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| Girardin Jean-LouisSummaryAffiliation: State University of New York Country: USA Publications
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Sleep complaints and visual impairment among older Americans: a community-based studyFerdinand Zizi
Departments of Ophthalmology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 57:M691-4. 2002..This report describes the associations between sleep complaints and reported visual impairment in an urban community-residing older adult sample...
Symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea in a Caribbean sampleFerdinand Zizi
Brooklyn Center for Health Disparities, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sleep Breath 12:317-22. 2008..Caribbean-born blacks with a history of heart disease should be a prime target for interventions that promote adequate screening and timely OSA diagnosis...- Cardiovascular disease risk reduction with sleep apnea treatmentGirardin Jean-Louis
Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NY 11203 2098, USA
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 8:995-1005. 2010..Perspectives on emerging therapeutic approaches and promising areas of clinical and experimental research are also discussed... 
Insomnia symptoms and HIV infection among participants in the Women's Interagency HIV StudyGirardin Jean-Louis
Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203 2098, USA
Sleep 35:131-7. 2012..This study assessed the prevalence of insomnia symptoms among women with and without HIV-infection and examined factors associated with insomnia...- Cancer worry and insomnia complaints among American womenGirardin Jean-Louis
Department of Neurology, Sleep Disorders Center, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203 2098, USA
Behav Sleep Med 7:63-72. 2009..Although fewer black women reported breast cancer worry and insomnia complaints, they were as affected as white women by the impact of worry on mood and daily activities... - Evaluation of sleep apnea in a sample of black patientsGirardin Jean-Louis
Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center Brooklyn, NY 11203 2098, USA
J Clin Sleep Med 4:421-5. 2008..This study ascertained adherence rate to referrals for sleep apnea evaluation by primary care physicians in a community-based sample of black patients; it also examined baseline characteristics likely to influence adherence rates... - Obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease: role of the metabolic syndrome and its componentsGirardin Jean-Louis
Brooklyn Center for Health Disparities, SUNY Downstate Medical Center Brooklyn, NY 11203 2098, USA
J Clin Sleep Med 4:261-72. 2008..e., central obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia). Large-scale, population-based studies testing causal models linking among sleep apnea, cardiovascular morbidity, and metabolic syndrome are needed... - Insomnia symptoms in a multiethnic sample of American womenGiardin Jean-Louis
Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Brooklyn Center for Health Disparities, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203 2098, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:15-25. 2008..Ethnic disparities in socioeconomic factors, risk markers, and coping styles affect health status. This study examined whether those factors influence insomnia symptoms in a multiethnic sample of urban American women... - Circadian rhythm dysfunction in glaucoma: A hypothesisGirardin Jean-Louis
Department of Ophthalmology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, New York, USA
J Circadian Rhythms 6:1. 2008..Glaucoma provides a unique opportunity to explore whether in fact light transmission to the circadian system is compromised as a result of ganglion cell loss... - Ophthalmic dysfunction in a community-based sample: influence of race/ethnicityGirardin Jean-Louis
Department of Ophthalmology Box 58, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203 2098, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:141-4, 147-8. 2007..We tested the hypothesis that nerve fiber layer thickness would show characteristic differences between white and black individuals. We also examined whether ophthalmic measures would show intraethnic differences... - Sleep-disordered breathing and hypertension among African AmericansG Jean-Louis
Department of Psychiatry and Ophthalmology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
J Hum Hypertens 19:485-90. 2005..Hypertensives with a family history are likely to show a profile of greater blood pressure, higher BMI, and more severe SDB, which by all accounts are more common among African Americans... - Associations of ambient illumination with mood: contribution of ophthalmic dysfunctionsG Jean-Louis
Department of Psychiatry and Ophthalmology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue P O Box 58, Brooklyn, NY 11203 2098, United States
Physiol Behav 84:479-87. 2005.... - Functional capacity is a better predictor of coronary heart disease than depression or abnormal sleep duration in Black and White AmericansOladipupo Olafiranye
Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203 2098, USA
Sleep Med 13:728-31. 2012..To assess whether functional capacity is a better predictor of coronary heart disease (CHD) than depression or abnormal sleep duration... - Sleep duration among black and white Americans: results of the National Health Interview SurveyJoao Nunes
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, City College, New York, NY, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 100:317-22. 2008..However, little has been done to ascertain ethnic differences in sleep duration in a national sample. This study compares sleep duration in a sample of black and white participants in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)... - Race/ethnicity, sleep duration, and diabetes mellitus: analysis of the National Health Interview SurveyFerdinand Zizi
Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, Department of Medicine, NY, USA
Am J Med 125:162-7. 2012..In addition, this study also examined whether the influence of race/ethnicity on associations between abnormal sleep durations and the presence of diabetes were independent of individuals' sociodemographic and medical characteristics... - Resistant hypertension and sleep apnea: pathophysiologic insights and strategic managementStephen K Williams
