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Use of pedometer and Internet-mediated walking program in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseMarilyn L Moy
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veteran Affairs VA, Washington, DC, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 47:485-96. 2010..In this preliminary study, an Internet-mediated walking program using the Omron significantly increased step counts in COPD...- Lung cancer and elemental carbon exposure in trucking industry workersEric Garshick
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 120:1301-6. 2012..Conclusions: Lung cancer mortality in trucking industry workers increased in association with cumulative exposure to EC after adjusting for negative confounding by employment duration... - Systemic inflammation and reduced pulmonary function in chronic spinal cord injuryEric Garshick
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, Medical Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, 1400 VFW Parkway, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
PM R 3:433-9. 2011..To evaluate the relationship between systemic inflammation and pulmonary function in persons with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI)... - Lung cancer and vehicle exhaust in trucking industry workersEric Garshick
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, Medical Service, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:1327-32. 2008..Interpretation of these studies specifically implicating diesel exhaust as a carcinogen has been limited because of limited exposure measurements and lack of work records relating job title to exposure-related job duties... - Risk factors for chest illness in chronic spinal cord injury: a prospective studyKelly L Stolzmann
Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 89:576-83. 2010..Chest illnesses commonly cause morbidity in persons with chronic spinal cord injury. Risk factors remain poorly characterized because previous studies have not accounted for factors other than spinal cord injury... - Association between mobility mode and C-reactive protein levels in men with chronic spinal cord injuryLeslie R Morse
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:726-31. 2008..To assess clinical determinants of systemic inflammation in persons with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI)... - Secondhand smoke exposure and inflammatory markers in nonsmokers in the trucking industryYueh Hsiu Mathilda Chiu
Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:1294-300. 2011..Few studies have directly assessed the association of secondhand smoke (SHS) with cardiovascular disease-related inflammatory markers, and the findings are inconsistent... - Determinants of lung volumes in chronic spinal cord injuryEvan L Stepp
Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:1499-506. 2008..To characterize determinants of lung volumes in chronic spinal cord injury (SCI)... - Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry of the distal femur may be more reliable than the proximal tibia in spinal cord injuryLeslie R Morse
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, The Forsyth Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 90:827-31. 2009..To evaluate the precision of dual energy x-ray absorptiometry scanning at 2 skeletal sites at the knee (proximal femur and distal tibia) in people with SCI... - Longitudinal change in FEV1 and FVC in chronic spinal cord injuryKelly L Stolzmann
VA Boston Healthcare System, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, 1400 VFW Parkway, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 177:781-6. 2008..Although respiratory dysfunction is common in chronic spinal cord injury (SCI), determinants of longitudinal change in FEV(1) and FVC have not been assessed... - Barriers to providing dual energy x-ray absorptiometry services to individuals with spinal cord injuryLeslie R Morse
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 88:57-60. 2009.... - Effects of wind on background particle concentrations at truck freight terminalsRonald Garcia
Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 4:36-48. 2007.... - Smoking imputation and lung cancer in railroad workers exposed to diesel exhaustEric Garshick
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, Medical Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, MA 02132, USA
Am J Ind Med 49:709-18. 2006..An association between diesel exhaust exposure and lung cancer mortality in a large retrospective cohort study of US railroad workers has previously been reported. However, specific information regarding cigarette smoking was unavailable... - Predictors of cardiopulmonary hospitalization in chronic spinal cord injuryAnthony C Waddimba
Research and Development Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 90:193-200. 2009..Circulatory and respiratory system illnesses are leading causes of death in patients with chronic SCI, yet risk factors for related hospitalizations have not been characterized... - Determinants of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), and FEV1/FVC in chronic spinal cord injuryNitin B Jain
Research Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 87:1327-33. 2006..In SCI, FEV(1), FVC, and FEV(1)/FVC may be less sensitive to factors associated with change in airway size and not reliably detect the severity of airflow obstruction... - Long-term ambient multipollutant exposures and mortalityJaime E Hart
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 183:73-8. 2011..Additionally, two studies have observed higher risks in individuals with occupational dust, gas, or fume exposure... - Workplace secondhand smoke exposure in the U.S. trucking industryYueh Hsiu Chiu
Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:216-21. 2010..Although the smoking rate in the United States is declining because of an increase of smoke-free laws, among blue-collar workers it remains higher than that among many other occupational groups... - Dyspnea during daily activities in chronic spinal cord injuryNoel F Grandas
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 86:1631-5. 2005.... - Historical estimation of diesel exhaust exposure in a cohort study of U.S. railroad workers and lung cancerFrancine Laden
