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Depression and Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence in Medicare Beneficiaries
(American Medical Association (AMA), 2007)Context Treatment for depression can be expensive and depression can affect the use of other medical services, yet there is little information on how depression affects the prevalence of cost-related medication nonadherence ... -
Depression and Diabetes Treatment Nonadherence: A Meta-Analysis
(American Diabetes Association, 2008)OBJECTIVE—Depression is common in patients with diabetes and is associated with worse treatment outcomes. Its relationship to treatment adherence, however, has not been systematically reviewed. We used meta-analysis to ... -
Depression and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Among Haitian Immigrant Students: Implications for Access to Mental Health Services and Educational Programming
(BioMed Central, 2009)Background: Previous studies of Haitian immigrant and refugee youth have emphasized "externalizing" behaviors, such as substance use, high risk sexual behavior, and delinquency, with very little information available on ... -
Depression During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Among HIV-Infected Women on Antiretroviral Therapy in Uganda
(JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2014)Background: Among HIV-infected women, perinatal depression compromises clinical, maternal, and child health outcomes. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with lower depression symptom severity but the uniformity of ... -
Depression Stigma and Treatment Preferences Among Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Jews
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2014)Anecdotal reports of increased stigma toward mental illness among Orthodox Jews seems to conflict with an existing literature describing less stigmatization toward depression among Jewish individuals. This online survey ... -
Depression, anxiety and quality of life in caregiver spouses of veterans with chronic spinal cord injury
(Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2014)Objective: We were curious about the degree of anxiety and depression and their effect on the quality of life of the caregivers of veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI). Methods: A convenience sample of 72 out of 120 ... -
Depression, Stress and Weight Loss in Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome in SHINE, a DPP Translation Study
(2014)OBJECTIVE To examine the relationships between elevated depression symptoms (EDS) or stress and weight loss in SHINE, a telephonic, primary-care based, translation of the Diabetes Prevention Program. DESIGN AND METHODS ... -
Depression-Biased Reverse Plasticity Rule Is Required for Stable Learning at Top-down Connections
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Top-down synapses are ubiquitous throughout neocortex and play a central role in cognition, yet little is known about their development and specificity. During sensory experience, lower neocortical areas are activated ... -
Depressive symptoms and glycemic control in adolescents with type 1 diabetes
(American Diabetes Association, 2009)OBJECTIVE—To determine whether the association between depressive symptoms and glycemic control is mediated by blood glucose monitoring (BGM). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—A total of 276 adolescents with type 1 diabetes ... -
Depressive Symptoms and the Risk of Incident Delirium in Older Hospitalized Adults
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007)OBJECTIVES: To determine whether specific subsets of symptoms from the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), assessed at hospital admission, were associated with the incidence of delirium. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of a ... -
Depressive symptoms are associated with visceral adiposity in a community-based sample of middle-aged women and men
(2012)To examine the relation between measures of adiposity and depressive symptoms in a large well characterized community-based sample, we examined the relations of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue ... -
Depth Sensitivity and Source-Detector Separations for Near Infrared Spectroscopy Based on the Colin27 Brain Template
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Understanding the spatial and depth sensitivity of non-invasive near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements to brain tissue–i.e., near-infrared neuromonitoring (NIN) – is essential for designing experiments as well as ... -
Deqi Sensations of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Auricular Points
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)Deqi sensation, a psychophysical response characterized by a spectrum of different needling sensations, is essential for Chinese acupuncture clinical efficacy. Previous research works have investigated the component of ... -
Deregulation of intestinal anti-microbial defense by the dietary additive, maltodextrin
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a complex, multi-factorial disease thought to arise from an inappropriate immune response to commensal bacteria in a genetically susceptible person that results in chronic, cyclical, ... -
Deregulation of MYCN, LIN28B and LET7 in a Molecular Subtype of Aggressive High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancers
(Public Library of Science, 2011)Molecular subtypes of serous ovarian cancer have been recently described. Using data from independent datasets including over 900 primary tumour samples, we show that deregulation of the Let-7 pathway is specifically ... -
Deregulation of SOCS5 suppresses dendritic cell function in chronic lymphocytic leukemia
(Impact Journals LLC, 2016)One cause of morbidity and mortality in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is infection, which results from defects in a number of components of the immune system. In particular, dendritic cells (DCs) are functionally ... -
Derivation and Validation of a Preoperative Prediction Rule for Delirium After Cardiac Surgery
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2008)Background— Delirium is a common outcome after cardiac surgery. Delirium prediction rules identify patients at risk for delirium who may benefit from targeted prevention strategies, early identification, and treatment of ... -
Derivation and Validation of Two Decision Instruments for Selective Chest CT in Blunt Trauma: A Multicenter Prospective Observational Study (NEXUS Chest CT)
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Background: Unnecessary diagnostic imaging leads to higher costs, longer emergency department stays, and increased patient exposure to ionizing radiation. We sought to prospectively derive and validate two decision instruments ... -
Derivation of Corneal Keratocyte-Like Cells from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Corneal diseases such as keratoconus represent a relatively common disorder in the human population. However, treatment is restricted to corneal transplantation, which only occurs in the most advanced cases. Cell based ...