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Angela D Liese
Public Health
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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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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 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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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.
