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Exposure to household air pollution from biomassâ burning cookstoves and HbA1c and diabetic status among Honduran women
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.WHO, 2018-09)
Household air pollution from biomass cookstoves is estimated to be responsible for more than two and a half million premature deaths annually, primarily in low and middleâ income countries where cardiometabolic disorders, ...
Synthesis of N2‐Substituted Deoxyguanosine Nucleosides from 2‐Fluoro‐6‐O‐(Trimethylsilylethyl)‐2′‐Deoxyinosine
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Aldrich Chemical Co., 2000-02)
Syntheses of N2‐substituted nucleosides have been studied for many years, primarily with ribonucleosides. However, the primary route to these compounds requires acidic conditions that are too vigorous for the acid‐labile ...
Improvements in Health Status after Massachusetts Health Care Reform
(Massachusetts Department of Public HealthWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-12)
Health policy and territorial politics: Disciplinary misunderstandings and directions for research
(2017-04-08)
The territorial politics of health is both underexploited by mainstream political scientists and the subject of a large and distinctive health policy literature that rarely connects with political science. This chapter ...
Mediation and Modification of the Association Between Hopelessness, Hostility, and Progression of Carotid Atherosclerosis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-02)
Hopelessness and hostility are linked to progression of carotid atherosclerosis (PCA). The purpose of this study was to replicate such relations and to evaluate the role of biological pathways involving hyperactivation of ...
Imaging Changes after Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Primary and Secondary Malignant Brain Tumors
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-01)
After radiosurgery of malignant tumors, it can be difficult to discriminate between transient treatment effects, radiation necrosis, and tumor progression on post-treatment imaging. Misinterpretation of an enlarging lesion ...
Association of influenza epidemics with global climate variability
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-11)
The reasons for the seasonality and annual changes in the impact of influenza epidemics remain poorly understood. We investigated the covariations between a major component of climate, namely the El Niño Southern Oscillation ...
Use of mycophenolate mofetil in steroid-dependent and -resistant nephrotic syndrome
(Springer-Verlag; IPNA, 2003-08)
Cyclosporin (Cs-A) is an effective treatment for difficult cases of nephrotic syndrome (NS), but its use can be complicated by renal toxicity and a high incidence of relapses after withdrawal. We reviewed the charts of 10 ...
New Instrumental Variable Methods for Causal Inference.
(2016)
In observational studies, unmeasured differences between treatment groups often confound the relationship of interest. Instrumental variable (IV) methods can give consistent effect estimates in the presence of this ...