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    • Critical maternal health knowledge gaps in low- and middle-income countries for the post-2015 era 

      Kendall, Tamil; Langer, Ana (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Effective interventions to promote maternal health and address obstetric complications exist, however 800 women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth from largely preventable causes and more than 90 % of these ...

    • A critical review of perfluorooctanoate and perfluorooctanesulfonate exposure and immunological health conditions in humans 

      Chang, Ellen T.; Adami, Hans-Olov; Boffetta, Paolo; Wedner, H. James; Mandel, Jack S. (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      Abstract Whether perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS), two widely used and biopersistent synthetic chemicals, are immunotoxic in humans is unclear. Accordingly, this article systematically and ...

    • A critical review of the epidemiology of Agent Orange/TCDD and prostate cancer 

      Chang, Ellen T.; Boffetta, Paolo; Adami, Hans-Olov; Cole, Philip; Mandel, Jack S. (Springer Netherlands, 2014)
      To inform risk assessment and regulatory decision-making, the relationship between 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and prostate cancer requires clarification. This article systematically and critically reviews ...

    • A Critical Role of Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4 and 5 (FABP4/5) in the Systemic Response to Fasting 

      Syamsunarno, Mas Rizky A. A.; Iso, Tatsuya; Hanaoka, Hirofumi; Yamaguchi, Aiko; Obokata, Masaru; Koitabashi, Norimichi; Goto, Kosaku; Hishiki, Takako; Nagahata, Yoshiko; Matsui, Hiroki; Sano, Motoaki; Kobayashi, Masaki; Kikuchi, Osamu; Sasaki, Tsutomu; Maeda, Kazuhisa; Murakami, Masami; Kitamura, Tadahiro; Suematsu, Makoto; YoshitoTsushima; Endo, Keigo; Hotamisligil, Gökhan S.; Kurabayashi, Masahiko (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      During prolonged fasting, fatty acid (FA) released from adipose tissue is a major energy source for peripheral tissues, including the heart, skeletal muscle and liver. We recently showed that FA binding protein 4 (FABP4) ...

    • A cross sectional study of anemia and iron deficiency as risk factors for arsenic-induced skin lesions in Bangladeshi women 

      Kile, Molly L.; Faraj, Joycelyn M.; Ronnenberg, Alayne G.; Quamruzzaman, Quazi; Rahman, Mahmudar; Mostofa, Golam; Afroz, Sakila; Christiani, David C. (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: In the Ganges Delta, chronic arsenic poisoning is a health concern affecting millions of people who rely on groundwater as their potable water source. The prevalence of anemia is also high in this region, ...

    • Cross-biome comparison of microbial association networks 

      Faust, Karoline; Lima-Mendez, Gipsi; Lerat, Jean-Sébastien; Sathirapongsasuti, Jarupon F.; Knight, Rob; Huttenhower, Curtis; Lenaerts, Tom; Raes, Jeroen (Frontiers Media S.A., 2015)
      Clinical and environmental meta-omics studies are accumulating an ever-growing amount of microbial abundance data over a wide range of ecosystems. With a sufficiently large sample number, these microbial communities can ...

    • Cross-cancer genome-wide analysis of lung, ovary, breast, prostate and colorectal cancer reveals novel pleiotropic associations 

