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    • Adult Weight Gain and Adiposity-Related Cancers: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Observational Studies 

      Keum, NaNa; Greenwood, Darren C.; Lee, Dong Hoon; Kim, Rockli; Aune, Dagfinn; Ju, Woong; Hu, Frank B.; Giovannucci, Edward L. (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      Background: Adiposity, measured by body mass index, is implicated in carcinogenesis. While adult weight gain has diverse advantages over body mass index in measuring adiposity, systematic reviews on adult weight gain in ...

    • Adulthood weight change and risk of colorectal cancer in the Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study 

      Song, Mingyang; Hu, Frank; Spiegelman, Donna; Chan, Andrew; Wu, Kana; Ogino, Shuji; Fuchs, Charles; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Giovannucci, Edward (American Association for Cancer Research, 2015)
      We investigated the association between adulthood weight change and colorectal cancer risk in a prospective study with 24 to 34 years of follow-up among 90,988 women and 46,679 men. The primary exposures included weight ...

    • The ADVANCE network: accelerating data value across a national community health center network 

      DeVoe, Jennifer E; Gold, Rachel; Cottrell, Erika; Bauer, Vance; Brickman, Andrew; Puro, Jon; Nelson, Christine; Mayer, Kenneth H; Sears, Abigail; Burdick, Tim; Merrell, Jonathan; Matthews, Paul; Fields, Scott (BMJ Publishing Group, 2014)
      The ADVANCE (Accelerating Data Value Across a National Community Health Center Network) clinical data research network (CDRN) is led by the OCHIN Community Health Information Network in partnership with Health Choice Network ...

    • Advanced computational modeling for in vitro nanomaterial dosimetry 

      DeLoid, Glen M.; Cohen, Joel M.; Pyrgiotakis, Georgios; Pirela, Sandra V.; Pal, Anoop; Liu, Jiying; Srebric, Jelena; Demokritou, Philip (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Accurate and meaningful dose metrics are a basic requirement for in vitro screening to assess potential health risks of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs). Correctly and consistently quantifying what cells “see,” ...

    • Advances in diagnosis and treatment of eosinophilia 

      Sheikh, Javed; Weller, Peter Fahey (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2009)
      Purpose of review — Hypereosinophilic syndromes (HESs) are disorders characterized by sustained blood or tissue hypereosinophilia or both with subsequent damage to various organs due to eosinophilic infiltration and release ...

    • Advances in Oral Health Knowledge of Greek Navy Recruits and their Socioeconomic Determinants 

      Zavras, Athanasios I.; Vrahopoulos, Theofilos P; Souliotis, Kyriakos; Silvestros, Spyros; Vrotsos, Ioannis (BioMed Central, 2002)
      Background: The aim of the present study was to evaluate temporal changes on oral health knowledge and attitudes among two populations of young Greek males (age 19–29 years) undergoing their military training. A secondary ...

    • Advances in the Science, Treatment, and Prevention of the Disease of Obesity: Reflections From a Diabetes Care Editors’ Expert Forum 

      Cefalu, William T.; Bray, George A.; Home, Philip D.; Garvey, W. Timothy; Klein, Samuel; Pi-Sunyer, F. Xavier; Hu, Frank B.; Raz, Itamar; Van Gaal, Luc; Wolfe, Bruce M.; Ryan, Donna H. (American Diabetes Association, 2015)
      As obesity rates increase, so too do the risks of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and numerous other detrimental conditions. The prevalence of obesity in U.S. adults more than doubled between 1980 and 2010, from ...

    • Advances in translational bioinformatics facilitate revealing the landscape of complex disease mechanisms 

      Yang, Jack Y; Dunker, A Keith; Liu, Jun S; Qin, Xiang; Arabnia, Hamid R; Yang, William; Niemierko, Andrzej; Chen, Zhongxue; Luo, Zuojie; Wang, Liangjiang; Liu, Yunlong; Xu, Dong; Deng, Youping; Tong, Weida; Yang, Mary Qu (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Advances of high-throughput technologies have rapidly produced more and more data from DNAs and RNAs to proteins, especially large volumes of genome-scale data. However, connection of the genomic information to cellular ...

    • Advancing Survivors’ Knowledge (ASK) about skin cancer study: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial 

      Daniel, Casey L; Armstrong, Gregory T; Keske, Robyn R; Davine, Jessica A; McDonald, Aaron J; Sprunck-Harrild, Kim M; Coleman, Catherine; Haneuse, Sebastien J; Mertens, Ann C; Emmons, Karen M; Marghoob, Ashfaq A; Elkin, Elena B; Dusza, Stephen W; Robison, Leslie L; Geller, Alan C (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Advances in treatment have increased childhood cancer 5-year survival rates to greater than 80%. However, children previously treated with radiation are at significantly increased risk of developing subsequent ...

    • Advancing the field of health systems research synthesis 

      Langlois, Etienne V.; Ranson, Michael K.; Bärnighausen, Till; Bosch-Capblanch, Xavier; Daniels, Karen; El-Jardali, Fadi; Ghaffar, Abdul; Grimshaw, Jeremy; Haines, Andy; Lavis, John N.; Lewin, Simon; Meng, Qingyue; Oliver, Sandy; Pantoja, Tomás; Straus, Sharon; Shemilt, Ian; Tovey, David; Tugwell, Peter; Waddington, Hugh; Wilson, Mark; Yuan, Beibei; Røttingen, John-Arne (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Those planning, managing and working in health systems worldwide routinely need to make decisions regarding strategies to improve health care and promote equity. Systematic reviews of different kinds can be of great help ...