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Causes Control 17:911-9. 2006..In conclusion, although precise historical estimates of exposure are not available, weighting factors helped better define the exposure-response relationship of diesel exhaust with lung cancer mortality... - Association between sclerostin and bone density in chronic spinal cord injuryLeslie R Morse
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Bone Miner Res 27:352-9. 2012.... - Free-living physical activity in COPD: assessment with accelerometer and activity checklistMarilyn L Moy
Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Boston, MA, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 46:277-86. 2009..Low intrasubject variation was found in free-living physical activity, which is significantly associated with clinical measures of COPD status... - Smoking behavior in trucking industry workersNitin B Jain
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Am J Ind Med 49:1013-20. 2006..Our study also suggests that an assessment of methods to control for smoking should be considered in the design of retrospective occupational health studies... - Lung cancer in railroad workers exposed to diesel exhaustEric Garshick
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, Medical Service, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:1539-43. 2004..Key words: diesel exhaust, lung cancer, occupational exposure... - Cause-specific mortality in the unionized U.S. trucking industryFrancine Laden
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1192-6. 2007..Occupational and population-based studies have related exposure to fine particulate air pollution, and specifically particulate matter from vehicle exhausts, to cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer... - Plasma fluorescent oxidation products and short-term occupational particulate exposuresJaime E Hart
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Ind Med 55:953-60. 2012..Evidence suggests that fine particulate air pollution results in oxidative induced tissue damage... - Overview of particulate exposures in the US trucking industryThomas J Smith
Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Environ Monit 8:711-20. 2006..This distribution overlaps substantially with the general public's exposure to these sources... - Spatial modeling of PM10 and NO2 in the continental United States, 1985-2000Jaime E Hart
Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:1690-6. 2009..However, many have been limited to city-specific average pollution measures or spatial or land-use regression exposure models in small geographic areas... - Multivariate models of determinants of health-related quality of life in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseMarilyn L Moy
Department of Veteran Affairs VA, Veterans Health Administration, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Boston, MA, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 46:643-54. 2009..To optimize HRQL, clinicians should pay attention to a number of clinical and physiological factors... - Respiratory symptoms and intensity of occupational dust exposureEric Garshick
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, Medical Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, 1400 VFW Parkway, West Roxbury, Massachusetts 02132, USA
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 77:515-20. 2004..Occupational exposure to dusts may result in chronic respiratory symptoms... - Accuracy of uniaxial accelerometer in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseMarilyn L Moy
Department of Veteran Affairs VA, Veterans Health Administration, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 45:611-7. 2008..The accuracy declines in subjects with COPD based on walking speed. Prior to using the ActiHealth accelerometer, researchers and clinicians should assess walking speed and percent step capture in each subject... - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality in diesel-exposed railroad workersJaime E Hart
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:1013-7. 2006..Further study is needed to assess whether this risk is observed after exposure to exhaust from later-generation diesel engines with modern emission controls... - Factors associated with health-related quality of life in chronic spinal cord injuryNitin B Jain
VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 86:387-96. 2007..Therefore, we assessed whether these factors were associated with HRQoL in SCI using an SCI-specific HRQoL questionnaire... - Circulating sclerostin is elevated in short-term and reduced in long-term SCIRicardo A Battaglino
The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
Bone 51:600-5. 2012..These findings support a dual role for sclerostin after SCI: a therapeutic target in acute SCI, and a biomarker of osteoporosis severity in chronic SCI... - Association of shoulder pain with the use of mobility devices in persons with chronic spinal cord injuryNitin B Jain
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, 125 Nashua St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
PM R 2:896-900. 2010..To assess the prevalence of shoulder pain and its association with the use of assistive devices for mobility in persons with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI)... - Respiratory dysfunction and management in spinal cord injuryRobert Brown
Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Respir Care 51:853-68;discussion 869-70. 2006..Recently described but not yet available for general use is activation of the abdominal muscles via an epidural electrode placed at spinal cord level T9-L1... - Alcohol use associated with cervical spinal cord injuryAnne Garrison
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, Medical Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Spinal Cord Med 27:111-5. 2004..06, 95% confidence interval = 1.24-3.43). CONCLUSION: Alcohol use at time of SCI is a risk factor for cervical injury. This finding is of public health concern and should be included in alcohol educational programs... - Residence near a major road and respiratory symptoms in U.S. VeteransEric Garshick
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, Medical Service and Research Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
Epidemiology 14:728-36. 2003..However, a relationship of adult respiratory disease with exposure to vehicular traffic has not been established... 
