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Emotion dysregulation and drinking to cope as predictors and consequences of alcohol-involved sexual assault: examination of short-term and long-term risk.
(J Interpers Violence, 2015-02)
The present study examined emotion dysregulation, coping drinking motives, and alcohol-related
problems as predictors and consequences of alcohol-involved sexual assault (AISA).
A convenience sample of 424 college women ...
Simplified Predictive Instrument to Rule Out Acute Coronary Syndromes in a High-Risk Population.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2015-12-14)
BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether diagnostic protocols based on cardiac markers to
identify low-risk chest pain patients suitable for early release from the emergency
department can be applied to patients older than 65 years ...
Ventricular conduction and long-term heart failure outcomes and mortality in African Americans: insights from the Jackson Heart Study.
(Circ Heart Fail, 2015-03)
BACKGROUND: QRS prolongation is associated with adverse outcomes in mostly white populations,
but its clinical significance is not well established for other groups. We investigated
the association between QRS duration and ...
Identifying Adolescent Patients at Risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections: Development of a Brief Sexual Health Screening Survey.
(Clinical pediatrics, 2015-08)
This study examined the association between survey responses to health behaviors,
personality/psychosocial factors, and self-reported sexually transmitted infections
(STIs) to create a brief survey to identify youth at risk ...
A neural biomarker of psychological vulnerability to future life stress.
(Neuron, 2015-02-04)
We all experience a host of common life stressors such as the death of a family member,
medical illness, and financial uncertainty. While most of us are resilient to such
stressors, continuing to function normally, for a ...
Acute infectious morbidity in multiple gestation.
(Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol, 2015)
OBJECTIVES: Physiologic and immunologic changes in pregnancy result in increased susceptibility
to infection. These shifts are more pronounced in pregnancies complicated by multiple
gestation. The objective of this study ...
Preoperative predictors of extended hospital length of stay following total knee arthroplasty.
(J Arthroplasty, 2015-03)
The purpose of this study was to identify the preoperative predictors of hospital
length of stay after primary total knee arthroplasty in a patient population reflecting
current trends toward shorter hospitalization and ...
Persistent high serum bicarbonate and the risk of heart failure in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD): A report from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study.
(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2015-04-20)
Serum bicarbonate varies over time in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, and this
variability may portend poor cardiovascular outcomes. The aim of this study was to
conduct a time-updated longitudinal analysis to evaluate ...
Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in U.S. Community Practice--Results From Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF).
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2015-05-21)
BACKGROUND: The characteristics of patients undergoing atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation
and subsequent outcomes in community practice are not well described. METHODS AND
RESULTS: Using the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed ...
A cohort study of 4,190 patients treated with low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS): findings in the elderly versus all patients.
(BMC Musculoskelet Disord, 2015-03-01)
BACKGROUND: Patient age is one of many potential risk factors for fracture nonunion.
Our hypothesis is that older patients (≥ 60) with fracture risk factors treated with
low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) have similar ...