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    • Fatty acids in the de novo lipogenesis pathway and risk of coronary heart disease: the Cardiovascular Health Study 

      Wu, Jason H. Y.; Lemaitre, Rozenn N.; Imamura, Fumiaki; King, Irena B.; Song, Xiaoling; Spiegelman, Donna; Siscovick, David S.; Mozaffarian, Dariush (Oxford University Press, 2011)
      Background: De novo lipogenesis (DNL) is an endogenous pathway whereby carbohydrates and proteins are converted to fatty acids. DNL could affect coronary heart disease (CHD) or sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) via generation ...

    • Feasibility and impact of Creciendo Sanos, a clinic-based pilot intervention to prevent obesity among preschool children in Mexico City 

      Martínez-Andrade, Gloria Oliva; Cespedes, Elizabeth M; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L; Romero-Quechol, Guillermina; González-Unzaga, Marco Aurelio; Benítez-Trejo, María Amalia; Flores-Huerta, Samuel; Horan, Chrissy; Haines, Jess; Taveras, Elsie M; Pérez-Cuevas, Ricardo; Gillman, Matthew W (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Mexico has the highest adult overweight and obesity prevalence in the Americas; 23.8% of children <5 years old are at risk for overweight and 9.7% are already overweight or obese. Creciendo Sanos was a pilot ...

    • The Feasibility and Impact of Delivering a Mind-Body Intervention in a Virtual World 

      Linton, Deborah A.; Bello, Heather E.; Senelly, Marco; Milik, Mariola T.; Baim, Margaret A.; Hoch, Daniel B.; Watson, Alice Joan; Jethwani, Kamal Shanker; Fricchione, Gregory Lewis; Benson, Herbert; Kvedar, Joseph Charles (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Introduction: Mind-body medical approaches may ameliorate chronic disease. Stress reduction is particularly helpful, but face-to-face delivery systems cannot reach all those who might benefit. An online, 3-dimensional ...

    • Feasibility of a large cohort study in sub-Saharan Africa assessed through a four-country study 

      Dalal, Shona; Holmes, Michelle D.; Laurence, Carien; Bajunirwe, Francis; Guwatudde, David; Njelekela, Marina; Adebamowo, Clement; Nankya-Mutyoba, Joan; Chiwanga, Faraja S.; Volmink, Jimmy; Ajayi, Ikeoluwapo; Kalyesubula, Robert; Reid, Todd G.; Dockery, Douglas; Hemenway, David; Adami, Hans-Olov (Co-Action Publishing, 2015)
      Background: Large prospective epidemiologic studies are vital in determining disease etiology and forming national health policy. Yet, such studies do not exist in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) notwithstanding the growing burden ...

    • Feasibility of Distributing Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria in the Retail Sector: Evidence from an Implementation Study in Uganda 

      Cohen, Jessica; Fink, Günther; Berg, Katrina; Aber, Flavia; Jordan, Matthew; Maloney, Kathleen; Dickens, William (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Background: Despite the benefits of malaria diagnosis, most presumed malaria episodes are never tested. A primary reason is the absence of diagnostic tests in retail establishments, where many patients seek care. Malaria ...

    • Feasibility of High-Throughput Genome-Wide Genotyping using DNA from Stored Buccal Cell Samples 

      Loomis, Stephanie J.; Olson, Lana M.; Mirel, Daniel; Crenshaw, Andrew; Rahhal, Brandon; Tetreault, Stephanie; Kraft, Peter; Haines, Jonathan L.; Pasquale, Louis; Wiggs, Janey Lee; Parkin, Melissa; Tworoger, Shelley Slate; Kang, Jae Hee Hee (Libertas Academica, 2010)
      It is unclear if buccal cell samples contain sufficient human DNA with adequately sized fragments for high throughput genetic bioassays. Yet buccal cell sample collection is an attractive alternative to gathering blood ...

    • Feasibility of Using a Web-Based Nutrition Intervention Among Residents of Multiethnic Working-Class Neighborhoods 

      McNeill, Lorna H; Bennett, Gary G.; Viswanath, Kasisomayajula; Emmons, Karen Maria; Puleo, Elaine (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007)
      Introduction: Using the Internet to promote behavior change is becoming more desirable as Internet use continues to increase among diverse audiences. Yet we know very little about whether this medium is useful or about ...

