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Post-operative opioid pain management patterns for patients who receive hip surgery.
(Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy, 2017-03-16)
Identifying optimal, post-operative opioid management strategies is a priority of
health providers and government agencies. At present, there are no studies we are
aware of that have formally investigated opioid prescribing ...
Application of the estrogen threshold hypothesis to the physiologic hypoestrogenemia of lactation.
(Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, 2015-03)
OBJECTIVE: This study determined the impact of breastfeeding on hypoestrogenic symptoms
among women in the postpartum period and correlated these findings with the Estrogen
Threshold Hypothesis, which postulates that the ...
Intraobserver variability in fibroid size measurements: estimated effects on assessing fibroid growth.
(Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of
Ultrasound in Medicine, 2014-07)
To evaluate intraobserver variability of fibroid sonographic measurements and apply
this factor to fibroid growth assessment.Study participants were African American
women aged 23 to 34 years who had never had a diagnosis ...
Chagas Disease Screening in Maternal Donors of Publicly Banked Umbilical Cord Blood, United States.
(Emerging infectious diseases, 2016-08)
To assess patterns of Chagas disease, we reviewed results of screening umbilical cord
blood from a US public cord blood bank during 2007-2014. Nineteen maternal donors
tested positive for Trypanosoma cruzi parasites (0.04%). ...
Awareness of Cervical Cancer Causes and Predeterminants of Likelihood to Screen Among Women in Haiti.
(Journal of lower genital tract disease, 2017-01)
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Haiti. Given
this high disease burden, we sought to better understand women's knowledge of its
causes and the sociodemographic and health correlates of ...
Perspectives from Patients and Healthcare Providers on the Practice of Maternal Placentophagy.
(Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 2017-01)
Placentophagy (maternal consumption of the placenta) has become increasingly prevalent
in the past decade among women seeking to promote health and healing during the postpartum
period. The purpose of this study was to assess ...
Changing cancer survival in China during 2003-15: a pooled analysis of 17 population-based cancer registries.
(The Lancet. Global health, 2018-05)
From 2003 to 2005, standardised 5-year cancer survival in China was much lower than
in developed countries and varied substantially by geographical area. Monitoring population-level
cancer survival is crucial to the understanding ...
A putatively functional polymorphism in the HTR2C gene is associated with depressive symptoms in white females reporting significant life stress.
(PloS one, 2014-01)
Psychosocial stress is well known to be positively associated with subsequent depressive
symptoms. Cortisol response to stress may be one of a number of biological mechanisms
that links psychological stress to depressive ...
Predictive Modeling of Length of Hospital Stay Following Adult Spinal Deformity Correction: Analysis of 653 Patients with an Accuracy of 75% within 2 Days.
(World neurosurgery, 2018-07)
Length of stay (LOS) after surgery for adult spinal deformity (ASD) is a critical
period that allows for optimal recovery. Predictive models that estimate LOS allow
for stratification of high-risk patients.A prospectively ...
Personal DNA testing in college classrooms: perspectives of students and professors.
(Genetic testing and molecular biomarkers, 2013-06)
Discourse on the integration of personal genetics and genomics into classrooms is
increasing; however, limited data have been collected on the perspectives of students
and professors. We conducted a cross-sectional survey ...