Relation between blood lead levels and childhood anemia in IndiaNitin B Jain
VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:968-73. 2005..7 (95% confidence interval: 1.1, 2.6). Health agencies in India should note the association of elevated blood lead levels with anemia and make further efforts to curb lead pollution and childhood anemia...- A multidimensional computer adaptive test approach to dyspnea assessmentAnna Norweg
Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 92:1561-9. 2011..To develop and test a prototype dyspnea computer adaptive test (CAT)... - VA-based survey of osteoporosis management in spinal cord injuryLeslie R Morse
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
PM R 1:240-4. 2009..This study sought to characterize the diagnosis and management practices within the VA health care system for osteoporosis following SCI... - Nicotine contamination in particulate matter samplingYueh Hsiu Chiu
Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Int J Environ Res Public Health 6:601-7. 2009..5) was low (</= 50 mug/m(3)). It is therefore important to account for personal and secondhand smoke exposure while assessing occupational and environmental PM... 
Satisfaction of women urologists with maternity leave and childbirth timingLori B Lerner
Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
J Urol 183:282-6. 2010..Women physicians must consider many conflicting issues when timing childbirth. We characterized maternity leave, breast-feeding practices and satisfaction associated with pregnancy timing in women urologists...- Spirometry testing standards in spinal cord injuryAlyson Kelley
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, Medical Service, and Rehabilitation Medicine Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
Chest 123:725-30. 2003..The modification of spirometry testing standards to include efforts with EBEV and with a 0.5-s plateau if < 6 s would reduce the potential for bias... - Vehicle traffic as a source of particulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure in the Mexico City metropolitan areaLinsey C Marr
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Environ Sci Technol 38:2584-92. 2004..These results indicate that exposure to vehicle-related PAH emissions on Mexico City's roadways may present an important public health risk... - Adipose tissue levels of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphomaPenelope J E Quintana
San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182 4162, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:854-61. 2004..Given the persistence of pesticides in the environment, these findings are still relevant today... - Assessment of diesel particulate matter exposure in the workplace: freight terminalsRebecca J Sheesley
Environmental Chemistry and Technology Program, University of Wisconsin, 660 N Park St, Madison, WI 53706, USA
J Environ Monit 10:305-14. 2008..4 +/- 9.5% for the terminal yard samples. A relatively consistent mobile source impact was present at all the terminals only when considering percentage of total OC concentrations, not in terms of absolute concentrations... - Exposure of trucking company workers to particulate matter during the winterByeong Kyu Lee
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Ulsan, Mugeo dong, Ulsan 680 749, Korea
Chemosphere 61:1677-90. 2005..5 and OC concentrations in both the area and personal exposure concentrations. However, significant correlations between the PM2.5 and EC concentrations and between the OC and EC concentrations were not identified...