Scholars@Duke
Maryam Aziz

Selected Publications

Prospective evaluation of plasma proteins in relation to surgical endometriosis diagnosis in the Nurses' Health Study II.

Journal Article EBioMedicine · May 2025 BackgroundEndometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition characterised by pain and infertility. We conducted a prospective study to elucidate the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying endometriosis development.MethodsWe examined the ... Full text Cite

Endometriosis and autoimmunity: a large-scale case-control study of endometriosis and 10 distinct autoimmune diseases.

Journal Article npj women's health · January 2025 In this study, we assessed if women with endometriosis have greater odds than matched controls of receiving an autoimmune diagnosis within two-years of their endometriosis diagnosis. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using two large-scale administr ... Full text Cite

Can Contemporary Large Language Models Provide the Domain Knowledge Needed for Causal Inference? Evaluating Automated Causal Graph Discovery Through an ASCVD Case Study.

Journal Article Clinical epidemiology · January 2025 PurposeDirected acyclic graphs (DAGs) are critical in epidemiology and public health research for guiding study design and minimizing bias. Yet, developing DAGs for causal inference requires substantial domain knowledge. Given the vast amounts of ... Full text Cite

Help Supporters: Exploring the Design Space of Assistive Technologies to Support Face-to-Face Help Between Blind and Sighted Strangers

Conference Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings · May 11, 2024 Blind and low-vision (BLV) people face many challenges when venturing into public environments, often wishing it were easier to get help from people nearby. Ironically, while many sighted individuals are willing to help, such interactions are infrequent. A ... Full text Cite

"I Want to Figure Things Out": Supporting Exploration in Navigation for People with Visual Impairments

Journal Article Proceedings of the ACM on Human Computer Interaction · April 16, 2023 Navigation assistance systems (NASs) aim to help visually impaired people (VIPs) navigate unfamiliar environments. Most of today's NASs support VIPs via turn-by-turn navigation, but a growing body of work highlights the importance of exploration as well. I ... Full text Cite