general sample (The Shigaraki Study)
  178. Morning surge in circadian periodicity of ischaemic stroke is independent of conventional risk factor status: findings from the Takashima Stroke Registry 1990-2003
  179. Dietary Habits in Middle Age and Future Changes in Activities of Daily Living – NIPPON DATA80
  180. The Time Interval Window between Stroke Onset and Hospitalization and Its Related Factors
  181. Stroke Case Fatality Shows Seasonal Variation Regardless of Risk Factor Status in a Japanese Population: 15-Year Results from the Takashima Stroke Registry
  182. Incidence, admission and case-fatality of acute myocardial infarction: weekend versus weekday in a Japanese population: 16-year results from Takashima AMI Registry (1988–2003)
  183. Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors in Asia
  184. Both acute and chronic cardiovascular conditions show seasonality: the need of looking beyond conventional risk factors
  185. Seasonal Pattern of Incidence and Case Fatality of Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Japanese Population (from the Takashima AMI Registry, 1988 to 2003)
  186. Trend of Increase in the Incidence of Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Japanese Population: Takashima AMI Registry, 1990-2001
  187. Higher Stroke Incidence in the Spring Season Regardless of Conventional Risk Factors
  188. Case Fatality of Stroke and Day of the Week: Is the Weekend Effect an Artifact?
  189. Surveillance and Measuring Trends of Stroke in Japan: The Takashima Stroke Registry (1988 – Present)
  190. Associations of Obesity Measures With Metabolic Risk Factors in a Community-Based Population in Japan
  191. Increase of Stroke Incidence after Weekend Regardless of Traditional Risk Factors: Takashima Stroke Registry, Japan; 1988–2003
  192. Registration and Surveillance of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Japan: Monitoring an Entire Community by the Takashima AMI Registry
  193. Smoking scenes in popular Japanese serial television dramas: descriptive analysis during the same 3-month period in two consecutive years