J B McKinlay

..Until these influences are appropriately recognized and incorporated in social analyses, most policies designed to restore the professional ideal have little chance of success...

..The purpose of this research was to determine the influence of patient and physician characteristics on physicians' level of variability and certainty in breast cancer care...

..We must avoid any disjunction between new upstream policy level interventions and the methods used to measure their effect--appropriate unto the intervention level must be the evaluation method thereof...

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..A more theoretically based multilevel approach to diabetes, outlined for the 21st century, has an almost exclusive downstream curative focus, that ranges from midstream preventive programmes to upstream healthy public policy...

..International Journal of Impotence Research (2000) 12, Suppl 4, S6-S11...

..To study nonmedical influences on the doctor-patient interaction. A technique using simulated patients and "real" doctors is described...

..Using population-based data, we determined that body composition differences (specifically skeletal muscle and fat mass) are among the strongest contributors to these variations...

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..Lean mass accounted for the most variance, with substantially less accounted for by demographic, strength, and health factors...

..We observed differences in vitamin D deficiency and low BMD between Hispanic ethnic subgroups that persisted with adjustment for risk factors. Our data indicate a substantial burden of low BMD and vitamin D deficiency among Hispanic men...

..Cross-sectional analyses indicate greatest bone strength among black men, and greater age-related differences in bone strength among Hispanic men than other subjects at the narrow neck and intertrochanter regions of the proximal femur...

..In the present article, we report the results of a new discriminant function, based on the MMAS men at follow-up. We also compare the two methods and discuss our reasons for preferring the internally calibrated method...

..Thus, the MMAS single question may be a practical tool for population-based studies where detailed clinical measures of ED are impractical...

..Few studies focus on provider level sources of variation in clinical decision making-for example, which primary care providers are likely to follow clinical guidelines, with which types of patient...

..Our objectives are: a) to determine whether MED is associated with depressive symptoms and b) to determine whether this association is independent of aging and para-aging factors...

..Low serum DHEA was similarly predictive. These results confirm prior evidence that low DHEA and DHEAS can predict IHD in men...

..8 years later. The results suggest that new cases of ED are much more likely to occur among men who exhibit a submissive personality. The implications of these findings are discussed...

..The protective influence of increased weight appears to be driven by lean mass...

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..67 in the clinic sample. The self-scored screener developed in this study reliably detects men at risk of hypogonadism. The screener encourages at risk men to seek professional evaluation of their testosterone levels...

..Risk associated with heart disease does not appear to be due solely to detection bias or to effects of heart disease medications. A wide variety of other characteristics appear to have no influence on risk for clinical BPH...

..Foot and ankle disorders are common in these older adults. Examination of their prevalence in different segments of the community may inform future studies to determine etiology and means of prevention...

..Black men exhibited higher BMD than Hispanic or White men. Age-related BMD decreases were greatest among Hispanic men. Results may help explain variation in hip fracture rates by race/ethnicity...

..To determine whether prediagnostic serum hormones are predictive of prostate cancer risk in a sample of men 40 to 70 years old at baseline...