Demography

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Death and taxes": a contrary view. 
  • "His" and "Hers": Meeting the Economic Bar to Marriage. 
  • "Not too far to walk": the influence of distance on place of delivery in a western Kenya health demographic surveillance system. 
  • 'Impact hunters' catalyse cooperative hunting in two wild chimpanzee communities. 
  • A 3-year longitudinal study examining the effect of resilience on suicidality in veterans. 
  • A GWAS Study on Liver Function Test Using eMERGE Network Participants. 
  • A Heterotopic Xenograft Model of Human Airways for Investigating Fibrosis in Asthma. 
  • A Multicenter Evaluation of Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes Following High-grade Spondylolisthesis Reduction and Fusion. 
  • A branched-chain amino acid-related metabolic signature that differentiates obese and lean humans and contributes to insulin resistance. 
  • A decision exercise to engage cancer patients and families in deliberation about Medicare coverage for advanced cancer care. 
  • A global reference for human genetic variation. 
  • A multi-dimensional model for projecting family households--with an illustrative numerical application. 
  • A multicenter phase I/II study of obatoclax mesylate administered as a 3- or 24-hour infusion in older patients with previously untreated acute myeloid leukemia. 
  • A prospective study of risk factors for first trimester miscarriage in Asian women with threatened miscarriage. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of a coping group intervention for adults with HIV who are AIDS bereaved: longitudinal effects on grief. 
  • A randomized trial comparing the efficacy and safety of imiglucerase (Cerezyme) infusions every 4 weeks versus every 2 weeks in the maintenance therapy of adult patients with Gaucher disease type 1. 
  • A simple method for projecting or estimating and β: An extension of the brass relational Gompertz Fertility Model 
  • A three-generation approach in biodemography is based on the developmental profiles and the epigenetics of female gametes. 
  • A variance components approach to categorical data models with heterogeneous cell populations: analysis of spatial gradients in lung cancer mortality rates in North Carolina counties. 
  • A whole blood gene expression-based signature for smoking status. 
  • ALS Multicenter Cohort Study of Oxidative Stress (ALS COSMOS): study methodology, recruitment, and baseline demographic and disease characteristics. 
  • Academic and Demographic Predictors of NCLEX-RN Pass Rates in First- and Second-Degree Accelerated BSN Programs. 
  • Acceptance of HIV testing during prenatal care. Perinatal Guidelines Evaluation Project. 
  • Active life expectancy estimates for the U.S. elderly population: a multidimensional continuous-mixture model of functional change applied to completed cohorts, 1982-1996. 
  • Adjustment of caregivers of pediatric patients with brain tumors: a cross-sectional analysis. 
  • Age validation of Han Chinese centenarians. 
  • Age-Specific Variation in Adult Mortality Rates in Developed Countries. 
  • Age-related characteristics of depression: a preliminary STAR*D report. 
  • Age-specific mortality trends in France and Italy since 1900: period and cohort effects. 
  • Aging. It's never too late. 
  • Altered cerebellar-cerebral functional connectivity in geriatric depression. 
  • Alternative diet therapy for elderly patients. Unique concerns for a high-risk population. 
  • Alternative models for the heterogeneity of mortality risks among the aged. 
  • Alternative projections of the U.S. population. 
  • Analyses of renal outcome following transplantation adjusting for informative right censoring and demographic factors: A longitudinal study. 
  • Antidepressant use in the elderly: association with demographic characteristics, health-related factors, and health care utilization. 
  • Assessing daily stress processes in social surveys by combining stressor exposure and salivary cortisol. 
  • Assessment of pictographs developed through a participatory design process using an online survey tool. 
  • Assessment of spatial variation of risks in small populations. 
  • Association between perceived life chaos and medication adherence in a postmyocardial infarction population. 
  • Association of AGTR1 with 18-month treatment outcome in late-life depression. 
  • Association of late childbearing with healthy longevity among the oldest-old in China. 
  • Associations between the impact of terrorism and health perceptions of patients. 
  • Awareness of Cervical Cancer Causes and Predeterminants of Likelihood to Screen Among Women in Haiti. 
  • Bargaining power within couples and use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia. 
  • Barriers to the participation of African-American patients with cancer in clinical trials: a pilot study. 
  • Baseline characteristics of patients in the Reduction of Events with Darbepoetin alfa in Heart Failure trial (RED-HF). 
  • Benefit of adherence with bisphosphonates depends on age and fracture type: results from an analysis of 101,038 new bisphosphonate users. 
