Linear Models

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 1-Hydroxypyrene concentrations in first morning voids and 24-h composite urine: intra- and inter-individual comparisons. 
  • 30-Day risk-standardized mortality and readmission rates after ischemic stroke in critical access hospitals. 
  • 64-section multidetector CT of the upper abdomen: optimization of a saline chaser injection protocol for improved vascular and parenchymal contrast enhancement. 
  • A Bayesian approach to retransformation bias in transformed regression. 
  • A blood spot method for detecting fumonisin-induced changes in putative sphingolipid biomarkers in LM/Bc mice and humans. 
  • A comparison of stone damage caused by different modes of shock wave generation. 
  • A computationally advantageous system for fitting probabilistic decompression models to empirical data. 
  • A cross-sectional study of human serum sphingolipids, diet and physiologic parameters. 
  • A demonstration of ''less can be more'' in risk graphics. 
  • A detailed evaluation of the anatomical variations of the profunda artery perforator flap using computed tomographic angiograms. 
  • A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of left hemisphere language dominance in children. 
  • A further investigation of health-related quality of life over time among men with HIV infection in the HAART era. 
  • A hypothesis: indirect cell death in the radiosurgery era. 
  • A latent factor linear mixed model for high-dimensional longitudinal data analysis. 
  • A longitudinal examination of the psychoeducational, neurocognitive, and psychiatric functioning in children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. 
  • A min-max combination of biomarkers to improve diagnostic accuracy. 
  • A national snapshot of satisfaction with breast cancer procedures. 
  • A neural network to predict symptomatic lung injury. 
  • A novel intensive induction therapy for high-risk neuroblastoma utilizing sequential peripheral blood stem cell collection and infusion as hematopoietic support. 
  • A preliminary analysis of interactions between genotype, retrospective ADHD symptoms, and initial reactions to smoking in a sample of young adults. 
  • A probability index of the robustness of a causal inference. 
  • A randomized trial of behavioral management for continence with older rural women. 
  • A registry-based randomized trial comparing radial and femoral approaches in women undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: the SAFE-PCI for Women (Study of Access Site for Enhancement of PCI for Women) trial. 
  • A semiparametric empirical likelihood method for biased sampling schemes with auxiliary covariates. 
  • A simple manual muscle test for myasthenia gravis: validation and comparison with the QMG score. 
  • A standardized care plan is associated with shorter hospital length of stay in patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy. 
  • A tooth per child? 
  • AKI in Children Hospitalized with Nephrotic Syndrome. 
  • Accuracy of MRI in the detection of residual breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. 
  • Acid-base analysis of individuals following two weight loss diets. 
  • Actigraphic-measured sleep disturbance predicts increased positive symptoms in adolescents at ultra high-risk for psychosis: A longitudinal study. 
  • Adaptive prediction of internal target motion using external marker motion: a technical study. 
  • Adequacy of urine cytology specimens: an assessment of collection techniques. 
  • Adipokines and cytokines in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. 
  • Adolescents involved in weight-related and power team sports have better eating patterns and nutrient intakes than non-sport-involved adolescents. 
  • Age and comorbidities are effect modifiers of gender disparities in renal transplantation. 
  • Age similarities in the inertial properties of attention. 
  • Age, functional capacity, and health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure. 
  • Age-related changes in vitreous mobility as measured by video B scan ultrasound. 
  • Alcohol misuse and psychological resilience among U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans. 
  • Alcohol-consumption trajectories and associated characteristics among adults older than age 50. 
  • Alveolar macrophages from overweight/obese subjects with asthma demonstrate a proinflammatory phenotype. 
  • Ambient particulate matter and lung function growth in Chinese children. 
  • Amplification of optical delay by use of matched linearly chirped fiber Bragg gratings. 
  • Amygdalar volume and behavioral development in autism. 
  • An axisymmetric boundary integral model for assessing elastic cell properties in the micropipette aspiration contact problem. 
  • An axisymmetric boundary integral model for incompressible linear viscoelasticity: application to the micropipette aspiration contact problem. 
  • An exponential growth in incidence of thyroid cancer: trends and impact of CT imaging. 
  • Analysing the relationship between change in a risk factor and risk of disease. 
  • Analytical validation of a practical molecular assay prognostic of survival in nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Androgen and estrogen treatment, alone or in combination, differentially influences bone maturation and hypothalamic mechanisms that time puberty in the male rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta). 
  • Anemia and associated clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure due to reduced left ventricular systolic function. 
  • Anisotropic and inhomogeneous tensile behavior of the human anulus fibrosus: experimental measurement and material model predictions. 
  • Anticholinergic therapy vs. onabotulinumtoxina for urgency urinary incontinence. 
  • Antiretroviral therapy initiated during acute HIV infection fails to prevent persistent T-cell activation. 
  • Anxiety symptoms prior to a prostate cancer diagnosis: Associations with knowledge and openness to treatment. 
  • Apolipoprotein epsilon 4 genotype is associated with less improvement in cognitive function five years after cardiac surgery: a retrospective cohort study. 
  • Application of empirical Bayes inference to estimation of rate of change in the presence of informative right censoring. 
  • Application of quantitative coronary angiography in a cineless environment: in vivo assessment of a fully automated system for clinical use. 
  • Approaches to the nonparametric analysis of limited longitudinal data sets. 
  • Arc-modulated radiation therapy based on linear models. 
  • Are chemotherapy patients' HRQoL importance weights consistent with linear scoring rules? A stated-choice approach. 
  • Are family meal patterns associated with overall diet quality during the transition from early to middle adolescence? 
  • Are linear regression techniques appropriate for analysis when the dependent (outcome) variable is not normally distributed? 
  • Arterial windkessel parameter estimation: a new time-domain method. 
  • Asbestos content of lung tissue and carcinoma of the lung: a clinicopathologic correlation and mineral fiber analysis of 234 cases. 
  • Assessing Lower Limb Alignment: Comparison of Standard Knee Xray vs Long Leg View. 
  • Assessing exposure metrics for PM and birth weight models. 
  • Assessment of a new self-rating scale for post-traumatic stress disorder. 
  • Assessment of four stakeholder groups' preferences concerning outpatient commitment for persons with schizophrenia. 
  • Assessment of pulmonary hypertension in the pediatric catheterization laboratory: current insights from the Magic registry. 
  • Assessment of regional wall motion abnormalities with real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Assessment of the utility of biomarkers of osteoarthritis in the guinea pig. 
  • Assessment of volumetric noise and resolution performance for linear and nonlinear CT reconstruction methods. 
  • Association between bleeding, blood transfusion, and costs among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Association between smoking and retrospectively reported attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in a large sample of new mothers. 
  • Association between the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and patient wait times and travel distance for chemotherapy. 
  • Association between tooth loss and cognitive decline: A 13-year longitudinal study of Chinese older adults. 
  • Association between troponin T and impaired left ventricular relaxation in patients with acute decompensated heart failure with preserved systolic function. 
  • Association of a peripheral blood metabolic profile with coronary artery disease and risk of subsequent cardiovascular events. 
  • Association of atrial fibrillation and amino-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide concentrations in dyspneic subjects with and without acute heart failure: results from the ProBNP Investigation of Dyspnea in the Emergency Department (PRIDE) study. 
  • Association of interleukin-6 and other biologic variables with depression in older people living in the community. 
  • Association of low-frequency and rare coding-sequence variants with blood lipids and coronary heart disease in 56,000 whites and blacks. 
  • Association of parental obesity with concentrations of select systemic biomarkers in nonobese offspring: the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Associations between Seattle Heart Failure Model scores and health utilities: findings from HF-ACTION. 
