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    • Malaria Parasitemia and CD4 T Cell Count, Viral Load, and Adverse HIV Outcomes Among HIV-Infected Pregnant Women in Tanzania 

      Franke, Molly Forrest; Spiegelman, Donna Lynn; Ezeamama, A.; Aboud, S.; Msamanga, G. I.; Mehta, S.; Fawzi, Wafaie W. (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2010)
      We examined the cross-sectional relationships between malaria parasitemia and CD4 T cell count and viral load among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected pregnant women. We then followed women to investigate whether ...

    • Malariometric indices from Iganga, Uganda: baseline characterization in preparation of GMZ2 vaccine trial 

      Kaddumukasa, Mark; Buwembo, William; Sekikubo, Musa; Naiwumbwe, Halima; Namusoke, Fatuma; Kiwuwa, Stephen; Oketch, Brenda; Noor, Ramadhani; Chilengi, Roma; Mworozi, Edison; Kironde, Fred (BioMed Central, 2014)
      Background: Malaria still remains the leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in Uganda. Interventions like malaria vaccines which reduce the malaria burden are needed in malaria endemic communities. There is ...

    • Male reproductive health and environmental xenoestrogens 

      Toppari, J; Larsen, JC; Christiansen, P; Giwercman, A; Grandjean, Philippe; Guillette LJ, Jr; Jégou, B; Jensen, TK; Jouannet, P; Keiding, N; Leffers, H; McLachlan, JA; Meyer, O; Müller, J; Rajpert-De Meyts, E; Scheike, T; Sharpe, R; Sumpter, J; Skakkebaek, NE (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2018-02-06)
      Male reproductive health has deteriorated in many countries during the last few decades. In the 1990s, declining semen quality has been reported from Belgium, Denmark, France, and Great Britain. The incidence of testicular ...

    • A male steroid controls female sexual behaviour in the malaria mosquito 

      Peng, Duo; Kakani, Evdoxia; Mameli, Enzo; Vidoudez, Charles; Mitchell, Sara; Merrihew, Gennifer E.; MacCoss, Michael J.; Adams, Kelsey; Rinvee, Tasneem A.; Shaw, W. Robert; Catteruccia, Flaminia (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-07-06)
      Insects, unlike vertebrates, are widely believed to lack male-biased sex steroid hormones1. In the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae, the ecdysteroid 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) appears to have evolved to both control egg ...

    • Male Tobacco Smoke Load and Non-Lung Cancer Mortality Associations in Massachusetts 

      Leistikow, Bruce N; Kabir, Zubair; Connolly, Gregrory N.; Clancy, Luke; Alpert, Hillel R (BioMed Central, 2008)
      Background: Different methods exist to estimate smoking attributable cancer mortality rates (Peto and Ezzati methods, as examples). However, the smoking attributable estimates using these methods cannot be generalized to ...

    • Mammographic density and breast cancer risk: a mediation analysis 

      Rice, Megan S.; Bertrand, Kimberly A.; VanderWeele, Tyler J.; Rosner, Bernard A.; Liao, Xiaomei; Adami, Hans-Olov; Tamimi, Rulla M. (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: High mammographic density (MD) is a strong risk factor for breast cancer. However, it is unclear whether high MD is an intermediate phenotype or whether breast cancer risk factors influence breast cancer risk ...

    • Mammographic density and risk of breast cancer by age and tumor characteristics 

      Bertrand, Kimberly A; Tamimi, Rulla M; Scott, Christopher G; Jensen, Matthew R; Pankratz, V Shane; Visscher, Daniel; Norman, Aaron; Couch, Fergus; Shepherd, John; Fan, Bo; Chen, Yunn-Yi; Ma, Lin; Beck, Andrew H; Cummings, Steven R; Kerlikowske, Karla; Vachon, Celine M (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Introduction: Understanding whether mammographic density (MD) is associated with all breast tumor subtypes and whether the strength of association varies by age is important for utilizing MD in risk models. Methods: Data ...

    • Mammographic density as a mediator for breast cancer risk: analytic approaches 

      VanderWeele, Tyler J; Adami, Hans-Olov; Tamimi, Rulla M (BioMed Central, 2012)
      Mammographic breast density has been found to be associated with breast cancer risk. Many of the traditional risk factors for breast cancer are themselves associated with mammographic breast density. A natural question ...

    • Mammographic density assessed on paired raw and processed digital images and on paired screen-film and digital images across three mammography systems 

      Burton, Anya; Byrnes, Graham; Stone, Jennifer; Tamimi, Rulla M.; Heine, John; Vachon, Celine; Ozmen, Vahit; Pereira, Ana; Garmendia, Maria Luisa; Scott, Christopher; Hipwell, John H.; Dickens, Caroline; Schüz, Joachim; Aribal, Mustafa Erkin; Bertrand, Kimberly; Kwong, Ava; Giles, Graham G.; Hopper, John; Pérez Gómez, Beatriz; Pollán, Marina; Teo, Soo-Hwang; Mariapun, Shivaani; Taib, Nur Aishah Mohd; Lajous, Martín; Lopez-Riduara, Ruy; Rice, Megan; Romieu, Isabelle; Flugelman, Anath Arzee; Ursin, Giske; Qureshi, Samera; Ma, Huiyan; Lee, Eunjung; Sirous, Reza; Sirous, Mehri; Lee, Jong Won; Kim, Jisun; Salem, Dorria; Kamal, Rasha; Hartman, Mikael; Miao, Hui; Chia, Kee-Seng; Nagata, Chisato; Vinayak, Sudhir; Ndumia, Rose; van Gils, Carla H.; Wanders, Johanna O. P.; Peplonska, Beata; Bukowska, Agnieszka; Allen, Steve; Vinnicombe, Sarah; Moss, Sue; Chiarelli, Anna M.; Linton, Linda; Maskarinec, Gertraud; Yaffe, Martin J.; Boyd, Norman F.; dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel; McCormack, Valerie A. (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Inter-women and intra-women comparisons of mammographic density (MD) are needed in research, clinical and screening applications; however, MD measurements are influenced by mammography modality (screen film/digital) ...

