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    • The influence of family, friend, and coworker social support and social undermining on weight gain prevention among adults 

      Wang, Monica L.; Pbert, Lori; Lemon, Stephenie C. (2014)
      Objective: Examine longitudinal associations between sources of social support and social undermining for healthy eating and physical activity and weight change. Design and Methods Data are from 633 employed adults ...
    • Influence of Gag-Protease-Mediated Replication Capacity on Disease Progression in Individuals Recently Infected with HIV-1 Subtype C 

      Wright, J. K.; Novitsky, Vladimir A.; Brockman, M. A.; Brumme, Z. L.; Brumme, C. J.; Carlson, J. M.; Heckerman, D.; Wang, B.; Losina, E.; Leshwedi, M.; van der Stok, M.; Maphumulo, L.; Mkhwanazi, N.; Chonco, F.; Goulder, P. J. R.; Essex, Myron Elmer; Walker, B. D.; Ndung, T. (American Society for Microbiology, 2011)
      HLA class I-mediated selection of immune escape mutations in functionally important Gag epitopes may partly explain slower disease progression in HIV-1-infected individuals with protective HLA alleles. To investigate the ...
    • The Influence of Hormonal Factors on the Risk of Developing Cervical Cancer and Pre-Cancer: Results from the EPIC Cohort 

      Roura, Esther; Travier, Noémie; Waterboer, Tim; de Sanjosé, Silvia; Bosch, F. Xavier; Pawlita, Michael; Pala, Valeria; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Margall, Núria; Dillner, Joakim; Gram, Inger T.; Tjønneland, Anne; Munk, Christian; Palli, Domenico; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Overvad, Kim; Clavel-Chapelon, Françoise; Mesrine, Sylvie; Fournier, Agnès; Fortner, Renée T.; Ose, Jennifer; Steffen, Annika; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Lagiou, Pagona; Orfanos, Philippos; Masala, Giovanna; Tumino, Rosario; Sacerdote, Carlotta; Polidoro, Silvia; Mattiello, Amalia; Lund, Eiliv; Peeters, Petra H.; Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B(as).; Quirós, J. Ramón; Sánchez, María-José; Navarro, Carmen; Barricarte, Aurelio; Larrañaga, Nerea; Ekström, Johanna; Lindquist, David; Idahl, Annika; Travis, Ruth C.; Merritt, Melissa A.; Gunter, Marc J.; Rinaldi, Sabina; Tommasino, Massimo; Franceschi, Silvia; Riboli, Elio; Castellsagué, Xavier (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Background: In addition to HPV, high parity and hormonal contraceptives have been associated with cervical cancer (CC). However, most of the evidence comes from retrospective case-control studies. The aim of this study is ...
    • Influence of maternal breast milk ingestion on acquisition of the intestinal microbiome in preterm infants 

      Gregory, Katherine E.; Samuel, Buck S.; Houghteling, Pearl; Shan, Guru; Ausubel, Frederick M.; Sadreyev, Ruslan I.; Walker, W. Allan (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: The initial acquisition and early development of the intestinal microbiome during infancy are important to human health across the lifespan. Mode of birth, antibiotic administration, environment of care, and ...
    • The Influence of Obesity-Related Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms on BMI Across the Life Course: The PAGE Study 

      Graff, Mariaelisa; Gordon-Larsen, Penny; Lim, Unhee; Fowke, Jay H.; Love, Shelly-Ann; Fesinmeyer, Megan; Wilkens, Lynne R.; Vertilus, Shawyntee; Ritchie, Marilyn D.; Prentice, Ross L.; Pankow, Jim; Monroe, Kristine; Manson, JoAnn E.; Le Marchand, Loïc; Kuller, Lewis H.; Kolonel, Laurence N.; Hong, Ching P.; Henderson, Brian E.; Haessler, Jeff; Gross, Myron D.; Goodloe, Robert; Franceschini, Nora; Carlson, Christopher S.; Buyske, Steven; Bůžková, Petra; Hindorff, Lucia A.; Matise, Tara C.; Crawford, Dana C.; Haiman, Christopher A.; Peters, Ulrike; North, Kari E. (American Diabetes Association, 2013)
      Evidence is limited as to whether heritable risk of obesity varies throughout adulthood. Among >34,000 European Americans, aged 18–100 years, from multiple U.S. studies in the Population Architecture using Genomics and ...
    • Influence of Prenatal Lead Exposure on Genomic Methylation of Cord Blood DNA 

      Pilsner, J. Richard; Hu, Howard; Sánchez, Brisa N.; Cantonwine, David; Lazarus, Alicia; Lamadrid-Figueroa, Héctor; Mercado-García, Adriana; Téllez-Rojo, Martha Maria; Hernández-Avila, Mauricio; Ettinger, Adrienne S; Wright, Robert O. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2009)
      Background: Fetal lead exposure is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and developmental and cognitive deficits; however, the mechanism(s) by which lead-induced toxicity occurs remains unknown. Epigenetic fetal ...
    • The Influence of Programmed Cell Death in Myeloid Cells on Host Resilience to Infection with Legionella pneumophila or Streptococcus pyogenes 

