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Open AccessDetermining diagnosis date of diabetes using structured electronic health record (EHR) data: the SEARCH for diabetes in youth study
Disease surveillance of diabetes among youth has relied mainly upon manual chart review. However, increasingly available structured electronic health record (EHR) data have been shown to yield accurate determi...
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Open AccessA cross sectional study to compare cardiac structure and diastolic function in adolescents and young adults with youth-onset type 1 and type 2 diabetes: The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study
To compare left ventricular structure (LV) and diastolic function in young adults with youth- onset diabetes by type, determine the prevalence of abnormal diastolic function by diabetes type using published va...
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Open AccessDevelopment of a national childhood obesogenic environment index in the United States: differences by region and rurality
Diverse environmental factors are associated with physical activity (PA) and healthy eating (HE) among youth. However, no study has created a comprehensive obesogenic environment index for children that can be...
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Stressful Life Changes and Their Relationship to Nutrition-Related Health Outcomes Among US Army Soldiers
Stressful life changes may tax people’s adaptive capacity. We sought to determine if and when experiences of stressful life changes were associated with increased odds of adverse nutrition-related health outco...
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Patterns of change over time and history of the inflammatory potential of diet and risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women
We utilized the dietary inflammatory index (DII) to investigate associations between patterns of change in, and history of the inflammatory potential of diet and risk of breast cancer in the Women’s Health Ini...
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Open AccessAssociation between dietary inflammatory potential and breast cancer incidence and death: results from the Women’s Health Initiative
Diet modulates inflammation and inflammatory markers have been associated with cancer outcomes. In the Women’s Health Initiative, we investigated associations between a dietary inflammatory index (DII) and inv...
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Whose quality of life is it anyway? Discrepancies between youth and parent health-related quality of life ratings in type 1 and type 2 diabetes
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a critical diabetes outcome, yet differences between youth and parent-proxy ratings can make interpretation difficult. This study aims to explore potential difference...
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Neighborhood Food Access and Birth Outcomes in South Carolina
Evidence of the association between food environment and birth outcomes is limited. This study aimed to examine the association between individual-level food access measures and birth outcomes.
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The association between dietary inflammatory index and risk of colorectal cancer among postmenopausal women: results from the Women’s Health Initiative
Inflammation is a process central to carcinogenesis and in particular to colorectal cancer (CRC). Previously, we developed a dietary inflammatory index (DII) from extensive literature review to assess the infl...
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Open AccessDoes the availability of snack foods in supermarkets vary internationally?
Cross-country differences in dietary behaviours and obesity rates have been previously reported. Consumption of energy-dense snack foods and soft drinks are implicated as contributing to weight gain, however l...
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Open AccessAssociations of built food environment with body mass index and waist circumference among youth with diabetes
Youth with diabetes are at increased risk for obesity and cardiovascular disease complications. However, less is known about the influence of built food environment on health outcomes in this population. The a...
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Open AccessNeighborhood level risk factors for type 1 diabetes in youth: the SEARCH case-control study
European ecologic studies suggest higher socioeconomic status is associated with higher incidence of type 1 diabetes. Using data from a case-control study of diabetes among racially/ethnically diverse youth in...
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Sugar-sweetened and diet beverage consumption is associated with cardiovascular risk factor profile in youth with type 1 diabetes
The prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among youth with type 1 diabetes is high and associated with age, gender, and race/ethnicity. It has also been shown that youth with type 1 diabetes ...
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Open AccessAn evaluation of edge effects in nutritional accessibility and availability measures: a simulation study
This paper addresses the statistical use of accessibility and availability indices and the effect of study boundaries on these measures. The measures are evaluated via an extensive simulation based on cluster ...
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Open AccessEvaluating geographic imputation approaches for zip code level data: an application to a study of pediatric diabetes
There is increasing interest in the study of place effects on health, facilitated in part by geographic information systems. Incomplete or missing address information reduces geocoding success. Several geograp...
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Factors associated with differences in antihypertensive drug treatment: Results from the MONICA Augsburg Population Surveys 1989/90 and 1994/95
Objective: To investigate in a population-based sample of hypertensive men and women the impact of factors that determine frequency and pattern of antihypertensive treatment.
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Five year changes in waist circumference, body mass index and obesity in Augsburg, Germany
Aims To assess temporal changes in body fat distribution, body mass index and obesity in Augsburg, Germany. Methods Waist circumference, weight and height were measured in two independent samples of 4804 and 479...
