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Transplantation (93)3 2012
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We undertook a prospective study to evaluate the risk factors for the occurrence of BKV infections using BK viruria and viremia as endpoints.
Two hundred forty renal only transplant recipients were prospectively enrolled into our institutional review board-approved single center stud...
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PMID: 22179402
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Legg-Calvé-Perthes' disease (Perthes' disease) is a childhood osteonecrosis of the hip for which the disease determinants are poorly understood. In this review, the authors identify studies of Perthes' disease incidence published up to December 2010 and make denominator populations...
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PMID: 22223709
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The effect of race/ethnicity on the risk of diabetes associated with sleep duration has not been systematically investigated. This study assessed whether blacks reporting short (<6 hours) or long (>8 hours) sleep durations were at greater risk for diabetes than their white counterpar...
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PMID: 22269619
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Surgical Clinics (92)1 2012
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Racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in health outcomes are a major challenge for the US health care system. Although the causes of these disparities are multifactorial, unconscious bias on the part of health care providers plays a role. Unconscious bias occurs when subconscious pr...
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PMID: 22269267
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Journal of Asthma (49)1 2012
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We used Poisson, cumulative logistic, logistic, and linear mixed-effects regression models to assess the relationships among demographic predictors, prevention and management behaviors, and responsibility for asthma care.
Fifty percent took 7-9 prevention steps; few saw physicians wh...
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PMID: 22149141
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Medical Journal of Australia (196)1 2012
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To document the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and its associated characteristics in a sample of urban Indigenous women.
A cross-sectional survey of Indigenous women, including biochemical and anthropometric assessments. PCOS was assessed using the Nat...
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PMID: 22256938
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Journal of Psychology (146)1-2 2012
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Loneliness concerns the subjective evaluation that the number of relationships is smaller than the individual considers desirable or that the intimacy that the individual wishes for has not been realized. The aim of this study was to assess variations in levels of late-life lonelines...
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PMID: 22303621
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Journal of Psychology (146)1-2 2012
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Loneliness concerns the subjective evaluation that the number of relationships is smaller than the individual considers desirable or that the intimacy that the individual wishes for has not been realized. The aim of this study was to assess variations in levels of late-life lonelines...
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PMID: 22303621
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Acculturating to a host country has a negative impact on immigrant women's breastfeeding practices, particularly when coming from countries where breastfeeding rates are higher than Western countries. Whether this is true of those immigrating to the UK remains to be investigated. The...
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PMID: 22136221
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Health Psychology (31)1 2012
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To identify predictors of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination initiation by girls at high risk for HPV infection.
Participants were 2,098 girls enrolled in the ongoing Pittsburgh Girls Study, who were between the ages of 12 and 15 years in 2008, and their primary c...
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PMID: 22229933
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Aging and Mental Health (16)2 2012
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This study examines how the prevalence and correlates of binge drinking among older adults vary by race/ethnicity.
Drawn from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey, adults aged 60 and older (n = 18,772) were selected. Binge drinking was measured dichotomousl...
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PMID: 22224754
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Kinderkrankenschwester : Organ der Sektion Kinderkrankenpflege / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sozialpadiatrie und Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde (31)1 2012
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The ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene plays a major role in repairing the double-strand breaks and maintaining the genome stability. In this case-control study, associations of seven ATM single-nucleotide polymorphisms (rs600931, rs189037, rs652311, rs624366, rs228589, rs22709...
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PMID: 22229509
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Overweight and obese children are more likely to develop risk factors that can lead to respiratory, metabolic, and cardiovascular illness. The increase in prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in the United States since the 1960s has been well documented. In New York City, i...
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PMID: 22169977
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Stillbirths account for almost half of US deaths from 20 weeks' gestation to 1 year of life. Most large studies of risk factors for stillbirth use vital statistics with limited data.
To determine the relation between stillbirths and risk factors that could be ascertai...
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PMID: 22166606
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Stillbirth affects 1 in 160 pregnancies in the United States, equal to the number of infant deaths each year. Rates are higher than those of other developed countries and have stagnated over the past decade. There is significant racial disparity in the rate of stillbirth that is unex...
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PMID: 22166605
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These results highlight the need for more research to understand the potential differences in driving behaviors between racial and ethnic groups. More research is also needed to develop countermeasures for racial and ethnic groups most at risk for motor vehicle violations and crashes....
