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Depression treatment during outpatient visits by U.S. children and adolescentsJun Ma
Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
J Adolesc Health 37:434-42. 2005..We examined national trends in depression visits and treatment among outpatients aged 7 to 17 years...
Case management to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease in a county health care systemJun Ma
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1988-95. 2009..Case management (CM) is a systematic approach to supplement physician-centered efforts to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD). Research is limited on its implementation and efficacy in low-income, ethnic minority populations...
Evaluation of lifestyle interventions to treat elevated cardiometabolic risk in primary care (E-LITE): a randomized controlled trialJun Ma
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA
BMC Fam Pract 10:71. 2009..Translational research is needed to test real-world models of lifestyle interventions in primary care settings...
Americans are not meeting current calcium recommendationsJun Ma
Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 85:1361-6. 2007..Recent research has raised doubts about the efficacy of calcium supplementation in preventing fractures; however, adequate calcium intake remains important...
Evaluating clinic and community-based lifestyle interventions for obesity reduction in a low-income Latino neighborhood: Vivamos Activos Fair Oaks ProgramRebecca L Drieling
Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
BMC Public Health 11:98. 2011..There has been limited implementation and evaluation of these strategies, particularly the added benefit of community-based intervention, in low-income Latino populations...
An Internet-based osteoporotic fracture risk program: effect on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviorsRebecca L Drieling
Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 20:1895-907. 2011..The 2004 Surgeon General's Bone Health Report calls for innovative interventions to reduce osteoporotic fracture. We developed an Internet-based risk- and stage-tailored intervention to promote self-management of fracture risk...
No beneficial effects of pine bark extract on cardiovascular disease risk factorsRebecca L Drieling
Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5411, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:1541-7. 2010..Pine bark extract, a dietary supplement source of antioxidant oligomeric proanthocyanidin complexes, has multiple putative cardiovascular benefits. Studies published to date about the supplement have notable methodological limitations...
Obesity and depression in US women: results from the 2005-2006 National Health and Nutritional Examination SurveyJun Ma
Department of Health Services Research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:347-53. 2010..These characteristics may identify specific at-risk subgroups of obese women in which hypothesized causal pathways and effective preventive and therapeutic interventions can be profitably investigated...
Assessment of body mass index and association with adolescent preventive care in U.S. outpatient settingsJun Ma
Department of Health Services Research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto, California 94301, USA
J Adolesc Health 44:502-4. 2009..The room for improvement remains considerable, and interventions to promote quality preventive care are needed for all adolescents...
Implementing cardiac risk-factor case management: lessons learned in a county health systemKathy Berra
Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5705, USA
Crit Pathw Cardiol 6:173-9. 2007..Implementation of CM, however, is difficult. We have identified lessons learned from a cardiovascular risk reduction CM program that may aid future CM implementation...
U.S. adolescents receive suboptimal preventive counseling during ambulatory careJun Ma
Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5705, USA
J Adolesc Health 36:441. 2005..The noted lack of change over time suggests that satisfactory improvement is unlikely unless substantial interventions are undertaken...
Underutilization of aspirin persists in US ambulatory care for the secondary and primary prevention of cardiovascular diseaseRandall S Stafford
Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
PLoS Med 2:e353. 2005..We also examined patient and health care provider contributors to the underuse of aspirin...
Changes in antihypertensive prescribing during US outpatient visits for uncomplicated hypertension between 1993 and 2004Jun Ma
Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford, CA 94305-5705, USA
Hypertension 48:846-52. 2006..Evidence-based guidelines for antihypertensive drug therapy do impact physician prescribing, but the impact seems to be short lived. Future interventions are imperative for promoting long-term adherence to published guidelines...
Adult obesity and office-based quality of care in the United StatesJun Ma
Department of Health Services Research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:1077-85. 2009....
Comparison of dynamic block randomization and minimization in randomized trials: a simulation studyLan Xiao
Department of Health Services Research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Clin Trials 8:59-69. 2011....
Impact of clinical trial results on national trends in alpha-blocker prescribing, 1996-2002Randall S Stafford
Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif 94305, USA
JAMA 291:54-62. 2004..Research on factors that influence prescribing patterns and the extent of change produced by clinical trial findings is limited...
Quality of US outpatient care: temporal changes and racial/ethnic disparitiesJun Ma
Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5705, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:1354-61. 2005..Although significant racial disparities have been described in a variety of settings, we observed that similar, although less than optimal, care is being provided on a per-visit basis regardless of patient racial/ethnic background...
