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The Economics of Medicaid Reform and Block Grants
(American Medical Association, 2017)Since its passage in 1965, Medicaid has expanded and contracted with the political tides. With concurrent Republican executive and legislative control in 2017, conservative policy makers have already declared their desire ... -
edgeRun: an R package for sensitive, functionally relevant differential expression discovery using an unconditional exact test
(Oxford University Press, 2015)Summary: Next-generation sequencing platforms for measuring digital expression such as RNA-Seq are displacing traditional microarray-based methods in biological experiments. The detection of differentially expressed genes ... -
Editor's choice: Erythrocyte Superoxide Dismutase, Glutathione Peroxidase, and Catalase Activities and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Generally Healthy Women: A Prospective Study
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Erythrocyte antioxidant enzymes are major circulating antioxidant enzymes in the oxidative stress defense system. Few prospective studies have assessed the association between these enzymes and the risk of coronary heart ... -
Editor's choice: HIV Infection and the Incidence of Malaria Among HIV-Exposed Children from Tanzania
(Oxford University Press, 2012)To determine whether human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is associated with increased risk of malaria incidence and recurrence in children.Newborn infants of HIV-infected mothers were enrolled at 6 weeks and ... -
Editorial: The Great Procrastination
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Editorial: The Post-2015 Development Agenda, Human Rights, Evidence, and Open-Access Publishing
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Education and Coronary Heart Disease Risk
(SAGE Publications, 2014)OBJECTIVE Education is inversely associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) risk, however the mechanisms are poorly understood. The study objectives were to evaluate the extent to which rarely measured factors (literacy, ... -
Education and Coronary Heart Disease Risk Associations May Be Affected by Early Life Common Prior Causes: A Propensity Matching Analysis
(, 2012)PURPOSE: Education is inversely associated with coronary heart disease (CHD); however whether this is attributable to causal effects of schooling rather than potential confounders existing before school entry (eg, childhood ... -
Education and Smoking: Confounding or Effect Modification by Phenotypic Personality Traits?
(, 2009)Background Little is known about whether educational gradients in smoking patterns can be explained by financial measures of socioeconomic status (SES) and/or personality traits.Purpose To assess whether the relationship ... -
Education determines a nation's health, but what determines educational outcomes? A cross-national comparative analysis
(2012)This study is premised on the notion that public health policy should address not only health itself, but also primary determinants of health. We examined the effect of national policies on educational outcomes, in particular, ... -
Educational attainment and cigarette smoking: a causal association?
(Oxford University Press, 2008)Background Despite abundant evidence that lower education is associated with a higher risk of smoking, whether the association is causal has not been convincingly established.Methods We investigated the association between ... -
Efavirenz versus boosted atazanavir-containing regimens and immunologic, virologic, and clinical outcomes: A prospective study of HIV-positive individuals
(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2016)Abstract Objective: To compare regimens consisting of either ritonavir-boosted atazanavir or efavirenz and a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) backbone with respect to clinical, immunologic, and virologic ... -
EFBAT: Exact Family-Based Association Tests
(BioMed Central, 2007)Background: Family-based association tests are important tools for investigating genetic risk factors of complex diseases. These tests are especially valuable for being robust to population structure. We introduce a tool, ... -
Effect Modification by Time Since Blood Draw on the Association Between Circulating Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk
(Oxford University Press, 2016)A recent meta-analysis suggested that circulating fatty acids do not play an important role in prostate carcinogenesis. We hypothesized that the relation between circulating fatty acids and prostate cancer (PCa) risk is ... -
Effect modification by vitamin D receptor genetic polymorphisms in the association between cumulative lead exposure and pulse pressure: a longitudinal study
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Although the association between lead and cardiovascular disease is well established, potential mechanisms are still poorly understood. Calcium metabolism plays a role in lead toxicity and thus, vitamin D ... -
Effect Modification of Air Pollution on Urinary 8-Hydroxy-2'-Deoxyguanosine by Genotypes: An Application of the Multiple Testing Procedure to Identify Significant SNP Interactions
(BioMed Central, 2010)Background: Air pollution is associated with adverse human health, but mechanisms through which pollution exerts effects remain to be clarified. One suggested pathway is that pollution causes oxidative stress. If so, ... -
Effect Modification of Long‐Term Air Pollution Exposures and the Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease in US Women
(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2015)Background: Ambient air pollution exposures have been frequently linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality. However, less is known about the populations most susceptible to these adverse effects. Methods ... -
Effect of a Center-Based Early Childhood Care and Education Program on Child Nutritional Status: A Secondary Analysis of a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Sindh, Pakistan
(Elsevier BV, 2023-12)Background: High-quality early childhood care and education (ECCE) programs can positively impact children's development. However, as an unintended consequence, ECCE attendance may also affect children's nutritional ...