  • Beyond bacteria: a study of the enteric microbial consortium in extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Biodemography of human ageing. 
  • Burden and well-being among a diverse sample of cancer, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caregivers. 
  • COMADRE: a global data base of animal demography. 
  • Cancer screening practices among women in a community health center population. 
  • Cancer, comorbidities, and health-related quality of life of older adults. 
  • Carcinoma of the cervix: patterns of care studies: review of 1978, 1983, and 1988-1989 surveys. 
  • Cardiovascular health knowledge and preventive practices in people living with HIV in Kenya. 
  • Carotid endarterectomy trends in the patterns and outcomes of care at academic medical centers, 1990 through 1995. 
  • Causes and implications of the recent increase in the reported sex ratio at birth in China 
  • Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: Incidence of venous thrombosis recurrence and survival. 
  • Characteristics of men reporting for prostate cancer screening. 
  • Characteristics of midlife women recruited through internet communities/groups. 
  • Characteristics of neurocognitive functions in mild cognitive impairment with depression. 
  • Characterization of the population pharmacokinetics of ampicillin in neonates using an opportunistic study design. 
  • Children and the Elderly: Wealth Inequality Among America's Dependents. 
  • Children in dark times: a year of silent emergency. 
  • China's Below-Replacement Fertility: Recent Trends and Future Prospects. 
  • Church attendance and new episodes of major depression in a community study of older adults: the Cache County Study. 
  • Cigarette smoking and health-related quality of life in Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Climate change, elevational range shifts, and bird extinctions. 
  • Clinical characteristics and long-term outcome of patients in whom congestive heart failure develops after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: development of a predictive model. 
  • Clinical characteristics of magnetic resonance imaging-defined subcortical ischemic depression. 
  • Coherent forecasts of mortality with compositional data analysis 
  • Colorectal screening patterns and perceptions of risk among African-American users of a community health center. 
  • Combining forward and backward mortality estimation. 
  • Community-based aquatic exercise and quality of life in persons with osteoarthritis. 
  • Comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder is associated with suicidality in male veterans with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. 
  • Components and correlates of family burden in schizophrenia. 
  • Concurrent use of methamphetamine, MDMA, LSD, ketamine, GHB, and flunitrazepam among American youths. 
  • Consequences of return migrant status for employment in Puerto Rico. 
  • Consumers' perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of mandated community treatment and related pressures. 
  • Contrasting quaternary histories in an ecologically divergent sister pair of low-dispersing intertidal fish (Xiphister) revealed by multilocus DNA analysis. 
  • Correlated individual frailty: an advantageous approach to survival analysis of bivariate data. 
  • Correlates of inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption among adolescents. 
  • Crowdsourcing--harnessing the masses to advance health and medicine, a systematic review. 
  • Daily left prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in the acute treatment of major depression: clinical predictors of outcome in a multisite, randomized controlled clinical trial. 
  • Data mining methods find demographic predictors of preterm birth. 
  • Debilitation's aftermath: stochastic process models of mortality. 
  • Decision tree-based method for integrating gene expression, demographic, and clinical data to determine disease endotypes. 
  • Decomposing demographic change into direct vs. compositional components 
  • Demographic analysis and modeling of human populations exposed to ionizing radiation. 
  • Demographic and dietary risk factors in relation to urinary metabolites of organophosphate flame retardants in toddlers. 
  • Demographic and risk factors associated with chronic dieting in adolescents. 
  • Demographic challenges for socioeconomic planning. 
  • Demographic characteristics do not decrease the utility of depressive symptoms assessments: examining the practical impact of item bias in four heterogeneous samples of older adults. 
  • Demographic consequences of migration trends in Puerto Rico: 1950-1980. 
  • Demographic factors that influence the neutralizing antibody response in recipients of recombinant HIV-1 gp120 vaccines. 
  • Demographic surveillance and health equity in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Demographics and replantation. 
  • Demographics of the gay and lesbian population in the United States: evidence from available systematic data sources. 
  • Demographics, stone characteristic, and treatment of urinary calculi at the 47th Combat Support Hospital during the first 6 months of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
  • Demographics, treatment seeking, and diagnoses of anxiety support group participants. 
  • Depression, heart rate variability, and acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Depressive state- and disease-related alterations in neural responses to affective and executive challenges in geriatric depression. 
  • Design of the North Carolina Prostate Cancer Comparative Effectiveness and Survivorship Study (NC ProCESS). 