The Breathe Easier through Weight Loss Lifestyle (BE WELL) Intervention: a randomized controlled trialJun Ma
Department of Health Services Research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA
BMC Pulm Med 10:16. 2010..Due to methodological shortcomings of previous studies, however, well-controlled trials are needed to investigate the efficacy of weight loss strategies to improve asthma control in obese individuals...
Women's awareness and knowledge of hormone therapy post-Women's Health InitiativeAlison J Rigby
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, and the Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 5208, USA
Menopause 14:853-8. 2007..The aim of this study was to evaluate women's awareness and knowledge concerning the risks and benefits of hormone therapy...
Long-term and short-term changes in antihypertensive prescribing by office-based physicians in the United StatesRandall S Stafford
Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
Hypertension 48:213-8. 2006..The recorded long- and short-term trends indicate that evidence-based clinical recommendations had an impact on antihypertensive prescribing practices, but the magnitude of impact may be smaller and of more limited duration than desired...
National trends in statin use by coronary heart disease risk categoryJun Ma
Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
PLoS Med 2:e123. 2005..Innovative approaches are needed to promote appropriate, more aggressive statin use for eligible patients...
US women desire greater professional guidance on hormone and alternative therapies for menopause symptom managementJun Ma
Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5705, USA
Menopause 13:506-16. 2006..However, large gaps exist between patient expectations and provider preparedness to guide patient decision making...
Diet and physical activity counseling during ambulatory care visits in the United StatesJun Ma
Program of Prevention Outcomes and Practices, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, CA 94305-5705, USA
Prev Med 39:815-22. 2004..Given recent trends, immediate, satisfactory improvement is unlikely without future innovative interventions...
National patterns of calcium use in osteoporosis in the United StatesRandall S Stafford
Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA
J Reprod Med 50:885-90. 2005....
National trends in asthma visits and asthma pharmacotherapy, 1978-2002Randall S Stafford
Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
J Allergy Clin Immunol 111:729-35. 2003..Practices over the last decade are increasingly consistent with evidence-based guidelines. These changes in medication use might have contributed to the lack of a recent increase in asthma visits...
Screening, treatment, and control of hypertension in US private physician offices, 2003-2004Jun Ma
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, 795 El Camino Real, Stanford, CA 94301, USA
Hypertension 51:1275-81. 2008..1 to 2.4). In conclusion, more intervention efforts are needed to further reduce the gaps and variations in routine practice in relation to evidence-based practice guidelines for hypertension screening, treatment, and control...
Mineralocorticoid receptor is overexpressed in cardiomyocytes of patients with congestive heart failureMasahiro Yoshida
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fukui, Shimoaituski 23, Yoshida-gun, Matsuoka-cho, Fukui 910-1193 Japan
Congest Heart Fail 11:12-6. 2005..25+/-0.19 (p<0.05). These findings suggest that the efficacy of aldosterone antagonists in treating congestive heart failure may be in part through blocking the MRs, which are upregulated in the failing heart...
[A case-control study on the risk of female breast cancer in Wuhan area]Ding-fen Han
The Zhongnan Hospital, Public Health Department of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 25:256-60. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Dietary habit and endogenous estrogen exposure related factors played important roles on women breast cancer in Wuhan area...
Quality of life of nasopharyngeal carcinoma survivors in Mainland ChinaYong Wu
Department of Oncology, First Municipal People s Hospital of Guangzhou, Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou, People s Republic of China
Qual Life Res 16:65-74. 2007..We concluded that NPC survivors had worse QoL than the normal population and improving radiotherapy might increase physical and functional domain of QoL...
Bioactive novel polyphenols from the fruit of Manilkara zapota (Sapodilla)Jun Ma
Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, New York 10468, USA
J Nat Prod 66:983-6. 2003..Compound 2 showed high antioxidant activity (IC(50) = 23.5 microM) in the DPPH free-radical assay and displayed cytotoxicity in the HCT-116 and SW-480 human colon cancer cell lines with IC(50) values of 154 and 134 microM, respectively...
[Cost-effectiveness analysis of the current measures for malaria prevention in Yuanjiang valley, Yunnan province]Jian-wei Xu
Yunnan Institute of Malaria Control, Simao 665000
Zhongguo Ji Sheng Chong Xue Yu Ji Sheng Chong Bing Za Zhi 20:238-41. 2002..In comparison with the groups of single measures, the group with combined measures showed the best efficacy and effectiveness, but highly expensive...
