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    • Physical Activity, Genes for Physical Fitness, and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease 

      Chomistek, Andrea K.; Chasman, Daniel I.; Cook, Nancy R.; Rimm, Eric Bruce::0ab2926c8242f35e5a982e3cf59f4987::600; Lee, I-Min (2013)
      Purpose: Both physical activity and physical fitness are associated with decreased coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. Our objective was to determine whether genes associated with physical fitness modify the association ...

    • Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and Health Related Quality of Life in Prostate Cancer Survivors in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study 

      Phillips, Siobhan; Stampfer, Meir; Chan, June; Giovannucci, Edward; Kenfield, Stacey (Springer (part of Springer Nature), 2015)
      Many prostate cancer survivors experience compromised health-related quality of life (HRQOL) as a result of prostate cancer. We examined relationships between types and intensities of activity and sedentary behavior and ...

    • Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Leukocyte Telomere Length in Women 

      Du, Mengmeng; Prescott, Jennifer; Kraft, Peter; Han, Jiali; Giovannucci, Edward; Hankinson, Susan; De Vivo, Immaculata (Oxford University Press, 2012)
      Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is a potential indicator of cellular aging; however, its relation to physical activity and sedentary behavior is unclear. The authors examined cross-sectionally associations among activity, ...

    • Physical activity, smoking, and genetic predisposition to obesity in people from Pakistan: the PROMIS study 

      Ahmad, Shafqat; Zhao, Wei; Renström, Frida; Rasheed, Asif; Samuel, Maria; Zaidi, Mozzam; Shah, Nabi; Mallick, Nadeem Hayyat; Zaman, Khan Shah; Ishaq, Mohammad; Rasheed, Syed Zahed; Memon, Fazal-ur-Rheman; Hanif, Bashir; Lakhani, Muhammad Shakir; Ahmed, Faisal; Kazmi, Shahana Urooj; Frossard, Philippe; Franks, Paul W.; Saleheen, Danish (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Multiple genetic variants have been reliably associated with obesity-related traits in Europeans, but little is known about their associations and interactions with lifestyle factors in South Asians. Methods: ...

    • Physical and sexual abuse in childhood as predictors of early onset cardiovascular events in women 

      Rich-Edwards, J. W.; Mason, S.; Rexrode, K.; Spiegelman, D.; Hibert, E.; Kawachi, I.; Jun, H. J.; Wright, R. J. (, 2012)
      Background-Although child abuse is widespread and has been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, its association with CVD events is not established.Methods and Results-We examined associations of child ...

    • Physical Inactivity and Idiopathic Pulmonary Embolism in Women: Prospective Study 

      Kabrhel, Chrisopher; Varraso, Raphaëlle; Goldhaber, Samuel Zachary; Rimm, Eric B.; Camargo, Carlos Arturo (BMJ Publishing Group, 2011)
      Objectives: To determine the association between physical inactivity (that is, a sedentary lifestyle) and incident idiopathic pulmonary embolism. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Nurses’ Health Study. Participants: ...

    • A physical sciences network characterization of non-tumorigenic and metastatic cells 