    • Mammographic texture and risk of breast cancer by tumor type and estrogen receptor status 

      Malkov, Serghei; Shepherd, John A.; Scott, Christopher G.; Tamimi, Rulla M.; Ma, Lin; Bertrand, Kimberly A.; Couch, Fergus; Jensen, Matthew R.; Mahmoudzadeh, Amir P.; Fan, Bo; Norman, Aaron; Brandt, Kathleen R.; Pankratz, V. Shane; Vachon, Celine M.; Kerlikowske, Karla (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Several studies have shown that mammographic texture features are associated with breast cancer risk independent of the contribution of breast density. Thus, texture features may provide novel information for ...

    • Management of Coronary Artery Calcium and Coronary CTA Findings 

      Thomas, Dustin M.; Divakaran, Sanjay; Villines, Todd C.; Nasir, Khurram; Shah, Nishant R.; Slim, Ahmad M.; Blankstein, Ron; Cheezum, Michael K. (Springer US, 2015)
      Coronary artery calcium (CAC) testing and coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) have significant data supporting their ability to identify coronary artery disease (CAD) and classify patient risk for atherosclerotic ...

    • Manager Support for Work-Family Issues and its Impact on Employee-Reported Pain in the Extended Care Setting 

      O'Donnell, Emily M.; Berkman, Lisa Faye; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2012)
      OBJECTIVE: Supervisor-level policies and the presence of a manager engaged in an employee's need to achieve work-family balance, or "supervisory support," may benefit employee health, including self-reported pain. METHODS: ...

    • Managing and Reducing Uncertainty in an Emerging Influenza Pandemic 

      Lipsitch, Marc; Riley, Steven; Cauchemez, Simon; Ghani, Azra C.; Ferguson, Neil M. (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2009)

    • Manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) gene polymorphism, interactions with carotenoid levels and prostate cancer risk 

      Mikhak, Bahar; Hunter, David J.; Spiegelman, Donna; Platz, Elizabeth A.; Wu, Kana; Erdman, John W. Jr.; Giovannucci, Edward (Oxford University Press, 2008)
      Background: The manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) gene encodes an antioxidant enzyme (SOD2) that may protect cells from oxidative damage. The MnSOD allele with Val as amino acid 16 encodes a protein that has 30-40% ...

    • Manganese Superoxide Dismutase Polymorphism, Prediagnostic Antioxidant Status, and Risk of Clinical Significant Prostate Cancer 

      Li, Haojie; Kantoff, Philip W.; Giovannucci, Edward; Leitzmann, Michael F.; Gaziano, J. Michael; Stampfer, Meir; Ma, Jing (American Association for Cancer Research, 2005)
      Oxidative stress may enhance prostatic carcinogenesis. A polymorphism [valine (V) -> alanine (A)] of manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD), the primary antioxidant enzyme in mitochondria, has been recently associated ...

    • Mannose-Binding Lectin 2 Gene and Risk of Adult Glioma 

      Michaud, Dominique S.; Siddiq, Afshan; Cox, David G.; Backes, Danielle M.; Calboli, Federico C. F.; Sughrue, Michael E.; Gaziano, John Michael; Ma, Jing; Stampfer, Meir; Tworoger, Shelley Slate; Hunter, David J.; Camargo, Carlos Arturo; Parsa, Andrew T. (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Background and Aims The immune system is likely to play a key role in the etiology of gliomas. Genetic polymorphisms in the mannose-binding lectin gene, a key activator in the lectin complement pathway, have been associated ...

    • Mapping Community Determinants of Heat Vulnerability 

      Reid, Colleen E.; O’Neill, Marie S.; Gronlund, Carina J.; Brines, Shannon J.; Diez-Roux, Ana V.; Brown, Daniel G.; Schwartz, Joel David (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2009)
      Background: The evidence that heat waves can result in both increased deaths and illness is substantial, and concern over this issue is rising because of climate change. Adverse health impacts from heat waves can be avoided, ...

    • Mapping Global Variation in Human Mobility 

      Kraemer, Moritz; Sadilek, Adam; Zhang, Qian; Marchal, Nahema A.; Tuli, Gaurav; Cohn, Emily L.; Hswen, Yulin; Perkins, T. Alex; Smith, David L.; Reiner, Robert C.; Brownstein, John (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-05-18)
      The geographic variation of human movement is largely unknown, mainly due to a lack of accurate and scalable data. Here we describe global human mobility patterns, aggregated from over 300 million smartphone users. The ...

    • Mapping malaria risk and vulnerability in the United Republic of Tanzania: a spatial explicit model 

      Hagenlocher, Michael; Castro, Marcia C (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Background: Outbreaks of vector-borne diseases (VBDs) impose a heavy burden on vulnerable populations. Despite recent progress in eradication and control, malaria remains the most prevalent VBD. Integrative approaches that ...

    • Mapping pneumonia research: A systematic analysis of UK investments and published outputs 1997–2013 

      Head, Michael G.; Fitchett, Joseph R.; Newell, Marie-Louise; Scott, J. Anthony G.; Harris, Jennifer N.; Clarke, Stuart C.; Atun, Rifat (Elsevier, 2015)
      Background: The burden of pneumonia continues to be substantial, particularly among the poorest in global society. We describe here the trends for UK pneumonia R&D investment and published outputs, and correlate with 2013 ...