  • Associations between seattle heart failure model scores and medical resource use and costs: findings from HF-ACTION. 
  • Associations of carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) with risk factors and prevalent cardiovascular disease: comparison of mean common carotid artery IMT with maximum internal carotid artery IMT. 
  • Atenolol versus losartan in children and young adults with Marfan's syndrome. 
  • Attenuation of blast pressure behind ballistic protective vests. 
  • Autism is characterized by dorsal anterior cingulate hyperactivation during social target detection. 
  • B factor dependence of the temporal characteristics of brain activation using dynamic apparent diffusion coefficient contrast. 
  • BRCA1 testing in families with hereditary breast-ovarian cancer. A prospective study of patient decision making and outcomes. 
  • Baseline Hemodynamics and Response to Contrast Media During Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization Predict Adverse Events in Heart Failure Patients. 
  • Being bullied as an environmentally mediated contributing factor to children's internalizing problems: a study of twins discordant for victimization. 
  • Benthic and pelagic pathways of methylmercury bioaccumulation in estuarine food webs of the northeast United States. 
  • Beyond genotype: serotonin transporter epigenetic modification predicts human brain function. 
  • Bibliometric analysis of articles published from 1980 to 2009 in Physical Therapy, journal of the American Physical Therapy Association. 
  • Bimodal quantitative relationships between histone modifications for X-linked and autosomal loci. 
  • Biopsychological markers of distress in informal caregivers. 
  • Blood pressure and retinal microvascular characteristics during pregnancy: Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) Study. 
  • Body composition changes in preterm infants following hospital discharge: comparison with term infants. 
  • Brain responses to words in 2-year-olds with autism predict developmental outcomes at age 6. 
  • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) Val66Met and adulthood chronic stress interact to affect depressive symptoms. 
  • Breakfast eating and weight change in a 5-year prospective analysis of adolescents: Project EAT (Eating Among Teens). 
  • Calcium and dairy intake: Longitudinal trends during the transition to young adulthood and correlates of calcium intake. 
  • Calcium and dairy intakes of adolescents are associated with their home environment, taste preferences, personal health beliefs, and meal patterns. 
  • Cancer screening behaviors and attitudes of women in southeastern Minnesota. 
  • Carbohydrate nutrition is associated with changes in the retinal vascular structure and branching pattern in children. 
  • Cardiac troponin release following hybrid coronary revascularization versus off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Cardiometabolic Risks and Severity of Obesity in Children and Young Adults. 
  • Caring for individuals with dementia and cognitive impairment, not dementia: findings from the aging, demographics, and memory study. 
  • Case-mix adjustment of adolescent mental health treatment outcomes. 
  • Catechol-O-methyltransferase genotype predicts pain severity in hospitalized burn patients. 
  • Center variation in patient age and weight at Fontan operation and impact on postoperative outcomes. 
  • Central versus lower body obesity distribution and the association with lower limb physical function and disability. 
  • Cerebral embolization during cardiac surgery: impact of aortic atheroma burden. 
  • Cervical dilation as a predictor of pregnancy outcome following emergency cerclage. 
  • Cervical dystonia and pain: characteristics and treatment patterns from CD PROBE (Cervical Dystonia Patient Registry for Observation of OnabotulinumtoxinA Efficacy). 
  • Characteristics of patients diagnosed with both melanoma and renal cell cancer. 
  • Characterizing the in vitro hepatic biotransformation of the flame retardant BDE 99 by common carp. 
  • Chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit divergent spatial memory development. 
  • Clinical and laboratory characteristics of a large cohort of symptomatic, human immunodeficiency virus-infected infants and children. AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 152 Study Team. 
  • Clinical and prognostic implications of circulating pentraxin 3 levels in non ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Clinical outcomes among stroke patients receiving tissue plasminogen activator therapy beyond the 3-hour time window. 
  • Clinical outcomes and costs due to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among patients receiving long-term hemodialysis. 
  • Codon bias and plasticity in immunoglobulins. 
  • Comparative analysis of antifibrinolytic medications in pediatric heart surgery. 
  • Comparative effectiveness of i-SCAN™ and high-definition white light characterizing small colonic polyps. 
  • Comparing the reliability of responses to telephone-administered versus self-administered Web-based surveys in a case-control study of adult malignant brain cancer. 
  • Comparison of analytic models for estimating the effect of clinical factors on the cost of coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Comparison of in-hospital and longer-term outcomes of hybrid and Norwood stage 1 palliation of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Comparison of need for operative therapy in patients with mitral valve prolapse involving both leaflets versus posterior leaflet only. 
  • Compliance with acute stroke care quality measures in hospitals with and without primary stroke center certification: the North Carolina Stroke Care Collaborative. 
  • Complications, revision fusions, readmissions, and utilization over a 1-year period after bone morphogenetic protein use during primary cervical spine fusions. 
  • Compression of digital coronary angiograms does not affect visual or quantitative assessment of coronary artery stenosis severity. 
  • Computational investigations into the origins of short-term biochemical memory in T cell activation. 
  • Computer-assisted quantification of myocardial reperfusion after primary percutaneous coronary intervention predicts functional and contrast-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance outcomes in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Context-dependent categorical perception in a songbird. 
  • Contribution of family violence to the intergenerational transmission of externalizing behavior. 
  • Correlates of expected positive and negative support for smoking cessation among a sample of chronically ill veterans. 
  • Correlates of mother-premature infant interactions. 
  • Correlates of osteoprotegerin and association with aortic pulse wave velocity in patients with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Correlates of quality of life-related outcomes in breast cancer patients participating in the Pathfinders pilot study. 
  • Correlates of serum lutein + zeaxanthin: findings from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. 
  • Correlation between maternal and infant cortisol varies by breastfeeding status. 
  • Correlation between pericardial, mediastinal, and intrathoracic fat volumes with the presence and severity of coronary artery disease, metabolic syndrome, and cardiac risk factors. 
  • Correlation between quantitative left atrial spontaneous echocardiographic contrast and intact fibrinogen levels in mitral stenosis. 
  • Correlation of diffusion tensor imaging parameters in the canine brain. 
  • Correlation of knee and hindfoot deformities in advanced knee OA: compensatory hindfoot alignment and where it occurs. 
  • Correlation of structural and electrophysiological changes in the retina of young high myopes. 
  • Cost of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma: a retrospective study of commercial insurance claims data. 
  • Costs associated with health care-associated infections in cardiac surgery. 
  • Costs of periprocedural complications in patients treated with transcatheter aortic valve replacement: results from the Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valve trial. 
  • Couch potatoes or french fries: are sedentary behaviors associated with body mass index, physical activity, and dietary behaviors among adolescents? 
  • Covariation of branch lengths in phylogenies of functionally related genes. 
  • Credit scores, cardiovascular disease risk, and human capital. 
  • Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between objectively measured sleep duration and body mass index: the CARDIA Sleep Study. 
  • Cross-sectional relations of urinary sodium excretion to cardiac structure and hypertrophy. The Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Cross-validation for linear model with unequal variances in genomic analysis. 
  • Crowdsourcing: a valid alternative to expert evaluation of robotic surgery skills. 
  • Daily intake of antioxidants in relation to survival among adult patients diagnosed with malignant glioma. 
  • Decision-level fusion of EEG and pupil features for single-trial visual detection analysis. 
  • Decreased Range of Motion After Total Knee Arthroplasty Is Predicted by the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia. 
  • Deficiency of α-1-antitrypsin influences systemic iron homeostasis. 
  • Definitions of cardiovascular insufficiency and relation to outcomes in critically ill newborn infants. 