      Agus, David B.; Alexander, Jenolyn F.; Arap, Wadih; Ashili, Shashanka; Aslan, Joseph E.; Austin, Robert H.; Backman, Vadim; Bethel, Kelly J.; Bonneau, Richard; Chen, Wei-Chiang; Chen-Tanyolac, Chira; Choi, Nathan C.; Curley, Steven A.; Dallas, Matthew; Damania, Dhwanil; Davies, Paul C. W.; Decuzzi, Paolo; Dickinson, Laura; Estevez-Salmeron, Luis; Estrella, Veronica; Ferrari, Mauro; Fischbach, Claudia; Foo, Jasmine; Fraley, Stephanie I.; Frantz, Christian; Fuhrmann, Alexander; Gascard, Philippe; Gatenby, Robert A.; Geng, Yue; Gerecht, Sharon; Gillies, Robert J.; Godin, Biana; Grady, William M.; Greenfield, Alex; Hemphill, Courtney; Hempstead, Barbara L.; Hielscher, Abigail; Hillis, W. Daniel; Holland, Eric C.; Ibrahim-Hashim, Arig; Jacks, Tyler; Johnson, Roger H.; Joo, Ahyoung; Katz, Jonathan E.; Kelbauskas, Laimonas; Kesselman, Carl; King, Michael R.; Konstantopoulos, Konstantinos; Kraning-Rush, Casey M.; Kuhn, Peter; Kung, Kevin; Kwee, Brian; Lakins, Johnathon N.; Lambert, Guillaume; Liao, David; Licht, Jonathan D.; Liphardt, Jan T.; Liu, Liyu; Lloyd, Mark C.; Lyubimova, Anna; Mallick, Parag; Marko, John; McCarty, Owen J. T.; Meldrum, Deirdre R.; Michor, Franziska L.; Mumenthaler, Shannon M.; Nandakumar, Vivek; O’Halloran, Thomas V.; Oh, Steve; Pasqualini, Renata; Paszek, Matthew J.; Philips, Kevin G.; Poultney, Christopher S.; Rana, Kuldeepsinh; Reinhart-King, Cynthia A.; Ros, Robert; Semenza, Gregg L.; Senechal, Patti; Shuler, Michael L.; Srinivasan, Srimeenakshi; Staunton, Jack R.; Stypula, Yolanda; Subramanian, Hariharan; Tlsty, Thea D.; Tormoen, Garth W.; Tseng, Yiider; van Oudenaarden, Alexander; Verbridge, Scott S.; Wan, Jenny C.; Weaver, Valerie M.; Widom, Jonathan; Will, Christine; Wirtz, Denis; Wojtkowiak, Jonathan; Wu, Pei-Hsun (Nature Publishing Group, 2013)
      To investigate the transition from non-cancerous to metastatic from a physical sciences perspective, the Physical Sciences–Oncology Centers (PS-OC) Network performed molecular and biophysical comparative studies of the ...

    • Physical stature decline and the health status of the elderly population in England 

      Fernihough, Alan; McGovern, Mark (Elsevier BV, 2014)
      Few research papers in economics have examined the extent, causes or consequences of physical stature decline in aging populations. Using repeated observations on objectively measured data from the English Longitudinal ...

    • Physician communication styles in initial consultations for hematological cancer 

      Chhabra, Karan R.; Pollak, Kathryn I.; Lee, Stephanie J.; Back, Anthony L.; Goldman, Roberta E.; Tulsky, James Aaron (Elsevier BV, 2013)
      Objective To characterize practices in subspecialist physicians’ communication styles, and their potential effects on shared decision-making, in second-opinion consultations. Methods Theme-oriented discourse ...

    • A pilot randomized controlled trial to promote healthful fish consumption during pregnancy: The Food for Thought Study 

      Oken, Emily; Guthrie, Lauren B; Bloomingdale, Arienne; Platek, Deborah Nehama; Price, Sarah; Haines, Jess; Gillman, Matthew William; Olsen, Sjurdur F.; Bellinger, David C.; Wright, Robert O. (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Nutritionists advise pregnant women to eat fish to obtain adequate docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an essential nutrient important for optimal brain development. However, concern exists that this advice will lead ...

    • Pilot study assessing 18F-fluorothymidine PET/CT in cervical and vaginal cancers before and after external beam radiation☆ 

      Cho, Linda P.; Kim, Chun K.; Viswanathan, Akila N. (Elsevier, 2015)
      Objective: The role of F-18-fluorothymidine (FLT) PET-CT imaging in the evaluation of gynecologic cancers has not been established. We sought to evaluate (FLT) PET-CT imaging in gynecologic cancers by comparing standard ...

    • A Pilot Study of Perceptual-Motor Training for Peripheral Prisms 

      Houston, Kevin E.; Bowers, Alex R.; Fu, Xianping; Liu, Rui; Goldstein, Robert B.; Churchill, Jeff; Wiegand, Jean-Paul; Soo, Tim; Tang, Qu; Peli, Eli (The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2016)
      Purpose Peripheral prisms (p-prisms) shift peripheral portions of the visual field of one eye, providing visual field expansion for patients with hemianopia. However, patients rarely show adaption to the shift, incorrectly ...

