Pre-pregnancy overweight status between successive pregnancies and pregnancy outcomesGerald L Hoff
Health Department, Office of Epidemiology and Community Health Monitoring, Kansas City, Missouri 64108 2666, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:1413-7. 2009
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Changes in smoking behavior between first and second pregnanciesGerald L Hoff
Office of Epidemiology and Community Health Monitoring, Kansas City Health Department, Kansas City MO 64108, USA
Am J Health Behav 31:583-90. 2007
..To assess changes in maternal smoking behavior at the second pregnancy...
Excess Hispanic fetal-infant mortality in a midwestern communityGerald L Hoff
Kansas City Health Department, Office of Epidemiology and Community Health Monitoring, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Public Health Rep 124:711-7. 2009
..We assessed excess fetal-infant mortality for Hispanic, non-Hispanic white, and non-Hispanic black populations in five contiguous counties of Missouri and Kansas...
- Perinatal periods of risk analysis of infant mortality in Jackson County, Missouri
Jinwen Cai
Office of Epidemiology and Community Health Monitoring, Kansas City Health Department, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 13:270-7. 2007
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- The effect of health compromising behaviors on preterm births
Paul C Dew
Department of Preventive Medicine, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, 1750 Independence Ave, Kansas City, Missouri 64106, USA
Matern Child Health J 11:227-33. 2007
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- Fetal mortality: timing of racial disparities
Jinwen Cai
Office of Epidemiology and Community Health Monitoring, Kansas City Health Department, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:1258-61. 2007
..The lack of disparity for non-Hispanic blacks and the disparity for non-Hispanic whites during earlier gestation or with low weights were associated with the disparate rates for very preterm live birth...
- Ponderal index of the newborn: effect of smoking on the index of the small-for-gestational-age infant
Felix A Okah
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA
Am J Perinatol 27:353-60. 2010
..There is a need to use PI in exploring and defining previously observed associations between SGA and adult-onset obesity/metabolic syndrome...
- Secular trends in excess fetal and infant mortality using perinatal periods of risk analysis
V James Guillory
Kansas City Missouri Health Department, Kansas City, MO, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 100:1450-6. 2008
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- Risk factors for recurrent small-for-gestational-age birth
Felix A Okah
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA
Am J Perinatol 27:1-7. 2010
..R-SGA is potentially preventable because of its association with potentially modifiable factors such as smoking and weight gain in pregnancy...
- Perinatal periods of risk: analysis of fetal-infant mortality rates in Kansas City, Missouri
Jinwen Cai
Kansas City Health Department, Office of Epidemiology and Community Health Monitoring, Kansas City, MS, USA
Matern Child Health J 9:199-205. 2005
..Results offer important information that can be used to develop community-based prevention strategies related to racial/ethnic disparities in infant mortality rates (IMR)...
- Are fewer women smoking during pregnancy?
Felix A Okah
Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Am J Health Behav 29:456-61. 2005
..To determine whether pregnancy-smoking rates have changed in last decade...
- Smoking during pregnancy rates trends in a high smoking prevalence state, 1990-2009
Gerald L Hoff
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, St Louis University, 3545 Lafayette Ave, St Louis, MO 63104, USA
South Med J 105:636-44. 2012
..To assess the trends for smoking during pregnancy for whites and blacks in Missouri, a state with a high prevalence of smoking, for the period 1990-2009...
- The Richard Cory phenomenon: suicide and wealth in Kansas City, Missouri
Thomas W Young
Jackson County Medical Examiner, 660 East Twenty Fourth Street, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
J Forensic Sci 50:443-7. 2005
..04) and 3) more likely to have killed themselves because of factors other than financial strain (8.0% of suicides showed financial strain)...
- Term-gestation low birth weight and health-compromising behaviors during pregnancy
Felix A Okah
Children s Mercy Hospital and Clinics, University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA
Obstet Gynecol 105:543-50. 2005
..To estimate the association between term-gestation low birth weight (term-LBW) rates and increasing numbers of health-compromising behaviors during pregnancy...
- Failure to embrace the barrier/condom use message
Ron Griffin
Kansas City Health Department, Kansas City, USA
J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care 17:24-9. 2006
..The authors concluded that a different approach is needed to translate the barrier/condom use message into a behavioral response...
- Emergency department visits and hospitalizations resulting from dog bites, Kansas City, MO, 1998-2002
Gerald L Hoff
Kansas City Health Department, USA
Mo Med 102:565-8. 2005
..We discuss deficiencies in the reporting of animal bites as well as recommended community efforts in reducing the burden of dog bite trauma...
- Demographic risk factors affecting emergency room visits caused by benzodiazepine poisoning in Kansas City, Missouri, from 2001 to 2007
Yifei Liu
Division of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, The University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA
Int J Pharm Pract 19:166-70. 2011
..The study objective was to identify demographic risk factors associated with emergency room visits caused by benzodiazepine poisoning...
- Multijurisdictional approach to biosurveillance, Kansas City
Mark A Hoffman
Cerner Corporation, 2800 Rockcreek Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64117-2551, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 9:1281-6. 2003
- When bioterrorism strikes: communication issues for the local health department
Christine Riederer-Trainor
Division of Health Education and Health Communication at the Kansas City Health Department in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Health Promot Pract 6:424-9. 2005
..However, accompanying its implementation were unforeseen issues related to both internal and external communications. These issues and the lessons learned are discussed...
- The emergence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with decreased susceptibility to Azithromycin in Kansas City, Missouri, 1999 to 2000
Catherine A McLean
Division of STD Prevention, Division of AIDS, STD, and TB Laboratory Research Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 31:73-8. 2004
..0 microg/mL) in the United States. GOAL The goal of this study was to identify risk factors for AziDS N. gonorrhoeae and to describe isolate microbiology...
- Cumulative and residual risks of small for gestational age neonates after changing pregnancy-smoking behaviors
Felix A Okah
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Missouri 64108, USA
Am J Perinatol 24:191-6. 2007
..Therefore, antismoking socialization during pregnancy should focus on preventing and stopping current pregnancy-smoking, irrespective of past behavior...
