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Reducing Disparities in Vaccination Rates Between Different Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Groups- The Potential of Community-based Multilevel Interventions
(2005)
There are well-documented disparities in vaccination rates between different socioeconomic
and racial/ethnic groups in the United States. These disparities persist in spite of an overall
increase in vaccination rates during ...
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 ...
Circumstances of Witnessed Drug Overdose in New York City: Implications for Intervention
(Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2005)
Drug users frequently witness the nonfatal and fatal drug overdoses of their peers, but often fail to intervene effectively to reduce morbidity
and mortality.We assessed the circumstances of witnessed heroin-related ...
Challenges in Understanding Disparities in Drug Use and its Consequences
(2005)
Racial/ethnic disparities in health have long been documented in a broad
range of medical conditions in the United States. For example, Blacks have higher HIV
incidence and AIDS-related mortality than do Whites. This ...
A Comparison of HIV Seropositive and Seronegative Young Adult Heroin- and Cocaine- Using Men Who Have Sex with Men in New York City, 2000-2003
(2005)
The purpose of this analysis was to determine the prevalence and correlates
of HIV infection among a street-recruited sample of heroin- and cocaine-using men
who have sex with men (MSM). Injection (injecting â¤3 years) ...
Semiparametric inferences for association with semi-competing risks data
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005)
In many biomedical studies, it is of interest to assess dependence between bivariate failure time data. We focus here on a special type of such data, referred to as semi-competing risks data. In this article, we develop ...
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the General Population After Mass Terrorist Incidents: Considerations About the Nature of Exposure
(2005)
Epidemiologically, disasters represent multiple forms of possible exposures, including exposure type (eg, natural versus human-made), intensity, and duration. It has been suggested that the consequences of human-made ...
Estimation and Mapping of Wet and Dry Mercury Deposition Across Northeastern North America
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-03)
Whereas many ecosystem characteristics and processes influence mercury accumulation in higher trophic-level organisms, the mercury flux from the atmosphere to a lake and its watershed is a likely factor in potential risk ...
Genetic and environmental influences on bone mineral density in pre- and post-menopausal women
(Springer-Verlag; International Osteoporosis Foundation and National Osteoporosis Foundation, 2005-12)
Genetic factors influencing acquisition of peak bone mass account for a substantial proportion of the variation in bone mineral density (BMD), although the extent to which genes also contribute to variation in bone loss ...
The effect of HIV infection on overdose mortality
(AIDS, 2005)
Objectives: To quantify the association of HIV infection with overdose mortality and
explore the potential mechanisms.
Design: A prospective cohort study.
Methods: A total of 1927 actively injecting drug users who were ...