      Gamradt, Pia; Xu, Yun; Gratz, Nina; Duncan, Kellyanne; Kobzik, Lester; Högler, Sandra; Kovarik, Pavel; Decker, Thomas; Jamieson, Amanda M. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Pathogen clearance and host resilience/tolerance to infection are both important factors in surviving an infection. Cells of the myeloid lineage play important roles in both of these processes. Neutrophils, monocytes, ...
    • The Influence of Radiographic Phenotype and Smoking Status on Peripheral Blood Biomarker Patterns in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 

      Bon, Jessica M.; Leader, Joseph K.; Weissfeld, Joel L.; Coxson, Harvey O.; Branch, Robert A.; Kondragunta, Venkateswarlu; Lee, Janet S.; Zhang, Yingze; Lokshin, Anna E.; Kaminski, Naftali; Gur, David; Sciurba, Frank C.; Zheng, Bin; Choi, Augustine M.K. (Public Library of Science, 2009)
      Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by both airway remodeling and parenchymal destruction. The identification of unique biomarker patterns associated with airway dominant versus ...
    • Influence of retirement on nonadherence to medication for hypertension and diabetes 

      Kivimäki, Mika; Batty, G. David; Hamer, Mark; Nabi, Hermann; Korhonen, Maarit; Huupponen, Risto; Pentti, Jaana; Oksanen, Tuula; Kawachi, Ichiro; Virtanen, Marianna; Westerlund, Hugo; Vahtera, Jussi (, 2013)
      Background: The extent to which common life transitions influence medication adherence among patients remains unknown. We examined whether retirement is associated with a change in adherence to medication in patients with ...
    • Influence of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPfAR) on career choices and emigration of health-profession graduates from a Ugandan medical school: a cross-sectional study 

      Bajunirwe, Francis; Twesigye, Leonidas; Zhang, Michael; Kerry, Vanessa B; Bangsberg, David R (BMJ Publishing Group, 2013)
      Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the current work distribution of health professionals from a public Ugandan medical school in a period of major donor funding for HIV programmes. We explore the hypothesis ...
    • Influenza and Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation 

      Radonovich, Lewis J.; Martinello, Richard A.; Hodgson, Michael; Milton, Donald Kirby; Nardell, Edward Anthony (BioMed Central, 2008)
    • Influenza epidemics, seasonality, and the effects of cold weather on cardiac mortality 

      von Klot, Stephanie; Zanobetti, Antonella; Schwartz, Joel (BioMed Central, 2012)
      Background: More people die in the winter from cardiac disease, and there are competing hypotheses to explain this. The authors conducted a study in 48 US cities to determine how much of the seasonal pattern in cardiac ...
    • Influenza seasonality: Lifting the fog 

      Lipsitch, Marc; Viboud, C. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
      Seasonal variation in the incidence of communicable diseases is among the oldest observations in population biology, dating back at least to ancient Greece, yet our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon ...
    • Influenza Virus Aerosols in Human Exhaled Breath: Particle Size, Culturability, and Effect of Surgical Masks 

      Milton, Donald Kirby; Fabian, Maria Patricia; Cowling, Benjamin J.; Grantham, Michael L.; McDevitt, James J (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      The CDC recommends that healthcare settings provide influenza patients with facemasks as a means of reducing transmission to staff and other patients, and a recent report suggested that surgical masks can capture influenza ...
    • Influenza Virus in Human Exhaled Breath: An Observational Study 

      Fabian, Patricia; McDevitt, James J; DeHaan, Wesley H.; Fung, Rita O. P.; Cowling, Benjamin J.; Chan, Kwok Hung; Leung, Gabriel M.; Milton, Donald Kirby; Fouchier, Ron A. M. (Public Library of Science, 2008)
      Background: Recent studies suggest that humans exhale fine particles during tidal breathing but little is known of their composition, particularly during infection. Methodology/Principal Findings: We conducted a study of ...
    • Informal Caregiving Patterns in Korea and European Countries: A Cross-National Comparison 

      Jang, Soong-Nang; Avendano, Mauricio; Kawachi, Ichiro (, 2012)
      Purpose: This ecological study examined demographic and institutional differences in informal caregiving. We conducted a cross-national study about the characteristics of informal caregivers in 12 European countries and ...
    • Informal politics and inequity of access to health care in Lebanon 

      Chen, Bradley; Cammett, Melani Claire (BioMed Central, 2012)
      Introduction: Despite the importance of political institutions in shaping the social environment, the causal impact of politics on health care access and inequalities has been understudied. Even when considered, research ...
    • Informal Training in Staff Networks to Support Dissemination of Health Promotion Programs 

      Ramanadhan, Shoba; Wiecha, Jean L.; Gortmaker, Steven L.; Emmons, Karen Maria; Viswanath, Kasisomayajula (SAGE Publications, 2010)
    • Informal urban settlements and cholera risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 

      Penrose, Katherine; Castro, Marcia C. de; Werema, Japhet; Ryan, Edward Thomas (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Background: As a result of poor economic opportunities and an increasing shortage of affordable housing, much of the spatial growth in many of the world's fastest-growing cities is a result of the expansion of informal ...
    • Information giving and receiving in hematological malignancy consultations 

      Alexander, Stewart C.; Stewart, Susan K.; Sullivan, Amy Marie; Back, Anthony L.; Tulsky, James Aaron; Goldman, Roberta E.; Block, Susan Dale; Wilson-Genderson, Maureen; Lee, Stephanie J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
      Purpose Little is known about communication with patients suffering from hematologic malignancies, many of whom are seen by subspecialists in consultation at tertiary-care centers. These subspecialized consultations ...