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| N AmeliSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Risk of low birth weight infants among black and white parentsN A Hessol
Department of Medicine, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, 94122, USA
Obstet Gynecol 92:814-22. 1998..To determine whether racial differences in risk of low birth weight infants among black and white parents can be attributed to differences in demographic, behavioral, medical, and socioeconomic factors...
Cancer risk among participants in the women's interagency HIV studyNancy A Hessol
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 94122, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 36:978-85. 2004..The HIV epidemic has been associated with an increased incidence of specific cancers. However, less is known about cancers occurring in HIV-infected women than men...
Lower agreement on behavioral factors than on medical conditions in self-reported data among pregnant Latina womenNancy A Hessol
General Clinical Research Center, San Francisco General Hospital, CA, USA
Arch Med Res 35:241-5. 2004..Our objective was to assess agreement between self-reported data and medical record data with regard to prenatal risk factors in pregnant Latina women...
Reduced risk of inadequate prenatal care in the era after Medicaid expansions in CaliforniaNancy A Hessol
Departments of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Med Care 42:416-22. 2004..To improve perinatal outcomes in the United States, access to prenatal care was expanded through Medicaid and women were encouraged to enter prenatal care early...
Retention of women enrolled in a prospective study of human immunodeficiency virus infection: impact of race, unstable housing, and use of human immunodeficiency virus therapyN A Hessol
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
Am J Epidemiol 154:563-73. 2001..These results show that women with and at risk for HIV infection, especially African-American women, can be successfully recruited and retained in prospective studies...
Accuracy of self-reports of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related conditions in womenN A Hessol
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
Am J Epidemiol 153:1128-33. 2001..57, 95% confidence interval: 1.17, 5.64). Overall, self-reporting of any AIDS-related condition is fairly accurate, but there is great variability in the accuracy of specific conditions...
The perinatal advantage of Mexican-origin Latina womenN A Hessol
Departments of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
Ann Epidemiol 10:516-23. 2000..To determine if there is a perinatal advantage for birth outcomes among Mexican-origin Latina (Latina) women compared to white non-Hispanic (white) women, after adjusting for maternal, paternal, and infant factors...
Factors associated with incident self-reported AIDS among women enrolled in the women's interagency HIV study (WIHS). WIHS Collaboratorive Study GroupN A Hessol
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94122, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 16:1105-11. 2000....
Ethnic differences in neonatal and postneonatal mortalityNancy A Hessol
Department of Medicine, University of California, 405 Irving St, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
Pediatrics 115:e44-51. 2005..5 times higher than the rate among white and Hispanic infants. The objective of this study was to identify ethnic differences in neonatal and postneonatal mortality as well as the causes and risk factors among infants born in California...
Prevalence of human herpesvirus-8 salivary shedding in HIV increases with CD4 countM Gandhi
University of California, San Francisco UCSF, 405 Irving Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
J Dent Res 83:639-43. 2004..Analysis of these data suggests an increased potential for HHV-8 transmission early in HIV infection, with implications for HHV-8 prevention...
Impact of the ovulatory cycle on virologic and immunologic markers in HIV-infected womenR M Greenblatt
University of California, Infectious Diseases Division, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
J Infect Dis 181:82-90. 2000..Thus, the ovulatory cycle influenced circulating HIV-1 RNA levels, a finding that is plausible because of the known effect of sex hormones on lymphocyte function and cytokine production...