  • Determinants of effective population size for loci with different modes of inheritance. 
  • Detrusor overactivity does not predict outcome of sacral neuromodulation test stimulation. 
  • Developing a synthetic psychosocial stress measure and harmonizing CVD-risk data: a way forward to GxE meta- and mega-analyses. 
  • Development and evaluation of a genetic risk score for obesity. 
  • Development and validation of a cross-cultural knowledge, attitudes, and practices survey instrument for chronic kidney disease in a Swahili-speaking population. 
  • Differences in level of care at the end of life according to race. 
  • Differential characteristics of young and midlife adult users of psychotherapy, psychotropic medications, or both: information from a population representative sample in São Paulo, Brazil. 
  • Differential patterns of male and female mtDNA exchange across the Atlantic Ocean in the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis. 
  • Disease-specific versus generic measurement of health-related quality of life in insulin-dependent diabetic patients. 
  • Divergent pathways? Racial/ethnic differences in older women's labor force withdrawal. 
  • Diversity and host range of foliar fungal endophytes: are tropical leaves biodiversity hotspots? 
  • Do racial differences in hypertension persist in successful agers? Findings from the MacArthur Study of Successful Aging. 
  • Does climate variability influence the demography of wild primates? Evidence from long-term life-history data in seven species. 
  • Doing all they can: physicians who deny medical futility. 
  • Drug compliance in adolescents: assessing and managing modifiable risk factors. 
  • Dynamics of health changes in the oldest old: new perspectives and evidence. 
  • ECT use in unipolar and bipolar depression. 
  • Early-Life Environmental Exposures and Height, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Older Adults in India 
  • Ecological divergence associated with mating system causes nearly complete reproductive isolation between sympatric Mimulus species. 
  • Effect of antiepileptic drugs on bone density in ambulatory patients. 
  • Effect of body mass index on perioperative outcomes for laparoscopic partial nephrectomy. 
  • Effect of breast-feeding on weight retention at 3 and 6 months postpartum: data from the North Carolina WIC Programme. 
  • Effect of village midwife program on contraceptive prevalence and method choice in Indonesia. 
  • Effects of changes in household structure on future housing demand in Hebei Province, China 
  • Effects of changing demographic factors upon women's family status in China: a model of a family status life table and its application. 
  • Effects of demographic and retirement-age policies on future pension deficits, with an application to China. 
  • Effects of epilepsy surgery on quality of life: a controlled study in a Middle Eastern population. 
  • Empirical Bayes procedures for stabilizing maps of U.S. cancer mortality rates. 
  • Enemies maintain hyperdiverse tropical forests. 
  • Enrollment of patients with lung and colorectal cancers onto clinical trials. 
  • Enteric microbiome metabolites correlate with response to simvastatin treatment. 
  • Environment, obesity, and cardiovascular disease risk in low-income women. 
  • Environmental justice implications of reduced reporting requirements of the Toxics Release Inventory Burden Reduction Rule. 
  • Epidemiology of apathy in older adults: the Cache County Study. 
  • Ethnic differences in use of inpatient mental health services by blacks, whites, and Hispanics in a national insured population. 
  • Etiology of pediatric fever in western Kenya: a case-control study of falciparum malaria, respiratory viruses, and streptococcal pharyngitis. 
  • Evaluating the sources of potential migrant species: implications under climate change. 
  • Evaluation of Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma (ALMA): a pilot promotora intervention focused on stress and coping among immigrant Latinas. 
  • Ex-vivo ureteroscopy at the time of live donor nephrectomy. 
  • Experimental manipulation of seed shadows of an Afrotropical tree determines drivers of recruitment. 
  • Factors affecting disclosure in South African HIV-positive pregnant women. 
  • Factors associated with self-reported adherence to antiretroviral therapy in a Tanzanian setting. 
  • Familial autoimmune thyroid disease as a risk factor for regression in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a CPEA Study. 
  • Family history of dilated cardiomyopathy among patients with heart failure from the HF-ACTION genetic ancillary study. 
  • Fast food restaurant use among adolescents: associations with nutrient intake, food choices and behavioral and psychosocial variables. 
  • Father Absence and Accelerated Reproductive Development in Non-Hispanic White Women in the United States 
  • Fine-scale habitat modeling of a top marine predator: do prey data improve predictive capacity? 
  • Food preferences and weight change during low-fat and low-carbohydrate diets. 
  • Full and partial PTSD among earthquake survivors in rural Taiwan. 
  • Genes, demography, and life span: the contribution of demographic data in genetic studies on aging and longevity. 
