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In Sickness and In Health: Understanding the Effects of Marriage on Health
(2001-08)
Despite substantial research, how marriage reduces mortality remains unclear.
Using a novel data set of over 150,000 elderly couples developed from the Medicare
claims and examining the impact of widowhood vs. marriage ...
Marriage, widowhood, and health-care use
(Social Science & Medicine, 2003-12)
Despite suggestive evidence, there has been no adequately powered systematic study of the ways in which marital status influences health care consumption. Using a novel data set of 609016 newly diagnosed, seriously ill ...
Increased ICU workload is not associated with increased inpatient mortality
(American Thoracic Society International Conference, 2008-05)
Rationale: Although ICUs with higher overall patient volume may achieve better outcomes, there are few data on the effects of increasing patient loads on patients within the ICU.
Methods: We examined 198,877 patients in ...
TLR9 activation is a key event for the maintenance of a mycobacterial antigen-elicited pulmonary granulomatous response
(WILEY-VCH Verlag, 2007-10)
Type 1 (Th1) granulomas can be studied in mice sensitized with mycobacterium antigens followed by challenge of agarose beads covalently coupled to purified protein derivative. TLR9 is known to play a role in the regulation ...