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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 ...
Initiation of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected adults with skin complaints in northern Tanzania.
(Int J Dermatol, 2015-01)
Abnormal skin findings are identified in over 90% of human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV)-infected persons globally. A prospective cohort study of HIV-infected patients
with skin complaints commencing antiretroviral therapy ...
Gastrointestinal morbidity as primary outcome measure in studies comparing crystalloid and colloid within a goal-directed therapy.
(British journal of anaesthesia, 2015-01)
Preschool anxiety disorders predict different patterns of amygdala-prefrontal connectivity at school-age.
(PLoS One, 2015)
OBJECTIVE: In this prospective, longitudinal study of young children, we examined
whether a history of preschool generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, and/or social
phobia is associated with amygdala-prefrontal dysregulation ...
Associations of PI3KR1 and mTOR polymorphisms with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma risk and gene-environment interactions in Eastern Chinese populations.
(Scientific reports, 2015-01)
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the PI3K/PTEN/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway
may contribute to carcinogenesis. We genotyped five potentially functional PIK3R1
and mTOR SNPs in 1116 esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC) ...
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 ...
Steps to Health employee weight management randomized control trial: short-term follow-up results.
(J Occup Environ Med, 2015-02)
OBJECTIVE: To present the short-term follow-up findings of the Steps to Health study,
a randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of two employee weight management
programs offered within Duke University and the Health ...
Effect of diabetes mellitus on giant cell arteritis.
(J Neuroophthalmol, 2015-06)
BACKGROUND: To determine if Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is protective against giant
cell arteritis (GCA) and to estimate the incidence of GCA diagnosis from Medicare
claims. METHODS: Medicare 5% claims files from 1991 ...
Nurse-led behavioral management of diabetes and hypertension in community practices: a randomized trial.
(J Gen Intern Med, 2015-05)
BACKGROUND: Several trials have demonstrated the efficacy of nurse telephone case
management for diabetes (DM) and hypertension (HTN) in academic or vertically integrated
systems. Little is known about the real-world potency ...