  • Genetic variants of DNA repair genes predict the survival of patients with esophageal squamous cell cancer receiving platinum-based adjuvant chemotherapy. 
  • Geographic and evolutionary diversification of glucosinolates among near relatives of Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae). 
  • Geographic variation in algal partners of Cladonia subtenuis (Cladoniaceae) highlights the dynamic nature of a lichen symbiosis. 
  • Gestational age and neonatal brain microstructure in term born infants: a birth cohort study. 
  • Getting Under the Skin: Children’s Health Disparities as Embodiment of Social Class 
  • Glycemic control among U.S. Hispanics/Latinos with diabetes from the HCHS/SOL Sociocultural Ancillary Study: do structural and functional social support play a role? 
  • HIV Infection and AIDS in the Deep South. 
  • HPLC-based Measurement of Glycated Hemoglobin using Dried Blood Spots Collected under Adverse Field Conditions. 
  • Has the Chinese family planning policy been successful in changing fertility preferences? 
  • Health consequences of forest fires in Indonesia. 
  • Health service use and outcome: comparison of low charge, integrated, comprehensive services with usual health care. 
  • Health services access and use among older adults in North Carolina: urban vs rural residents. 
  • Heterogeneity in the Strehler-Mildvan general theory of mortality and aging. 
  • Heterogeneity's ruses: some surprising effects of selection on population dynamics. 
  • High tolerance to salinity and herbivory stresses may explain the expansion of Ipomoea cairica to salt marshes. 
  • Historical effects on beta diversity and community assembly in Amazonian trees. 
  • Host gene expression classifiers diagnose acute respiratory illness etiology. 
  • Household and living arrangement projections at the subnational level: an extended cohort-component approach. 
  • Household projection using conventional demographic data 
  • How Many Highly Skilled Foreign-Born are Waiting in Line for U.S. Legal Permanent Residence? 
  • How big are educational and racial fertility differentials in the U.S.? 
  • How change in age-specific mortality affects life expectancy. 
  • How frailty models can be used for evaluating longevity limits: taking advantage of an interdisciplinary approach. 
  • How genes influence life span: the biodemography of human survival. 
  • How state-funded home care programs respond to changes in Medicare home health care: resource allocation decisions on the front line. 
  • Hutterite fecundability by age and parity: strategies for frailty modeling of event histories. 
  • Identification of STRA6 and SKI sequence variants in patients with anophthalmia/microphthalmia. 
  • Identification of high caspase-3 mRNA expression as a unique signature profile for extremely old individuals. 
  • Imagery reduces children's post-operative pain. 
  • Impact of comorbid panic and posttraumatic stress disorder on outcomes of collaborative care for late-life depression in primary care. 
  • Impact of improving immunosuppressive treatment on outcome in cadaveric kidney transplantation. 
  • Impact of maternal breast cancer on school-aged children in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Impact of medication therapy discontinuation on mortality after myocardial infarction. 
  • Impact of subsidence on clinical outcomes and radiographic fusion rates in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a systematic review. 
  • Implementation of a demographic and contraceptive surveillance system in four counties in north China 
  • Inappropriate medication use among frail elderly inpatients. 
  • Increasing use of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in patients aged 70 years and older in the United States. 
  • Indicators of quality of care in clinics: patients' perspectives. 
  • Individual Differences in Scotopic Visual Acuity and Contrast Sensitivity: Genetic and Non-Genetic Influences. 
  • Individual aging and cancer risk: How are they related? 
  • Inhalant use and disorders among adults in the United States. 
  • Insulin resistance is associated with a metabolic profile of altered protein metabolism in Chinese and Asian-Indian men. 
  • Integrating genetics and social science: genetic risk scores. 
  • Integrating statistical genetic and geospatial methods brings new power to phylogeography. 
  • Intergenerational fertility among Hispanic women: new evidence of immigrant assimilation. 
  • Interpersonal trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in patients with severe mental illness: demographic, clinical, and health correlates. 
  • Is low fertility a twenty-first-century demographic crisis? 
  • James Vaupel: an innovator in the demography of ageing. Interview by Samuel Loewenberg. 
  • Job characteristics and leisure physical activity. 
  • Laboratory pain perception and clinical pain in post-menopausal women and age-matched men with osteoarthritis: relationship to pain coping and hormonal status. 
  • Latent possibility for a change of the fertility behaviors of rural-urban migrants. 
  • Lessons of War: Turning Data Into Decisions. 
