The last three decades have witnessed an epidemic rise in the number of people with
diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes, and particularly in developing countries, where more …

Background Fibroglandular breast tissue appears dense on mammogram, whereas fat
appears nondense. It is unclear whether absolute or percentage dense area more strongly …

Background Community participation is widely believed to be beneficial to the development,
implementation and evaluation of health services. However, many challenges to successful …

Breast cancer risk is influenced by rare coding variants in susceptibility genes, such as
BRCA1, and many common, mostly non-coding variants. However, much of the genetic …

To further understanding of the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) susceptibility, we
aggregated published meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) …

Background Population-based cancer survival data, a key indicator for monitoring progress
against cancer, are not widely available from countries in Africa, Asia, and Central America …

purpose. To determine the relationship of nearwork and myopia in young elementary school-
age children in Singapore. methods. A cross-sectional study of 1005 school children aged 7 …

We carried out a genome-wide association study of type-2 diabetes (T2D) in individuals of
South Asian ancestry. Our discovery set included 5,561 individuals with T2D (cases) and …

methods. A prospective cohort study, the Singapore Cohort Study of the Risk Factors for
Myopia (SCORM), was conducted in two schools in Singapore (1999–2002). Children aged …

Purpose. To study interethnic variation in myopia prevalence and severity in young adult
males in Singapore and to determine whether these variations are related to differences in …