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PMID: 22133336
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Nephrology news & issues (25)13 2011
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This study translated SiHLE (Sisters Informing, Healing, Living, and Empowering), a 12-hour Centers for Disease Control and Prevention evidence-based group-level intervention for African American females 14-18 years of age, into a 2-hour computer-delivered individual-level interventi...
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PMID: 22201239
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In the United States, there is an urgent need to provide HIV prevention services to African American men who have sex with men and women (MSMW) but who do not identify as gay or homosexual. Engaging these men in HIV prevention has historically been challenging. This study used qualit...
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PMID: 22201236
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Nursing Management (18)8 2011
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Nurses have an unmatched presence in a range of healthcare settings, and can extend their services well beyond the boundaries of the acute system. By doing so, they can help healthcare providers meet the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations, for example by improving...
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PMID: 22256460
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Sexually Transmitted Infections (87 Suppl 2) 2011
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We examine the impact of a cultural diagnosis of dermatophyte infection on the treatment and prevention of this highly contagious infection....
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PMID: 22272485
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Psychological Reports (109)2 2011
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The suicidal behavior of African females is a rarely explored topic. The present study is a descriptive analysis of fatal and nonfatal female suicidal behavior in Ghana. Patterns of both fatal and nonfatal female suicidal behavior recorded by the Ghana Police Service during 2006-2008...
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PMID: 22238863
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Hospital practice (1995) (39)4 2011
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Our hypothesis was that OSA, when present, is more severe in black patients than white patients. This cross-sectional study was performed at Truman Medical Centers, a teaching hospital affiliated with University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (Kansas City, MO). Multiple linear regression...
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PMID: 22056827
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Different Islamic populations have different alimentary habits, notably during Ramadan. The paper reports the change of diet, lipids, and lipoproteins produced during Ramadan in one Tunisian population. During Ramadan, the study subjects consumed more proteins, cholesterol, vitamin E...
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PMID: 22106754
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Although the past few decades have seen rising incomes and increased government attention to rural development, many children in rural China still lack regular access to micronutrient-rich diets. Insufficient diets and poor knowledge of nutrition among the poor result in nutritional...
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PMID: 22106753
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Dietary transition in the Arctic is associated with decreased quality of diet, which is of particular concern for women of childbearing age due to the potential impact of maternal nutrition status on the next generation. The study assessed dietary intake and adequacy among Inuit wome...
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PMID: 22106751
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Medical education is perceived as being stressful, and a high level of stress may have a negative effect on cognitive functioning and learning of students in a medical school. This cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the prevalence of stress among medical students and to...
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PMID: 22106758
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Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in Cuba, yet the prevalence of novel risk factors is not known. To examine the prevalence of risk factors of traditional and novel cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) among an urban Cuban population, a cross-sectional pilot survey was unde...
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PMID: 22106757
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Each year, an estimated six million perinatal deaths occur worldwide, and 98% of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. These estimates are based on surveys in both urban and rural areas, and they may underrepresent the problem in rural areas. This study was conducte...
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PMID: 22106760
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Fever is an easily-recognizable primary sign for many serious childhood infections. In Bangladesh, 31% of children aged less than five years (under-five children) die from serious infections, excluding confirmed acute respiratory infections or diarrhoea. Understanding healthcare-seek...
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PMID: 22106759
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The neonatal mortality rate in India is high and stagnant. Special Care Newborn Units (SCNUs) have been set up to provide quality level II newborn-care services in several district hospitals to meet this challenge. The units are located in some remotest districts where the burden of...
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PMID: 22106756
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Molecular features of colorectal hyperplastic polyps and sessile serrated adenoma/polyps from Korea.
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We conclude that HPs and SSA/Ps in Korean patients share some, but not all, clinical and molecular characteristics to those that occur in Americans. The data support the theory that the right and left colon are biologically different with regard to susceptibility to serrated cancer, and that anatomi...
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PMID: 21836485
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To assess the prevalence of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy in indigenous Australians aged ≥40 years.
The National Indigenous Eye Health Survey used a stratified, multistage cluster probability sampling frame to provide a representative sample of the indigenous Au...
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PMID: 21819502
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This study aimed to examine the participation of Australian Chinese in cardiovascular risk factor and cancer screening.
