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The effects of black cohosh therapies on lipids, fibrinogen, glucose and insulinLeslie Spangler
Center for Health Studies, Group Health, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Maturitas 57:195-204. 2007..Little is known about its effect on other physiologic parameters that could result in untoward events. This study examines the effect of black cohosh on lipids, fibrinogen, glucose and insulin...
Depressive symptoms, bone loss, and fractures in postmenopausal womenLeslie Spangler
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:567-74. 2008..Osteoporosis and depression may be associated through common physiologic systems or risk factors...
Provider attributes associated with hormone therapy prescribing frequencyLeslie Spangler
Group Health Center for Health Studies, University of Washington Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Menopause 16:810-16. 2009..The aim of this study was to identify provider characteristics associated with hormone therapy prescribing...
Utility of automated data in identifying femoral shaft and subtrochanteric (diaphyseal) fracturesL Spangler
Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Osteoporos Int 22:2523-7. 2011..00) resulted in a high false-positive rate for identifying femoral diaphyseal fractures. Restriction to more specific site-codes missed 36% of these rare fractures...
Cross-sectional study of periodontal care and Glycosylated Hemoglobin in an insured populationLeslie Spangler
Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA
Diabetes Care 33:1753-8. 2010..Compare GHb among people with diabetes who have and have not received periodontal care...
Depressive symptoms and menopausal burden in the midlifeSusan D Reed
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA, USA
Maturitas 62:306-10. 2009..The goal of this study was to assess whether menopausal symptoms were more common and/or more severe among women with depressive symptoms...
Oral contraceptive use and bone density change in adolescent and young adult women: a prospective study of age, hormone dose, and discontinuationDelia Scholes
Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Avenue, 16th Floor, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 96:E1380-7. 2011..Oral contraceptive (OC) use is common, but bone changes associated with use of contemporary OC remain unclear...
Is protein intake associated with bone mineral density in young women?Jeannette M Beasley
Group Health Research Institute, 1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 91:1311-6. 2010..The range of protein intakes for optimizing bone health among premenopausal women is unclear. Protein is a major constituent of bone, but acidic amino acids may promote bone resorption...
Evaluating components of dental care utilization among adults with diabetes and matched controls via hurdle modelsMonica Chaudhari
Washington Dental Service, 9706 Fourth Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
BMC Oral Health 12:20. 2012..This project had two purposes: to develop a methodology to estimate dental care utilization using claims data and to use this methodology to compare utilization of dental care between adults with and without diabetes...
Oral contraceptive use and bone density in adolescent and young adult womenDelia Scholes
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Contraception 81:35-40. 2010..Most of the millions of oral contraceptive (OC) users are under 30 years of age and in the critical period for bone mass accrual...
Case study of linking dental and medical healthcare recordsMary Kay Theis
Group Health Center for Health Studies, 1730 Minor Ave, Ste 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Am J Manag Care 16:e51-6. 2010..To link the administrative data of a large dental carrier and an integrated health plan in Washington State to conduct an observational study of diabetes and periodontal disease...
Accuracy of ICD-9 codes to identify nonunion and malunion and developing algorithms to improve case-finding of nonunion and malunionDenise M Boudreau
Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Bone 52:596-601. 2013..To evaluate the accuracy of using ICD-9 codes to identify nonunions (NU) and malunions (MU) among adults with a prior fracture code and to explore case-finding algorithms...
Glad you asked: participants' opinions of re-consent for dbGap data submissionEvette J Ludman
Group Health Research Institute, USA
J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics 5:9-16. 2010..These results suggest that re-consent for dbGaP deposition may be advisable in certain cases to anticipate and honor participant preferences...
