Browsing by Subject "epidemiology"
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Acquisition, Analysis, and Sharing of Data in 2015 and Beyond: A Survey of the Landscape: A Conference Report From the American Heart Association Data Summit 2015.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2015-11-05)BACKGROUND: A 1.5-day interactive forum was convened to discuss critical issues in the acquisition, analysis, and sharing of data in the field of cardiovascular and stroke science. The discussion will serve as the foundation ... -
Addressing the Menace of Enterococcal Endocarditis.
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Bioaerosol Sampling in Clinical Settings: A Promising, Noninvasive Approach for Detecting Respiratory Viruses.
(Open Forum Infect Dis, 2017)BACKGROUND: Seeking a noninvasive method to conduct surveillance for respiratory pathogens, we sought to examine the usefulness of 2 types of off-the-shelf aerosol samplers to detect respiratory viruses in Singapore. METHODS: ... -
Childhood bullying involvement predicts low-grade systemic inflammation into adulthood.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014-05-27)Bullying is a common childhood experience that involves repeated mistreatment to improve or maintain one's status. Victims display long-term social, psychological, and health consequences, whereas bullies display minimal ... -
Congenital Heart Disease Epidemiology in the United States: Blindly Feeling for the Charging Elephant.
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Disseminated Adenovirus Infection After Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation
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Elucidating the Genetic Basis of Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy
(2012)Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD) is a complex, late-onset disorder that is a frequent indication for corneal transplantation and affects women more frequently than men. Although linkage and association studies ... -
Geographic and Racial Disparities in Infant Hearing Loss.
(Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 2018-10-09)Objective Approximately 1 to 2 of every 1000 American newborns has hearing loss identified by newborn screening. This study was designed to determine if infant hearing loss is more common in socioeconomically disadvantaged ... -
Geographic Expansion of Lyme Disease in the Southeastern United States, 2000-2014.
(Open Forum Infect Dis, 2015-12)Background. The majority of Lyme disease cases in the United States are acquired on the east coast between northern Virginia and New England. In recent years the geographic extent of Lyme disease has been expanding, raising ... -
GWAS Identifies New Loci for Painful Temporomandibular Disorder.
(J Dent Res, 2017-01-01)Temporomandibular disorder (TMD) is a musculoskeletal condition characterized by pain and reduced function in the temporomandibular joint and/or associated masticatory musculature. Prevalence in the United States is 5% and ... -
Health Disparities and Prostate Cancer: Can Educational Status, Race and Geographical Distance to Care Facilities Impact Risk and Severity on Initial Biopsy?
(2013)Introduction: Prostate Cancer (PC) screening has become a controversial topic both in the United States and abroad, stimulating debates surrounding who should and should not be screened. United States (USA) population-based ... -
High prevalence of Wuchereria bancrofti infection as detected by immunochromatographic card testing in five districts of Orissa, India, previously considered to be non-endemic
(2011-02)India accounts for over one-third of the world's burden of lymphatic filariasis (LF). Although most coastal districts of Orissa state (eastern India) are LF-endemic, the western districts of Orissa are considered non-endemic. ... -
Identifying the Burden of Pediatric Surgical Disease in Somaliland
(2018)Background: A staggering 5 billion people worldwide lack access to safe and affordable surgery, and surgical conditions contribute to up to 32% of the global disease burden. However, precise data on the burden of surgical ... -
Investigation of the role of environmental polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon endocrine disrupting chemicals in breast cancer
(2021)Cancers are a complex set of related diseases with wide ranging etiologies, and humans are exposed to a milieu of environmental exposures that may contribute to disease development. Breast cancer in particular is a complex ... -
Panel Study in Beijing: The Effects of PM2.5 in Pre-diabetic Populations
(2015)Background - Multiple research studies have demonstrated consistent associations between particulate matter smaller than 2.5 µm in diameter (PM2.5) and relevant health endpoints of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and metabolic ... -
Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test, the DunedinPoAm DNA methylation algorithm.
(eLife, 2020-05-05)Biological aging is the gradual, progressive decline in system integrity that occurs with advancing chronological age, causing morbidity and disability. Measurements of the pace of aging are needed as surrogate endpoints ... -
The Excess Burden of Cytomegalovirus in African American Communities: A Geospatial Analysis.
(Open Forum Infect Dis, 2015-12)Background. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common cause of birth defects and hearing loss in infants and opportunistic infections in the immunocompromised. Previous studies have found higher CMV seroprevalence rates among minorities ... -
The Impact of Socioeconomic Factors, Coverage and Access to Health on Heart Ischemic Disease Mortality in a Brazilian Southern State: A Geospatial Analysis.
(Global heart, 2021-01-20)<h4>Background</h4>No other disease has killed more than ischemic heart disease (IHD) for the past few years globally. Despite the advances in cardiology, the response time for starting treatment still leads patients to ... -
Trends in clinical, demographic, and biochemical characteristics of patients with acute myocardial infarction from 2003 to 2008: a report from the american heart association get with the guidelines coronary artery disease program.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2012-08)BACKGROUND: An analysis of the changes in the clinical and demographic characteristics of patients with acute myocardial infarction could identify successes and failures of risk factor identification and treatment of patients ... -
Validation, Assessment, and Application of the Bugando Cancer Registry for Radiotherapy Planning for the Lake Zone of Tanzania
(2018)Purpose: To validate, assess, and utilize the Bugando Cancer Registry (BCR) of Bugando Medical Centre (BMC), Mwanza, Tanzania for radiotherapy (RT) services planning.Methods: For BCR validation, we randomly sampled 63 total ...
