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| Ivar FrithsenSummaryAffiliation: Medical University of South Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Reports of envenomation by brown recluse spiders exceed verified specimens of Loxosceles spiders in South CarolinaIvar L Frithsen
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 20:483-8. 2007..To determine whether the number of brown recluse spider bites diagnosed by South Carolina physicians coincides with evidence of brown recluse spiders found in the state...- Awareness and implications of fish consumption advisories in a women's health settingIvar Frithsen
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Reprod Med 54:267-72. 2009..To determine awareness of fish consumption advisories and fish consumption patterns among women and to explore demographic associations with advisory awareness and fish consumption... - Recognition and management of acute medication poisoningIvar L Frithsen
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Am Fam Physician 81:316-23. 2010..Disposition of a person who has been poisoned warrants careful consideration of multiple factors, and those exhibiting signs or symptoms of toxicity must be monitored longer... 
Relationship of polychlorinated biphenyls with type 2 diabetes and hypertensionCharles Jay Everett
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun Street, MSC 192, Charleston, SC 29425 1920, USA
J Environ Monit 13:241-51. 2011..Prospective studies are needed to determine if PCBs and other POPs contribute to development of diabetes and hypertension...- Association of a polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin, a polychlorinated biphenyl, and DDT with diabetes in the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyCharles J Everett
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Environ Res 103:413-8. 2007..These findings add to the list of chemicals found to be associated with diabetes in the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey... 
Smoking, fibrinogen and cancer mortalityCharles J Everett
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:328-33. 2007..Smoking carries high risks of cancer mortality for African Americans. A factor that needs to be considered in the overall assessment of risk is fibrinogen level, which has been linked to angiogenesis and metastases of tumors...- Association of urinary cadmium and myocardial infarctionCharles J Everett
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun Street, P O Box 250192, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Environ Res 106:284-6. 2008..43 microg/g creatinine. When the analysis was restricted to never smokers (N=2187) urinary cadmium >or= 0.88 microg/g creatinine had an odds ratio of 1.85 (95% CI 1.10-3.14) compared to urinary cadmium <0.43 microg/g creatinine... - Association of polychlorinated biphenyls with hypertension in the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyCharles J Everett
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun Street, MSC 192, Charleston, SC 9425 1920, USA
Environ Res 108:94-7. 2008..What clinicians can do, given the results of this study, is limited unless the appropriate laboratory methods can be made more widely available for testing patients... - Evidence that prehypertension is a risk factor for Type 2 diabetesCharles J Everett
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC 29425 1920, USA
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 8:335-7. 2010..These results, and conclusions of other studies, suggest that the prehypertension category should be divided for diabetes risk assessment...