Self-efficacy, perceived benefits, and weight satisfaction discriminate among stages of change for fruit and vegetable intakes for young men and womenTanya M Horacek
Didactic Program in Dietetics, Syracuse University, NY 13244-1250, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 102:1466-70. 2002..Young men and women are at different places in the Stages of Change process and few are meeting the vegetable guidelines. Dietary interventions can be most effective if specifically tailored to food group, stage, and gender...
The importance of decisional balance and self-efficacy in relation to stages of change for fruit and vegetable intakes by young adultsJun Ma
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 202 Ruth Leverton Hall, Lincoln, NE 68583-0806, USA
Am J Health Promot 16:157-66. 2002..Derivation of the four clusters implies the importance of including decisional balance and self-efficacy as outcome measures besides dietary behavior for evaluating the effectiveness of nutrition interventions...
[Staging 915 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma after simple radical radiotherapy--checkout of Fuzhou staging system (1992)]Jian ming Gao
State Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P R China
Ai Zheng 24:1165-72. 2005..This study was to validate the rationality of the Fuzhou staging system (1992) of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), and to provide some suggestions...
Synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies on tryprostatin A, an inhibitor of breast cancer resistance proteinHiteshkumar D Jain
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
Bioorg Med Chem 16:4626-51. 2008..1 microM) and was equipotent with etoposide, a clinically used anticancer agent. Isothiocyanate analogue 71 and 6-azido analogue 72 were as potent as 1 in the tsFT210 cell proliferation and may be useful tools in labeling BCRP...
Demographic characteristics and risk behaviors associated with HIV positive injecting drug users in Xinjiang, ChinaYuanzhi Zhang
Xinjiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 48 Beijing South Road, Urumqi 830011, China
J Infect 54:285-90. 2007....
HIV incidence, retention rate, and baseline predictors of HIV incidence and retention in a prospective cohort study of injection drug users in Xinjiang, ChinaYuanzhi Zhang
Xinjiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Urumqi, China
Int J Infect Dis 11:318-23. 2007..To determine HIV seroincidence, study participant retention rate, and baseline predictors of HIV incidence and study retention among high-risk injection drug users (IDUs) in Xinjiang, China...
Transforming growth factor-beta signaling in breast cancerChing Fang Chang
Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62702, USA
Front Biosci 12:4393-401. 2007..The TGF-beta signaling pathway is also tissue-context and ligand content-dependent. Therein, therapeutic modulation of TGF-beta signaling may be a multifactorial event...
[Staging 915 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma after simple radical radiotherapy (Part II)--Checkout of AJCC/UICC staging system (1997)]Jian ming Gao
State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510060, P R China
Ai Zheng 25:257-63. 2006..On the basis of our previous research, this study was to validate the rationality of AJCC/UICC staging system (1997) of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), and to provide some suggestions...
"Care for Development" intervention in rural China: a prospective follow-up studyXingming Jin
Department of Paediatric Development and Behaviour, Shanghai Children s Medical Centre, Shanghai, China
J Dev Behav Pediatr 28:213-8. 2007..The CFD materials are based on the Mother's Card, which contained age-specific messages on how caregivers can better play and communicate with a child...
Electronic health record use and the quality of ambulatory care in the United StatesJeffrey A Linder
Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 1620 Tremont St, BC 3 2X, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:1400-5. 2007..We assessed the association between EHR use, as implemented, and the quality of ambulatory care in a nationally representative survey...
The association between ankle-brachial index and cardiovascular or all-cause mortality in metabolic syndrome of elderly ChineseYuanxi Xu
Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Center, Tongji University, Shanghai, PR China
Hypertens Res 30:613-9. 2007....
Aldo-keto reductase family 1 B10 affects fatty acid synthesis by regulating the stability of acetyl-CoA carboxylase-alpha in breast cancer cellsJun Ma
Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois 62702, USA
J Biol Chem 283:3418-23. 2008..These data suggest that AKR1B10 is a novel regulator of the biosynthesis of fatty acid, an essential component of the cell membrane, in breast cancer cells...
[Effect of inorganic ions on degradation of trace nitrobenzene in aqueous solution by catalytic ozonation]Lei Zhao
School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
Huan Jing Ke Xue 27:924-9. 2006..The concentration of nitrate and sulfate ion had no remarkable effect on ozonation alone, but the removal rate of other two processes decreased with the increase of the concentration of nitrate and sulfate ion...