  • Delayed otolaryngology referral for voice disorders increases health care costs. 
  • Deliberate practice of motor skills in nursing education: CPR as exemplar. 
  • Demographic and illness-related variables associated with HIV-related fatigue. 
  • Depression among women experiencing intimate partner violence in a Chinese community. 
  • Depression and other determinants of values placed on current health state by stroke patients: evidence from the VA Acute Stroke (VASt) study. 
  • Determinants and consequences of adherence to the dietary approaches to stop hypertension diet in African-American and white adults with high blood pressure: results from the ENCORE trial. 
  • Determinants of posterior corneal biometric measurements in a multi-ethnic Asian population. 
  • Diabetes mellitus, independent of body mass index, is associated with a "higher success" rate for supraclavicular brachial plexus blocks. 
  • Dialectical behavior therapy skills use as a mediator and outcome of treatment for borderline personality disorder. 
  • Dietary Patterns and Cognitive Decline Among Chinese Older Adults. 
  • Dietary intakes associated with successful weight loss and maintenance during the Weight Loss Maintenance trial. 
  • Dietary patterns and home food availability during emerging adulthood: do they differ by living situation? 
  • Dietary patterns differ between urban and rural older, long-term survivors of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer and are associated with body mass index. 
  • Differences in self-reported oral health among community-dwelling black, Hispanic, and white elders. 
  • Differential adaptation of the linear and nonlinear components of the horizontal vestibuloocular reflex in squirrel monkeys. 
  • Differential age effects of mean arterial pressure and rewarming on cognitive dysfunction after cardiac surgery. 
  • Differential association of retinal arteriolar and venular caliber with diabetes and retinopathy. 
  • Differential developmental toxicity of naphthoic acid isomers in medaka (Oryzias latipes) embryos. 
  • Differential effects of trabecular meshwork stiffness on outflow facility in normal human and porcine eyes. 
  • Differential patterns of cognitive decline in anterior and posterior white matter hyperintensity progression. 
  • Diffusion tensor imaging assessment of brain white matter maturation during the first postnatal year. 
  • Diffusion-tensor imaging assessment of white matter maturation in childhood and adolescence. 
  • Disability and health care costs in the Medicare population. 
  • Disability as a function of social networks and support in elderly African Americans and Whites: the Duke EPESE 1986--1992. 
  • Disentangling the visual cues used by a jumping spider to locate its microhabitat. 
  • Disparities among older adults in measures of cognitive function by race or ethnicity. 
  • Disparities in dietary intake, meal patterning, and home food environments among young adult nonstudents and 2- and 4-year college students. 
  • Distress and growth outcomes in mothers of medically fragile infants. 
  • Do college students drink more than they think? Use of a free-pour paradigm to determine how college students define standard drinks. 
  • Does binge eating disorder impact weight-related quality of life? 
  • Does functional improvement following TKA correlate to increased sports activity? 
  • Does larger tumor volume explain the higher prostate specific antigen levels in black men with prostate cancer--Results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Dopamine polymorphisms and depressive symptoms predict foods intake. Results from a nationally representative sample. 
  • Dual Antiplatelet Therapy and Outcomes in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Acute Coronary Syndromes Managed Medically Without Revascularization: Insights From the TRILOGY ACS Trial. 
  • Dynamic linear model analysis of optical imaging data acquired from the human neocortex. 
  • Dynamics of population response to changes of motion direction in primary visual cortex. 
  • Dynamics of sparsely connected networks of excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons. 
  • Dyspnoea and worsening heart failure in patients with acute heart failure: results from the Pre-RELAX-AHF study. 
  • Early childhood family structure and mother-child interactions: variation by race and ethnicity. 
  • Early effects of right ventricular volume overload on ventricular performance and beta-adrenergic signaling. 
  • Early retinal neurodegeneration and impaired Ran-mediated nuclear import of TDP-43 in progranulin-deficient FTLD. 
  • Economic analysis of endovascular repair versus surveillance for patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Effect of Clinical and Attitudinal Characteristics on Obtaining Comprehensive Medication Reviews. 
  • Effect of UV-B phototherapy on plasma HIV type 1 RNA viral level: a self-controlled prospective study. 
  • Effect of altering automatic exposure control settings and quality reference mAs on radiation dose, image quality, and diagnostic efficacy in MDCT enterography of active inflammatory Crohn's disease. 
  • Effect of breast-feeding on weight retention at 3 and 6 months postpartum: data from the North Carolina WIC Programme. 
  • Effect of breastfeeding on weight retention from one pregnancy to the next: results from the North Carolina WIC program. 
  • Effect of clinical factors on length of stay after coronary artery bypass surgery: results of the cooperative cardiovascular project. 
  • Effect of facility on the operative costs of distal radius fractures. 
  • Effect of gastric bypass operation on Framingham and actual risk of cardiovascular events in class II to III obesity. 
  • Effect of maternal body mass index on the retinal microvasculature in pregnancy. 
  • Effect of megestrol acetate on quality of life in a dose-response trial in women with advanced breast cancer. The Cancer and Leukemia Group B. 
  • Effect of pharmacologic increases in afterload on left ventricular rotation and strain in a rabbit model. 
  • Effect of two different exercise regimens on trunk muscle morphometry and endurance in soldiers in training. 
  • Effects of 5HTTLPR on cardiovascular response to an emotional stressor. 
  • Effects of NMDA receptor glycine recognition site antagonism on cerebral metabolic rate for glucose and cerebral blood flow in the conscious rat. 
  • Effects of age and parasitemia on nitric oxide production/leukocyte nitric oxide synthase type 2 expression in asymptomatic, malaria-exposed children. 
  • Effects of cardiovascular medications on rate of functional decline in Alzheimer disease. 
  • Effects of diet and sodium intake on blood pressure: subgroup analysis of the DASH-sodium trial. 
  • Effects of heparin and cardiac catheterization on serum lipoprotein and triglyceride levels. 
  • Effects of positive-pressure ventilation, pericardial effusion, and cardiac tamponade on respiratory variation in transmitral flow velocities. 
  • Effects of the dietary approaches to stop hypertension diet, exercise, and caloric restriction on neurocognition in overweight adults with high blood pressure. 
  • Effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on pain, pain sensitivity, and function in people with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Efficacy, tolerability, and kinetics of lamotrigine in infants. 
  • Efficient coding of spatial information in the primate retina. 
  • Eliciting and combining subjective judgments about uncertainty. 
  • Emergency surgery in patients who have undergone recent radiotherapy is associated with increased complications and mortality: review of 536 patients. 
  • Employment of mid-level providers in primary care and control of diabetes. 
  • Encoding and decoding of learned smooth-pursuit eye movements in the floccular complex of the monkey cerebellum. 
  • Endovascular procedures for aorto-iliac occlusive disease are associated with superior short-term clinical and economic outcomes compared with open surgery in the inpatient population. 
  • Energy recovery in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Energy requirements in nonobese men and women: results from CALERIE. 
  • Enhanced nonlinear magnetic resonance signals via square wave dipolar fields. 
  • Enriched white matter connectivity networks for accurate identification of MCI patients. 
  • Estimated net endogenous acid production and serum bicarbonate in African Americans with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Estimating between- and within-individual variation in cortisol levels using multilevel models. 
  • Estimating country-specific cost-effectiveness from multinational clinical trials. 
  • Evaluating ergonomic stresses in North Carolina commercial crab pot and gill net fishermen. 
  • Evaluation of a tool to categorize patients by reading literacy and computer skill to facilitate the computer-administered patient interview. 