    • Feature Selection and Prediction of Treatment Failure in Tuberculosis 

      Sauer, Christopher Martin; Sasson, David; Paik, Kenneth E.; McCague, Ned; Celi, Leo Anthony; Sanchez Fernandez, Ivan; Illigens, Ben (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-11-20)
      Background Tuberculosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. Drug resistance, which is predicted to rise in many countries worldwide, threatens tuberculosis treatment and control. Objective To ...

    • Federal Funding Insulated State Budgets From Increased Spending Related To Medicaid Expansion 

      Sommers, Benjamin Daniel; Gruber, Jonathan (Health Affairs (Project Hope), 2017)
      As states weigh whether to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid reform remains a priority for some federal lawmakers, fiscal considerations loom large. As part of the ACA’s expansion of eligibility ...

    • Federated learning for predicting clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19 

      Dayan, Ittai; Roth, Holger R.; Zhong, Aoxiao; Harouni, Ahmed; Gentili, Amilcare; Abidin, Anas Z.; Liu, Andrew; Costa, Anthony Beardsworth; Wood, Bradford J.; Tsai, Chien-Sung; Wang, Chih-Hung; Hsu, Chun-Nan; Lee, C. K.; Ruan, Peiying; Xu, Daguang; Wu, Dufan; Huang, Eddie; Kitamura, Felipe Campos; Lacey, Griffin; de Antônio Corradi, Gustavo César; Nino, Gustavo; Shin, Hao-Hsin; Obinata, Hirofumi; Ren, Hui; Crane, Jason C.; Tetreault, Jesse; Guan, Jiahui; Garrett, John W.; Kaggie, Joshua D.; Park, Jung Gil; Dreyer, Keith; Juluru, Krishna; Kersten, Kristopher; Rockenbach, Marcio Aloisio Bezerra Cavalcanti; Linguraru, Marius George; Haider, Masoom A.; AbdelMaseeh, Meena; Rieke, Nicola; Damasceno, Pablo F.; e Silva, Pedro Mario Cruz; Wang, Pochuan; Xu, Sheng; Kawano, Shuichi; Sriswasdi, Sira; Park, Soo Young; Grist, Thomas M.; Buch, Varun; Jantarabenjakul, Watsamon; Wang, Weichung; Tak, Won Young; Li, Xiang; Lin, Xihong; Kwon, Young Joon; Quraini, Abood; Feng, Andrew; Priest, Andrew N.; Turkbey, Baris; Glicksberg, Benjamin; Bizzo, Bernardo; Kim, Byung Seok; Tor-Díez, Carlos; Lee, Chia-Cheng; Hsu, Chia-Jung; Lin, Chin; Lai, Chiu-Ling; Hess, Christopher P.; Compas, Colin; Bhatia, Deepeksha; Oermann, Eric K.; Leibovitz, Evan; Sasaki, Hisashi; Mori, Hitoshi; Yang, Isaac; Sohn, Jae Ho; Murthy, Krishna Nand Keshava; Fu, Li-Chen; de Mendonça, Matheus Ribeiro Furtado; Fralick, Mike; Kang, Min Kyu; Adil, Mohammad; Gangai, Natalie; Vateekul, Peerapon; Elnajjar, Pierre; Hickman, Sarah; Majumdar, Sharmila; McLeod, Shelley L.; Reed, Sheridan; Gräf, Stefan; Harmon, Stephanie; Kodama, Tatsuya; Puthanakit, Thanyawee; Mazzulli, Tony; de Lavor, Vitor Lima; Rakvongthai, Yothin; Lee, Yu Rim; Wen, Yuhong; Gilbert, Fiona J.; Flores, Mona G.; Li, Quanzheng (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-09-15)

    • Female chromosome X mosaicism is age-related and preferentially affects the inactivated X chromosome 