Center for Healthful Behavior Change, Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10010, USA
Curr Diab Rep 11:64-9. 2011..This review will address some of the epidemiologic data associating apnea with the pathogenesis of resistant hypertension. Diagnosis and management of apnea and its associated hypertension will also be considered... - Sleep duration and the risk of diabetes mellitus: epidemiologic evidence and pathophysiologic insightsFerdinand Zizi
Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Box 1199, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203 2098, USA
Curr Diab Rep 10:43-7. 2010..Proposed mechanisms explaining associations between short sleep and diabetes are examined and clinical management of OSA among patients with diabetes is discussed... - Sleep apnea and diabetes: insights into the emerging epidemicA Pandey
Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 1199, Brooklyn, NY 11203 2098, USA
Curr Diab Rep 11:35-40. 2011..Suggestions to improve practice guidelines in the management of diabetic patients with sleep apnea are provided... - Beliefs and attitudes toward obstructive sleep apnea evaluation and treatment among blacksRaphael Shaw
Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 104:510-9. 2012..This study assessed knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes towards OSA evaluation and treatment among blacks residing in Brooklyn, New York... - Indices of arterial stiffness in African American and African Caribbean subjectsLouis Salciccioli
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203 2098, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 101:992-8. 2009..The objectives of the study were to compare arterial stiffness indices in African Americans and African Caribbeans and obtain reference values... - HIV infection and women's sexual functioningTracey E Wilson
Department of Community Health Sciences, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 54:360-7. 2010..To compare sexual problems among HIV-positive and HIV-negative women and describe clinical and psychosocial factors associated with these problems... - Obstructive sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease in blacks: A call to action from the Association of Black CardiologistsOladipupo Olafiranye
Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc, Washington, DC Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA Electronic address
Am Heart J 165:468-76. 2013..Public health implications of OSA and future directions, especially regarding minority populations, are discussed... - Engaging minority high school students as health disparities interns: findings and policy implications of a summer youth pipeline programKweli Rashied-Henry
Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, New York, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 104:412-9. 2012.... - Group visits in the management of diabetes and hypertension: effect on glycemic and blood pressure controlLisel M Loney-Hutchinson
Division of Endocrinology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA lisel
Curr Diab Rep 9:238-42. 2009..In this review, we highlight the magnitude of the diabetes epidemic, the barriers to optimal diabetes care, and the utility of the concept of group visits as a chronic disease management strategy for diabetes care... - Management of Hypertension among Patients with Coronary Heart DiseaseOladipupo Olafiranye
Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
Int J Hypertens 2011:653903. 2011..We anticipate changes in the recommendations of the forthcoming JNC 8... - Ethnicity, sleep, mood, and illumination in postmenopausal womenDaniel F Kripke
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
BMC Psychiatry 4:8. 2004..This study examined how ethnic differences in sleep and depression were related to environmental illumination and circadian rhythms... - Temperament in the clinical differentiation of depressed bipolar and unipolar major depressive patientsMauro V Mendlowicz
Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPUB-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
J Affect Disord 84:219-23. 2005..the unipolar depressive group supports the theoretical assumptions upon which the scale is based, and suggests that it might become a useful tool for clinical and research purposes... - TEMPS-A: validation of a short version of a self-rated instrument designed to measure variations in temperamentHagop S Akiskal
Department of Psychiatry, International Mood Center, University of California, San Diego, VA Psychiatry 116A, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, CA 92161, USA
J Affect Disord 85:45-52. 2005..Further item wording and selection were achieved at a later stage through an iterative process that incorporated feedback from clinicians, researchers, and research volunteers... - A comparison of recovered bipolar patients, healthy relatives of bipolar probands, and normal controls using the short TEMPS-AMauro V Mendlowicz
Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPUB-UFRJ, Brazil
J Affect Disord 85:147-51. 2005..More extensive and complex quantitative trait analyses of these temperaments in a much expanded sample are reported elsewhere in this issue [J. Affect. Disord. (2004)]... - Evening light exposure: implications for sleep and depressionGeralyn M Wallace-Guy
Department of Psychiatry and the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:738-9. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Low evening lighting does not appear to be a crucial factor in sleep and mood disturbances of aging, but overall lighting may contribute to these disturbances...
Research Grants
- Promoting Adherence to Sleep Apnea Treatment among Blacks with Metabolic SyndromeGirardin Jean Louis; Fiscal Year: 2009..We expect that our intervention will serve as an alternative model of promoting awareness of sleep apnea and enhancing adherence to recommended care among blacks nationwide. ..
- Promoting Adherence to Sleep Apnea Treatment among Blacks with Metabolic SyndromeGirardin Jean Louis; Fiscal Year: 2010..We expect that our intervention will serve as an alternative model of promoting awareness of sleep apnea and enhancing adherence to recommended care among blacks nationwide. ..