  • Lobar distribution of lesion volumes in late-life depression: the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN). 
  • Local adaptation and species segregation in two mussel (Mytilus edulis x Mytilus trossulus) hybrid zones. 
  • Long-term outcomes of immediate versus delayed nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma. 
  • Losses of expected lifetime in the United States and other developed countries: methods and empirical analyses. 
  • Low demographic variability in wild primate populations: fitness impacts of variation, covariation, and serial correlation in vital rates. 
  • Low self-esteem during adolescence predicts poor health, criminal behavior, and limited economic prospects during adulthood. 
  • Magnitude, Location, and Factors Related to Regional and Global Sagittal Alignment Change in Long Adult Deformity Constructs: Report of 183 Patients With 2-Year Follow-up. 
  • Making the environmental justice grade: the relative burden of air pollution exposure in the United States. 
  • Malaria hotspots drive hypoendemic transmission in the Chittagong Hill Districts of Bangladesh. 
  • Males' Later-Life Mortality Consequences of Coresidence With Paternal Grandparents: Evidence From Northeast China, 1789-1909. 
  • Mapping hypoendemic, seasonal malaria in rural Bandarban, Bangladesh: a prospective surveillance. 
  • Marriage and fertility in China: 1950-1989. 
  • Matrix metalloproteinase activity and prostaglandin E2 are elevated in the synovial fluid of meniscus tear patients. 
  • Measuring the impact of a quality improvement collaboration to decrease maternal mortality in a Ghanaian regional hospital. 
  • Measuring the severity of child maltreatment. 
  • Medicare pricing mechanisms for physician services: an overview of alternative approaches. 
  • Medulloblastoma and birth date: evaluation of 3 U.S. datasets. 
  • Metabolites of organophosphate flame retardants and 2-ethylhexyl tetrabromobenzoate in urine from paired mothers and toddlers. 
  • Methamphetamine use is associated with childhood sexual abuse and HIV sexual risk behaviors among patrons of alcohol-serving venues in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Methods and issues in the projection of population health status. 
  • Methods for combining ancillary data in stochastic compartment models of cancer mortality: generalization of heterogeneity models. 
  • Methods for comparing the mortality experience of heterogeneous populations. 
  • Methods for national population forecasts: a review. 
  • Methods for the analysis of mortality risks across heterogeneous small populations: examination of space-time gradients in cancer mortality in North Carolina counties 1970-75. 
  • Migration and household/family structure: Puerto Ricans in the United States. 
  • Migration in the urban-rural hierarchy of China: insights from the microdata of the 1987 National Survey. 
  • Migration of persons with AIDS--a search for support from elderly parents? 
  • Missing the Target? Correspondence of Fertility Intentions and Behavior in the U.S. 
  • Misunderstandings, mischaracterizations, and the problematic choice of a specific instance in which the IE should never be applied. 
  • Mortality in Italy: contours of a century of evolution. 
  • Mortality modeling: A review 
  • Mortality patterns in developed countries. 
  • Multidimensional effects of sertraline in social anxiety disorder. 
  • Multilocus coalescent analyses reveal the demographic history and speciation patterns of mouse lemur sister species. 
  • National down syndrome patient database: Insights from the development of a multi-center registry study. 
  • Non-prescribed use of pain relievers among adolescents in the United States. 
  • Nucleotide variation at the myrosinase-encoding locus, TGG1, and quantitative myrosinase enzyme activity variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. 
  • Older adults in North Carolina. A demographic and health status profile. 
  • Optical spectral surveillance of breast tissue landscapes for detection of residual disease in breast tumor margins. 
  • Paget's disease of bone and quality of life. 
  • Parent academic involvement as related to school behavior, achievement, and aspirations: demographic variations across adolescence. 
  • Paroxetine CR augmentation for posttraumatic stress disorder refractory to prolonged exposure therapy. 
  • Participation rates in a case-control study: the impact of age, race, and race of interviewer. 
  • Passage to Methuselah: some demographic consequences of continued progress against mortality. 
  • Patient factors related to the odds of receiving prevention services in Veterans Health Administration medical centers. 
  • Perspectives of clinical research coordinators on disclosing financial conflicts of interest to potential research participants. 
  • Phase 1 clinical trial of HER2-specific immunotherapy with concomitant HER2 kinase inhibition [corrected]. 
  • Physically, mentally disabled teens require special contraceptive care. 
  • Physician decision making and trends in the use of cardiac stress testing in the United States: an analysis of repeated cross-sectional data. 
