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    • Factors influencing physicians’ choice of workplace: systematic review of drivers of attrition and policy interventions to address them 

      El Koussa, Maria; Atun, Rifat; Bowser, Diana; Kruk, Margaret E (Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2016)
      Objectives: The movement of skilled physicians from the public to the private sector is a key constraint to achieving universal health coverage and is currently affecting health systems worldwide. This systematic review ...

    • Factors influencing the decision to participate in medical premarital examinations in Hubei Province, Mid-China 

      Wang, Peigang; Wang, Xiao; Fang, Min; VanderWeele, Tyler J. (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: To investigate the attitudes of premarital couples towards the premarital screening program after the abolition of compulsory screening in China and to study the factors influencing participation. Methods: ...

    • Factors Influencing the Spatial Extent of Mobile Source Air Pollution Impacts: A Meta-Analysis 

      Zhou, Ying; Levy, Jonathan Ian (BioMed Central, 2007)
      Background: There has been growing interest among exposure assessors, epidemiologists, and policymakers in the concept of "hot spots", or more broadly, the "spatial extent" of impacts from traffic-related air pollutants. ...

    • The Fall and Rise of US Inequities in Premature Mortality: 1960–2002 

      Krieger, Nancy; Rehkopf, David H; Chen, Jarvis; Waterman, Pamela; Marcelli, Enrico; Kennedy, Malinda (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-02-26)
      Background Debates exist as to whether, as overall population health improves, the absolute and relative magnitude of income- and race/ethnicity-related health disparities necessarily increase—or derease. We accordingly ...

    • Falls and Fall-Related Injuries among Community-Dwelling Adults in the United States 

      Verma, Santosh K.; Willetts, Joanna L.; Corns, Helen L.; Marucci-Wellman, Helen R.; Lombardi, David A.; Courtney, Theodore K. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Introduction: Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injuries in the U.S.; however, national estimates for all community-dwelling adults are lacking. This study estimated the national incidence of falls and fall-related ...

    • False discovery rates in somatic mutation studies of cancer 

      Trippa, Lorenzo; Parmigiani, Giovanni (Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2011)
      The purpose of cancer genome sequencing studies is to determine the nature and types of alterations present in a typical cancer and to discover genes mutated at high frequencies. In this article we discuss statistical ...

    • Family Background and Genius 

      Rothenberg, Albert; Wyshak, Grace (Canadian Psychiatric Association, 2004)
      Objective: It is widely believed among professionals and laity that genius is born and not made. However, the early and still-influential statistical studies of Frances Galton on the inheritance of genius have neither been ...

    • Family functioning and quality of parent-adolescent relationship: cross-sectional associations with adolescent weight-related behaviors and weight status 

      Haines, Jess; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Horton, Nicholas J.; Kleinman, Ken; Bauer, Katherine W.; Davison, Kirsten K.; Walton, Kathryn; Austin, S. Bryn; Field, Alison E.; Gillman, Matthew W. (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Little is known about how factors within the general family environment are associated with weight and related behaviors among adolescents/young adults. Methods: We studied 3768 females and 2614 males, 14–24 ...

    • Family history as a risk factor for ulcerative colitis–associated colon cancer in cotton-top tamarin 

      Bertone, Elizabeth R.; Giovannucci, Edward L.; King, Norval W.; Petto, Andrew J.; Johnson, Lorna D. (BMC, 1998)

    • Family-based Association Analyses of Imputed Genotypes Reveal Genome-Wide Significant Association of Alzheimer’s disease with OSBPL6, PTPRG and PDCL3 

      Herold, Christine; Hooli, Basavaraj V.; Mullin, Kristina; Liu, Tian; Roehr, Johannes T; Mattheisen, Manuel; Parrado, Antonio R.; Bertram, Lars; Lange, Christoph; Tanzi, Rudolph E. (2015)
      The genetic basis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is complex and heterogeneous. Over 200 highly penetrant pathogenic variants in the genes APP, PSEN1 and PSEN2 cause a subset of early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (EOFAD). ...

    • Family-based prevention of mental health problems in children affected by HIV and AIDS 

      Betancourt, Theresa Stichick; Ng, Lauren; Kirk, Catherine M.; Munyanah, Morris; Mushashi, Christina; Ingabire, Charles; Teta, Sharon; Beardslee, William Rigby; Brennan, Robert Thomas; Zahn, Ista; Stulac, Sara Nicole; Cyamatare, Felix R.; Sezibera, Vincent (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2014)
      Objective The objective of this study is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of an intervention to reduce mental health problems and bolster resilience among children living in households affected by caregiver ...

