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301. [BIPS Project] PAS-study for alemtuzumab

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Date: 21-06-21

Alemtuzumab (LEMTRADA®), a highly efficacious disease modifying therapy (HE-DMT), is a monoclonal antibody indicated for the treatment of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) in patients…

302. New Score for cardiovascular disease risk prediction in Europe released

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Date: 18-06-21

New research from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) to help predict the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), especially heart attack and stroke, has been published in the European Heart…

303. Data Science Forum on Causal Reasoning

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Date: 03-06-21

In this talk Prof. Dr. Vanessa Didelez will illustrate causal reasoning and methodology with two applications involving large databases: First we consider the question of predicting intervention…

304. [BIPS Project] Addiction prevention Berlin/Brandenburg

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=923&cHash=6c9075adb7273fdacb70b106ce8ee724
Date: 01-06-21

This project is part of the DFG Research Training Group pi-3 "Parameter Identification - Analysis, Algorithms, Implementations" (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen).…

305. Unhealthy food: protecting children from targeted advertising

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Date: 04-05-21

How can children be protected from unhealthy foods?

A media-using child in Germany sees an average of 15.48 commercials for unhealthy foods per day. Of these, 5.14 are on the Internet and 10.34 on TV. Simultaneously, the number of TV commercials per…

306. [BIPS Project] Mental health and gender: Development and evaluation of a digital intervention for health promotion among informal caregivers

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=875&cHash=fd0523abd556707904db27f684f126e0
Date: 01-04-21

It is estimated that around 4.5 million people in Germany provide informal care. This means that they care for relatives without professional training and without being paid. Women provide informal…

307. [BIPS Project] Growing up healthy: Obesity prevention tailored to critical transition periods in the early life-course

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=883&cHash=8cae34e4ec82062193507708c6d23ea9
Date: 01-04-21

Obesity prevention programmes often have had only limited or short-term effects. In particular socially vulnerable groups, who are affected most, have not been reached successfully. If the known…

308. [BIPS Project] Research Training Group π³: Parameter identification - Analysis, algorithms, implementations

URL: /en/research/projects/detail-view.html?projID=961&cHash=a505414746b44c8040172d65ec1ec4ba
Date: 01-04-21

This project is part of the DFG Research Training Group pi-3 "Parameter Identification - Analysis, Algorithms, Implementations" (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen).…

309. Staged plan without the yo-yo effect

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Date: 18-02-21

Scientists present Corona Strategy.

310. New lifestyle-based prediction tool estimates individual colorectal cancer risk

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Date: 01-02-21

[Translate to Englisch:] Prof. Dr. Krasimira Aleksandrova: "Ein Ziel unserer Forschung war es, Menschen zu helfen, ihr eigenes Risiko für Darmkrebs abzuschätzen und auf dieser Grundlage ihren Lebensstil zu wählen." (c) David Ausserhofer/DIfE

Bremen, Germany – The new LifeCRCscore provides individuals a simple method to estimate their 10-year risk of developing colorectal cancer. This could also prove useful for physicians to estimate…