  • Placebo-controlled trial of risperidone augmentation for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor-resistant civilian posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Plant and animal endemism in the eastern Andean slope: challenges to conservation. 
  • Population Distributions of Thymic Function in Adults: Variation by Sociodemographic Characteristics and Health Status. 
  • Population distribution of lifetime risk of ovarian cancer in the United States. 
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder in callers to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. 
  • Practical considerations in the clinical application of whole-exome sequencing. 
  • Predicting adolescents' longitudinal risk for sexually transmitted infection: results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. 
  • Predicting demographic group structures based on DNA sequence data. 
  • Predicting negative mood state and personal growth in African American and White long-term breast cancer survivors. 
  • Predicting three types of dissociation in female survivors of intimate partner violence. 
  • Predictors of incident chronic widespread pain among veterans following the first Gulf War. 
  • Predictors of lapse in first week of smoking abstinence in PTSD and non-PTSD smokers. 
  • Predictors of outcome in nursing homes. 
  • Predictors of smoking cessation in patients with a diagnosis of coronary artery disease. 
  • Pregnancy Outcomes after Treatment for Cervical Cancer Precursor Lesions: An Observational Study. 
  • Preliminary evidence on retention rates of primary care physicians in rural and urban areas. 
  • Prescription of Guideline-Recommended Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure and Varying Degrees of Renal Function. 
  • Prescription of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and muscle relaxants for back pain in the United States. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors associated with self-reported carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) among office workers in Kuwait. 
  • Prevalence, persistence, and sociodemographic correlates of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement. 
  • Primary health care in an academic medical center. 
  • Progressive island colonization and ancient origin of Hawaiian Metrosideros (Myrtaceae). 
  • Project among African-Americans to explore risks for schizophrenia (PAARTNERS): recruitment and assessment methods. 
  • Projecting the future size and health status of the U.S. elderly population. 
  • Prominent reduction in pyramidal neurons density in the orbitofrontal cortex of elderly depressed patients. 
  • Property structures, demography and the crisis of the agrarian economy of colonial Bombay Presidency. 
  • Psychiatric correlates of snuff and chewing tobacco use. 
  • Psychosocial stressors and cigarette smoking among African American adults in midlife. 
  • Public preferences for efficiency and racial equity in kidney transplant allocation decisions. 
  • Quality of life of adult long-term survivors of bone marrow transplantation: a qualitative analysis of narrative data. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in hypertension and depression among US adult women. 
  • Racial/ethnic variations in substance-related disorders among adolescents in the United States. 
  • Range size and extinction risk in forest birds. 
  • Rates and predictors of rehospitalization among formerly hospitalized adolescents. 
  • Reactions to framing of cessation messages: insights from dual-smoker couples. 
  • Reading magazine articles about dieting and associated weight control behaviors among adolescents. 
  • Recurrent headaches in children: an epidemiological survey of two middle schools in inner city Chicago. 
  • Regional analysis of divorce in China since 1980. 
  • Relationship of serum prolactin with severity of drug use and treatment outcome in cocaine dependence. 
  • Remission and residual symptoms after short-term treatment in the Treatment of Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS). 
  • Replication studies in longevity: puzzling findings in Danish centenarians at the 3'APOB-VNTR locus. 
  • Reproductive output and duration of the pelagic larval stage determine seascape-wide connectivity of marine populations. 
  • Resolving inconsistencies in trends in old-age disability: report from a technical working group. 
  • Return to preinjury sports participation following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: contributions of demographic, knee impairment, and self-report measures. 
  • Robot-assisted ureterolysis, retroperitoneal biopsy, and omental wrap: pilot series for the treatment of idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis. 
  • Safety and pharmacokinetics of the antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) LY2181308 as a single-agent or in combination with idarubicin and cytarabine in patients with refractory or relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML). 
  • Safety profile and pharmacokinetic analyses of the anti-CTLA4 antibody tremelimumab administered as a one hour infusion. 
  • Senescence vs. sustenance: Evolutionary-demographic models of aging 
  • Serological evidence of ongoing transmission of dengue virus in permanent residents of Key West, Florida. 
  • Serum proteomic analysis focused on fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C virus infection. 
  • Sex, role models, and specialty choices among graduates of US medical schools in 2006-2008. 
  • Sexual health experiences of adolescents in three Ghanaian towns. 
  • Shigellosis in the United States: five-year review of nationwide surveillance, 1964-1968. 
