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Dean Schillinger
Epidemiology
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Open AccessCollaborative research and actions on both sides of the US-Mexico border to counteract type 2 diabetes in people of Mexican origin
Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is now a massive epidemic in both California and Mexico, with serious consequences for social and economic well-being. A large proportion of these populations share common ethnic backgrou...
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Cancer genetic counseling communication with low-income Chinese immigrants
As genetics and genomics become part of mainstream medicine, these advances have the potential to either reduce or exacerbate health disparities. Relatively, little research has explored the quality of genetic...
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Police-Recorded Crime and Perceived Stress among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE)
While stress has been linked to poor health outcomes, little is known about the impact of objective measures of neighborhood crime on stress in patients with chronic disease. Using the Kaiser Permanente Diabet...
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Open AccessSpatial pattern of body mass index among adults in the diabetes study of Northern California (DISTANCE)
The role that environmental factors, such as neighborhood socioeconomics, food, and physical environment, play in the risk of obesity and chronic diseases is not well quantified. Understanding how spatial dist...