      Fehringer, Gordon; Kraft, Peter; Pharoah, Paul; Eeles, Rosalind; Chatterjee, Nilanjan; Schumacher, Fred; Schildkraut, Joellen; Lindström, Sara; Brennan, Paul; Bickeböller, Heike; Houlston, Richard; Landi, Maria Teresa; Caporaso, Neil; Risch, Angela; Olama, Ali Amin Al; Berndt, Sonja; Giovannucci, Edward; Grönberg, Henrik; Kote-Jarai, Zsofia; Ma, Jing; Muir, Kenneth; Stampfer, Meir; Stevens, Victoria; Wiklund, Fredrik; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Goode, Ellen; Permuth, Jennifer; Risch, Harvey; Reid, Brett; Bezieau, Stephane; Brenner, Hermann; Chan, Andrew; Chang-Claude, Jenny; Hudson, Thomas; Kocarnik, Jonathan; Newcomb, Polly; Schoen, Robert; Slattery, Martha; White, Emily; Adank, Muriel; Ahsan, Habibul; Aittomäki, Kristiina; Baglietto, Laura; Blomquist, Carl; Canzian, Federico; Czene, Kamila; dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel; Eliassen, A. Heather; Figueroa, Jonine; Flesch-Janys, Dieter; Fletcher, Olivia; Garcia-Closas, Montserrat; Gaudet, Mia; Johnson, Nichola; Hall, Per; Hazra, Aditi; Hein, Rebecca; Hofman, Albert; Hopper, John; Irwanto, Astrid; Johansson, Mattias; Kaaks, Rudolf; Kibriya, Muhammad; Lichtner, Peter; Liu, Jianjun; Lund, Eiliv; Makalic, Enes; Meindl, Alfons; Müller-Myhsok, Bertram; Muranen, Taru; Nevanlinna, Heli; Peeters, Petra; Peto, Julian; Prentice, Ross; Rahman, Nazneen; Sanchez, Maria Jose; Schmidt, Daniel; Schmutzler, Rita; Southey, Melissa; Tamimi, Rulla; Travis, Ruth; Turnbull, Clare; Uitterlinden, Andre; Wang, Zhaoming; Whittemore, Alice; Yang, Xiaohong; Zheng, Wei; Rafnar, Thorunn; Gudmundsson, Julius; Stacey, Simon; Stefansson, Kari; Sulem, Patrick; Chen, Y. Ann; Tyrer, Jonathan; Christiani, David; Wei, Yongyue; Shen, Hongbing; Hu, Zhibin; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Shiraishi, Kouya (American Association for Cancer Research, 2016)
      Identifying genetic variants with pleiotropic associations can uncover common pathways influencing multiple cancers. We took a two-stage approach to conduct genome-wide association studies for lung, ovary, breast, prostate, ...

    • Cross-kingdom patterns of alternative splicing and splice recognition 

      McGuire, Abigail M; Pearson, Matthew D; Neafsey, Daniel Edward; Galagan, James E (BioMed Central, 2008)
      Background: Variations in transcript splicing can reveal how eukaryotes recognize intronic splice sites. Retained introns (RIs) commonly appear when the intron definition (ID) mechanism of splice site recognition ...

    • Cross-national comparison of socioeconomic inequalities in obesity in the United States and Canada 

      Siddiqi, Arjumand; Brown, Rashida; Nguyen, Quynh C.; Loopstra, Rachel; Kawachi, Ichiro (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Introduction: Prior cross-national studies of socioeconomic inequalities in obesity have only compared summary indices of inequality but not specific, policy-relevant dimensions of inequality: (a) shape of the socioeconomic ...

    • Cross-National Variation in Glycemic Control and Diabetes-Related Distress Among East Asian Patients Using Insulin: Results from the MOSAIc Study 

      Matsuba, Ikuro; Sawa, Tasuku; Kawata, Takehiro; Kanamori, Akira; Jiang, Dingfeng; Machimura, Hideo; Takeda, Hiroshi; Han, Jeong Hee; Wang, Ke; Tanaka, Keiji; Shen, Li; Ajima, Miho; Kaneshiro, Mizuki; Kim, Sang-Wook; Umezawa, Shinichi; Asakura, Taro; Suzuki, Shuichi; Kim, Seoyoung C. (Springer Healthcare, 2016)
      Introduction: Guidelines recommend insulin progression for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) with inadequate glycemic control. The Multinational Observational Study Assessing Insulin use (MOSAIc [ClinicalTrials.gov ...

    • Cross-reactivity to human T-lymphotropic virus type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus and molecular cloning of simian T-cell lymphotropic virus type III from African green monkeys. 

      Hirsch, V.; Riedel, N.; Kornfeld, H.; Kanki, Phyllis Jean; Essex, Myron Elmer; Mullins, J. I. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1986)
      Simian T-lymphotropic retroviruses with structural, antigenic, and cytopathic features similar to the etiologic agent of human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, human T-lymphotropic virus type III/lymphadenopathy-associated ...

