In South Africa, the epicentre of the HIV pandemic, there is a high prevalence of circular migration: within-country rural-to-urban cyclical movement, an artifact of apartheid-era …
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of glucose management strategies in Guangdong General Hospital after Jan 1st, 2013. Research design This is a retrospective cohort study. …
Background: As the burden of opioid use disorder increases in the United States, manifold federal and state initiatives have sought to increase access to treatment …
Background: Although depression is prevalent among working-aged Medicaid enrollees with physical disabilities, the association of depression and health service utilization has not been examined in …
In epidemiological investigations of time-varying exposures, repeat assessments of exposures are necessary to accurately characterize exposed person-time and to quantify time-dependent effects. The feasibility of …
Introduction: Mali is one of the world’s poorest countries. Despite significant decreases in the past three decades, under-five (U5) child mortality rates remain among the …
Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The main contributor to CVD is the buildup of atherosclerotic plaques. Dyslipidemia, …
Background: Stem cell maturation is a fundamental, yet poorly understood aspect of human development. We devised a DNA methylation signature that represented embryonic stem cells …
Background: Several studies have reported an increased risk of abnormal Pap smears and cervical cancer in populations of women with immunocompromised health, such as in …
Abstract of Diabetes Screening and Diagnosis in African Americans: The role of hemoglobin A1c, by Mary E. Lacy, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2018. African Americans …
Overweight, obesity, weight gain, and weight cycling are associated with increased health risk. The purpose of this dissertation was to characterize weight trajectories during middle …
The epidemiology of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) in women is less clear because women are underrepresented in most studies. Dietary factors may play a role …
Although the quantity and quality of dietary carbohydrate have been extensively studied in relation to cardiometabolic health, there remain gaps in knowledge, and some of …
National and international authoritative bodies have made dietary recommendations related to intake of dietary lipids for the improvement of cardio-metabolic health, although available studies directly …
Traditional analyses in nutritional epidemiology relate single nutrients or foods to disease risk. Dietary pattern analysis is increasingly preferred to analysis of single nutrients as …
Abstract of Differences in Risk and Protective Factors of Depression and Suicide by Gender Identity, by Jackson E. McMahon, Degree ScM, Brown University, May 2020 …
Background: Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) are associated with systemic inflammation (SI). DNA methylation-derived SI (mdSI) indices can be assessed by Neutrophilto-Lymphocyte ratio …
Background: Despite data from younger populations suggesting that glipizide is the preferred sulfonylurea due to its lower risk of adverse effects, long-acting sulfonylureas (glimepiride and …
Given that exposure to mixtures of environmental chemicals among pregnant women are ubiquitous, potentially modifiable, and may increase the risk of adverse health outcomes during …