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A combination SMS and transportation reimbursement intervention to improve HIV care following abnormal CD4 test results in rural Uganda: a prospective observational cohort study
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Up to 50 % of HIV-infected persons in sub-Saharan Africa are lost from care between HIV diagnosis and antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation. Structural barriers, including cost of transportation to clinic and ... -
Combinatorial Recruitment of CREB, C/EBPβ and c-Jun Determines Activation of Promoters upon Keratinocyte Differentiation
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Background: Transcription factors CREB, C/EBPβ and Jun regulate genes involved in keratinocyte proliferation and differentiation. We questioned if specific combinations of CREB, C/EBPβ and c-Jun bound to promoters correlate ... -
Combined associations of body weight and lifestyle factors with all cause and cause specific mortality in men and women: prospective cohort study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)OBJECTIVE To evaluate the combined associations of diet, physical activity, moderate alcohol consumption, and smoking with body weight on risk of all cause and cause specific mortality. DESIGN Longitudinal study with up ... -
Combined impact of healthy lifestyle factors on colorectal cancer: a large European cohort study
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Excess body weight, physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption and certain dietary factors are individually related to colorectal cancer (CRC) risk; however, little is known about their joint effects. The ... -
Combined impact of lifestyle factors on mortality: prospective cohort study in US women
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2008)Objective: To evaluate the impact of combinations of lifestyle factors on mortality in middle aged women. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Nurses’ health study, United States. Participants: 77 782 women aged 34 ... -
The Combined Influence of Multiple Sex and Growth Hormones on Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer: A Nested Case-control Study
(BioMed Central, 2011)Introduction: Sex and growth hormones are positively associated with postmenopausal breast cancer risk. However, few studies have evaluated the influence of multiple hormones simultaneously. Methods: We considered the roles ... -
Combined Lymphedema and Capillary Malformation of the Lower Extremity
(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2016)Background: Primary lymphedema and capillary malformation are independent vascular malformations that can cause overgrowth of the lower extremity. We report a series of patients who had both types of malformations affecting ... -
A combined reference panel from the 1000 Genomes and UK10K projects improved rare variant imputation in European and Chinese samples
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)Imputation using the 1000 Genomes haplotype reference panel has been widely adapted to estimate genotypes in genome wide association studies. To evaluate imputation quality with a relatively larger reference panel and a ... -
Combining Effects from Rare and Common Genetic Variants in an Exome-Wide Association Study of Sequence Data
(BioMed Central, 2011)Recent breakthroughs in next-generation sequencing technologies allow cost-effective methods for measuring a growing list of cellular properties, including DNA sequence and structural variation. Next-generation sequencing ... -
Combining Explicit and Implicit Measures of Racial Discrimination in Health Research
(American Public Health Association, 2010)Objectives. To improve measurement of discrimination for health research, we sought to address the concern that explicit self-reports of racial discrimination may not capture unconscious cognition. Methods. We used 2 ... -
Combining fine-scale social contact data with epidemic modelling reveals interactions between contact tracing, quarantine, testing and physical distancing for controlling COVID-19
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2020-05-27)Case isolation and contact tracing can contribute to the control of COVID-19 outbreaks1,2. However, it remains unclear how real-world networks could influence the effectiveness and efficiency of such approaches. To address ... -
Combining general practice with international work: online survey of experiences of UK GPs
(Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2012)Objectives: To conduct an exploratory study to learn about the experiences of GPs who have undertaken international work. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Setting: Online survey of UK-based GPs. Members of all UK RCGP ... -
Combining Healthcare-Based and Participatory Approaches to Surveillance: Trends in Diarrheal and Respiratory Conditions Collected by a Mobile Phone System by Community Health Workers in Rural Nepal
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Background: Surveillance systems are increasingly relying upon community-based or crowd-sourced data to complement traditional facilities-based data sources. Data collected by community health workers during the routine ... -
Combining SNP-to-gene linking strategies to identify disease genes and assess disease omnigenicity
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-06)Disease-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) generally do not implicate target genes, as most disease SNPs are regulatory. Many SNP-to-gene (S2G) linking strategies have been developed to link regulatory SNPs ... -
Combining statistics from two national complex surveys to estimate injury rates per hour exposed and variance by activity in the USA
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)Background: A common issue in descriptive injury epidemiology is that in order to calculate injury rates that account for the time spent in an activity, both injury cases and exposure time of specific activities need to ... -
Comfort and Utility of School-Based Weight Screening: The Student Perspective
(BioMed Central, 2008)Background: Weight screening in schools has been proposed as one strategy to address childhood obesity. Students' response to such screening is unexplored, however. In this study we evaluated the perceived comfort, utility ... -
Commentary: sex difference differences? A reply to Constantino
(BioMed Central, 2016)Messinger et al. found a 3.18 odds ratio of male to female ASD recurrence in 1241 prospectively followed high-risk (HR) siblings. Among high-risk siblings (with and without ASD), as well as among 583 low-risk controls, ... -
Comments on John D. Keen and James E. Keen, What is the point: will screening mammography save my life? BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2009
(BioMed Central, 2009)This paper by John D. Keen and James E. Keen addresses a thorny subject. The numerical findings and commentaries in their paper will be disturbing to some readers and seem to defy logic and well established viewpoints. It ...