Research Topics
| William CheckleySummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins University Country: USA Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
Epidemiology of tobacco use and dependence in adults in a poor peri-urban community in Lima, PeruPaul Logan Weygandt
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Maryland, USA
BMC Pulm Med 12:9. 2012..abstract:..- Inference for mutually exclusive competing events through a mixture of generalized gamma distributionsWilliam Checkley
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Epidemiology 21:557-65. 2010..Our objective was to determine if and how the mixture was modified in response to an intervention... - Maternal vitamin A supplementation and lung function in offspringWilliam Checkley
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
N Engl J Med 362:1784-94. 2010.... - Short-term weather variability in Chicago and hospitalizations for Kawasaki diseaseWilliam Checkley
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Epidemiology 20:194-201. 2009..Kawasaki disease exhibits a distinct seasonality, and short-term changes in weather may affect its occurrence... - Multi-country analysis of the effects of diarrhoea on childhood stuntingWilliam Checkley
Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD21205, USA
Int J Epidemiol 37:816-30. 2008..These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that a higher cumulative burden of diarrhoea increases the risk of stunting... - Effects of a clinical trial on mechanical ventilation practices in patients with acute lung injuryWilliam Checkley
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 177:1215-22. 2008..However, interpretations of these results generated controversy and it was unclear if this trial would change usual-care practices... - Effect of urbanisation on asthma, allergy and airways inflammation in a developing country settingColin L Robinson
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University, 1830 Monument Street, Fifth Floor, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Thorax 66:1051-7. 2011..However, few studies have studied the role of urbanisation in this phenomenon. It was hypothesised that children living in a peri-urban setting in Peru have higher rates of asthma and allergy than rural counterparts... - Effect of water and sanitation on childhood health in a poor Peruvian peri-urban communityWilliam Checkley
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Lancet 363:112-8. 2004..Inadequate water and sanitation adversely affect the health of children in developing countries. We aimed to assess the effects of water and sanitation on childhood health in a birth cohort of Peruvian children... - Effects of acute diarrhea on linear growth in Peruvian childrenWilliam Checkley
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 157:166-75. 2003..In contrast, diarrhea after 6 months of age showed transient effects. Study results indicate that diarrhea control, especially during the first 6 months of life, is likely to improve linear growth in Peruvian children... - The Peru Urban versus Rural Asthma (PURA) Study: methods and baseline quality control data from a cross-sectional investigation into the prevalence, severity, genetics, immunology and environmental factors affecting asthma in adolescence in PeruColin L Robinson
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
BMJ Open 2:e000421. 2012..The authors sought to characterise the epidemiology of asthma in Peru in two regions with disparate degrees of urbanisation. In this manuscript, the authors summarise the study design and implementation... - Comparison of two types of epidemiological surveys aimed at collecting daily clinical symptoms in community-based longitudinal studiesGwenyth Lee
Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Ann Epidemiol 20:151-8. 2010..The interval in which data are collected may affect the accuracy and interpretation of results. Our objective was to compare data of reported daily clinical symptoms from surveys conducted daily versus twice-weekly surveys... - Critical care trial design and interpretation: a primerJonathan E Sevransky
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Crit Care Med 38:1882-9. 2010..Knowledge of basic principles of clinical trial design and interpretation will assist the clinician in better applying the results of these studies into clinical practice... - Effects of distance from a heavily transited avenue on asthma and atopy in a periurban shantytown in Lima, PeruLauren M Baumann
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 127:875-82. 2011.... - The value of positive end-expiratory pressure and Fio? criteria in the definition of the acute respiratory distress syndromeMartin Britos
National Institutes of Health Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network ARDS Network Investigators, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 39:2025-30. 2011..We also assessed effects of two study interventions on clinical outcomes in subsets of patients with mild and severe hypoxemia as defined by PaO?/Fio?... - Trends in hospitalizations for AIDS-associated Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in the United States (1986 to 2005)Colleen F Kelley
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and the Emory Centerfor AIDS Research, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Chest 136:190-7. 2009.... - Effects of nutritional status on diarrhea in Peruvian childrenWilliam Checkley
Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. 21205, USA
J Pediatr 140:210-8. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: These results identify infants and children of poor nutritional status as priority risk groups for prevention efforts aimed at reducing the burden of acute childhood diarrhea... - Revisiting the relationship of weight and height in early childhoodStephanie A Richard
Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Adv Nutr 3:250-4. 2012.... - Computerised lung sound analysis to improve the specificity of paediatric pneumonia diagnosis in resource-poor settings: protocol and methods for an observational studyLaura E Ellington
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
BMJ Open 2:e000506. 2012..The authors aim to investigate the use of electronic auscultation to improve the specificity of the current WHO algorithm in developing countries... - Association between respiratory tract methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and survival in cystic fibrosisElliott C Dasenbrook
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 5067, USA
JAMA 303:2386-92. 2010..Because the time between infection with bacteria in CF and death can be decades, observational studies with long periods of follow-up are well suited to address the current gap in knowledge... - Computerized lung sound analysis as diagnostic aid for the detection of abnormal lung sounds: a systematic review and meta-analysisArati Gurung
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Respir Med 105:1396-403. 2011..Electronic auscultation and automated classification of recorded lung sounds may help prevent some of these shortcomings... - A cleaning and calibration method for the SpiroPro portable spirometer's pneumotachometer tube in a remote field studyMatthew R Baldwin
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Respir Care 55:443-52. 2010..We developed a systematic method of cleaning and calibration-checking for the pneumotachometer tube of the SpiroPro portable spirometer; this method maximized spirometry accuracy in a population-based study in a remote area of Nepal... - Epidemiologic differences between cyclosporiasis and cryptosporidiosis in Peruvian childrenCaryn Bern
Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 8:581-5. 2002..Cryptosporidiosis was more frequent in children from houses without a latrine or toilet. Cyclosporiasis was associated with ownership of domestic animals, especially birds, guinea pigs, and rabbits...