Scholars@Duke
Nancy Yang

Nancy Yang

House Staff
Medicine

Selected Publications

Coordination, Cost, and Changing Epidemiology-Considerations in the Hepatitis C Care Cascade.

Journal Article Hepatol Commun · March 2021 This editorial reviews two articles in hepatology communications addressing challenges in the hepatitis C care cascade. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Perinatal western-type diet and associated gestational weight gain alter postpartum maternal mood.

Journal Article Brain Behav · October 2017 INTRODUCTION: The role of perinatal diet in postpartum maternal mood disorders, including depression and anxiety, remains unclear. We investigated whether perinatal consumption of a Western-type diet (high in fat and branched-chain amino acids [BCAA]) and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Integrative health care services utilization as a function of body mass index: A BraveNet practice-based research network study

Journal Article Advances in Integrative Medicine · April 1, 2017 Background Obesity is a significant public health issue with no consensus regarding optimal medical management. Integrative medicine (IM) may help to fill this gap. Objectives (1) To characterize the sociodemographics, psychosocial functioning, health beha ... Full text Cite

Association Between Symptom Burden and Time to Hospitalization, Nursing Home Placement, and Death Among the Chronically Ill Urban Homebound.

Journal Article Journal of pain and symptom management · July 2016 ContextHomebound adults experience significant symptom burden.ObjectivesTo examine demographic and clinical characteristics associated with high symptom burden in the homebound, and to examine associations between symptom burden and time ... Full text Cite

Public and personal depression stigma in a rural American female sample.

Journal Article Archives of psychiatric nursing · December 2015 We examined public and personal stigma among a community sample of 1,000 women living in primarily rural counties of Western Kentucky. Data on demographics, depression, stigma, health information sources, and availability of health services were collected ... Full text Cite

Perspectives on genetic and genomic technologies in an academic medical center: the duke experience.

Journal Article J Pers Med · April 3, 2015 UNLABELLED: In this age of personalized medicine, genetic and genomic testing is expected to become instrumental in health care delivery, but little is known about its actual implementation in clinical practice. METHODS: We surveyed Duke faculty and health ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Sources of health information among rural women in Western Kentucky.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · January 2015 ObjectiveTo identify sources of general and mental health information for rural women to inform the development of public health nursing interventions that consider preferences for obtaining information.Design and sampleOne thousand women ... Full text Cite

Perceptions of Personalized Medicine in an Academic Health System: Educational Findings.

Journal Article J Contemp Med Educ · 2015 OBJECTIVE: Prior reports demonstrate that personalized medicine implementation in clinical care is lacking. Given the program focus at Duke University on personalized medicine, we assessed health care providers' perspectives on their preparation and educat ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Personalized health planning with integrative health coaching to reduce obesity risk among women gaining excess weight during pregnancy.

Journal Article Global advances in health and medicine · July 2013 Health coaching is an emerging behavioral intervention to improve outcomes in chronic disease management and prevention; however, no studies have investigated its utility in postpartum women who have gained excess weight during pregnancy. A 32-year-old pri ... Full text Cite

A Systematic Review of the Literature on Health and Wellness Coaching: Defining a Key Behavioral intervention in Healthcare.

Journal Article Global advances in health and medicine · July 2013 Primary objectiveReview the operational definitions of health and wellness coaching as published in the peer-reviewed medical literature.BackgroundAs global rates of preventable chronic diseases have reached epidemic proportions, there ha ... Full text Cite

Personalized medicine in women's obesity prevention and treatment: implications for research, policy and practice.

Journal Article Obes Rev · February 2013 The prevalence of obesity in America has reached epidemic proportions, and obesity among women is particularly concerning. Severe obesity (body mass index ≥35 kg m(-2) ) is more prevalent in women than men. Further, women have sex-specific risk factors tha ... Full text Link to item Cite