      Machiela, Mitchell J.; Zhou, Weiyin; Karlins, Eric; Sampson, Joshua N.; Freedman, Neal D.; Yang, Qi; Hicks, Belynda; Dagnall, Casey; Hautman, Christopher; Jacobs, Kevin B.; Abnet, Christian C.; Aldrich, Melinda C.; Amos, Christopher; Amundadottir, Laufey T.; Arslan, Alan A.; Beane-Freeman, Laura E.; Berndt, Sonja I.; Black, Amanda; Blot, William J.; Bock, Cathryn H.; Bracci, Paige M.; Brinton, Louise A.; Bueno-de-Mesquita, H Bas; Burdett, Laurie; Buring, Julie E.; Butler, Mary A.; Canzian, Federico; Carreón, Tania; Chaffee, Kari G.; Chang, I-Shou; Chatterjee, Nilanjan; Chen, Chu; Chen, Constance; Chen, Kexin; Chung, Charles C.; Cook, Linda S.; Crous Bou, Marta; Cullen, Michael; Davis, Faith G.; De Vivo, Immaculata; Ding, Ti; Doherty, Jennifer; Duell, Eric J.; Epstein, Caroline G.; Fan, Jin-Hu; Figueroa, Jonine D.; Fraumeni, Joseph F.; Friedenreich, Christine M.; Fuchs, Charles S.; Gallinger, Steven; Gao, Yu-Tang; Gapstur, Susan M.; Garcia-Closas, Montserrat; Gaudet, Mia M.; Gaziano, J. Michael; Giles, Graham G.; Gillanders, Elizabeth M.; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Goldin, Lynn; Goldstein, Alisa M.; Haiman, Christopher A.; Hallmans, Goran; Hankinson, Susan E.; Harris, Curtis C.; Henriksson, Roger; Holly, Elizabeth A.; Hong, Yun-Chul; Hoover, Robert N.; Hsiung, Chao A.; Hu, Nan; Hu, Wei; Hunter, David J.; Hutchinson, Amy; Jenab, Mazda; Johansen, Christoffer; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Kim, Hee Nam; Kim, Yeul Hong; Kim, Young Tae; Klein, Alison P.; Klein, Robert; Koh, Woon-Puay; Kolonel, Laurence N.; Kooperberg, Charles; Kraft, Peter; Krogh, Vittorio; Kurtz, Robert C.; LaCroix, Andrea; Lan, Qing; Landi, Maria Teresa; Marchand, Loic Le; Li, Donghui; Liang, Xiaolin; Liao, Linda M.; Lin, Dongxin; Liu, Jianjun; Lissowska, Jolanta; Lu, Lingeng; Magliocco, Anthony M.; Malats, Nuria; Matsuo, Keitaro; McNeill, Lorna H.; McWilliams, Robert R.; Melin, Beatrice S.; Mirabello, Lisa; Moore, Lee; Olson, Sara H.; Orlow, Irene; Park, Jae Yong; Patiño-Garcia, Ana; Peplonska, Beata; Peters, Ulrike; Petersen, Gloria M.; Pooler, Loreall; Prescott, Jennifer; Prokunina-Olsson, Ludmila; Purdue, Mark P.; Qiao, You-Lin; Rajaraman, Preetha; Real, Francisco X.; Riboli, Elio; Risch, Harvey A.; Rodriguez-Santiago, Benjamin; Ruder, Avima M.; Savage, Sharon A.; Schumacher, Fredrick; Schwartz, Ann G.; Schwartz, Kendra L.; Seow, Adeline; Wendy Setiawan, Veronica; Severi, Gianluca; Shen, Hongbing; Sheng, Xin; Shin, Min-Ho; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Silverman, Debra T.; Spitz, Margaret R.; Stevens, Victoria L.; Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael; Stram, Daniel; Tang, Ze-Zhong; Taylor, Philip R.; Teras, Lauren R.; Tobias, Geoffrey S.; Van Den Berg, David; Visvanathan, Kala; Wacholder, Sholom; Wang, Jiu-Cun; Wang, Zhaoming; Wentzensen, Nicolas; Wheeler, William; White, Emily; Wiencke, John K.; Wolpin, Brian M.; Wong, Maria Pik; Wu, Chen; Wu, Tangchun; Wu, Xifeng; Wu, Yi-Long; Wunder, Jay S.; Xia, Lucy; Yang, Hannah P.; Yang, Pan-Chyr; Yu, Kai; Zanetti, Krista A.; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Zheng, Wei; Zhou, Baosen; Ziegler, Regina G.; Perez-Jurado, Luis A.; Caporaso, Neil E.; Rothman, Nathaniel; Tucker, Margaret; Dean, Michael C.; Yeager, Meredith; Chanock, Stephen J. (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      To investigate large structural clonal mosaicism of chromosome X, we analysed the SNP microarray intensity data of 38,303 women from cancer genome-wide association studies (20,878 cases and 17,425 controls) and detected ...

    • Female resistance to pneumonia identifies lung macrophage nitric oxide synthase-3 as a therapeutic target 

      Yang, Zhiping; Huang, Yuh-Chin T; Koziel, Henry; de Crom, Rini; Ruetten, Hartmut; Wohlfart, Paulus; Thomsen, Reimar W; Kahlert, Johnny A; Sørensen, Henrik Toft; Jozefowski, Szczepan; Colby, Amy; Kobzik, Lester (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2014)
      To identify new approaches to enhance innate immunity to bacterial pneumonia, we investigated the natural experiment of gender differences in resistance to infections. Female and estrogen-treated male mice show greater ...

