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| Robert A SilvermanSummaryAffiliation: Long Island Jewish Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Increased A1C among adult emergency department patients with type 2 diabetesRobert A Silverman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA
Ann Emerg Med 57:575-81. 2011..Our objectives are to determine the frequency of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes among adults presenting to an ED and to identify characteristics associated with poor control...- Age-related association of fine particles and ozone with severe acute asthma in New York CityRobert A Silverman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Queens, NY 11040, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 125:367-373.e5. 2010..There is little documentation determining whether children are more vulnerable to the effects of ambient pollution than adults, or whether pollution causes life-threatening episodes requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission... 
The relationship of fall school opening and emergency department asthma visits in a large metropolitan areaRobert A Silverman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:818-23. 2005..Asthma morbidity is seasonal, with the fewest exacerbations occurring in summer and the most exacerbations in early fall...
Association of ambient fine particles with out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in New York CityRobert A Silverman
Department of Emergency Medicine, NS LIJ Health System, New York, New York, USA
Am J Epidemiol 172:917-23. 2010..5) and out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Since few individuals survive an arrest, air pollution control may help prevent future cardiovascular mortality...- The impact of acute illness on HbA(1c) determination of undiagnosed diabetesUrvi Thakker
Emergency Medicine, North Shore LIJ Health System, Queens, NY, USA
Diabetes Metab Res Rev 28:603-7. 2012..To address this, we evaluated for intra-patient differences in HbA(1c) assessed in the emergency department (ED) and after recovery from the acute illness... - FEV1 performance among patients with acute asthma: results from a multicenter clinical trialRobert A Silverman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, North Shore LIJMC Health Care System, New Hyde Park, NY 11042, USA
Chest 131:164-71. 2007..To determine the ability of patients seen for acute asthma exacerbations in the emergency department (ED) to perform good-quality FEV(1) measurements... - Hemoglobin A1c as a screen for previously undiagnosed prediabetes and diabetes in an acute-care settingRobert A Silverman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Long Island, NY, USA
Diabetes Care 34:1908-12. 2011..Using follow-up fasting blood glucose (FBG) and the 2-h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) as the criterion gold standard, we determined optimal HbA(1c)-screening cutoffs for undiagnosed dysglycemia in the emergency department setting... - The "vertical response time": barriers to ambulance response in an urban areaRobert A Silverman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:772-8. 2007..However, the often unmeasured "vertical response time" from arrival on-scene to arrival at the patient's side may be substantial, particularly in urban areas with high-rise buildings or other barriers to access... - The relationship of plasma glucose and HbA1c Levels among emergency department patients with no prior history of diabetes mellitusRobert A Silverman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:722-6. 2006..The objective of this study was to determine whether hyperglycemia in ED patients without a history of diabetes was associated with higher HbA1c levels... - Zafirlukast treatment for acute asthma: evaluation in a randomized, double-blind, multicenter trialRobert A Silverman
Long Island Jewish Medical Center, 270 05 76th Ave, New Hyde Park, NY 11042, USA
Chest 126:1480-9. 2004..Acute asthma causes nearly 2 million hospital emergency department (ED) visits in the United States annually, and hospitalization after an ED visit and relapse after ED discharge are common... - Age-related seasonal patterns of emergency department visits for acute asthma in an urban environmentRobert A Silverman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York, NY 11040, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:577-86. 2003..The objective of this study is to determine the relationship between age and seasonal asthma periodicity in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED)... - Cigarette smoking among asthmatic adults presenting to 64 emergency departmentsRobert A Silverman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA
Chest 123:1472-9. 2003..The present study determined the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults presenting to the ED with acute asthma and identified the factors associated with current smoking status... - IV magnesium sulfate in the treatment of acute severe asthma: a multicenter randomized controlled trialRobert A Silverman
Department of Emergency Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY 11042, USA
Chest 122:489-97. 2002..In a multicenter cohort, this study tests the hypothesis that administration of magnesium sulfate improves pulmonary function in patients with acute severe asthma...