Alize J. Ferrari's research while affiliated with The University of Queensland and other places

... 9 In children and adolescents, mental health conditions are a major cause of morbidity 10 and are increasingly prevalent. 11 Since the COVID-19 pandemic, a global increase has been reported in young people presenting at accident and emergency departments (A&E) for self-harm and other psychiatric emergencies. 12 Post-discharge mental health follow-up for these young people is crucial. ...

... Parametric dental models, which describe shape and position variations of dental models in a population, also have broad applications in digital dentistry, such as teeth segmentation [11], dental mesh repairing [12] and 3D teeth reconstruction [13,7]. The construction of paramet-ric dental models involves the following steps [14,15]: (1) rigidly aligning all the dental models to a common space, (2) estimating the point-to-point correspondence between the aligned dental models and (3) employing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) [16] to determine subspaces of the parametric dental models. However, the accuracy of existing parametric dental models is limited due to the lack of an unbiased dental template, which is essential for precise spatial alignment and point-to-point correspondence estimation. ...

... Interpersonal factors such as suicide attempts being seen as attention seeking [22,29] and the impact of relationship breakup [21], as well as traditional masculinity norms as a barrier to help-seeking [2] potentially, contribute to suicidal behaviours in LMICs. Recent studies have emphasised mental disorders (MDs) [30,31] as well as mental and substance use disorders [32] as the mounting risk factors for suicide. A recent study focused on the lack of treatment coverage and underdiagnosis status of major depressive disorders in LMICs [33], highlights the ways in which support of mental health conditions create potential threats for deaths by suicide. ...

... The global burden of ischemic heart disease (IHD) has been increasing steadily since 1990 and transferred from a global health threat to primarily affecting low-and middle-income countries, including China ( Roth et al., 2020 ). In 2019, IHD was the second leading cause of death in the Chinese population, accounting for 17.6% of all deaths and 9.1% of disabilityadjusted life years, and this proportion will continue to rise in the future ( Murray et al., 2020 ). Changes in population dynamics or environmental risk factors may play a role in the development of IHD ( Virani et al., 2020 ). ...

... As the primary ambient air pollutants in urban settings, fine particulate matters with aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 μm (PM 2.5 ) and ozone are the top leading environmental threat of global heath, resulting in 4.5 million premature deaths in 2019 [1]. Associations of long-term survival with PM 2.5 and ozone exposure have been broadly investigated in North America and Europe [2][3][4], whereas longitudinal research from low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) is still at the infancy stage owing to a lack of wide-coverage ground-based measurements and well-established population cohorts. ...

... Depression gives rise to a large proportion of the health burden from mental disorder and substantially diminishes quality of life with an increased prevalence across the globe (Moreno-Agostino et al., 2021;Vos et al., 2020). Given the social and health care burden of this disorder, it is imperative to identify modifiable risk factors for prevention of depression. ...

... Overweight and obesity in Latin America children and adolescents has increased considerably in recent years. [1] Regarding Chile, 27% overweight and 31% obesity were estimated in this population in 2021, [2] indicating an alarming public health situation because they are important risk factors for hypertension, [3] 2 Godoy-Cumillaf et al. • Medicine (2023) 102: 21 Medicine diabetes mellitus, [4] cardiovascular diseases, [5] some types of cancer, [6] and premature death. [7] Physical activity (PA) interventions have been a proven effective means to prevent or treat overweight and obesity and thus improve health-related values in children and adolescents. ...

... Prior to differential gene expression analysis, samples from raw meta-file were independently quantile normalized based on the microarray platform used. Illumina, single-channel Agilent, and Affymetrix datasets were normalized using lumi (Du et al., 2008), limma (Ritchie et al., 2015), and Affy (Gautier et al., 2004) packages respectively. The normalized data was further batch corrected using ComBat (Leek JT, Johnson WE, Parker HS, Fertig EJ, Jaffe AE, Zhang Y, Storey JD, 2020) and subjected to differential gene expression analysis (DGEA) using limma. ...

... Depression can affect cognitive functions, and there are many people with depressive symptoms and cognitive decline in the aging population [1,2]. Taiwan became an aging society in 2018. ...

... Meanwhile, stroke was the third-leading cause of death and disability combined and the second-leading cause of global death in 2017 (G.D.a. H. Collaborators, 2018). As the burden of most NSDs increased with age (Sundquist et al., 2004), an increasing number of people are reaching an age where they are likely to experience neurological illness due to the growth of the population and an ageing population worldwide (G.N. ...