    • Ferristatin II Promotes Degradation of Transferrin Receptor-1 In Vitro and In Vivo 

      Byrne, Shaina L.; Buckett, Peter D.; Kim, Jonghan; Luo, Flora; Sanford, Jack; Chen, Juxing; Enns, Caroline; Wessling-Resnick, Marianne (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Previous studies have shown that the small molecule iron transport inhibitor ferristatin (NSC30611) acts by down-regulating transferrin receptor-1 (TfR1) via receptor degradation. In this investigation, we show that another ...

    • Fertility Therapies, Infertility and Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Nurses’ Health Study II 

      Lyall, Kristen; Pauls, David L.; Spiegelman, Donna; Santangelo, Susan L.; Ascherio, Alberto (Wiley, 2012)
      Background: An increasing number of women are utilizing fertility treatments, but little is known about their relation to autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Methods: To determine the association between maternal fertility ...

    • Fetal Exposure to Parental Smoking and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Adult Women 

      Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; de Jonge, Layla L.; van Dam, Rob M.; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Harris, Holly; Stampfer, Meir; Hu, Frank B.; Michels, Karin B. (American Diabetes Association, 2014)
      OBJECTIVE We evaluated the associations of both maternal and paternal smoking during pregnancy with the risk of type 2 diabetes in daughters and explored whether any association was explained by weight at birth or BMI ...

    • Fetal Lead Exposure at Each Stage of Pregnancy as a Predictor of Infant Mental Development 

      Hu, Howard; Téllez-Rojo, Martha María; Lamadrid-Figueroa, Héctor; Schnaas, Lourdes; Mercado-García, Adriana; Hernández-Avila, Mauricio; Bellinger, David C.; Smith, Donald; Ettinger, Adrienne S; Schwartz, Joel David (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2006)
      Background: The impact of prenatal lead exposure on neurodevelopment remains unclear in terms of consistency, the trimester of greatest vulnerability, and the best method for estimating fetal lead exposure. Objective: We ...

    • Fetal Window of Vulnerability to Airborne Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Proportional Intrauterine Growth Restriction 

      Choi, Hyunok; Wang, Lu; Lin, Xihong; Spengler, John D.; Perera, Frederica P. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Background: Although the entire duration of fetal development is generally considered a highly susceptible period, it is of public health interest to determine a narrower window of heightened vulnerability to polycyclic ...

    • Fetuin-A and risk of coronary heart disease: a Mendelian randomization analysis and a pooled analysis of AHSG genetic variants in 7 prospective studies 

      Laugsand, Lars; Ix, Joachim; Bartz, Traci; Djousse, Luc; Kizer, Jorge; Tracy, Russell; Dehghan, Abbas; Rexrode, Kathryn; Lopez, Oscar; Rimm, Eric Bruce::0ab2926c8242f35e5a982e3cf59f4987::600; Siscovick, David; O'Donnell, Christopher J.; Newman, Anne; Mukamal, Kenneth; Jensen, Majken (Elsevier, 2015)
      Background and aims: Fetuin-A has a plausible role in the inhibition of arterial calcification, but its association with risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in the general population is unclear. We used two common genetic ...

    • Fetuin-A, Type 2 Diabetes, and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study 

      Jensen, Majken K.; Bartz, Traci M.; Mukamal, Kenneth J.; Djoussé, Luc; Kizer, Jorge R.; Tracy, Russell P.; Zieman, Susan J.; Rimm, Eric Bruce::0ab2926c8242f35e5a982e3cf59f4987::600; Siscovick, David S.; Shlipak, Michael; Ix, Joachim H. (American Diabetes Association, 2013)
      OBJECTIVE-Fetuin-A, a hepatic secretory protein that simultaneously inhibits arterial calcification and insulin action, is associated with type 2 diabetes, but its association with cardiovascular disease (CVD) is uncertain. ...

    • Few changes in food security and dietary intake from short-term participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program among low-income Massachusetts adults 

      Leung, Cindy W.; Cluggish, Sarah; Villamor, Eduardo; Catalano, Paul J.; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Rimm, Eric Bruce::0ab2926c8242f35e5a982e3cf59f4987::600 (2014)
      Objective: To examine whether short-term participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) affects food security and dietary quality among low-income adults recruited from a Massachusetts-wide emergency ...