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Joseph A. C. Delaney
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Open AccessEvaluation of respondent-driven sampling in seven studies of people who use drugs from rural populations: findings from the Rural Opioid Initiative
Accurate prevalence estimates of drug use and its harms are important to characterize burden and develop interventions to reduce negative health outcomes and disparities. Lack of a sampling frame for marginali...
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Association of Immune Cell Subsets with Incident Hip Fracture: The Cardiovascular Health Study
In this study, we aimed to evaluate the association of innate and adaptive immune cell subsets in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) with hip fracture. To conduct this study, we used data from the Card...
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Clinical and Behavioral Outcomes for Transgender Women Engaged in HIV Care: Comparisons to Cisgender Men and Women in the Centers for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) Cohort
Describe health of transgender women (TW) with HIV vs. cisgender men and women (CM, CW) in a U.S. HIV care cohort. Data were from Centers for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS), 2005–...
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Open AccessThe Rural Opioid Initiative Consortium description: providing evidence to Understand the Fourth Wave of the Opioid Crisis
To characterize and address the opioid crisis disproportionately impacting rural U.S. regions.
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Changing Patterns of Alcohol Use and Probability of Unsuppressed Viral Load Among Treated Patients with HIV Engaged in Routine Care in the United States
We examined HIV viral load non-suppression ( \(\ge \) ≥ 200 copies/mL) subse...
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Open AccessNatural killer cells, gamma delta T cells and classical monocytes are associated with systolic blood pressure in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)
Hypertension is a major source of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Recent evidence from mouse models, genetic, and cross-sectional human studies suggest increased proportions of selected immune cell sub...
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Associations of diet quality and blood serum lipoprotein levels in a population at high risk for diabetes: the Strong Heart Family Study
Previous studies consistently report that diet quality is inversely associated with risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes. However, few studies have assessed the association of diet quality ...
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Open AccessIncorporating sampling weights into robust estimation of Cox proportional hazards regression model, with illustration in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Cox proportional hazards regression models are used to evaluate associations between exposures of interest and time-to-event outcomes in observational data. When exposures are measured on only a sample of part...
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Open AccessPerceived access and barriers to care among illicit drug users and hazardous drinkers: findings from the Seek, Test, Treat, and Retain data harmonization initiative (STTR)
Illicit drug use (DU) and hazardous drinking (HD) among marginalized populations may be associated with greater barriers to care.
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HIV Provider Documentation and Actions Following Patient Reports of At-risk Behaviors and Conditions When Identified by a Web-Based Point-of-Care Assessment
We compared same-day provider medical record documentation and interventions addressing depression and risk behaviors before and after delivering point-of-care patient-reported outcomes (PROs) feedback for pat...
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Prevalence and Factors Associated with Hazardous Alcohol Use Among Persons Living with HIV Across the US in the Current Era of Antiretroviral Treatment
Hazardous alcohol use is associated with detrimental health outcomes among persons living with HIV (PLWH). We examined the prevalence and factors associated with hazardous alcohol use in the current era using ...
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Data Mining of the US FDA’s Adverse Events Reporting System Database to Evaluate Drug–Drug Interactions Associated with Statin-Induced Rhabdomyolysis
With the rise in polypharmacy, it is increasingly important to identify drug–drug interactions (DDIs) that cause serious adverse events in a timely manner. The purpose of the study was to investigate the utili...
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Effect of inter-reader variability on outcomes in studies using carotid intima media thickness quantified by carotid ultrasonography
Systematic differences between readers or equipment in imaging studies are not uncommon; failure to account for such differences when using Carotid Ultrasonography may introduce bias into associations between ...
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The impact of unmeasured baseline effect modification on estimates from an inverse probability of treatment weighted logistic model
We present the results of a Monte Carlo simulation study in which we demonstrate how strong baseline interactions between a confounding variable and a treatment can create an important difference between the m...