  • Evaluation of established breast cancer risk factors as modifiers of BRCA1 or BRCA2: a multi-center case-only analysis. 
  • Evaluation of integrated respiratory gating systems on a Novalis Tx system. 
  • Evaluation of optic nerve development in preterm and term infants using handheld spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Evaluation of the YSI 2300 glucose analyzer: algorithm-corrected results are accurate and specific. 
  • Evidence from case-control and longitudinal studies supports associations of genetic variation in APOE, CETP, and IL6 with human longevity. 
  • Evidence of arteriolar narrowing in low-birth-weight children. 
  • Evolving Trends in Autologous Breast Reconstruction: Is the Deep Inferior Epigastric Artery Perforator Flap Taking Over? 
  • Executive functions in children: associations with aggressive behavior and appraisal processing. 
  • Experimentally validated multiphysics computational model of focusing and shock wave formation in an electromagnetic lithotripter. 
  • Exploratory quantile regression with many covariates: an application to adverse birth outcomes. 
  • Factors associated with caregiver burden among caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in Sri Lanka. 
  • Factors contributing to patient satisfaction with breast reconstruction using silicone gel implants. 
  • Factors that influence perforator thrombosis and predict healing with perforator sclerotherapy for venous ulceration without axial reflux. 
  • Familial correlates of adolescent girls' physical activity, television use, dietary intake, weight, and body composition. 
  • Family meals during adolescence are associated with higher diet quality and healthful meal patterns during young adulthood. 
  • Fast global oscillations in networks of integrate-and-fire neurons with low firing rates. 
  • Fast temperature optimization of multi-source hyperthermia applicators with reduced-order modeling of 'virtual sources'. 
  • Fathers' support to mothers of medically fragile infants. 
  • First experience with direct factor Xa inhibition in patients with stable coronary disease: a pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic evaluation. 
  • First-trimester maternal serum C-reactive protein as a predictor of third-trimester impaired glucose tolerance. 
  • Fluoxetine, comprehensive cognitive behavioral therapy, and placebo in generalized social phobia. 
  • Food and weight-related patterns and behaviors of Hmong adolescents. 
  • Food preparation and purchasing roles among adolescents: associations with sociodemographic characteristics and diet quality. 
  • Food preparation by young adults is associated with better diet quality. 
  • Forecasts of active life expectancy: policy and fiscal implications. 
  • Fostering informed decisions: a randomized controlled trial assessing the impact of a decision aid among men registered to undergo mass screening for prostate cancer. 
  • Fractal property of eye movements in schizophrenia. 
  • From spiking neuron models to linear-nonlinear models. 
  • GSNO reductase and beta2-adrenergic receptor gene-gene interaction: bronchodilator responsiveness to albuterol. 
  • Gadoxetate disodium-enhanced hepatic MRI: dose-dependent contrast dynamics of hepatic parenchyma and portal vein. 
  • Gender Differences in Radiation Dose From Nuclear Cardiology Studies Across the World: Findings From the INCAPS Registry. 
  • Gene expression patterns that characterize advanced stage serous ovarian cancers. 
  • Genetic elucidation of human hyperosmia to isovaleric acid. 
  • Genetic factors contribute to bleeding after cardiac surgery. 
  • Genetic variation in HTR2A influences serotonin transporter binding potential as measured using PET and [11C]DASB. 
  • Genetically predicted body mass index and Alzheimer's disease-related phenotypes in three large samples: Mendelian randomization analyses. 
  • Genome-wide association study and meta-analysis of intraocular pressure. 
  • Genome-wide association study of acute kidney injury after coronary bypass graft surgery identifies susceptibility loci. 
  • Genome-wide identification and predictive modeling of tissue-specific alternative polyadenylation. 
  • Gray and white matter brain volumes in older adults with bipolar disorder. 
  • Gunshot wounds: bullet caliber is increasing, 1998-2003. 
  • Health care of young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Health status among women with menstrual symptoms. 
  • Health-related quality of life in Gulf War era military personnel. 
  • Health-related quality of life in children and adolescents with juvenile localized scleroderma. 
  • Health-related quality of life outcomes with prasugrel among medically managed non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome patients: Insights from the Targeted Platelet Inhibition to Clarify the Optimal Strategy to Medically Manage Acute Coronary Syndromes (TRILOGY ACS) trial. 
  • HeartCode BLS with voice assisted manikin for teaching nursing students: preliminary results. 
  • Hemodynamic effects of new intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation timing methods in patients: a multicenter evaluation. 
  • Heteronormativity and practitioner-patient interaction. 
  • High antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity responses are correlated with strong CD8 T cell viral suppressive activity but not with B57 status in HIV-1 elite controllers. 
  • High-sensitivity troponin T and C-reactive protein to identify patients without cardiac structural and functional abnormalities as assessed by cardiac CT and SPECT imaging: can biomarkers predict cardiac health? 
  • Higher aldosterone and lower N-terminal proatrial natriuretic peptide as biomarkers of salt sensitivity in the community. 
  • Hip fracture outcomes: does surgeon or hospital volume really matter? 
  • Hippocampal MRI signal hyperintensity after febrile status epilepticus is predictive of subsequent mesial temporal sclerosis. 
  • Hippocampal sulcal cavities on MRI: relationship to age and apolipoprotein E genotype. 
  • Hippocampal volume measurement in older adults with bipolar disorder. 
  • Hostility and fasting glucose in African American women. 
  • How Bees Deter Elephants: Beehive Trials with Forest Elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) in Gabon. 
  • How does cost matter in health-care discrete-choice experiments? 
  • How experience and training influence mammography expertise. 
  • How state-funded home care programs respond to changes in Medicare home health care: resource allocation decisions on the front line. 
  • How we eat what we eat: identifying meal routines and practices most strongly associated with healthy and unhealthy dietary factors among young adults. 
  • Hypochloremia, Diuretic Resistance, and Outcome in Patients With Acute Heart Failure. 
  • Hypothesis testing for neural cell growth experiments using a hybrid branching process model. 
  • ICG angiography predicts burn scarring within 48 h of injury in a porcine vertical progression burn model. 
  • IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle age and later all-cause mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study. 
  • Identification of MCI individuals using structural and functional connectivity networks. 
  • Identifying differential expression in multiple SAGE libraries: an overdispersed log-linear model approach. 
  • Impact of Smoking Cessation on Subsequent Pain Intensity Among Chronically Ill Veterans Enrolled in a Smoking Cessation Trial. 
  • Impact of a prior authorization policy for montelukast on clinical outcomes for asthma and allergic rhinitis among children and adolescents in a state Medicaid program. 
  • Impact of comorbidities on stroke rehabilitation outcomes: does the method matter? 
  • Impact of global geographic region on time in therapeutic range on warfarin anticoagulant therapy: data from the ROCKET AF clinical trial. 
  • Impact of long-term measures of glucose and blood pressure on the retinal microvasculature. 
  • Impact of participant and interventionist race concordance on weight loss outcomes. 
  • Impact of psychiatric comorbidity in individuals at Ultra High Risk of psychosis - Findings from the Longitudinal Youth at Risk Study (LYRIKS). 
  • Implications of early and guideline adherent physical therapy for low back pain on utilization and costs. 
  • Importance of total ischemic time and preprocedural infarct-related artery blood flow in predicting infarct size in patients with anterior wall myocardial infarction (from the CRISP-AMI Trial). 
  • Improved aortic enhancement in CT angiography using slope-based triggering with table speed optimization: a pilot study. 
  • Improved noninvasive diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism with optimally selected clinical and chest radiographic findings. 
  • Improved uniformity of aortic enhancement with customized contrast medium injection protocols at CT angiography. 
  • In-hospital resource use and medical costs in the last year of life by mode of death (from the HF-ACTION randomized controlled trial). 
  • Increase in tracheostomy for prolonged mechanical ventilation in North Carolina, 1993-2002. 
  • Increased rate of central venous catheterization procedures in community EDs. 
  • Individual and contextual correlates of physical activity among a clinical sample of United States Veterans. 
  • Inference on haplotype/disease association using parent-affected-child data: the projection conditional on parental haplotypes method. 
  • Inflammation markers and their trajectories after deep vein thrombosis in relation to risk of post-thrombotic syndrome. 
  • Inflammatory and oxidative stress responses of healthy young adults to changes in air quality during the Beijing Olympics. 
  • Influence of Clinical Trial Site Enrollment on Patient Characteristics, Protocol Completion, and End Points: Insights From the ASCEND-HF Trial (Acute Study of Clinical Effectiveness of Nesiritide in Decompensated Heart Failure). 
  • Influence of OCT signal strength on macular, optic nerve head, and retinal nerve fiber layer parameters. 
  • Influence of blood pressure and body mass index on retinal vascular caliber in preschool-aged children. 
  • Influence of blood pressure on retinal vascular caliber in young children. 
  • Influence of comorbidity on racial differences in receipt of surgery among US veterans with early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer. 
  • Influence of gestational age on death and neurodevelopmental outcome in premature infants with severe intracranial hemorrhage. 
  • Influence of physical activity and screen time on the retinal microvasculature in young children. 
  • Informal Caregiver Disability and Access to Preventive Care in Care Recipients. 
  • Informal social status among coworkers and risk of work-related injury among nurse aides in long-term care. 
  • Inosine triphosphatase genetic variants are protective against anemia during antiviral therapy for HCV2/3 but do not decrease dose reductions of RBV or increase SVR. 
  • Interactions between age, outcome of acute coronary syndromes, and tirofiban therapy. 
  • Interleukin-2 receptor levels in sera of patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with sulfasalazine, parenteral gold, or placebo. 
  • Interleukin-2 receptor levels in the sera of rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with methotrexate. 
  • Intestinal fatty-acid binding protein and metronidazole response in premature infants. 
  • Intradialytic hypertension and its association with endothelial cell dysfunction. 
  • Inverse correlation between cerebral blood flow measured by continuous arterial spin-labeling (CASL) MRI and neurocognitive function in children with sickle cell anemia (SCA). 
  • Is lower extremity strength gain associated with improvement in physical performance and disability in frail, community-dwelling elders? 
  • Isoflurane for life-threatening bronchospasm: a 15-year single-center experience. 
  • Joint analysis of psychiatric disorders increases accuracy of risk prediction for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. 
  • Joint-specific hand symptoms and self-reported and performance-based functional status in African Americans and Caucasians: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Kilovoltage cone-beam CT: comparative dose and image quality evaluations in partial and full-angle scan protocols. 
  • Knee proprioception and strength and landing kinematics during a single-leg stop-jump task. 
  • Lack of usefulness of prolonged bleeding times in predicting hemorrhagic events in patients receiving the 7E3 glycoprotein IIb/IIIa platelet antibody. The TAMI Study Group. 
  • Laparoscopic appendectomy in the elderly. 
  • Laparoscopic versus open appendectomy: outcomes comparison based on a large administrative database. 
  • Left orbital frontal cortex volume and performance on the benton visual retention test in older depressives and controls. 
  • Lessons learned from 118,970 multidetector computed tomographic intravenous contrast material administrations: impact of catheter dwell time and gauge, catheter location, rate of contrast material administration, and patient age and sex on volume of extravasate. 
  • Linear algebraic transformations of the bidomain equations: implications for numerical methods. 
  • Linear shear in a model granular system. 
  • Linked target selection for saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements. 
  • Liquid ventilation improves pulmonary function and cardiac output in a neonatal swine model of cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • Literacy and blood pressure--do healthcare systems influence this relationship? A cross-sectional study. 
  • Location of the ureters in relation to the uterine cervix by computed tomography. 
  • Locoregional versus general anesthesia for open inguinal herniorrhaphy: a National Surgical Quality Improvement Program analysis. 
  • Long-term dynamics of death rates of emphysema, asthma, and pneumonia and improving air quality. 
  • Long-term effects of smoking on retinal microvascular caliber. 
  • Long-term metformin usage and cognitive function among older adults with diabetes. 
  • Longitudinal assessment of neurocognitive function after coronary-artery bypass surgery. 
  • Longitudinal changes in obesity and body mass index among adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Longitudinal optical imaging of tumor metabolism and hemodynamics. 
  • Low birth weight and retinal vascular caliber in young children. 
  • METs and accelerometry of walking in older adults: standard versus measured energy cost. 
  • MR imaging of microcirculation in rat brain: correlation with carbon dioxide-induced changes in blood flow. 
  • Making time for meals: meal structure and associations with dietary intake in young adults. 
  • Manual therapy provided by physical therapists in a hospital-based setting: a retrospective analysis. 
  • Markers of decongestion, dyspnea relief, and clinical outcomes among patients hospitalized with acute heart failure. 
  • Maternal age, birth order, and race: differential effects on birthweight. 
  • Maternal role attainment with medically fragile infants: Part 2. relationship to the quality of parenting. 
  • Means for load variation during echocardiographic assessment of the Frank-Starling relationship. 
  • Medical and obstetric complications among pregnant women aged 45 and older. 
  • Melancholia in later life: late and early onset differences in presentation, course, and dementia risk. 
  • Mentored simulation training improves procedural skills in cardiac catheterization: a randomized, controlled pilot study. 
  • Mentoring and the career satisfaction of male and female academic medical faculty. 
  • Method for improved accuracy in endogenous urea recovery marker calibrations for microdialysis in tumors. 
  • Microchemical analysis of selenium in otoliths of two West Virginia fishes captured near mountaintop removal coal mining operations. 
  • Microwave breast imaging: 3-D forward scattering simulation. 
  • Mixed model analysis of censored longitudinal data with flexible random-effects density. 
  • Mobilization of peripheral blood progenitor cells by hematopoietic growth factors. 
  • Modeling development of sleep-wake behaviors. II. Results of two cohorts of preterms. 
  • Modeling development of sleep-wake behaviors: I. Using the mixed general linear model. 
  • Modeling phage induced bacterial disinfection rates and the resulting design implications. 
  • Modelling covariance structure in the analysis of repeated measures data. 
  • Moderators of the effect of social support on depressive symptoms in cardiac patients. 
  • Modulation of murine breast tumor vascularity, hypoxia and chemotherapeutic response by exercise. 
  • Molecular imaging and quantitative measurement of epidermal growth factor receptor expression in live cancer cells using immunolabeled gold nanoparticles. 
  • Monte Carlo methods for localization of cones given multielectrode retinal ganglion cell recordings. 
  • Morphometric analysis for early detection of changes in cellular structure in a toxicological experiment. 
  • Multicollinearity in hierarchical linear models. 
  • Multifractal texture analysis of perfusion lung scans as a potential diagnostic tool for acute pulmonary embolism. 
  • Multiple biomarkers at admission are associated with angiographic, electrocardiographic, and imaging cardiovascular mechanistic markers of outcomes in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Multivariable prognostic models: issues in developing models, evaluating assumptions and adequacy, and measuring and reducing errors. 
  • Mutations in RSPH1 cause primary ciliary dyskinesia with a unique clinical and ciliary phenotype. 
