Alzheimer’s is a growing public health crisis that threatens to bankrupt America. In 2019, caring for individuals living with Alzheimer’s will cost $290 billion – including $195 billion in direct costs to Medicare and Medicaid. With a new American developing Alzheimer’s every 65 seconds, Congress must increase its investment in research funding.
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Repurposing non-pharmacological interventions for Alzheimer’s disease through link prediction on biomedical literature
The complete workflow is depicted in Fig. 1. To investigate the association between NPIs and AD, we initially conducted preprocessing and integration of biomedical triples...
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