Baltimore

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Let Me Help You Help Me": Church-Based HIV Prevention for Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men. 
  • A comparative resident site visit project: a novel approach for implementing programmatic change in the duty hours era. 
  • A model of educational resource use by children with cochlear implants. 
  • Age of first drunkenness and risks for all-cause mortality: A 27-year follow-up from the epidemiologic catchment area study. 
  • Age, Alzheimer's disease and dementia in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Ageing. 
  • An examination of dedifferentiation in cognition among African-American older adults. 
  • Anxiety and depressive disorders and the five-factor model of personality: a higher- and lower-order personality trait investigation in a community sample. 
  • Assessing and improving safety culture throughout an academic medical centre: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Assessing mild cognitive impairment among older African Americans. 
  • Association Between Non-Iron-Deficient Anemia and Insomnia Symptoms in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. 
  • Association of adiposity status and changes in early to mid-adulthood with incidence of Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Association of an Active Surveillance and Decolonization Program on Incidence of Clinical Cultures Growing Staphylococcus aureus in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Associations between self-rated health and personality. 
  • Atherosclerosis, dementia, and Alzheimer disease in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging cohort. 
  • Brain and blood metabolite signatures of pathology and progression in Alzheimer disease: A targeted metabolomics study. 
  • Brief screening tests for the diagnosis of dementia: comparison with the mini-mental state exam. 
  • Cannabis use history and characteristics of quit attempts: a comparison study of treatment-seeking and non-treatment-seeking cannabis users. 
  • Central line-associated bloodstream infection in hospitalized children with peripherally inserted central venous catheters: extending risk analyses outside the intensive care unit. 
  • Challenges perceived by primary care providers to educating patients about chronic kidney disease. 
  • Change in depressive symptoms in the Baltimore longitudinal study of aging. 
  • Cigarette smoking, illicit drug use, and routes of administration among heroin and cocaine users. 
  • Covariance of personality, neurocognition, and schizophrenia spectrum traits in the community. 
  • Creating a transdisciplinary research center to reduce cardiovascular health disparities in Baltimore, Maryland: lessons learned. 
  • Current cigarette smoking among HIV-positive current and former drug users: associations with individual and social characteristics. 
  • Development of a decision aid to inform patients' and families' renal replacement therapy selection decisions. 
  • Effect of Intravenous Fentanyl on Ticagrelor Absorption and Platelet Inhibition Among Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The PACIFY Randomized Clinical Trial (Platelet Aggregation With Ticagrelor Inhibition and Fentanyl). 
  • Effect of Real-time Patient-Centered Education Bundle on Administration of Venous Thromboembolism Prevention in Hospitalized Patients. 
  • Effect of closed-loop order processing on the time to initial antimicrobial therapy. 
  • Effect of infarcts on dementia in the Baltimore longitudinal study of aging. 
  • Epidemiology and risk factors for recurrent Staphylococcus aureus colonization following active surveillance and decolonization in the NICU. 
  • Evaluating quality of care in the new health care environment. 
  • Evaluation of the culture of safety: survey of clinicians and managers in an academic medical center. 
  • Evidence for brain glucose dysregulation in Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Excess costs of hospital care associated with neonatal candidemia. 
  • Exercise and pregnancy outcome among urban, low-income, black women. 
  • Exercise participation before and during pregnancy among low-income, urban, Black women: the Baltimore Preterm Birth Study. 
  • Facial fractures of the upper craniofacial skeleton predict mortality and occult intracranial injury after blunt trauma: an analysis. 
  • Five-Factor Model personality profiles of drug users. 
  • Five-factor model personality traits and the retirement transition: longitudinal and cross-sectional associations. 
  • Gastric lesions in patients with autoimmune metaplastic atrophic gastritis (AMAG) in a tertiary care setting. 
  • Gender differences in young adults' beliefs about sunscreen use. 
  • Genome-wide association scan of trait depression. 
  • Glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, and pathological features of Alzheimer disease in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. 
  • Hearing loss and incident dementia. 
  • Hierarchical linear modeling analyses of the NEO-PI-R scales in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. 
  • Hotspots and causes of motor vehicle crashes in Baltimore, Maryland: A geospatial analysis of five years of police crash and census data. 
  • Identifying and addressing barriers to African American and non-African American families' discussions about preemptive living related kidney transplantation. 
  • Improvements to lawn and garden equipment emissions estimates for Baltimore, Maryland. 
  • In vivo fibrillar beta-amyloid detected using [11C]PiB positron emission tomography and neuropathologic assessment in older adults. 
  • Incidence and early outcomes associated with pre-transplant antivimentin antibodies in the cardiac transplantation population. 
  • Influence of gender, race, and education on patient preferences and receipt of cardiac catheterizations among coronary care unit patients. 
  • Latent structure of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition personality disorder criteria. 
  • Life satisfaction and preterm birth among urban black women: findings from the Baltimore preterm birth study. 
  • Limits of the Health Plan Employer Data Information Set (HEDIS) criteria in determining asthma severity for children, applied to an impoverished, urban population. 
  • Long-term cortisol measures predict Alzheimer disease risk. 
  • Long-term efficacy of catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy. 
