Non-Invasive Detection of Tumors by Volatile Organic Compounds in Urine by Tomoaki Hara, Sikun Meng, Yasuko Arao, Yoshiko Saito, Kana Inoue, Aya Hasan Alshammari, Hideyuki Hatakeyama, Eric di Luccio, Andrea Vecchione, Takaaki Hirotsu, Hideshi Ishii

“…Cancer is one of the major causes of death, and as it becomes more malignant, it becomes an intractable disease that is difficult to cure completely. …”
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To Use or Not to Use Metformin in Cerebral Ischemia: A Review of the Application of Metformin in Stroke Rodents by Isaac Arbeláez-Quintero, Mauricio Palacios

“…Ischemic strokes are major causes of death and disability. Searching for potential therapeutic strategies to prevent and treat stroke is necessary, given the increase in overall life expectancy. …”
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Diagnosis of Coronary Heart Disease by Using Hybrid Intelligent Systems Based on the Whale Optimization Algorithm, Simulated Annealing and Support Vector Machine by Zeinab Hassani, Mahin Khosravi

“…Heart disease is one of the main causes of death in the world. Several studies have been conducted to diagnose of disease and to design an intelligent and efficient system. …”
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Anticancer effects of olive oil polyphenols and their combinations with anticancer drugs by Torić Jelena, Marković Ana Karković, Brala Cvijeta Jakobušić, Barbarić Monika

“…Cancer presents one of the leading causes of death in the world. Current treatment includes the administration of one or more anticancer drugs, commonly known as chemotherapy. …”
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Condensin-mediated restriction of retrotransposable elements facilitates brain development in Drosophila melanogaster by Bert I. Crawford, Mary Jo Talley, Joshua Russman, James Riddle, Sabrina Torres, Troy Williams, Michelle S. Longworth

“…Here, we show that condensin subunit knockdown in NSPCs of the Drosophila larval central brain increases RTE expression and mobility which causes cell death, and significantly decreases adult head sizes and brain volumes. …”
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Chronic and Asymptomatic Diffuse Alveolar Haemorrhage with Microscopic Polyangiitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Hiroki Tashiro, Koichiro Takahashi, Hironori Sadamatsu, Masaru Uchida, Shinya Kimura, Naoko Sueoka-Aragane

“…Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage (DAH) is one of the major causes of death in microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) patients, because of acute respiratory failure with various respiratory symptoms. …”
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Biomechanical Sensing Systems for Cardiac Activity Monitoring by Hamza Abu Owida

“…Cardiovascular disease is consistently ranked high among the causes of death on a global scale. Monitoring of cardiovascular signs throughout the course of a long period of time and in real time is necessary in order to discover anomalies and begin early intervention at the appropriate time. …”
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Genetic and Molecular Biology Implications in the Surgical Treatment of Gastric Cancer by Roberto Eduardo Aguirre Fernández, Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés

“…Gastric cancer is one of the leading causes of death from neoplasms in the world. Current clinical practice guidelines offer treatment models that involve surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and therapy directed at specific growth receptors, however, genetic and molecular biology aspects are not always taken into account in medical practice. …”
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An overview of breast cancer: Classification and related signaling pathways by Pit Foong Chan, Roslida Abd Hamid

“…Among different cancer types, breast cancer is recognized as one of the five most common causes of death in cancer in women worldwide, right after lung cancer. …”
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The Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) by Martin Dribe, Luciana Quaranta

“…At the individual level, SEDD combines various demographic and socioeconomic records, including causes of death, place of birth and geographic data on the place of residence within a parish. …”
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Impurity, Moral Substantiality, and Social Control: A Gender Perspective by Alice Van den Bogaert

“…We will therefore begin by presenting the various explanations attributed to it, before proposing that the notion of impurity is primarily a knowledge of natural laws causing illness, death, and misfortune, based on the observation of contagion and implying an ontology of moral substantiality. …”
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Neonatal surgery. Pediatric Hospital. Cienfuegos 2000-2003. by Jayce Díaz Díaz, Anabel Ledesma, Yanet Rojas Rodríguez

“…<strong>Fundament</strong>: In surgery the major percentage of deaths is related to the newborns who have to be operated, and among them, congenital malformations are one of the first causes of deaths all over the world. <strong>Objective</strong>: To describe neonatal surgery in the Paediatric Hospital from Cienfuegos province. …”
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Surgical acute abdomen in elderly patients. by Itengré Ouédraogo, Julio Pablo Miñoso Andina, Angel Delfín Rodríguez Sarria, Lidia Torres Ajá

“…The peritonitis heads the direct causes of death.…”
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Mechanistic evaluation of enhanced graphene toxicity to Bacillus induced by humic acid adsorption by Xuejiao Zhang, Jin Zeng, Jason C. White, Fangbai Li, Zhiqiang Xiong, Siyu Zhang, Yuze Xu, Jingjing Yang, Weihao Tang, Qing Zhao, Fengchang Wu, Baoshan Xing

“…This leads to the accumulation of intracellular reactive oxygen species and inhibition of ATP production, subsequently suppressing synthetic and metabolic processes and ultimately causing bacterial death. Conversely, GNSs-HA directly extracts electrons from bacteria and oxidized biomolecules due to HA-improved electron transfer. …”
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Circulating LncRNA Is Potentially Up-regulated in Coronary Artery Disease by Niloofar Avazpour, Mohammadreza Hajjari, Saeed Yazdankhah, Azita Sahni, Ali Mohammad Foroughmand

“…Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the leading causes of death and disability all around the world. Recent studies have revealed that aberrantly regulated long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) as one of the main classes of cellular transcript plays a key regulatory role in transcriptional and epigenetic pathways. …”
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Use of miRNAs as Biomarkers in Sepsis by Raluca Dumache, Alexandru Florin Rogobete, Ovidiu Horea Bedreag, Mirela Sarandan, Alina Carmen Cradigati, Marius Papurica, Corina Maria Dumbuleu, Radu Nartita, Dorel Sandesc

“…Sepsis is one of the most common causes of death in critical patients. Severe generalized inflammation, infections, and severe physiological imbalances significantly decrease the survival rate with more than 50%. …”
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Pathogen stress heightens sensorimotor dimensions in the human collective semantic space by Ze Fu, Huimin Chen, Zhan Liu, Maosong Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Yanchao Bi

“…Abstract Infectious diseases have been major causes of death throughout human history and are assumed to broadly affect human psychology. …”
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Plant protein-derived anti-breast cancer peptides: sources, therapeutic approaches, mechanisms, and nanoparticle design by Deju Zhang, Deju Zhang, Deju Zhang, Ying Yuan, Ying Yuan, Qingdong Zeng, Qingdong Zeng, Juan Xiong, Juan Xiong, Yiming Gan, Kai Jiang, Kai Jiang, Ni Xie

“…Breast cancer causes the deaths of approximately 685,000 women annually, posing a severe threat to women’s health. …”
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Preeclampsia in 2018: Revisiting Concepts, Physiopathology, and Prediction by J. Mayrink, M. L. Costa, J. G. Cecatti

“…Preeclampsia currently remains one of the leading causes of death and severe maternal morbidity. Although its prevalence is still underestimated in some places due to underreporting, preeclampsia is a disease that health professionals need to know how to deal with and take action. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…POPLINK allows for a large array of longitudinal studies, such as social mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, civil status, kinship relations, diseases, disability and causes of death. International standards of occupations (HISCO) and diseases (ICD-10) have been applied, facilitating comparability. …”
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