    • Advancing the Science of Developmental Neurotoxicity (DNT): Testing for Better Safety Evaluation 

      Bal-Price, Anna; Coecke, Sandra; Crofton, Kevin; Fritsche, Ellen; Goldberg, Alan; Grandjean, Philippe; Lein, Pamela; Li, Abby; Lucchini, Roberto; Mundy, William R.; Padilla, Stephanie; Persico, Antonio; Seiler, Andrea; Kreysa, Joachim (ALTEX Edition, 2012)

    • Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care 

      Gandhi, Tejal; Weingart, Saul N.; Borus, Joshua; Seger, Andrew C; Peterson, Josh; Burdick, Elisabeth; Seger, Diane L.; Small, Kirstin; Federico, Frank; Leape, Lucian; Bates, David (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2003-04-17)
      Background: Adverse events related to drugs occur frequently among inpatients, and many of these events are preventable. However, few data are available on adverse drug events among outpatients. We conducted a study to ...

    • Adverse Effects of Methylmercury: Environmental Health Research Implications 

      Grandjean, Philippe; Satoh, Hiroshi; Murata, Katsuyuki; Eto, Komyo (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2010)
      Background: The scientific discoveries of health risks resulting from methylmercury exposure began in 1865 describing ataxia, dysarthria, constriction of visual fields, impaired hearing, and sensory disturbance as symptoms ...

    • The Affordable Care Act Has Led To Significant Gains In Health Insurance And Access To Care For Young Adults 

      Sommers, Benjamin Daniel; Buchmueller, Thomas; Decker, Sandra; Carey, Colleen; Kronick, Richard (Health Affairs (Project Hope), 2012)
      The Affordable Care Act enables young adults to remain as dependents on their parents’ health insurance until age twenty-six, and recent evidence suggests that as many as three million young adults have gained coverage as ...

    • Afghanistan's Ethnic Groups Share a Y-Chromosomal Heritage Structured by Historical Events 

      Haber, Marc; Platt, Daniel E.; Ashrafian Bonab, Maziar; Youhanna, Sonia C.; Soria-Hernanz, David F.; Martínez-Cruz, Begoña; Douaihy, Bouchra; Ghassibe-Sabbagh, Michella; Rafatpanah, Hoshang; Ghanbari, Mohsen; Whale, John; Balanovsky, Oleg; Wells, R. Spencer; Comas, David; Tyler-Smith, Chris; Zalloua, Pierre A.; The Genographic Consortium (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Afghanistan has held a strategic position throughout history. It has been inhabited since the Paleolithic and later became a crossroad for expanding civilizations and empires. Afghanistan's location, history, and diverse ...

    • African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer: position and vision for cancer research on the African Continent 

      Ogunbiyi, J. Olufemi; Stefan, D. Cristina; Rebbeck, Timothy R. (BioMed Central, 2016)
      The African Organization for Research and training in Cancer (AORTIC) bases the following position statements on a critical appraisal of the state on cancer research and cancer care in Africa including information on the ...

    • After abduction: exploring access to reintegration programs and mental health status among young female abductees in Northern Uganda 

      Muldoon, Katherine A; Muzaaya, Godfrey; Betancourt, Theresa S; Ajok, Mirriam; Akello, Monica; Petruf, Zaira; Nguyen, Paul; Baines, Erin K; Shannon, Kate (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Reintegration programs are commonly offered to former combatants and abductees to acquire civilian status and support services to reintegrate into post-conflict society. Among a group of young female abductees ...

    • Age and Gender Moderate the Impact of Early Palliative Care in Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer 

      Nipp, Ryan D.; Greer, Joseph A.; El-Jawahri, Areej; Traeger, Lara; Gallagher, Emily R.; Park, Elyse R.; Jackson, Vicki A.; Pirl, William F.; Temel, Jennifer S. (AlphaMed Press, 2016)
      Background. Studies demonstrate that early palliative care (EPC) improves advanced cancer patients’ quality of life (QOL) and mood. However, it remains unclear whether the role of palliative care differs based upon patients’ ...

    • Age and sharing of needle injection equipment in a cohort of Massachusetts injection drug users: an observational study 

      Tassiopoulos, Katherine; Bernstein, Judith; Bernstein, Edward (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Hepatitis C infection (HCV) among individuals aged 15–24 years has increased in Massachusetts, likely due to injection drug use. The prevalence of injection equipment sharing (sharing) and its association with ...

    • Age- and Serogroup-Related Differences in Observed Durations of Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Penicillin-Resistant Pneumococci 

      Högberg, Liselotte; Geli, Patricia; Ringberg, Håkan; Melander, Eva; Lipsitch, Marc; Ekdahl, Karl (American Society for Microbiology, 2007)
      Using data from an ongoing Swedish intervention project, the observed durations of nasopharyngeal carriage of penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae (PNSP) (MIC of penicillin G of >= 0.5 mu g/ml) stratified ...