A telephone survey of a random sample of Chinese in New South Wales, Australia, was conducted. The presence of, and participation in screening for,...
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PMID: 21819359
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We have examined in a cross-sectional study the interrelationships among IMCL, insulin sensitivity, and adiposity in European Americans (EAs) and African Americans (AAs). In 43 EA and 43 AA subjects, we measured soleus IMCL content with proton-magnetic resonance spectroscopy, insulin sensitivity wit...
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PMID: 21436797
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First-line treatment with bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy has been shown to improve outcomes in patients with advanced, nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSNSCLC) in phase III clinical trials. SAiL (MO19390), an open-label, multicenter, single-arm study, evaluated the sa...
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PMID: 21512405
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Journal of Public Health (33)2 2011
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We analysed the trends in the epidemiology of TB in children in London aged 0-14 years between 1999 and 2006.
Data were extracted from the Enhanced TB Surveillance System.
Between 1999 and 2006, there were 1370 cases of TB in children. Incidence was higher in older ch...
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PMID: 20587642
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We investigated whether variants in major candidate genes for food intake and body weight regulation contribute to obesity-related traits under a multilocus perspective. We studied 375 Brazilian subjects from partially isolated African-derived populations (quilombos). Seven variants displaying confl...
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PMID: 21233811
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To identify factors associated with antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence in order to guide the development of strategies to improve the situation.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted with people living with HIV (PLHIV) who receive services from non-governmental o...
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PMID: 22224337
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The Caribbean including Jamaica is undergoing rapid population ageing with implications for health service planning and delivery. Such planning should take into account gender differentials. This study describes and analyses the health status and health-seeking behaviour of men 55 ye...
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PMID: 22224346
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A comprehensive understanding of the self-care activities that contribute to blood pressure control may explain health disparities experienced by African Americans with hypertension. This study assessed the prevalence of self-care activities among African Americans with high blood pr...
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PMID: 21830634
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New England Journal of Medicine (364)21 2011
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We analyzed data on cases of bacterial meningitis reported among residents in eight surveillance areas of the Emerging Infections Programs Network, consisting of approximately 17.4 million persons, during 1998-2007. We defined bacterial meningitis as the presence of H. influenzae, Streptococcus pneu...
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PMID: 21612470
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MMWR. Surveillance summaries : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries / CDC (60)5 2011
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States. Approximately 53,000 persons die from TBI-related injuries annually. During 1989-1998, TBI-related death rates decreased 11.4%, from 21.9 to 19.4 per 100,000 population. This report describe...
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PMID: 21544045
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A more complete picture of higher cardiovascular disease prevalence among blacks compared to whites.
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Only one half of Americans have their blood pressure controlled, and there are significant racial differences in blood pressure control. The goal of this study was to examine the effectiveness of 2 patient-directed interventions designed to improve blood pressure control within white...
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PMID: 21531237
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PLoS Genetics (7)5 2011
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We tested 49 risk variants located in 28 genomic regions identified through GWAS in men of European and Asian descent, and we replicated associations (at p≤0.05) with roughly half of these markers. Through fine-mapping, we identified nearby markers in many regions that better define associations i...
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PMID: 21637779
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Xenobiotica (41)5 2011
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Nurse educators are challenged by students who did not learn Standard American English as a primary language. It is not only language that makes these students stand out-cultural beliefs, values and practices need to be appreciated as well. The purpose of this article is to synthesize the current qu...
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PMID: 19645373
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The Nursing journal of India (102)5 2011
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We studied the association of 11 ADIPOQ single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with common and internal carotid intima media thickness (cIMT), presence of coronary artery calcification (CAC), and CAC scores (in those with CAC) in 2,847 participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)...
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PMID: 20930713
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Migrant studies in the United States (US) have rarely covered the Middle Eastern population (ME), and have never distinguished the first and second generations born in the US. This study aims to describe the mortality patterns of ME immigrants by origin, acculturation, and generation...
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PMID: 19621261
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New England Journal of Medicine (364)13 2011
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We conducted a double-blind study in which previously untreated adults with HCV genotype 1 infection were randomly assigned to one of three groups. In all three groups, peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin were administered for 4 weeks (the lead-in period). Subsequently, group 1 (the control group) r...
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PMID: 21449783
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New England Journal of Medicine (364)13 2011
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