  • Management development: preparing nurse managers for the future. Part 1, Program model. 
  • Marketing public health through older adult volunteering: Experience Corps as a social marketing intervention. 
  • Maternal health prior to pregnancy and preterm birth among urban, low income black women in Baltimore: the Baltimore Preterm Birth Study. 
  • Maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and spontaneous preterm births among African-American women in Baltimore, Maryland. 
  • Maternal prenatal pregnancy-related anxiety and spontaneous preterm birth in Baltimore, Maryland. 
  • Mean Streets and Mental Health: Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder at Crime Hot Spots. 
  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies common variants in CTNNA2 associated with excitement-seeking. 
  • Mild cognitive impairment and objective instrumental everyday functioning: the everyday cognition battery memory test. 
  • Morphologic characterization of syndromic gastric polyps. 
  • Neuropathologic studies of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). 
  • Neuropathologic, genetic, and longitudinal cognitive profiles in primary age-related tauopathy (PART) and Alzheimer's disease. 
  • No association between novelty seeking and dopamine D4 receptor (D4DR) exon III seven repeat alleles in Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging participants. 
  • Perceived Control Predicts Pulse Pressure in African American Men: The Baltimore Study of Black Aging. 
  • Perceptions of stressful life events as turning points are associated with self-rated health and psychological distress. 
  • Personality and cognitive decline in the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area follow-up study. 
  • Personality predictors of longevity: activity, emotional stability, and conscientiousness. 
  • Physical Function Does Not Predict Care Assessment Need Score in Older Veterans. 
  • Physical functioning in older blacks: an exploratory study identifying psychosocial and clinical predictors. 
  • Pregnancy course and outcomes in women with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. 
  • Preoperative Echocardiographic Differences and Transplant Outcomes Among Patients Receiving Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Versus Liver Transplant Alone. 
  • Primary care physicians' evaluation and treatment of depression: Results of an experimental study using video vignettes. 
  • Provider attitudes toward clinical protocols in obstetrics. 
  • Psychological research in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. 
  • Psychosocial stressors and low birthweight in an urban population. 
  • Race and trust in the health care system. 
  • Race, clinical factors and pre-term birth in a low-income urban setting. 
  • Racial disparities in disability among older adults: finding from the exploring health disparities in integrated communities study. 
  • Rates of depression in individuals with pathologic but not clinical Alzheimer disease are lower than those in individuals without the disease: findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging (BLSA). 
  • Reaching for Health Equity and Social Justice in Baltimore: The Evolution of an Academic-Community Partnership and Conceptual Framework to Address Hypertension Disparities. 
  • Relationship Between Chronic Conditions and Disability in African American Men and Women. 
  • Relationship between Homocysteine and Muscle Strength Decline: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. 
  • Relationship between Physical Function and Sleep Quality in African Americans. 
  • Resiliency Groups Following Hip Fracture in Older Adults. 
  • Response stability and reliability in longitudinal health evaluations. 
  • Risk factors for peripherally inserted central venous catheter complications in children. 
  • Self-reported extremely adverse life events and longitudinal changes in five-factor model personality traits in an urban sample. 
  • Short-term stability of NEO-PI-R personality trait scores in opioid-dependent outpatients. 
  • Sleep complaints in older blacks: do demographic and health indices explain poor sleep quality and duration? 
  • Sleep continuity, architecture and quality among treatment-seeking cannabis users: An in-home, unattended polysomnographic study. 
  • Sociodemographic and Kidney Disease Correlates of Nutrient Intakes Among Urban African Americans With Uncontrolled Hypertension. 
  • Stability and Change in Cognitive Status Classification of Black Older Adults. 
  • Subjective memory in older African Americans. 
  • Suicidality, aggression, and other treatment considerations among pregnant, substance-dependent women with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Suspicionless drug testing of physicians. 
  • The Association between Subjective Memory Complaints and Sleep within Older African American Adults. 
  • The Effects of Social Support on Physical Functioning in Older African Americans: Longitudinal Results from the Baltimore Study of Black Aging. 
  • The five factors of personality and regional cortical variability in the Baltimore longitudinal study of aging. 
  • The general public's concerns about clinical risk in live kidney donation. 
  • The neural correlates of Neuroticism differ by sex prospectively mediate depressive symptoms among older women. 
  • The relationship of anxiety and depression with self-reported knee pain in the community: data from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. 
  • The stability of DSM personality disorders over twelve to eighteen years. 
  • The syphilis elimination project: targeting the Hispanic community of Baltimore city. 
  • Time dependence of clopidogrel loading effect: platelet activation versus platelet aggregation. 
  • Turning points and lessons learned: stressful life events and personality trait development across middle adulthood. 
  • Twenty-year depressive trajectories among older women. 
  • Unintended pregnancy and prenatal behaviors among urban, black women in Baltimore, Maryland: the Baltimore preterm birth study. 
  • Usefulness of combining necrosis and platelet markers in triaging patients presenting with chest pain to the emergency department. 
  • Violence and psychiatric disorder in the community: evidence from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area surveys. 
  • Vitamin B12 and Homocysteine Associations with Gait Speed in Older Adults: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. 
  • Vitamin supplementation and reduced risk of basal cell carcinoma. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology