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Howard Joseph Eisenson

Howard Joseph Eisenson

Medical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Family Medicine and Community Health
eisen004@mc.duke.edu
Duke Box 104800, Durham, NC 27710
Lincoln Community Health Center, 1301 Fayetteville St., Durham, NC 27707

Selected Publications

Reaching the Hard-to-Reach: Outcomes of the Severe Hypertension Outreach Intervention.

Journal Article Am J Prev Med · November 2020 INTRODUCTION: Severe hypertension (≥180 mmHg systolic or ≥110 mmHg diastolic) is associated with a twofold increase in the relative risk of death. At the authors' Federally Qualified Health Center in the Southeast, 39% of adults (n=8,695) had hypertension, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does pain predict interference with daily functioning and weight loss in an obese residential treatment-seeking population?

Journal Article Int J Behav Med · June 2010 BACKGROUND: Pain may interfere with daily functioning in obese persons and also with outcomes during weight loss. We examined the relationship between pain and (1) interference with daily functioning (DFi) and (2) outcomes in an obese treatment-seeking pop ... Full text Link to item Cite

Serum aminotransferase changes with significant weight loss: sex and age effects.

Journal Article Metabolism · February 2010 In obese subjects, the liver may be differentially affected by significant weight loss depending on as yet unknown factors. We explored clinical factors associated with serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) changes during significant weight loss in a reside ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sleep disturbance and pain in an obese residential treatment-seeking population.

Journal Article Clin J Pain · September 2009 BACKGROUND: The relationships between body mass index (BMI) and sleep disturbance, sleep disturbance and pain, and obesity and pain are documented; however, there is a paucity of research exploring how sleep relates to pain in obese populations. METHOD: Th ... Full text Link to item Cite

A branched-chain amino acid-related metabolic signature that differentiates obese and lean humans and contributes to insulin resistance.

Journal Article Cell Metab · April 2009 Metabolomic profiling of obese versus lean humans reveals a branched-chain amino acid (BCAA)-related metabolite signature that is suggestive of increased catabolism of BCAA and correlated with insulin resistance. To test its impact on metabolic homeostasis ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does binge eating disorder impact weight-related quality of life?

Journal Article Obes Res · June 2004 OBJECTIVES: To determine whether binge eating disorder (BED) impacts weight-related quality of life in obese individuals seeking weight loss treatment and to investigate the role of psychological symptoms, BMI, and demographic variables in the relationship ... Full text Link to item Cite

Urinary incontinence in the elderly

Journal Article Seminars in Family Medicine · 1982 Incontinence in the elderly is a symptom with enormous impact on the patient and the family. Careful evaluation can frequently lead to a specific explanation for the incontinence. Although complete resolution of the problem is not always possible, treatmen ... Cite

Association of patient and physician characteristics with follow-up of abnormal laboratory results.

Journal Article J Fam Pract · November 1980 Physician follow-up of patients with laboratory abnormalities in 12 commonly obtained blood tests was studied in the ambulatory setting. Nineteen white male physicians had 166 patients with 279 abnormal results. Overall, 38.6 percent of patients had abnorm ... Link to item Cite