Robert’s Working Blog

This website looks quite interesting:
http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/14332_1157.asp

Most premature babies (71.2 percent) are born between 34 and 36 weeks of gestation (1). These are called late preterm births. Almost 13 percent of premature babies are born between 32 and 33 weeks of gestation, about 10 percent between 28 and 31 weeks, and about 6 percent at less than 28 weeks of gestation (1).

1. Dave wants to build ODE equation for all eight blood hormones. He thinks “placental size” should be there.
2. HPA axis
3. read roger’s nature science paper to start to build ODE equations
4. women’s blood track aloong trajectories

http://www.medicinenet.com/fetal-development-pictures-slideshow/article.htm

1. Define trajectories
2. estimating risk from trajectories

1. has asked Prachi to filter non-existing blood recrod patients
2. once it is finished, we can build a new function “DataRecording” to filter risk factors

1. work on twin-blood data
2. PSN=183, 538 has been deleted, because the number of data set is less than 3 (or at least for some blood hormone is)

1. have finished automatically calculate the median/mean value for 8 blood hormones
2. save all median/mean values in the folder
Needs to be done:
1. load .mat file to see the different
2. figure out risk factors

http://www.epi.unimelb.edu.au/courses#CoursePgrad

Building a new data set for blood only.
get rid of blood samples after birth
get rid of twins
modify the new risk factors and can play by combining consideration of multiple risk factors

1. after three days working, still haven’t solved join and union problem for “blood and ultrasound” data, so now, please referee to “blood-ultrasound” query to get the data.
2. but you needs to mannually fix problems below:

• get rid of “sampleondelivery” column
• manually merge the excel data
• fix some incorrect character
• convert to text for excel item
• get rid of twins

Patient ID=186, manually add gestation age=268
PSN=243, ultrasound data is deleted
PSN=526, ultrasound data is deleted
PSN=554, ultrasound data is deleted
PSN=562, ultrasound data is deleted
PSN=590, ultrasound data is deleted