    • Pinching the Poor? Medicaid Cost Sharing under the ACA 

      Saloner, Brendan; Sabik, Lindsay; Sommers, Benjamin Daniel (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2014)

    • Pineal Gland Volume Assessed by MRI and its Correlation with 6-Sulfatoxymelatonin Levels among Older Men 

      Sigurdardottir, Lara; Markt, Sarah; Sigurdsson, Sigurdur; Aspelund, Thor; Fall, Katja; Schernhammer, Eva; Rider, Jennifer; Launer, Lenore; Harris, Tamara; Stampfer, Meir; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Czeisler, Charles; Lockley, Steven; Valdimarsdottir, Unnur; Mucci, Lorelei (SAGE Publications, 2016)
      The pineal gland produces the hormone melatonin, and its volume may influence melatonin levels. We describe an innovative method for estimating pineal volume in humans and present the association of pineal parenchyma volume ...

    • Pitfalls of practicing cancer epidemiology in resource-limited settings: the case of survival and loss to follow-up after a diagnosis of Kaposi’s sarcoma in five countries across sub-Saharan Africa 

      Freeman, Esther; Semeere, Aggrey; Wenger, Megan; Bwana, Mwebesa; Asirwa, F. Chite; Busakhala, Naftali; Oga, Emmanuel; Jedy-Agba, Elima; Kwaghe, Vivian; Iregbu, Kenneth; Jaquet, Antoine; Dabis, Francois; Yumo, Habakkuk Azinyui; Dusingize, Jean Claude; Bangsberg, David; Anastos, Kathryn; Phiri, Sam; Bohlius, Julia; Egger, Matthias; Yiannoutsos, Constantin; Wools-Kaloustian, Kara; Martin, Jeffrey (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Survival after diagnosis is a fundamental concern in cancer epidemiology. In resource-rich settings, ambient clinical databases, municipal data and cancer registries make survival estimation in real-world ...

    • Pivotal Advance: Eosinophils mediate early alum adjuvant-elicited B cell priming and IgM production 

      Wang, H.-B.; Weller, Peter Fahey (Society for Leukocyte Biology, 2008)
      Alum, aluminum-hydroxide-containing compounds, long used as adjuvants in human vaccinations, functions by ill-defined, immunostimulatory mechanisms. Antigen-free alum has been shown to act via a previously unidentified, ...

    • Pivotal and distinct role for Plasmodium actin capping protein alpha during blood infection of the malaria parasite 

      Ganter, Markus; Rizopoulos, Zaira; Schüler, Herwig; Matuschewski, Kai (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2015)
      Accurate regulation of microfilament dynamics is central to cell growth, motility and response to environmental stimuli. Stabilizing and depolymerizing proteins control the steady-state levels of filamentous (F-) actin. ...

    • Placental biomarkers of phthalate effects on mRNA transcription: application in epidemiologic research 

      Adibi, Jennifer J; Hauser, Russ B.; Williams, Paige L.; Whyatt, Robin M; Thaker, Harshwardhan M; Nelson, Heather; Herrick, Robert F.; Bhat, Hari K (BioMed Central, 2009)
      Background: CYP19 and PPARγ are two genes expressed in the placental trophoblast that are important to placental function and are disrupted by phthalate exposure in other cell types. Measurement of the mRNA of these two ...

    • Placental Genome and Maternal-Placental Genetic Interactions: A Genome-Wide and Candidate Gene Association Study of Placental Abruption 

      Denis, Marie; Enquobahrie, Daniel A.; Tadesse, Mahlet G.; Gelaye, Bizu; Sanchez, Sixto E.; Salazar, Manuel; Ananth, Cande V.; Williams, Michelle A. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      While available evidence supports the role of genetics in the pathogenesis of placental abruption (PA), PA-related placental genome variations and maternal-placental genetic interactions have not been investigated. Maternal ...

    • Placental mitochondrial DNA content and placental abruption: a pilot study 

      Qiu, Chunfang; Sanchez, Sixto E.; Hevner, Karin; Enquobahrie, Daniel A.; Williams, Michelle A. (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Mitochondrial biogenesis and adequate energy production are important for embryogenesis and placentation. Previous studies documented alterations in maternal blood mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number—a marker ...