    • Family-Centred Approaches to the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV 

      Abrams, Elaine J; Fawzi, Mary C Smith; Stichick, Theresa Stichick; McBain, Ryan Keniston (BioMed Central, 2010)
      Background: Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programmes have traditionally been narrow in scope, targeting biomedical interventions during the perinatal period, rather than considering HIV as a family ...

    • Fast and Accurate Approximation to Significance Tests in Genome-Wide Association Studies 

      Zhang, Yu; Liu, Jun (Informa UK Limited, 2011)
      Genome-wide association studies commonly involve simultaneous tests of millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) for disease association. The SNPs in nearby genomic regions, however, are often highly correlated due ...

    • Fast and accurate long-range phasing in a UK Biobank cohort 

      Loh, Po-Ru; Palamara, Pier Francesco; Price, Alkes L (2016)
      Recent work has leveraged the extensive genotyping of the Icelandic population to perform long-range phasing (LRP), enabling accurate imputation and association analysis of rare variants in target samples typed on genotyping ...

    • Fat intake after diagnosis and risk of lethal prostate cancer and all-cause mortality 

      Richman, Erin L.; Kenfield, Stacey A.; Chavarro, Jorge E.; Stampfer, Meir; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Chan, June M. (American Medical Association, 2013)
      IMPORTANCE Nearly 2.5 million men currently live with prostate cancer in the United States, yet little is known about the association between diet after diagnosis and prostate cancer progression and overall mortality.OBJECTIVE ...

    • Fat intake after prostate cancer diagnosis and mortality in the Physicians’ Health Study 

      Van Blarigan, Erin L.; Kenfield, Stacey; Yang, Meng; Sesso, Howard; Ma, Jing; Stampfer, Meir; Chan, June; Chavarro, Jorge (Springer (part of Springer Nature), 2015)
      Diet after prostate cancer diagnosis may impact disease progression. We hypothesized that consuming saturated fat after prostate cancer diagnosis would increase risk of mortality, and consuming vegetable fat after diagnosis ...

    • Fat Mass–and Obesity-Associated (FTO) Gene Variant Is Associated With Obesity 

      Qi, Lu; Kang, Kihwa; Zhang, Cuilin; van Dam, Rob M.; Kraft, Peter; Hunter, David; Lee, Chih-Hao; Hu, Frank B. (American Diabetes Association, 2008)
      OBJECTIVE—To examine the longitudinal association of fat mass–and obesity-associated (FTO) variant with obesity, circulating adipokine levels, and FTO expression in various materials from human and mouse. RESEARCH DESIGN ...

    • Fat, Protein, and Meat Consumption and Renal Cell Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis of 13 Prospective Studies 

      Lee, Jung Eun; Spiegelman, Donna; Hunter, David J.; Albanes, Demetrius; Bernstein, Leslie; Brandt, Piet den; Buring, Julie E.; Cho, Eunyoung; English, Dallas R.; Freudenheim, Jo L.; Giles, Graham G.; Graham, Saxon; Horn-Ross, Pamela L.; Håkansson, Niclas; Leitzmann, Michael F.; Männistö, Satu; McCullough, Marjorie L.; Miller, Anthony B.; Parker, Alexander S.; Rohan, Thomas E.; Schatzkin, Arthur; Schouten, Leo J.; Sweeney, Carol; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Wolk, Alicja; Zhang, Shumin M.; Smith-Warner, Stephanie A. (Oxford University Press, 2008)
      Results of several case-control studies suggest that high consumption of meat (all meat, red meat, or processed meat) is associated with an increased risk of renal cell cancer, but only a few prospective studies have ...

    • Fatal Pediatric Cerebral Malaria Is Associated with Intravascular Monocytes and Platelets That Are Increased with HIV Coinfection 

      Hochman, Sarah E.; Madaline, Theresa F.; Wassmer, Samuel C.; Mbale, Emmie; Choi, Namjong; Seydel, Karl B.; Whitten, Richard O.; Varughese, Julie; Grau, Georges E. R.; Kamiza, Steve; Molyneux, Malcolm E.; Taylor, Terrie E.; Lee, Sunhee; Milner, Danny A.; Kim, Kami (American Society of Microbiology, 2015)
      ABSTRACT Cerebral malaria (CM) is a major contributor to malaria deaths, but its pathophysiology is not well understood. While sequestration of parasitized erythrocytes is thought to be critical, the roles of inflammation ...

    • Fatal Stroke after the Death of a Sibling: A Nationwide Follow-Up Study from Sweden 

      Rostila, Mikael; Saarela, Jan; Kawachi, Ichiro (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Background: Although less studied than other types of familial losses, the loss of a sibling could be a potential trigger of stroke as it represents a stressful life event. We studied the association between loss of a ...