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Hyperglycemia, Insulin Resistance, Impaired Pancreatic β-Cell Function, and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
(Oxford University Press, 2013)Obesity and diabetes mellitus are associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer. These associations may be secondary to consequences of peripheral insulin resistance, pancreatic -cell dysfunction, or hyperglycemia ... -
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis Associated with Environmental Mycobacteria
(National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences, 2005)A previously healthy man working as a machine operator in an automotive factory developed respiratory symptoms. Medical evaluation showed abnormal pulmonary function tests, a lung biopsy showed hypersensitivity pneumonitis, ... -
Hypertension and Obesity in Adults Living in a High HIV Prevalence Rural Area in South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Hypertension and excess body weight are major risk factors of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in developing countries. In countries with a high HIV prevalence, it is unknown how increased antiretroviral treatment ... -
Hypertension education and adherence in South Africa: a cost-effectiveness analysis of community health workers
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: To determine whether training community health workers (CHWs) about hypertension in order to improve adherence to medications is a cost-effective intervention among community members in South Africa. Methods: ... -
Hypertension in Women of Reproductive Age in the United States: NHANES 1999-2008
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Objective: To examine the epidemiology of hypertension in women of reproductive age. Methods: Using NHANES from 1999–2008, we identified 5,521 women age 20–44 years old. Hypertension status was determined using blood ... -
Hypomethylation of the IGF2 DMR in Colorectal Tumors, Detected by Bisulfite Pyrosequencing, is Associated with Poor Prognosis
(BMC, 2010)BACKGROUND and AIMS: The insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) gene is normally imprinted. Constitutive loss of imprinting (LOI) of IGF2 has been associated with increased risks of colon cancer and adenoma, indicating its ... -
Hypothesis Testing for High-dimensional Sparse Binary Regression
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2015)In this paper, we study the detection boundary for minimax hypothesis testing in the context of high-dimensional, sparse binary regression models. Motivated by genetic sequencing association studies for rare variant effects, ... -
Hypothesis: Induced Angiogenesis after Surgery in Premenopausal Node-Positive Breast Cancer Patients Is a Major Underlying Reason Why Adjuvant Chemotherapy Works Particularly Well for Those Patients
(BioMed Central, 2004)Background: We suggest that surgical extirpation of primary breast cancer among other effects accelerates relapse for some premenopausal node-positive patients. These accelerated relapses occur within 10 months of surgery ... -
Hypothesis: Primary Antiangiogenic Method Proposed to Treat Early Stage Breast Cancer
(BioMed Central, 2009)Background: Women with Down syndrome very rarely develop breast cancer even though they now live to an age when it normally occurs. This may be related to the fact that Down syndrome persons have an additional copy of ... -
“I Always Worry about What Might Happen Ahead”: Implementing Safer Conception Services in the Current Environment of Reproductive Counseling for HIV-Affected Men and Women in Uganda
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2016)Background. We explored healthcare provider perspectives and practices regarding safer conception counseling for HIV-affected clients. Methods. We conducted semistructured interviews with 38 providers (medical and clinical ... -
IARC Monographs: 40 Years of Evaluating Carcinogenic Hazards to Humans
(NLM-Export, 2015)Background: Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Programme for the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans has been criticized for several of its evaluations, and also for the approach used ... -
iBBiG: iterative binary bi-clustering of gene sets
(Oxford University Press, 2012)Motivation: Meta-analysis of genomics data seeks to identify genes associated with a biological phenotype across multiple datasets; however, merging data from different platforms by their features (genes) is challenging. ... -
Identifiability, Exchangeability and Confounding revisited
(BioMed Central, 2009)In 1986 the International Journal of Epidemiology published "Identifiability, Exchangeability and Epidemiological Confounding". We review the article from the perspective of a quarter century after it was first drafted and ... -
Identification and Characterization of a Novel Association between Dietary Potassium and Risk of Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)Background: Recent animal studies have identified that dietary salt intake may modify the risk and progression of autoimmune disorders through modulation of the IL-23/TH17 pathway, which is critical in the pathogenesis of ... -
Identification and molecular characterization of a new ovarian cancer susceptibility locus at 17q21.31
(2013)Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) has a heritable component that remains to be fully characterized. Most identified common susceptibility variants lie in non-protein-coding sequences. We hypothesized that variants in the 3′ ... -
Identification of a novel susceptibility locus at 13q34 and refinement of the 20p12.2 region as a multi-signal locus associated with bladder cancer risk in individuals of European ancestry
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Candidate gene and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 15 independent genomic regions associated with bladder cancer risk. In search for additional susceptibility variants, we followed up on four promising ... -
Identification of a Rare Coding Variant in Complement 3 Associated with Age-related Macular Degeneration
(2013)Macular degeneration is a common cause of blindness in the elderly. To identify rare coding variants associated with a large increase in risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), we sequenced 2,335 cases and 789 ... -
Identification of Associations Between Prescribed Medications and Cancer: A Nationwide Screening Study
(Elsevier, 2016)Purpose We present a systematic screening for identifying associations between prescribed drugs and cancer risk using the high quality Danish nationwide health registries. Methods: We identified all patients (cases) with ... -
Identification of common genetic risk variants for autism spectrum disorder
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-02-25)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a highly heritable and heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental phenotypes diagnosed in more than 1% of children. Common genetic variants contribute substantially to ASD susceptibility, ... -
Identification of FAM111A as an SV40 Host Range Restriction and Adenovirus Helper Factor
(Public Library of Science, 2012)The small genome of polyomaviruses encodes a limited number of proteins that are highly dependent on interactions with host cell proteins for efficient viral replication. The SV40 large T antigen (LT) contains several ...