  • Myocardial infarction following coronary artery bypass graft surgery increases healthcare resource utilization. 
  • National survey of hospital strategies to reduce heart failure readmissions: findings from the Get With the Guidelines-Heart Failure registry. 
  • Neighborhood clustering of non-communicable diseases: results from a community-based study in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Neuropathology of nondemented aging: presumptive evidence for preclinical Alzheimer disease. 
  • Neurosteroids and self-reported pain in veterans who served in the U.S. Military after September 11, 2001. 
  • New in vitro model of traumatic neuronal injury: evaluation of secondary injury and glutamate receptor-mediated neurotoxicity. 
  • Nitric oxide, malaria, and anemia: inverse relationship between nitric oxide production and hemoglobin concentration in asymptomatic, malaria-exposed children. 
  • No association of 9p21 with arterial elasticity and retinal microvascular findings. 
  • Normal fetal pelvis: important factors for morphometric characterization with US. 
  • Novel late-onset Alzheimer disease loci variants associate with brain gene expression. 
  • Nurse staffing and patient care costs in acute inpatient nursing units. 
  • Obesity and primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation: the Lung Transplant Outcomes Group Obesity Study. 
  • Obesity, disordered eating, and eating disorders in a longitudinal study of adolescents: how do dieters fare 5 years later? 
  • Obesity-related DNA methylation at imprinted genes in human sperm: Results from the TIEGER study. 
  • Observer variability in assessing lumbar spinal stenosis severity on magnetic resonance imaging and its relation to cross-sectional spinal canal area. 
  • Onset and recovery of neuromuscular blockade after two doses of rocuronium in children. 
  • Optimal body temperature in transitional extremely low birth weight infants using heart rate and temperature as indicators. 
  • Osteoprotegerin concentrations and prognosis in acute ischaemic stroke. 
  • Out-of-Pocket Spending for Ambulatory Physical Therapy Services From 2008 to 2012: National Panel Survey. 
  • Outcomes of a randomized community-level HIV prevention intervention for women living in 18 low-income housing developments. 
  • Overlapping parietal activity in memory and perception: evidence for the attention to memory model. 
  • PARalyzer: definition of RNA binding sites from PAR-CLIP short-read sequence data. 
  • Pain catastrophizing in patients with noncardiac chest pain: relationships with pain, anxiety, and disability. 
  • Pain, physical functioning, and overeating in obese rheumatoid arthritis patients: do thoughts about pain and eating matter? 
  • Parallels in stimulus-driven oscillatory brain responses to numerosity changes in adults and seven-month-old infants. 
  • Parental obesity moderates the relationship between childhood appetitive traits and weight. 
  • Parenting style and family meals: cross-sectional and 5-year longitudinal associations. 
  • Parents' attitudes toward pediatric genetic testing for common disease risk. 
  • Participant-centered adaptations in caregiver trials: strategies for managing confounds. 
  • Patient reactions to confidentiality, liability, and financial aspects of informed consent in cardiology research. 
  • Patient satisfaction and its relationship with clinical quality and inpatient mortality in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Patient self-efficacy and spouse perception of spousal support are associated with lower patient weight: baseline results from a spousal support behavioral intervention. 
  • Patient-reported medication adherence barriers among patients with cardiovascular risk factors. 
  • Patient-ventilator flow dyssynchrony: flow-limited versus pressure-limited breaths. 
  • Patterns of distress in African-American mothers of preterm infants. 
  • Performance of phonoelectrocardiographic left ventricular systolic time intervals and B-type natriuretic peptide levels in the diagnosis of left ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Personal and ambient exposures to air toxics in Camden, New Jersey. 
  • Perturbations in hyperthermia temperature distributions associated with counter-current flow: numerical simulations and empirical verification. 
  • Pexelizumab and infarct size in patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary Intervention: a delayed enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance substudy from the APEX-AMI trial. 
  • Pharmacokinetics of remifentanil in anesthetized pediatric patients undergoing elective surgery or diagnostic procedures. 
  • Physical activities and sleep-related symptoms in 4 major racial/ethnic groups of midlife women. 
  • Physiological correlates of HIV-related fatigue. 
  • Plasma biomarkers for distinguishing etiologic subtypes of thoracic aortic aneurysm disease. 
  • Platelet factor 4/heparin antibodies in blood bank donors. 
  • Point/Counterpoint. The linear-quadratic model is inappropriate to model high dose per fraction effects in radiosurgery. 
  • Population differences in associations of serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism (5HTTLPR) di- and triallelic genotypes with blood pressure and hypertension prevalence. 
  • Population impact of a high cardiovascular risk management program delivered by village doctors in rural China: design and rationale of a large, cluster-randomized controlled trial. 
  • Positive attitudes toward organic, local, and sustainable foods are associated with higher dietary quality among young adults. 
  • Post-traumatic stress outcomes in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors. 
  • Postcardiac surgery complications: association of acute renal dysfunction and atrial fibrillation. 
  • Postoperative hyperthermia is associated with cognitive dysfunction after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Postprandial cholecystokinin release and gastric emptying in patients with bulimia nervosa. 
  • Postprandial metabolite profiles reveal differential nutrient handling after bariatric surgery compared with matched caloric restriction. 
  • Predicting adolescents' intake of fruits and vegetables. 
  • Predicting normal glenoid version from the pathologic scapula: a comparison of 4 methods in 2- and 3-dimensional models. 
  • Predicting patterns of epicardial potentials during ventricular fibrillation. 
  • Predicting the pathology results of radical prostatectomy from preoperative information: a validation study. 
  • Prediction of Dynamic Postural Stability During Single-Leg Jump Landings by Ankle and Knee Flexibility and Strength. 
  • Prediction of functional outcome after stroke: comparison of the Orpington Prognostic Scale and the NIH Stroke Scale. 
  • Prediction of incident heart failure in general practice: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. 
  • Prediction of tracheal tube size in children using multiple variables. 
  • Predictors and moderators of treatment outcome in the Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive Treatment Study (POTS I). 
  • Predictors of changes in health-related quality of life among men with HIV infection in the HAART era. 
  • Predictors of colorectal cancer surveillance among survivors of childhood cancer treated with radiation: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Predictors of dietary intake in Ontario seniors. 
  • Predictors of electrocerebral inactivity with deep hypothermia. 
  • Predictors of incident heart failure hospitalizations among patients with impaired glucose tolerance: insight from the Nateglinide And Valsartan in Impaired Glucose Tolerance Outcomes Research study. 
  • Predictors of massive transfusion with thoracic aortic procedures involving deep hypothermic circulatory arrest. 
  • Predictors of operative time in multicenter port-access valve registry: institutional differences in learning. 
  • Predictors of parental accommodation in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: findings from the Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Study (POTS) trial. 
  • Predictors of variation in serum IGF1 and IGFBP3 levels in healthy African American and white men. 
  • Predictors of web-based follow-up response in the Prevention Of Low Back Pain In The Military Trial (POLM). 
  • Preload recruitable stroke work relationship in the right ventricle: simultaneous assessment using conductance catheter and sonomicrometry. 
  • Premier: a clinical trial of comprehensive lifestyle modification for blood pressure control: rationale, design and baseline characteristics. 
  • Prescription and nonprescription drug use among black and white community-residing elderly. 
  • Prognostic usefulness of white blood cell count and temperature in acute myocardial infarction (from the CARDINAL Trial). 
  • Propagation of fluctuations in biochemical systems, I: linear SSC networks. 
  • Pseudoexfoliation syndrome in Icelandic families. 
  • Psychosocial education improves low back pain beliefs: results from a cluster randomized clinical trial (NCT00373009) in a primary prevention setting. 
