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Description:: Metabolic syndrome has become a major public health challenge worldwide. The association between metabolic syndrome and DNA methylation is of great research interest. We constructed a binomial model to investigate the association between a metabolic syndrome index and DNA methylation in the Normative Aging Study. We applied the Iterative Sure...
Keyword:: elastic net, Metabolic syndrome, Bootstrap, ultra-high dimensional variable selection, methylation, and ISIS
Creator:: Joel Schwartz, Brian Joyce, Pantel S. Vokonas, Yinan Zheng, Wei Zhang, Lei Liu, Tao Gao, Lifang Hou, Grace Yoon, Weihau Guan, Zhou Zhang, Andrea A. Baccarelli, Wenxin Jiang, and Haixiang Zhang
Owner:: Chris Diaz
Publisher:: BioMed Central
Date Uploaded:: 05/10/2017
Date Modified:: 05/10/2017
Date Created:: 2017-03-07
Resource Type:: Article
Alternate Identifier:: DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1568-1

Description:: Background: Parental characteristics that influence child physical activity (PA) behavior often co-occur. An analytic approach that considers these co-occurring patterns can help researchers better understand the overall context of parental influence. The study aims were to: (1) identify diverse patterns of the relationships among parental characteristics, (2) examine the influence...
Keyword:: Moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity, Father's role in child physical activity, Sports participation, and Latent class
Creator:: Kathleen F. Janz, Elena M. Letuchy, Steven M. Levy, Trudy L. Burns, and Soyang Kwon
Owner:: Chris Diaz
Publisher:: BioMed Central
Language:: English
Date Uploaded:: 01/20/2017
Date Modified:: 05/08/2017
Date Created:: 2016-05-06
Resource Type:: Article
Alternate Identifier:: DOI: 10.1186/s12966-016-0383-9

Description:: Background: Obstetrician cognitive and affective traits have been identified to have relationships with their patients’ perinatal outcomes. The objective was to identify relationships between obstetrician demographic and practice characteristics and physician coping, self-efficacy, anxiety and ambiguity tolerance. Methods: Obstetricians at a single institution were surveyed using 5 validated scales measuring...
Keyword:: Coping skills, Physician professional development, Obstetrician cognition, Tolerance of ambiguity, and Medical education
Creator:: William A. Grobman and Lynn M. Yee
Owner:: Chris Diaz
Publisher:: BioMed Central
Date Uploaded:: 01/19/2017
Date Modified:: 01/19/2017
Date Created:: 2016-05-10
Resource Type:: Article
Alternate Identifier:: DOI: 10.1186/s12909-016-0659-4

Description:: In Sub-Saharan Africa, epidemiological studies have reported an increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD) among people living with HIV. NCD management can be feasibly integrated into HIV care; however, clinic readiness to provide NCD services in these settings should first be assessed and gaps in care identified. A cross-sectional survey...
Keyword:: Tanzania, HIV, Non-communicable diseases, Health system strengthening, and Integration
Creator:: Eric Aris, Guerino Chalamilla, Aisa Mhalu, Claudia Leung, Beatrice Christian, Claudia Hawkins, Hellen Siril, Happiness Koda, Talumba Samatta, Martha Tsere Maghimbi, and Lisa R. Hirschhorn
Owner:: Chris Diaz
Publisher:: BioMed Central
Date Uploaded:: 05/08/2017
Date Modified:: 05/08/2017
Date Created:: 2016-09-21
Resource Type:: Article

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