  • Similarity in joint function limitation in Type 3 von Willebrand's disease and moderate haemophilia A. 
  • Single nucleotide polymorphisms in multiple novel thrombospondin genes may be associated with familial premature myocardial infarction. 
  • Smoking is associated with an age-related decline in exhaled nitric oxide. 
  • Smoking outcome expectancies in military veteran smokers with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Social anxiety disorder in callers to the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. 
  • Social stratification and tooth loss among middle-aged and older Americans from 1988 to 2004. 
  • Social support and depressed mood: a structural analysis. 
  • Sociodemographic and health profiles of the oldest old in China 
  • Sociodemographic characteristics of the neighborhood and depressive symptoms in older adults: using multilevel modeling in geriatric psychiatry. 
  • Sociodemographic effects on the onset and recovery of ADL disability among Chinese oldest-old 
  • Socioeconomic background and war mortality during Vietnam's wars. 
  • Socioeconomic trends in hospitalization for multiple sclerosis. 
  • Some general relationships in population dynamics. 
  • Spatial distribution of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) inferred from stable isotopes and priority organic pollutants. 
  • Spread of North American wind-dispersed trees in future environments. 
  • Studying ulcerative colitis over the World Wide Web. 
  • Substantial postoperative pain is common among children undergoing laparoscopic appendectomy. 
  • Success and future of demography: the role of data and methods. 
  • Surgical steps that elongate operative time in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy among the obese population. 
  • Survival of related individuals: an extension of some fundamental results of heterogeneity analysis. 
  • Systemic, Ocular and Genetic Risk Factors for Age-related Macular Degeneration and Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy in Singaporeans. 
  • Temporal organization of sleep-wake states in preterm infants. 
  • The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study: study design and methods. 
  • The Boserup theory of agricultural growth: a model for anthropological economics. 
  • The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). Part I. Clinical and neuropsychological assessment of Alzheimer's disease. 
  • The Contribution of Smoking to Black-White Differences in U.S. Mortality 
  • The Georgia Centenarian Study: comments from friends. 
  • The Household Registration System: computer software for the rapid dissemination of demographic surveillance systems. 
  • The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being: Evidence From the Indian Ocean Tsunami 
  • The London Fibromyalgia Epidemiology Study: comparing the demographic and clinical characteristics in 100 random community cases of fibromyalgia versus controls. 
  • The London Fibromyalgia Epidemiology Study: direct health care costs of fibromyalgia syndrome in London, Canada. 
  • The London Fibromyalgia Epidemiology Study: the prevalence of fibromyalgia syndrome in London, Ontario. 
  • The Methuselah Effect: The Pernicious Impact of Unreported Deaths on Old-Age Mortality Estimates. 
  • The X chromosome and the female survival advantage: an example of the intersection between genetics, epidemiology and demography. 
  • The association between resilience and survival among Chinese elderly. 
  • The association of childhood socioeconomic conditions with healthy longevity at the oldest-old ages in China. 
  • The black/white mortality crossover: possible racial differences in the intrinsic rate of aging. 
  • The discriminative capacity of soluble Toll-like receptor (sTLR)2 and sTLR4 in inflammatory diseases. 
  • The dynamics of population aging: demography and policy analysis. 
  • The economic burden of self-reported and undiagnosed cardiovascular diseases and diabetes on Indonesian households. 
  • The effect of insurance benefit changes on use of child and adolescent outpatient mental health services. 
  • The effect of patient characteristics on response to focal laser treatment for diabetic macular edema. 
  • The effect of race and health-related factors on naming and memory. The MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. 
  • The effects of access to health care on infant mortality in Indonesia. 
  • The effects of mortality on fertility: population dynamics after a natural disaster. 
  • The efficacy, safety, and tolerability of donepezil for the treatment of young adults with Down syndrome. 
  • The epidemiology of health problems in returning Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans. A national and North Carolina-based summary. 
  • The epidemiology of observed temperament: Factor structure and demographic group differences. 
  • The healthy longevity survey and the active life expectancy of the oldest old in China 
  • The heritability of breast cancer: a Bayesian correlated frailty model applied to Swedish twins data. 
  • The impact of a physical geographic barrier on the dynamics of measles. 
  • The impact of classroom aggression on the development of aggressive behavior problems in children. 
  • The impact of for-profit hospital status on the care and outcomes of patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: results from the CRUSADE Initiative. 
  • The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality. 
  • The impact of parental death on child well-being: evidence from the Indian Ocean tsunami. 
