Iowa

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A cluster of exertional rhabdomyolysis affecting a Division I Football team. 
  • A population study. Mortality and morbidity after availability of surfactant therapy. Newborn Lung Project. 
  • ACL tears in collegiate wrestlers: report of six cases in one season. 
  • Abnormally High Dislocation Rates of Total Hip Arthroplasty After Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Aspirin in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction in elderly Medicare beneficiaries. Patterns of use and outcomes. 
  • Associations of elevated interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein levels with mortality in the elderly. 
  • Blood pressure and mortality risk in the elderly. 
  • Bovine arch anatomy influences recoarctation rates in the era of the extended end-to-end anastomosis. 
  • Characterization of Young Adult Emergency Department Users: Evidence to Guide Policy. 
  • Comparing risk-adjustment methods for provider profiling. 
  • Defining successful performance among pediatric residents. 
  • Development of a Pediatric Cardiac Mechanical Support Program. 
  • Development of an attention-touch control for manual cervical distraction: a pilot randomized clinical trial for patients with neck pain. 
  • Do peers' parents matter? A new link between positive parenting and adolescent substance use. 
  • Effect of clinical factors on length of stay after coronary artery bypass surgery: results of the cooperative cardiovascular project. 
  • Effects of PROSPER on the influence potential of prosocial versus antisocial youth in adolescent friendship networks. 
  • Elective endovascular treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms: a management case series of patient outcomes after institutional change to admit patients principally to postanesthesia care unit rather than to intensive care. 
  • Epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory aspects of wound botulism. 
  • Epidemiology of ankle arthritis: report of a consecutive series of 639 patients from a tertiary orthopaedic center. 
  • Established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly: study design and methodology. 
  • Evidence that acetylsalicylic acid attenuates inflammation in the walls of human cerebral aneurysms: preliminary results. 
  • Factors associated with primary care residents' satisfaction with their training. 
  • Impact of travel distance on WISEWOMAN Intervention attendance for a rural population. 
  • Macrophage imaging within human cerebral aneurysms wall using ferumoxytol-enhanced MRI: a pilot study. 
  • Memory complaint is not necessary for diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and does not predict 10-year trajectories of functional disability, word recall, or short portable mental status questionnaire limitations. 
  • Mild cognitive impairment and 10-year trajectories of disability in the Iowa Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly cohort. 
  • Multivariate assessment of traditional risk factors for chronic lung disease in very low birth weight neonates. The Newborn Lung Project. 
  • Norwood reconstruction using continuous coronary perfusion: a safe and translatable technique. 
  • Perceived barriers to community-based health promotion program participation. 
  • Pesticide Use and Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the Agricultural Health Study. 
  • Pseudo-preexcitation is prevalent among patients with repaired complex congenital heart disease. 
  • Rural health disparities in melanoma staging and prognostic outcomes in Iowa. 
  • Serum IL-6 level and the development of disability in older persons. 
  • The association of depression and mortality in elderly persons: a case for multiple, independent pathways. 
  • The effect of physician characteristics and their practice environment on surgical referral patterns for early-stage breast cancer in Iowa. 
  • The health burden of diabetes for the elderly in four communities. 
  • The high frequency of healthcare use in patients one year prior to a sarcoidosis diagnosis. 
  • Thiazide diuretic agents and the incidence of hip fracture.