Manuel Franco

Summary

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Smoke before food: a tale of Baltimore City
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md 21205-2217, USA
    Am J Public Health 97:1178. 2007
  2. ncbi Neighborhood characteristics and availability of healthy foods in Baltimore
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2217, USA
    Am J Prev Med 35:561-7. 2008
  3. ncbi Obesity reduction and its possible consequences: what can we learn from Cuba's Special Period?
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    CMAJ 178:1032-4. 2008
  4. ncbi Impact of energy intake, physical activity, and population-wide weight loss on cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality in Cuba, 1980-2005
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 166:1374-80. 2007
  5. ncbi [Health in Cuba and the millennium development goals]
    Manuel Franco
    Departamento de Epidemiologia, Escuela de Salud Pública Johns Hopkins Bloomberg, Baltimore, USA
    Rev Panam Salud Publica 21:239-50. 2007
  6. ncbi Availability of healthy foods and dietary patterns: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Am J Clin Nutr 89:897-904. 2009
  7. ncbi Healthy food availability and the association with BMI in Baltimore, Maryland
    Sarah Stark Casagrande
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Public Health Nutr 14:1001-7. 2011
  8. ncbi The association of endogenous sex hormones, adiposity, and insulin resistance with incident diabetes in postmenopausal women
    Rita Rastogi Kalyani
    Departments of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab 94:4127-35. 2009
  9. ncbi The JECH gallery. Money orders and alcohol yes; fruits, vegetables and skimmed milk no
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    J Epidemiol Community Health 61:94. 2007
  10. ncbi Challenges and opportunities for cardiovascular disease prevention
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology, Atherothrombosis and Imaging, National Center for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain
    Am J Med 124:95-102. 2011

Detail Information

Publications14

  1. ncbi Smoke before food: a tale of Baltimore City
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md 21205-2217, USA
    Am J Public Health 97:1178. 2007
  2. ncbi Neighborhood characteristics and availability of healthy foods in Baltimore
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2217, USA
    Am J Prev Med 35:561-7. 2008
    ..The availability of healthy foods has rarely been directly measured in a systematic fashion. This study examines the associations among the availability of healthy foods and racial and income neighborhood composition...
  3. ncbi Obesity reduction and its possible consequences: what can we learn from Cuba's Special Period?
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    CMAJ 178:1032-4. 2008
  4. ncbi Impact of energy intake, physical activity, and population-wide weight loss on cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality in Cuba, 1980-2005
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 166:1374-80. 2007
    ..These results suggest that population-wide measures designed to reduce energy stores, without affecting nutritional sufficiency, may lead to declines in diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevalence and mortality...
  5. ncbi [Health in Cuba and the millennium development goals]
    Manuel Franco
    Departamento de Epidemiologia, Escuela de Salud Pública Johns Hopkins Bloomberg, Baltimore, USA
    Rev Panam Salud Publica 21:239-50. 2007
    ..If this were to occur, there would be substantial improvement in the world's health...
  6. ncbi Availability of healthy foods and dietary patterns: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Am J Clin Nutr 89:897-904. 2009
    ..Inadequate availability of healthy foods may be a barrier to achieving recommended diets...
  7. ncbi Healthy food availability and the association with BMI in Baltimore, Maryland
    Sarah Stark Casagrande
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Public Health Nutr 14:1001-7. 2011
    ..To study the association between the availability of healthy foods and BMI by neighbourhood race and socio-economic status (SES)...
  8. ncbi The association of endogenous sex hormones, adiposity, and insulin resistance with incident diabetes in postmenopausal women
    Rita Rastogi Kalyani
    Departments of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    J Clin Endocrinol Metab 94:4127-35. 2009
    ..Previous studies have not explored possible factors explaining these relationships...
  9. ncbi The JECH gallery. Money orders and alcohol yes; fruits, vegetables and skimmed milk no
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    J Epidemiol Community Health 61:94. 2007
  10. ncbi Challenges and opportunities for cardiovascular disease prevention
    Manuel Franco
    Department of Epidemiology, Atherothrombosis and Imaging, National Center for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain
    Am J Med 124:95-102. 2011
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  11. ncbi Cardiovascular disease surveillance in Mexicans and Mexican Americans: a tale of two countries
    Ramón Angel Durazo-Arvizu
    Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois 60153, United States of America
    Rev Panam Salud Publica 23:119-24. 2008
  12. ncbi Better health statistics: the Cuban experience
    Mariana Lazo
    Lancet 367:985-6. 2006
  13. ncbi Making sure public health policies work
    Manuel Franco
    Science 311:1098. 2006
  14. ncbi [Prevalence of patent foramen ovale in young patients with cerebral ischemic accident of unknown origin]
    Dolores Mesa
    Servicio de Cardiología Hospital Reina Sofía Córdoba España
    Rev Esp Cardiol 56:662-8. 2003
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