  • The miR-184 binding-site rs8126 T>C polymorphism in TNFAIP2 is associated with risk of gastric cancer. 
  • The quality of retrospective data on cohabitation. 
  • The relation of free plasma tryptophan to anger, hostility, and aggression in a nonpatient sample of adult men and women. 
  • The relationship between employment and substance use among students aged 12 to 17. 
  • The relationship between self-rated health and health status among coronary artery patients. 
  • The rising tide of asthma. Trends in the epidemiology of morbidity and mortality from asthma. 
  • The smoking N-back: a measure of biased cue processing at varying levels of cognitive load. 
  • The spatial distribution of known predictors of autism spectrum disorders impacts geographic variability in prevalence in central North Carolina. 
  • The structure of urban mortality. A methodological study of Hannover, Germany. Part II. 
  • The validity of person tradeoff measurements: randomized trial of computer elicitation versus face-to-face interview. 
  • Thyroid function in mixed and pure manic episodes. 
  • Time trends in management of HIV-positive pregnant women in Northern Tanzania: A registry-based study. 
  • Timeliness of contraceptive reinjections in South Africa and its relation to unintentional discontinuation. 
  • To what extent should quality of care decisions be based on health outcomes data? Application to carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Trends In State-Level Child Mortality, Maternal Mortality, And Fertility Rates In India. 
  • Trends in Functional and Activity Limitations among Chinese Oldest-Old, 1998 to 2008 
  • Trends in stroke mortality: the impact of the Year 2000 Age Standard and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision. 
  • U.S. Family Household Momentum and Dynamics: An Extension and Application of the ProFamy Method 
  • US Mortality in an International Context: Age Variations 
  • Use of alcohol treatment and mental health services among adolescents with alcohol use disorders. 
  • Using the theory of planned behavior to understand the determinants of exercise intention in patients diagnosed with primary brain cancer. 
  • Utilization of health care services in hard-to-reach marginalized HIV-infected individuals. 
  • Uveitis in the southeastern United States. 
  • Vaccine-induced boosting of influenza virus-specific CD4 T cells in younger and aged humans. 
  • Variance in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Graft Selection based on Patient Demographics and Location within the Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network Cohort. 
  • Viral hepatitis in the U.S. military: a study of hospitalization records from 1974 to 1999. 
  • Visualizing hidden heterogeneity in isogenic populations of C. elegans. 
  • Visuospatial memory deficits emerging during nicotine withdrawal in adolescents with prenatal exposure to active maternal smoking. 
  • What difference does the dependence between durations make? Insights for population studies of aging. 
  • Where biodemographic theory and demographic data meet: a review of the Quest for Immortality (by Olshansky and Carnes). Essay review. 
  • Where do poor women in developing countries give birth? A multi-country analysis of demographic and health survey data. 
  • White-Coat Effect Among Older Adults: Data From the Jackson Heart Study. 
  • Why are young college women not using condoms? Their perceived risk, drug use, and developmental vulnerability may provide important clues to sexual risk. 
  • Why eat at fast-food restaurants: reported reasons among frequent consumers. 
  • Wilms' tumor and paternal occupation. 
  • Women in Pakistan have a greater burden of clinical cardiovascular risk factors than men. 
  • Workplace Concentration of Immigrants 
  • Workplace discrimination and cumulative trauma disorders: the national EEOC ADA research project. 
  • Year-round spatiotemporal distribution of harbour porpoises within and around the Maryland wind energy area. 
  • Young adults and eating away from home: associations with dietary intake patterns and weight status differ by choice of restaurant. 
  • Young smokers' interpretations of the estimated lung cancer risk associated with a common genetic variant of low penetrance. 
  • [The demography of centenarians in Denmark]. 
  • c-MET and HGF mRNA expression in hepatocellular carcinoma: correlation with clinicopathological features and survival. 
  • β-D-glucan surveillance with preemptive anidulafungin for invasive candidiasis in intensive care unit patients: a randomized pilot study. 
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  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
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  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Landry, Michel Daniel, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Physical Therapy
  • MacFall, James R., Adjunct Professor in the Department of Radiology, Radiology
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  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Muschkin, Clara G., Associate Research Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Pan, William Kuang-Yao, Associate Professor of Global Environmental Health, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Pusey, Anne, James B. Duke Professor Emerita of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Shaw, Ryan, Elizabeth C. Clipp Term Chair of Nursing, Duke Science & Society
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  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Yoder, Anne Daphne, Braxton Craven Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Duke University
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