  • Pulmonary function, bronchial reactivity, and epithelial permeability are response phenotypes to ozone and develop differentially in healthy humans. 
  • Pyridostigmine bromide intake during the Persian Gulf War is not associated with postwar handgrip strength. 
  • Quality of clinical reports on behavioral interventions for hypertension. 
  • Quantification of intravenous contrast-enhanced Doppler power spectrum in the rabbit carotid artery. 
  • RN participation in organizational decision making and improvements in resident outcomes. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in physical activity and bone density: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2008. 
  • Radiation exposure in the acute and short-term management of urolithiasis at 2 academic centers. 
  • Radiation-induced reductions in regional lung perfusion: 0.1-12 year data from a prospective clinical study. 
  • Randomized Trial of Reduced-Nicotine Standards for Cigarettes. 
  • Rate of head growth decelerates and symptoms worsen in the second year of life in autism. 
  • Real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography for quantification of the difference in left ventricular versus right ventricular stroke volume in a chronic animal model study: Improved results using C-scans for quantifying aortic regurgitation. 
  • Redefining the relationship between sperm deoxyribonucleic acid fragmentation as measured by the sperm chromatin structure assay and outcomes of assisted reproductive techniques. 
  • Reduced Cerebral Perfusion Pressure during Lung Transplant Surgery Is Associated with Risk, Duration, and Severity of Postoperative Delirium. 
  • Reduced length of hospital stay in colorectal surgery after implementation of an enhanced recovery protocol. 
  • Reduction of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex gray matter in late-life depression. 
  • Reductions in alcohol and cocaine use following a group coping intervention for HIV-positive adults with childhood sexual abuse histories. 
  • Reexamining the link of early childbearing to marriage and to subsequent fertility. 
  • Regional lung density changes after radiation therapy for tumors in and around thorax. 
  • Regular aspirin use and retinal microvascular signs: the Blue Mountains Eye Study. 
  • Relationship between categorization with the STarT Back Screening Tool and prognosis for people receiving physical therapy for low back pain. 
  • Relationship between ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer and optic disc/retinal nerve fibre layer parameters in non-glaucomatous eyes. 
  • Relationship between interdialytic weight gain and blood pressure among prevalent hemodialysis patients. 
  • Relationship between retinal arteriolar narrowing and myocardial perfusion: multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Relationship of nutritional status to health and societal participation in children with cerebral palsy. 
  • Relationships between exercise-induced reductions in thigh intermuscular adipose tissue, changes in lipoprotein particle size, and visceral adiposity. 
  • Relationships between vitamin and mineral supplement use, dietary intake, and dietary adequacy among adolescents. 
  • Relative importance of systemic determinants of retinal arteriolar and venular caliber: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. 
  • Relative quantification based on logistic models for individual polymerase chain reactions. 
  • Religious attendance reduces cognitive decline among older women with high levels of depressive symptoms. 
  • Renal resistive indexes: variability in Doppler US measurement in a healthy population. 
  • Renal response following perioperative ketorolac analgesia in living kidney donation. 
  • Repletion of S-nitrosohemoglobin improves organ function and physiological status in swine after brain death. 
  • Reservoir computing with a single time-delay autonomous Boolean node. 
  • Results from the IQ-CSRC prospective study support replacement of the thorough QT study by QT assessment in the early clinical phase. 
  • Retinal vessel caliber and lifelong neuropsychological functioning: retinal imaging as an investigative tool for cognitive epidemiology. 
  • Right ventricular dysfunction in systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension. 
  • Risk factors for 1-year mortality after thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 
  • Safety Assessment of Advanced Imaging Sequences I: Measurements. 
  • Safety of pacemaker implantation in nonagenarians: an analysis of the healthcare cost and utilization project-nationwide inpatient sample. 
  • Safety of perioperative statin use in high-risk patients undergoing major vascular surgery. 
  • Sampling strategies for tissue microarrays to evaluate biomarkers in ovarian cancer. 
  • Satiety responsiveness and the relationship between breastfeeding and weight status of toddlers of overweight and obese women. 
  • School-based health centers: cost-benefit analysis and impact on health care disparities. 
  • Seasonal variations in air pollution particle-induced inflammatory mediator release and oxidative stress. 
  • Segment-specific association between plasma homocysteine level and carotid artery intima-media thickness in the Framingham Offspring Study. 
  • Self-efficacy and pain catastrophizing in systemic lupus erythematosus: relationship to pain, stiffness, fatigue, and psychological distress. 
  • Serum Cholesterol Levels within the High Normal Range Are Associated with Better Cognitive Performance among Chinese Elderly. 
  • Serum cartilage oligomeric matrix protein reflects the presence of clinically diagnosed synovitis in patients with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Serum ionized calcium may be related to white matter lesion volumes in older adults: a pilot study. 
  • Sex differences in brain maturation during childhood and adolescence. 
  • Sex differences in quality of life after ischemic stroke. 
  • Sexual concerns in lung cancer patients: an examination of predictors and moderating effects of age and gender. 
  • Short echo time multislice proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging in human brain: metabolite distributions and reliability. 
  • Sildenafil exposure and hemodynamic effect after stage II single-ventricle surgery. 
  • Simulator training enhances resident performance in transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • Single resting hsTnT level predicts abnormal myocardial stress test in acute chest pain patients with normal initial standard troponin. 
  • Sleep dysfunction and thalamic abnormalities in adolescents at ultra high-risk for psychosis. 
  • Small area variation in low birthweight: looking beyond socioeconomic predictors. 
  • Smoking duration, respiratory symptoms, and COPD in adults aged ≥45 years with a smoking history. 
  • Social support modifies the relationship between personality and depressive symptoms in older adults. 
  • Sociocultural and socioeconomic influences on type 2 diabetes risk in overweight/obese African-American and Latino-American children and adolescents. 
  • Soft drink consumption among US children and adolescents: nutritional consequences. 
  • Soluble CXCL16 and long-term outcome in acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Soluble ST2, high-sensitivity troponin T- and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide: complementary role for risk stratification in acutely decompensated heart failure. 
  • Solving inverse problems with piecewise linear estimators: from Gaussian mixture models to structured sparsity. 
  • Spatial and temporal integration of visual motion signals for smooth pursuit eye movements in monkeys. 
  • Stability selection for regression-based models of transcription factor-DNA binding specificity. 
  • Statin therapy reduces growth of abdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Statistical methods for two-sequence three-period cross-over designs with incomplete data. 
  • Statistical reviewing policies of medical journals: caveat lector? 
  • Stereotactic body radiotherapy for lesions of the spine and paraspinal regions. 
  • Strategies for analyzing multilevel cluster-randomized studies with binary outcomes collected at varying intervals of time. 
  • Stress-related anhedonia is associated with ventral striatum reactivity to reward and transdiagnostic psychiatric symptomatology. 
  • Stressful life events and cognitive decline in late life: moderation by education and age. The Cache County Study. 
  • Surgeon volume trumps specialty: outcomes from 3596 pediatric cholecystectomies. 
  • Survival after primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placement among patients with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Survival benefit of the primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator among older patients: does age matter? An analysis of pooled data from 5 clinical trials. 
  • TOMM40'523 variant and cognitive decline in older persons with APOE ε3/3 genotype. 
  • Temporal lobe volume in bipolar disorder: relationship with diagnosis and antipsychotic medication use. 
  • Temporal organization of sleep-wake states in preterm infants. 
  • Temporal spectrum of ischemic complications with percutaneous coronary intervention: the ESPRIT experience. 
