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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison by medicine residents of physical examination versus hand-carried ultrasound for estimation of right atrial pressure. 
  • A qualitative study of physicians' experiences with online learning in a masters degree program: benefits, challenges, and proposed solutions. 
  • Association of Long Runs of Homozygosity With Alzheimer Disease Among African American Individuals. 
  • Associations between religion-related factors and breast cancer screening among American Muslims. 
  • Associations between religion-related factors and cervical cancer screening among Muslims in greater chicago. 
  • Attention to inpatients' religious and spiritual concerns: predictors and association with patient satisfaction. 
  • Battering victimization among a probability-based sample of men who have sex with men. 
  • Change of Cognitive Function in U.S. Chinese Older Adults: A Population-Based Study. 
  • Coronary multidetector computed tomographic angiography to evaluate coronary artery disease in liver transplant candidates: methods, feasibility and initial experience. 
  • Determinants of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in African-American and Caucasian male veterans. 
  • Dynamics of data availability in disease modeling: An example evaluating the trade-offs of ultra-fine-scale factors applied to human West Nile virus disease models in the Chicago area, USA. 
  • Early Postoperative Emergency Department Care of Abdominal Transplant Recipients. 
  • Eating behavior traits of successful weight losers during 12 months of alternate-day fasting: An exploratory analysis of a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effect of parental mental health status on adolescents' dietary behaviors. 
  • Effects of vitamin D insufficiency on bone mineral density in African American men. 
  • Experiences of discrimination and oral health-related quality of life among foreign-born older Chinese Americans: Does resilience play a mediating role? 
  • External validation of the Chicago Chiari Outcome Scale. 
  • Gay identity, interpersonal violence, and HIV risk behaviors: an empirical test of theoretical relationships among a probability-based sample of urban men who have sex with men. 
  • Gun Theft and Crime. 
  • Gunshot-victim cooperation with police investigations: Results from the Chicago Inmate Survey. 
  • Health Service Use Among Chinese American Older Adults: Is There a Somatization Effect? 
  • Impact of an incomplete colonoscopy referral program on recommendations after incomplete colonoscopy. 
  • Inappropriate Clostridium difficile Testing and Consequent Overtreatment and Inaccurate Publicly Reported Metrics. 
  • Is Living in an Ethnic Enclave Associated With Cognitive Function? Results From the Population Study of Chinese Elderly (PINE) in Chicago. 
  • Isolated systolic hypertension in young and middle-aged adults and 31-year risk for cardiovascular mortality: the Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry study. 
  • Issues of diagnostic review in brain tumor studies: from the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium. 
  • Neighborhood Cohesion and Oral Health Problems Among Older Chinese American Immigrants: Does Acculturation Make a Difference? 
  • Network exposure and homicide victimization in an African American community. 
  • New sex partner acquisition and sexually transmitted disease risk among adolescent females. 
  • Obesity prevalence among a group of Chicago residents with disabilities. 
  • Oral Health Symptoms and Cognitive Function Among US Community-Dwelling Chinese Older Adults. 
  • Perceived Stress, Social Support, and Dry Mouth Among US Older Chinese Adults. 
  • Percutaneous transcatheter aortic valve closure successfully treats left ventricular assist device-associated aortic insufficiency and improves cardiac hemodynamics. 
  • Physical Activity in an Underserved Population: Identifying Technology Preferences. 
  • Predictors of relapse in sexual practices among homosexual men. 
  • Prevalence of type 2 diabetes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea in a multi-ethnic sample. 
  • Psychological well-being of Chinese Immigrant adult-child caregivers: how do filial expectation, self-rated filial performance, and filial discrepancy matter? 
  • Public housing of elderly in Chicago. 
  • Race, psychosocial vulnerability and social support differences in inner-city women's symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Racial/ethnic minority and neighborhood disadvantage leads to disproportionate mortality burden and years of potential life lost due to COVID-19 in Chicago, Illinois. 
  • Religiosity, spirituality, and end-of-life planning: a single-site survey of medical inpatients. 
  • Self-control in action: implicit dispositions toward goals and away from temptations. 
  • Social Support, Social Strain, and Cognitive Function Among Community-Dwelling U.S. Chinese Older Adults. 
  • Sources of guns to dangerous people: what we learn by asking them. 
  • Spectrum of ocular toxicities from epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors and their intermediate-term follow-up: a five-year review. 
  • The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons was held in Chicago, Illinois from October 6-10, 2012. Preface. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: Management of Appendiceal Neoplasms. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: Management of Colorectal Metastases. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: Management of Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor, Breast, and Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: Management of Gastric Metastases. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: Management of Ovarian Neoplasms. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: Management of Peritoneal Mesothelioma. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: Palliative Care Considerations. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies: Standards. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: Management of appendiceal neoplasms. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: Management of colorectal metastases. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: Management of desmoplastic small round cell tumor, breast, and gastrointestinal stromal tumors. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: Management of gastric metastases. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: Management of neuroendocrine tumors. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: Management of ovarian neoplasms. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: Management of peritoneal mesothelioma. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: Palliative care considerations. 
  • The Chicago Consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: Standards. 
  • The Clinical Utility of Provocative Maneuvers at Esophageal High-resolution Manometry (HRM). 
  • The Last Link: from Gun Acquisition to Criminal Use. 
  • The drivers of West Nile virus human illness in the Chicago, Illinois, USA area: Fine scale dynamic effects of weather, mosquito infection, social, and biological conditions. 
  • The impact of a prospective payment system on psychosocial service delivery in the general hospital. 
  • Tragic, but not random: the social contagion of nonfatal gunshot injuries. 
  • Urban foodscape trends: Disparities in healthy food access in Chicago, 2007-2014. 
  • Youths' involvement with guns: motivation vs availability.