Social and health implications of plant remedies of the James Bay Cree for symptoms of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In order to develop a culturally appropriate strategy to contend with the rising type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) epidemic among Canadian Aboriginals, quantitative and qualitative analyses were performed. The study assessed current consumption trends of traditional foods (TF) and medicines (TM) and in vitro antioxidant and anti-atherogenic potential of eight medicinal plants used for treatment of symptoms of DM2. Interviews with 173 adults of Mistissini revealed a decreased consumption of TFs and TMs in younger generations in comparison to elders (p<0.05). Four plants demonstrated free radical scavenging activity akin to standard controls (p<0.05). All plants effectively protected against the cytotoxic effects of oxidized low-density lipoproteins (ox-LDL) in relation to controls (p<0.05). All plants significantly inhibited lipid peroxidation compared to ox-LDL (p<0.05). Further animal and clinical trials are needed, but these plants, may in the least, contribute positively to an intervention strategy incorporating traditional plants in treatment of symptoms of DM2.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".