  • Testing proportionality in the proportional odds model fitted with GEE. 
  • The accelerated repopulation of a murine fibrosarcoma, FSA-II, during the fractionated irradiation and the linear-quadratic model. 
  • The association of dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate with anxiety sensitivity and electronic diary negative affect among smokers with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • The association of pain and fear of movement/reinjury with function during anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction rehabilitation. 
  • The compressive stiffness of human pediatric heads. 
  • The effect of body mass on health-related quality of life among Singaporean adolescents: results from the SCORM study. 
  • The effect of changing disease risk on clinical reasoning. 
  • The effect of reflector geometry on the acoustic field and bubble dynamics produced by an electrohydraulic shock wave lithotripter. 
  • The effectiveness of right heart catheterization in the initial care of critically ill patients. SUPPORT Investigators. 
  • The effects of acute afterload change on systolic ventricular function in conscious dogs with normal vs. failing hearts. 
  • The effects of environmental noise and infant position on cerebral oxygenation. 
  • The effects of gray scale image processing on digital mammography interpretation performance. 
  • The genetic component of discrete disability traits: an analysis using liability models with age-dependent thresholds. 
  • The health-related quality of life and survival of small-cell lung cancer patients: results of a companion study to CALGB 9033. 
  • The human cervical spine in tension: effects of frame and fixation compliance on structural responses. 
  • The impact of herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia on health-related quality of life: a prospective study. 
  • The impact of statistical adjustment on economic profiles of interventional cardiologists. 
  • The influence of maternal and child characteristics and paternal support on interactions of mothers and their medically fragile infants. 
  • The influence of maternal body mass index on myometrial oxytocin receptor expression in pregnancy. 
  • The inhibition by interleukin 1 of MSC chondrogenesis and the development of biomechanical properties in biomimetic 3D woven PCL scaffolds. 
  • The insurance effect on prescription drug expenditures among the elderly: findings from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. 
  • The linear-quadratic model is inappropriate to model high dose per fraction effects in radiosurgery. 
  • The micromechanical environment of intervertebral disc cells: effect of matrix anisotropy and cell geometry predicted by a linear model. 
  • The microvasculature in chronic kidney disease. 
  • The missense of smell: functional variability in the human odorant receptor repertoire. 
  • The prediction of change: normative neuropsychological trajectories. 
  • The prediction of stress-relaxation of ligaments and tendons using the quasi-linear viscoelastic model. 
  • The relationship between hostility and behavioral risk factors for poor health in women veterans. 
  • The relationship between resting arterial blood pressure and acute postoperative pain in endodontic patients. 
  • The relationship between retinal vessel calibre and knee cartilage and BMLs. 
  • The relationship of body fatness indices and retinal vascular caliber in children. 
  • The relationship of poor linear growth velocity with neonatal illness and two-year neurodevelopment in preterm infants. 
  • The rewarming rate and increased peak temperature alter neurocognitive outcome after cardiac surgery. 
  • The role of decision analysis in informed consent: choosing between intuition and systematicity. 
  • The role of fear-avoidance beliefs in acute low back pain: relationships with current and future disability and work status. 
  • The three-dimensional vestibulo-ocular reflex evoked by high-acceleration rotations in the squirrel monkey. 
  • The time course of radiation therapy-induced reductions in regional perfusion: a prospective study with >5 years of follow-up. 
  • Time of day affects episodic memory in older adults. 
  • Time trends of incidence of age-associated diseases in the US elderly population: Medicare-based analysis. 
  • Transcranial Doppler blood flow velocity versus 133Xe clearance cerebral blood flow during mild hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • Transfusion of fresh frozen plasma in critically ill surgical patients is associated with an increased risk of infection. 
  • Transfusion-related biologic effects and free hemoglobin, heme, and iron. 
  • Trends in 30-Day Readmission Rates for Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: Findings From the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. 
  • Tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular function after mitral valve surgery with or without concomitant tricuspid valve procedure. 
  • Ultrasound shear wave elasticity imaging quantifies coronary perfusion pressure effect on cardiac compliance. 
  • Unemployment among adult survivors of childhood cancer: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Unique Contributions of Body Diagram Scores and Psychosocial Factors to Pain Intensity and Disability in Patients With Musculoskeletal Pain. 
  • Urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites as biomarkers of exposure to traffic-emitted pollutants. 
  • Use of a mathematical model to predict oxygen transfer rates in hollow fiber membrane oxygenators. 
  • Use of endovascular therapy for peripheral arterial lesions: an analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank from 2007 to 2009. 
  • Uveal melanoma treated with iodine-125 episcleral plaque: an analysis of dose on disease control and visual outcomes. 
  • Validation of the association between a branched chain amino acid metabolite profile and extremes of coronary artery disease in patients referred for cardiac catheterization. 
  • Variability in cost of coronary bypass surgery in New York State: potential for cost savings. 
  • Variability of action potential duration in pharmacologically induced long QT syndrome type 1. 
  • Variants in PPP3R1 and MAPT are associated with more rapid functional decline in Alzheimer's disease: the Cache County Dementia Progression Study. 
  • Variation and fitness costs for tolerance to different types of herbivore damage in Boechera stricta genotypes with contrasting glucosinolate structures. 
  • Variation in pediatric traumatic brain injury outcomes in the United States. 
  • Variation of human amygdala response during threatening stimuli as a function of 5'HTTLPR genotype and personality style. 
  • Variation of serum hyaluronan with activity in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Vasomotor Symptoms and Quality of Life Among Veteran and Non-Veteran Postmenopausal Women. 
  • Ventilatory drive and carbon dioxide response in ventilatory failure due to myasthenia gravis and Guillain-Barré syndrome. 
  • Vestibular schwannomas in the modern era: epidemiology, treatment trends, and disparities in management. 
  • Viral clearance is associated with improved insulin resistance in genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C but not genotype 2/3. 
  • Viscoelastic properties of the aortic valve interstitial cell. 
  • Visit-to-Visit Variability in Blood Pressure Is Related to Late-Life Cognitive Decline. 
  • Voluntary HIV testing among adults with severe mental illness: frequency and associated factors. 
  • Watershed urbanization alters the composition and function of stream bacterial communities. 
  • Wear and Osteolysis of Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene at 10 to 14 Years: The Effect of Femoral Head Size. 
  • Weight change in Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Weight change in Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Weight control behaviors and dietary intake among adolescents and young adults: longitudinal findings from Project EAT. 
  • Which preoperative factors, including bone bruise, are associated with knee pain/symptoms at index anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR)? A Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network (MOON) ACLR Cohort Study. 
  • Which prognostic factors for low back pain are generic predictors of outcome across a range of recovery domains? 
  • Whole-brain irradiation and decline in intelligence: the influence of dose and age on IQ score. 
  • Whole-grain intake correlates among adolescents and young adults: findings from Project EAT. 
  • Why some women look young for their age. 
  • Work-related injuries involving a hand or fingers among union carpenters in Washington State, 1989 to 2008. 
  • [The relationship between place of birth and certain health characteristics in Ontario]. 
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  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Barker, Piers Christopher Andrew, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Cardiology
  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Clinical Research Institute
  • DeLong, Elizabeth Ray, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Ferrari, Guido, Associate Professor of Surgery, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Gordan, Raluca Mihaela, Assistant Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Computer Science
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Hartemink, Alexander J., Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Computer Science
  • Henriquez, Craig S., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
  • Laskowitz, Daniel Todd, Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology
  • Liu, Yutao, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Genetics
  • MacFall, James R., Adjunct Professor in the Department of Radiology, Radiology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
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  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Setton, Lori A., Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology
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