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A EUropean study on effectiveness and sustainability of current Cardiac Rehabilitation programmes in the Elderly (EU-CaRE)
Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) cause over 4 million deaths in Europe each year and mass disability: within the coming decades the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) estimate is expected to rise from a loss of 85 million DALYs in 1990 to a loss of 150 million DALYs globally in 2020. Moreover, patient numbers are expected to rise rapidly in the next decades, due to an ageing society such that th ...
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Big Data and models for personalized Head and Neck Cancer Decision support (BD2Decide)
Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2019,
"Cancers of the Head and Neck Region (HNC) are the 6th more deadly cancers worldwide: in Europe ~150.000 new cases are detected and ~70.000 patients die every year. The main reasons for high mortality are the fact that the majority of cases are diagnosed in advanced Stage and the intrinsic heterogeneity of such tumors. At present the only adopted treatment decision method is based on TNM (Tumor-ly ...
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Utility of omic-based biomarkers in characterizing older individuals at risk for frailty, its progression to disability and general consequences to health and well-being - The FRAILOMIC Initiative (FRAILOMIC)
Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
The forecasted increase in the number of older people for this century will be accompanied by an increase of those with disabilities. Disability is usually preceded by a condition named frailty that encompasses changes associated with ageing, life styles and chronic diseases. To detect and intervene on it is of outstanding importance to prevent disability, as recovery from disability is unlikely. ...
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Host and viral factors in acute hepatitis C (HEPACUTE)
Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,
Chronic hepatitis C is one of the most common chronic viral infections of humans and a major cause of chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer. Still about 4 million new infections occur world-wide each year with 50-85% of patients progressing to chronic hepatitis C. Currently there is no marker to predict spontaneous viral clearance and to guide treatment decisions.The major objectives o ...
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ICT Enabled Prediction of Cancer Reoccurrence (NeoMark)
Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,
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NeoMark will record and combine heterogeneous clinical, laboratory, molecular and imaging data to develop a data integration environment facilitating multiscale and multilevel modelling.Objectives of the projectThe clinical problemThe continuous improvement in treatment protocols for neoplastic diseases has substantially incre ...
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