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How common is hip pain among older adults? Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyColleen Christmas
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Suite 025, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Fam Pract 51:345-8. 2002..To determine the incidence of self-reported significant hip pain using a nationally representative sample of older adults in the United States...
Abnormal body composition phenotypes in older rheumatoid arthritis patients: association with disease characteristics and pharmacotherapiesJon T Giles
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
Arthritis Rheum 59:807-15. 2008....- Effects of lifestyle activity vs structured aerobic exercise in obese women: a randomized trialR E Andersen
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
JAMA 281:335-40. 1999..Physical inactivity contributes to weight gain, but only 22% of Americans are regularly active... - Physical activity and weight management: building the case for exerciseRoss E Andersen
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
Phys Sportsmed 31:39-45. 2003..Aerobic exercise alone may not be enough to preserve lean muscle mass when weight is lost, but incorporating resistance exercise may prevent reductions in resting metabolic rate and lean body mass... - Obesity epidemic: time to swallow the frogRoss E Andersen
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
Phys Sportsmed 31:5. 2003..Mark Twain once said, "If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long." I believe that members of the healthcare community have been staring at the obesity epidemic for too long... - Effects of a culturally sensitive sign on the use of stairs in African American commutersRoss E Andersen
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology Baltimore, USA
Soz Praventivmed 51:373-80. 2006..To examine the effectiveness of a culturally sensitive sign to encourage stair use among African American commuters... - Commentary: stairway to healthRoss Andersen
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Suite 1B:84, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Int J Epidemiol 35:1291. 2006 - Relationship between body weight gain and significant knee, hip, and back pain in older AmericansRoss E Andersen
Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
Obes Res 11:1159-62. 2003..To examine the association between BMI (kilograms per meter squared) and reports of significant knee, hip, and back pain using data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults 60 years or older... - What can physicians do about obesity?R E Andersen
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
Phys Sportsmed 28:15-6. 2000..In 1998, the American Heart Association announced the addition of obesity to its list of major risk factors that people can control to prevent death and disability from coronary heart disease ((1))... - Physiologic changes after diet combined with structured aerobic exercise or lifestyle activityRoss E Andersen
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Metabolism 51:1528-33. 2002..A program of diet plus lifestyle physical activity may be a suitable alternative for dieting adults who have difficulty adhering to a program of vigorous activity... - Arg64 beta3-adrenoceptor variant and the components of energy expenditureJeremy Walston
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Obes Res 11:509-11. 2003..To determine Trp64Arg beta(3)-adrenoceptor genotype-specific differences in the components of energy expenditure... - Weight loss and health-related quality of life: results at 1-year follow-upKevin R Fontaine
Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Suite 1B17, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Eat Behav 5:85-8. 2004.... - Nursing documentation of telephone communication with physicians in community nursing homesMatthew K McNabney
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 55605 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 5:180-5. 2004..The objective of this study was to describe the nursing documentation of telephone communication with physicians in community nursing homes... - Association of body composition with disability in rheumatoid arthritis: impact of appendicular fat and lean tissue massJon T Giles
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
Arthritis Rheum 59:1407-15. 2008..To explore the association of measures of body composition with disability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)... - Association of body fat with C-reactive protein in rheumatoid arthritisJon T Giles
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
Arthritis Rheum 58:2632-41. 2008..However, other tissues, such as adipose tissue, can induce CRP production. This study was undertaken to explore the associations between measures of adiposity and CRP levels in RA... - Serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S), and their relationships with serum interleukin-6, in the geriatric syndrome of frailtySean X Leng
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Aging Clin Exp Res 16:153-7. 2004..The trend toward an inverse correlation between IGF-I and IL-6 in the frail, but not the non-frail group, suggests potential interaction between endocrine and immune/cytokine dysregulation that requires further study in larger cohorts... - Prompting health professionals to be activity role models--motivating stair use at the 2001 ACSM scientific meetingRoss E Andersen
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Phys Act Health 5:607-18. 2008..This intervention promoted stair use among people attending the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) annual meeting... - The relationship of race/ethnicity and social class to hormone replacement therapy: results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1988-1994Diana Friedman-Koss
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
Menopause 9:264-72. 2002..More research is needed to examine the implications of racial differences in compliance, patient and physician attitudes toward HRT, and possible environmental barriers that may prevent use... - Comparison of proximal and distal placements of electrodes to assess body composition by bioelectrical impedance in obese adultsShawn C Franckowiak
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Strength Cond Res 17:522-6. 2003..72 and 0.75, respectively). These data suggest that using a proximal electrode placement and a fatness-specific equation helps to reduce the variability of the bioelectric impedance analysis technique in obese adults... - U.S. military weight standards: what percentage of U.S. young adults meet the current standards?Rochelle Nolte
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
Am J Med 113:486-90. 2002..Each branch of the U.S. military enforces maximum allowable weight standards that must be met to join the military. We wanted to determine what percentage of U.S. civilians between the ages of 17 and 20 years met these standards... - Physical activity participation by presence and type of functional deficits in older women: The Women's Health and Aging StudiesGerald J Jerome
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:1171-6. 2006..This study sought to identify categories of functional deficits associated with activity levels and evaluated the potential for older women to increase their physical activity levels... 
Relationship between age and platelet activation in patients with stable and unstable anginaJohn R Gilstad
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Arch Gerontol Geriatr 48:155-9. 2009..These findings may provide a mechanism to explain increased bleeding observed in elderly patients treated with GPIIb/IIIa inhibitors and fibrinolytic therapy for unstable coronary syndromes...
Research Grants
- PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE TREATMENT OF OBESITYRoss Andersen; Fiscal Year: 2003..Does mode of exercise influence changes in body composition? 4. Does mode of exercise influence exercise enjoyment and exercise self-efficacy? ..