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| Shankuan ZhuSummaryAffiliation: Medical College of Wisconsin Country: USA Publications
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Obesity and risk for death due to motor vehicle crashesShankuan Zhu
Injury Research Center and Dept of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Am J Public Health 96:734-9. 2006..We examined the role of body mass index (BMI) and other factors in driver deaths within 30 days after motor vehicle crashes...
Race-ethnicity-specific waist circumference cutoffs for identifying cardiovascular disease risk factorsShankuan Zhu
Injury Research Center and Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 81:409-15. 2005..However, WC cutoffs for other race-ethnicity groups remain unknown...- Combination of BMI and Waist Circumference for Identifying Cardiovascular Risk Factors in WhitesShankuan Zhu
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center and Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
Obes Res 12:633-45. 2004..The present study sought to identify the combination of BMI and WC that has the strongest association with CVD risk factors in whites... - BMI and risk of serious upper body injury following motor vehicle crashes: concordance of real-world and computer-simulated observationsShankuan Zhu
Injury Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
PLoS Med 7:e1000250. 2010..This study examined MVC-related regional body injury and its association with the presence of driver obesity using both real-world data and computer crash simulation... 
The association of driver age with traffic injury severity in WisconsinRobert B Hanrahan
Injury Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226 0509, USA
Traffic Inj Prev 10:361-7. 2009..To quantify the association of driver's age with the risk of being injured, dying, and experiencing injuries of different severity when involved in a motor vehicle crash...- Waist circumference and obesity-associated risk factors among whites in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: clinical action thresholdsShankuan Zhu
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 76:743-9. 2002..CONCLUSION: WC is more closely linked to cardiovascular disease risk factors than is BMI... - Percentage body fat ranges associated with metabolic syndrome risk: results based on the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-1994)Shankuan Zhu
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 78:228-35. 2003..Increasing attention has focused on the association between body fatness and related metabolic risk factors. The quantitative link between percentage body fat (%BF) and the risk of metabolic syndrome is unknown... - A comprehensive statewide analysis of seatbelt non-use with injury and hospital admissions: new data, old problemShane Allen
Injury Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:427-34. 2006..9). CONCLUSIONS: Among patients presenting to an ED after a motor vehicle crash, unbelted occupants are more likely to require inpatient admission and to have sustained a severe injury to numerous body regions than are belted occupants... - Obesity and quality of life: mediating effects of pain and comorbiditiesMoonseong Heo
Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians, New York, New York, USA
Obes Res 11:209-16. 2003..01). Adding joint pain and obesity-related comorbidities into models attenuated BMI-HRQL associations. DISCUSSION: Associations between BMI and HRQL indices were J-shaped. Joint pain and comorbidities may mediate BMI-HRQL associations... - Lifestyle behaviors associated with lower risk of having the metabolic syndromeShankuan Zhu
Injury Research Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Metabolism 53:1503-11. 2004..These observations have potentially important value for public health recommendations... - Associations of body mass index and anthropometric indicators of fat mass and fat free mass with all-cause mortality among women in the first and second National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys follow-up studiesShankuan Zhu
New York Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital, Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
Ann Epidemiol 13:286-93. 2003..These results differ from patterns previously observed in males and may reflect sex differences in fat distribution. Research using superior measures of body fat amount and distribution may resolve these discrepancies... - Volume estimates by imaging methods: model comparisons with visible woman as the referenceWei Shen
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, New York, USA
Obes Res 11:217-25. 2003..To compare the accuracy of four volume estimation models to actual tissue and organ volumes measured in the visible woman... - Increased risk of death or disability in unhelmeted Wisconsin motorcyclistsCarley Sauter
Injury Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
WMJ 104:39-44. 2005..Alcohol use is associated with unhelmeted riding and increased risk of poor outcomes. These findings support policy and educational efforts promoting helmet use, which seek to decrease these tragedies... - Estimation of percentage body fat by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry: evaluation by in vivo human elemental compositionZiMian Wang
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
Phys Med Biol 55:2619-35. 2010..4 +/- 12.0% versus 24.9 +/- 11.1%, r = 0.983, P < 0.001). DXA R(ST) is evaluated by in vivo elemental composition, and the present study supports the underlying physical concept and accuracy of the DXA method for estimating %fat... - Moderate alcohol intake and motor vehicle crashes: the conflict between health advantage and at-risk useKenneth Heng
Injury Research Centre and Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, 53226, USA
Alcohol Alcohol 41:451-4. 2006..CONCLUSION: The public should be educated that although moderate alcohol drinking may not violate BAC laws, it still carries significant risk of MVC. Current BAC laws in some countries needs re-evaluation... - Whole-body skeletal muscle mass: development and validation of total-body potassium prediction modelsZiMian Wang
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 77:76-82. 2003..There are now > 30 whole-body counters worldwide that have large cross-sectional and longitudinal TBK databases... - Race, menopause, health-related quality of life, and psychological well-being in obese womenBLANDINE LAFERRERE
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York 10025, USA
Obes Res 10:1270-5. 2002..To investigate the health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in African-American (AA) and white (W) obese women... - Urban community characteristics and adolescent assault victimsMarlene D Melzer-Lange
Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 53226, USA
WMJ 106:394-6. 2007..To examine the relationship between neighborhood factors and adolescent victimization for low- and high-risk areas of Milwaukee, Wis... - Estimation of total body skeletal muscle mass in Chinese adults: prediction model by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometryXinyu Zhao
Obesity and Body Composition Research Center, Chronic Disease Research Institute, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
PLoS ONE 8:e53561. 2013..There are few reports on total body skeletal muscle mass (SM) in Chinese. The objective of this study is to establish a prediction model of SM for Chinese adults... - The metabolic syndrome: prevalence and associated risk factor findings in the US population from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994Yong-Woo Park
Department of Family Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Arch Intern Med 163:427-36. 2003..Identification and clinical management of this high-risk group is an important aspect of coronary heart disease prevention... - Gender and age differences in lifestyle factors related to hypertension in middle-aged civil service employeesYoko Hori
Department of Public Health/Health Information Dynamics, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
J Epidemiol 13:38-47. 2003..7 (1.5-4.9), whereas women aged 40-49 years and men of all age classes failed to show significant relationships. Salt intake was suggested to be a key factor for hypertension particularly for women after menopause... - Bias in estimates of quantitative-trait-locus effect in genome scans: demonstration of the phenomenon and a method-of-moments procedure for reducing biasDavid B Allison
Department of Biostatistics and Center for Research on Clinical Nutrition, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294 0022, USA
Am J Hum Genet 70:575-85. 2002..Finally, limitations of the MOM approach are noted, and we discuss some alternative procedures that may also reduce bias...
Research Grants
- Obesity-Related Variables and Motor Vehicle InjuryShankuan Zhu; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Obesity-Related Variables and Motor Vehicle InjuryShankuan Zhu; Fiscal Year: 2007....