{"id":10320,"date":"2015-10-30T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T19:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/?page_id=10320"},"modified":"2015-10-30T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T19:36:11","slug":"grap-02-kaplan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/grap-02-kaplan\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAP Opporunity &#8211; A South African \u201cDatamining\u201d Exercise: Descriptive analysis of child Type 1 Diabetes (Kaplan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Opportunity ID:<\/strong> 02-Kaplan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Title:<\/strong> A South African \u201cDatamining\u201d Exercise: Descriptive analysis of child health in South Africa: Type 1 diabetes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty Mentor:<\/strong>\u00a0 Warren Kaplan and Andrew Stokes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description Statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Various sources of\u00a0 data from South Africa have assessed aspects of the health and nutritional status of South Africans with respect to the prevalence of NCDs (specifically cardiovascular disease, diabetes and hypertension) and their risk factors (diet, physical activity and tobacco use).<\/p>\n<p>Such sources have collected health survey data on many thousands of households and have collected clinical informaiton on smaller subsets of participants. These sources have found that the prevalence of impaired glucose homeostasis is nearly 20% with prevalence of diabetes [as measured by HbA1c &gt; 6.5%]\u00a0 being over 9%.<\/p>\n<p>The research is in two phases:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A preliminary phase to determine the sample size of persons 0-14 years of age with the appropriate metrics for analysis (see Scope of Work, below).\u00a0 Phase 2 is done given a useful sample size.<\/li>\n<li>An analysis of the possible factors influencing blood sugar (as measured by HbA1c)\u00a0 in this population.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Scope of Work:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This work is intended to be a preliminary descriptive analysis of\u00a0 the socioeconomic status, health risk factors and blood sugar in the South African\u00a0 population aged 14 or less. Type 1 diabetes typically manifests itself at a young age. Little is known about its prevalence in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>There is a strong inference that an HbA1c &gt; 6.5% found in the age group 0-14 is more likely than not to be Type 1 diabetes which is an autoimmune disease of unknown cause- as compared to Type 2 diabetes which is more common and related to genetics and \u2018lifestyle\u2019. Factors to be analysed are: blood sugar, obesity, BMI, nutritional status.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum skills required\/desired:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good to excellent familiarity with SAS, R, SPSS, or STATA and Excel\u00ae<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time \/ Date Expectations :<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom January 2016-June 2016:\u00a0 We would expect no more than 2-3 hours per week<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Material Requested: <\/strong>None<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of Positions:<\/strong> One (1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Logistics &amp; Support:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunity ID: 02-Kaplan Project Title: A South African \u201cDatamining\u201d Exercise: Descriptive analysis of child health in South Africa: Type 1 diabetes Faculty Mentor:\u00a0 Warren Kaplan and Andrew Stokes Description Statement: Various sources of\u00a0 data from South Africa have assessed aspects of the health and nutritional status of South Africans with respect to the prevalence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8655,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10322,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10320\/revisions\/10322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}