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Arterial hypertension affects about 1 billion people worldwide and it is the strongest modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and related disability. Since the initial discovery of rare monogenic disorders with large effects, the role of…

The concept of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has evolved since the 1980s, with broad-based applications for clinical care, research, and health policy, as well as for individual and patient use. This book, Health-Related Quality of Life -…

The past decade has seen remarkable improvements and advances in the fields of blood transfusion and hematology, particularly with regards to advances in science, technology, method development, quality, standardization, and governance. This book…

Importance of Selenium in the Environment and Human Health contains a number of recent studies of the effect of selenium on environmental and human health. There are several issues related to environmental selenium and human health. A link has been…

This textbook is an open educational resource (OER) with CC-BY licensing aligned with Wisconsin Technical College System’s Nursing Assistant program (30-543-300). The Nursing Assistant program prepares students for employment as nursing assistants as…

Written for senior-level and first year graduate students in biomedical signal and image processing, this book describes fundamental signal and image processing techniques that are used to process biomedical information. The book also discusses…

This Open Access auto-translation book demonstrates a time series of nutrition improvement in Japan since the introduction of nutrition sciences to Japan about 150 years ago. The chapters present the historical event where nutritional deficiency due…

This open access book focuses on the molecular mechanism of congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension, offering new insights into the development of pulmonary circulation and the ductus arteriosus. It describes in detail the molecular…

molecular medicine; immunology; cell biology

This book—titled “New Therapeutic Mechanisms and Approaches for Gynecologic Cancer”—was edited as a Biomedical Special Issue, with a focus on basic research such as genomics, epigenomics, and proteomics, as well as clinical research in the field of…