    • A cross-sectional study of secondhand smoke exposure and respiratory symptoms in non-current smokers in the U.S. trucking industry: SHS exposure and respiratory symptoms 

      Laden, Francine; Chiu, Yueh-Hsiu; Garshick, Eric; Hammond, S Katharine; Hart, Jaime Elizabeth (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Previous studies have suggested associations of adult exposures to secondhand smoke (SHS) with respiratory symptoms, but no study has focused on blue-collar industrial environments. We assessed the association ...

    • A cross-sectional study of the identification of prevalent asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among initiators of long-acting β-agonists in health insurance claims data 

      Dore, David D; Ziyadeh, Najat; Cai, Bin; Clifford, C Robin; Norman, Heather; Seeger, John D (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Claims data are potentially useful for identifying long-acting β-agonist (LABA) use by patients with asthma, a practice that is associated with increased mortality. We evaluated the accuracy of claims data for ...

    • A cross-sectional study on tobacco use and dependence among women: Does menthol matter? 

      Rosenbloom, Judith; Rees, Vaughan Wallis; Reid, Kathleen; Wong, Jeannie; Kinnunen, Taru Hannele (BioMed Central, 2012)
      Background: The question of whether mentholation of cigarettes enhances tobacco dependence has generated conflicting findings. Potential mediating factors in a putative relationship between menthol use and tobacco dependence ...

    • A cross-sectional survey of supports for evidence-informed decision-making in healthcare organisations: a research protocol 

      Ouimet, Mathieu; Lavis, John N; Léon, Grégory; Ellen, Moriah E; Bédard, Pierre-Olivier; Grimshaw, Jeremy M; Gagnon, Marie-Pierre (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: This protocol builds on the development of a) a framework that identified the various supports (i.e. positions, activities, interventions) that a healthcare organisation or health system can implement for ...

    • CRP gene variation and risk of community-acquired pneumonia 

      Mukamal, Kenneth J.; Pai, Jennifer K.; O'MEARA, Ellen S.; Tracy, Russell P.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Kuller, Lewis H.; Newman, Anne B.; Yende, Sachin; Curhan, Gary C.; Siscovick, David S.; Rimm, Eric Bruce::0ab2926c8242f35e5a982e3cf59f4987::600 (2010)

    • The CRTC-1 transcriptional domain is required for COMPASS complex-mediated longevity in C. elegans 

      Silva-García, Carlos Giovanni; Heintz, Caroline; Prabhakar, Aditi; Morrow, Christopher S.; Pajuelo Torres, Lourdes; Sharma, Arpit; Liu, Jihe; Mair, William B. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023-11-09)
      Loss of function during ageing is accompanied by transcriptional drift, altering gene expression and contributing to a variety of age-related diseases. CREB-regulated transcriptional coactivators (CRTCs) have emerged as ...

    • Cumulative Community-Level Lead Exposure and Pulse Pressure: The Normative Aging Study 

      Perlstein, Todd Steven; Weuve, Jennifer Lynn; Schwartz, Joel David; Sparrow, David; Wright, Robert O.; Litonjua, Augusto Ampil; Nie, Huiling; Hu, Howard (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2007)
      Background: Pulse pressure increases with age in industrialized societies as a manifestation of arterial stiffening. Lead accumulates in the vasculature and is associated with vascular oxidative stress, which can promote ...

    • Cumulative Exposure to Lead in Relation to Cognitive Function in Older Women 

      Weuve, Jennifer Lynn; Korrick, Susan Abigail; Weisskopf, Marc G.; Ryan, Louise Marie; Schwartz, Joel David; Nie, Huiling; Grodstein, Francine; Hu, Howard (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2008)
      Background: Recent data indicate that chronic low-level exposure to lead is associated with accelerated declines in cognition in older age, but this has not been examined in women. Objective: We examined biomarkers of lead ...

    • Cumulative Lead Dose and Cognitive Function in Adults: A Review of Studies That Measured Both Blood Lead and Bone Lead 

      Shih, Regina A.; Hu, Howard; Weisskopf, Marc G.; Schwartz, Brian Elliott (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2006)
      Objective: We review empirical evidence for the relations of recent and cumulative lead dose with cognitive function in adults. Data Sources: A systematic search of electronic databases resulted in 21 environmental and ...