McAllister Windom

Journal Article Pediatrics · February 10, 2025 OBJECTIVE: Intensive health behavior and lifestyle treatment (IHBLT) is recommended for children aged 6-18 years with obesity. The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of Fit Together, a health care and parks and recreation partnership to deliver IH ... Full text Link to item Cite

" Trying to Grab Pieces of Hope " : Exploring the Experiences of Black and Hispanic Parents following a Congenital Heart Disease Diagnosis.

Journal Article AJP Rep · January 2025 Objective Congenital heart disease (CHD) is an important contributor to pediatric morbidity and mortality. Unfortunately, disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of CHD exist across racial and ethnic groups. The objective of this study was to share the ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Rheumatic Heart Disease in the United States: Forgotten But Not Gone: Results of a 10 Year Multicenter Review.

Journal Article J Am Heart Assoc · August 17, 2021 Background Recent evaluation of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) mortality demonstrates disproportionate disease burden within the United States. However, there are few contemporary data on US children living with acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and RHD. Methods ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hepatoblastoma diagnosed in infancy occurring in single-ventricle patients: a case series.

Journal Article Cardiol Young · December 2020 Hepatoblastoma is the most common primary liver tumour in children; however, there are no reported incidences in the single-ventricle congenital heart disease population. We present three cases in patients with single-ventricle heart disease with a mean ag ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rationale and design of "Hearts & Parks": study protocol for a pragmatic randomized clinical trial of an integrated clinic-community intervention to treat pediatric obesity.

Journal Article BMC Pediatr · June 26, 2020 BACKGROUND: The prevalence of child and adolescent obesity and severe obesity continues to increase despite decades of policy and research aimed at prevention. Obesity strongly predicts cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk; both begin in childhood. Ch ... Full text Link to item Cite

Access to subspecialty care for patients with mobility impairment: a survey.

Journal Article Ann Intern Med · March 19, 2013 BACKGROUND: Adults who use wheelchairs have difficulty accessing physicians and receive less preventive care than their able-bodied counterparts. OBJECTIVE: To learn about the accessibility of medical and surgical subspecialist practices for patients with ... Full text Link to item Cite