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| Richelle J KoopmanSummaryAffiliation: Medical University of South Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Continuity of care and recognition of diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemiaRichelle J Koopman
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:1357-61. 2003..Continuity of care has been shown to have a variety of health benefits, but the effect of continuity of care on recognition of common chronic diseases has been underinvestigated...
Evidence of nephropathy and peripheral neuropathy in US adults with undiagnosed diabetesRichelle J Koopman
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:427-32. 2006..We wanted to determine whether persons with undiagnosed diabetes have signs of nephropathy and peripheral neuropathy...- Views of family medicine department Chairs about mentoring junior facultyRichelle J Koopman
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, 29425, USA
Med Teach 27:734-7. 2005..Availability of senior faculty is a key resource. Until more senior women and minority faculty are available, cross-gender and cross-ethnicity mentoring will need to be utilized... - Rural residence and Hispanic ethnicity: doubly disadvantaged for diabetes?Richelle J Koopman
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Rural Health 22:63-8. 2006..Hispanics are at increased risk for diabetes, while rural residents have historically had decreased access to care... - Changes in age at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the United States, 1988 to 2000Richelle J Koopman
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun Street, PO Box 250192, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:60-3. 2005..There is also concern that diabetes may be occurring at a greater frequency in youth and in young adults. We describe US population trends in self-reported age at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus... - Moving from undiagnosed to diagnosed diabetes: the patient's perspectiveRichelle J Koopman
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
Fam Med 36:727-32. 2004..One third of diabetes cases in the United States are undiagnosed. Knowledge of the patient's experience from symptom recognition to diabetes diagnosis will help clinicians and policy makers optimize their approach to diabetes detection... - Specialist management and coordination of "out-of-domain care"Richelle J Koopman
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Fam Med 36:46-50. 2004..This study explores the perspectives of specialists at an academic medical center on their decisions to provide "out-of-domain" care and how it is coordinated... - A coronary heart disease risk score based on patient-reported informationArch G Mainous
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Am J Cardiol 99:1236-41. 2007..69, p = 0.01). In conclusion, the Personal HEART score identifies 10-year risk for CHD based on self-report data, is similar in predictive ability to the FRS and European SCORE, and has the potential for easy self-assessment... - Race and diet in the overweight: association with cardiovascular risk in a nationally representative sampleVanessa A Diaz
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA
Nutrition 21:718-25. 2005..Because dietary differences may account for much of the racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular risk status, we evaluate the effect of race on cardiovascular risk after adjustment for dietary factors... - Quality of care for Hispanic adults with diabetesArch G Mainous
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Fam Med 39:351-6. 2007..Hispanics in the United States are disproportionately affected by diabetes. We examined the quality of care for Hispanic and non-Hispanic white adults with diabetes to investigate potential disparities in health care... - Undiagnosed obesity: implications for undiagnosed hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemiaVanessa A Diaz
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Fam Med 36:639-44. 2004.... - Diabetes management in the USA and England: comparative analysis of national surveysArch G Mainous
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
J R Soc Med 99:463-9. 2006..To compare diabetes management in adults between England and the United States, particularly focusing on the impact of a universal access health insurance system... - Acculturation and diabetes among Hispanics: evidence from the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyArch G Mainous
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Public Health Rep 121:60-6. 2006..The purpose of our research was to examine acculturation among Hispanic Americans with respect to prevalence and control of diabetes... - 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... - English language skills and diabetes and hypertension among foreign-born South Asian adults in EnglandArch G Mainous
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
Public Health Rep 121:331-6. 2006 - Multiple lipid scoring system for prediction of coronary heart disease risk: application to African AmericansCharles J Everett
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun St, PO Box 250192, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 98:1740-5. 2006..Our current inquiry uses the multiple lipid measure to create a scoring system and validates that system in a second cohort... - Iron, lipids, and risk of cancer in the Framingham Offspring cohortArch G Mainous
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 295 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:1115-22. 2005..82, 95% CI: 1.50, 5.28; 14 cases). The results suggest that elevated serum iron levels coupled with either high VLDL-C or low HDL-C appear to interact to increase cancer risk in this cohort... - Relationship between continuity of care and diabetes control: evidence from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyArch G Mainous
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29245, USA
Am J Public Health 94:66-70. 2004..We examined the relationship between continuity of care and diabetes control... - 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... - Insulin resistance in adolescentsAnn M Rodden
Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Family Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
J Pediatr 151:275-9. 2007..To investigate the relationship of other body mass index (BMI) ranges with Homeostasis Model Assessment-Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR), a surrogate marker for insulin resistance in adolescents... - An electronic medical record-based intervention to improve quality of care for gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) and atypical presentations of GERDMarty S Player
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Qual Prim Care 18:223-9. 2010..We aimed to implement and evaluate an intervention to improve diagnosis and treatment for GERD and atypical GERD in primary care... - Predicting coronary heart disease risk using multiple lipid measuresCharles J Everett
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
Am J Cardiol 95:986-8. 2005..An overall measure combining information from the 7 lipids was compared with conventional lipid measures in adjusted survival analyses and was found to be a superior predictor of coronary heart disease risk... 
Blood glucose monitor quick reference guides: are they suitable for patients?Lorraine S Wallace
Department of Family Medicine, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, 1924 Alcoa Highway, U 67 Knoxville, TN 37920, USA
Diabetes Technol Ther 10:11-5. 2008....- A suggested fourth-year curriculum for medical students planning on entering family medicineWilliam J Hueston
Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
Fam Med 36:118-22. 2004..This study sought to develop a consensus about what rotations to recommend and what essential skills students should possess before starting their family medicine residency... - Aspirin prophylaxis in diabetes mellitusArch G Mainous
Fam Med 37:534-5; author reply 535. 2005
Research Grants
- Undiagnosed Diabetes: Predictors and ComorbiditiesRICHELLE KOOPMAN; Fiscal Year: 2004..We will investigate these factors over the next 2 years using the nationally representative sample present in the National Health and Nutrition Examination and Survey 1999-2000 (NHANES). ..