Peifeng Hu

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Effects of managed care on the length of time that elderly patients spend with physicians during ambulatory visits: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1687, USA
    Med Care 40:606-13. 2002
  2. ncbi Does inflammation or undernutrition explain the low cholesterol-mortality association in high-functioning older persons? MacArthur studies of successful aging
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 51:80-4. 2003
  3. ncbi The effects of serum beta-carotene concentration and burden of inflammation on all-cause mortality risk in high-functioning older persons: MacArthur studies of successful aging
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2339, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1687, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 59:849-54. 2004
  4. ncbi Relationship between subjective social status and measures of health in older Taiwanese persons
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 53:483-8. 2005
  5. ncbi The effects of hormone therapy on the markers of inflammation and endothelial function and plasma matrix metalloproteinase-9 level in postmenopausal women: the postmenopausal estrogen progestin intervention (PEPI) trial
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2339, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1687, USA
    Atherosclerosis 185:347-52. 2006
  6. ncbi Association between serum beta-carotene levels and decline of cognitive function in high-functioning older persons with or without apolipoprotein E 4 alleles: MacArthur studies of successful aging
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2339, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1687, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:616-20. 2006
  7. ncbi Progestins affect mechanism of estrogen-induced C-reactive protein stimulation
    David B Reuben
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1687, USA
    Am J Med 119:167.e1-8. 2006
  8. ncbi The associations between socioeconomic status, allostatic load and measures of health in older Taiwanese persons: Taiwan social environment and biomarkers of aging study
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    J Biosoc Sci 39:545-56. 2007
  9. ncbi Alcohol use, comorbidity, and mortality
    Alison A Moore
    Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 54:757-62. 2006
  10. ncbi Famine, death, and madness: schizophrenia in early adulthood after prenatal exposure to the Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine
    Shige Song
    Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
    Soc Sci Med 68:1315-21. 2009

Research Grants

  1. Effects of Antioxidants and Inflammation in Older People
    Peifeng Hu; Fiscal Year: 2007
  2. Progestin Levels and Inflammation in Postmenopause
    Peifeng Hu; Fiscal Year: 2007

Detail Information

Publications15

  1. ncbi Effects of managed care on the length of time that elderly patients spend with physicians during ambulatory visits: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 1687, USA
    Med Care 40:606-13. 2002
    ..To examine the factors related to the length of time that elderly patients spend with physicians during ambulatory visits and explore specifically the association between managed care and visit duration...
  2. ncbi Does inflammation or undernutrition explain the low cholesterol-mortality association in high-functioning older persons? MacArthur studies of successful aging
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 51:80-4. 2003
    ..To explore the effect of inflammation and undernutrition on the association between hypocholesterolemia and higher overall mortality in high-functioning older persons...
  3. ncbi The effects of serum beta-carotene concentration and burden of inflammation on all-cause mortality risk in high-functioning older persons: MacArthur studies of successful aging
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2339, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1687, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 59:849-54. 2004
    ..The objective of this study was to evaluate simultaneously the effects of serum beta-carotene concentration and inflammation on the subsequent all-cause mortality risk in high-functioning older persons...
  4. ncbi Relationship between subjective social status and measures of health in older Taiwanese persons
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 53:483-8. 2005
    ..To compare the association between subjective ladder ranking and health measures with the association between objective indices and health measures in older Taiwanese men and women...
  5. ncbi The effects of hormone therapy on the markers of inflammation and endothelial function and plasma matrix metalloproteinase-9 level in postmenopausal women: the postmenopausal estrogen progestin intervention (PEPI) trial
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2339, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1687, USA
    Atherosclerosis 185:347-52. 2006
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  6. ncbi Association between serum beta-carotene levels and decline of cognitive function in high-functioning older persons with or without apolipoprotein E 4 alleles: MacArthur studies of successful aging
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2339, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1687, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:616-20. 2006
    ..We used data from a 7-year cohort study of high-functioning older persons to explore whether the associations between serum beta-carotene level and subsequent decline of cognitive function differed by APOE 4 genotype...
  7. ncbi Progestins affect mechanism of estrogen-induced C-reactive protein stimulation
    David B Reuben
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1687, USA
    Am J Med 119:167.e1-8. 2006
    ..To determine whether the mechanisms of C-reactive protein production differ depending on the presence or absence of a progestin in the regimen...
  8. ncbi The associations between socioeconomic status, allostatic load and measures of health in older Taiwanese persons: Taiwan social environment and biomarkers of aging study
    Peifeng Hu
    Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    J Biosoc Sci 39:545-56. 2007
    ..The associations between education, income and health status are not mediated by the conventional ten-point measure of allostatic load in older Taiwanese adults...
  9. ncbi Alcohol use, comorbidity, and mortality
    Alison A Moore
    Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 54:757-62. 2006
    ..To examine the combined influence of alcohol use and comorbidity on 20-year mortality in older adults (average age 66 at the time of the baseline survey)...
  10. ncbi Famine, death, and madness: schizophrenia in early adulthood after prenatal exposure to the Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine
    Shige Song
    Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
    Soc Sci Med 68:1315-21. 2009
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  11. ncbi Changes in postmenopausal hormone therapy use since 1988
    Jung Ki Kim
    Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0191, USA
    Womens Health Issues 17:338-41. 2007
  12. ncbi Relation of oxytocin to psychological stress responses and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis activity in older women
    Shelley E Taylor
    Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    Psychosom Med 68:238-45. 2006
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  13. ncbi Alcohol, tobacco, and nonmedical drug use in older U.S. Adults: data from the 2001/02 national epidemiologic survey of alcohol and related conditions
    Alison A Moore
    Division of Geriatric Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 57:2275-81. 2009
    ..To examine the prevalence and sociodemographic and health-related correlates of substance use, including alcohol, tobacco, and nonmedical drug use, in adults aged 65 and older...
  14. ncbi Inflammation and rate of cognitive change in high-functioning older adults
    Dawn E Alley
    Health and Society Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 63:50-5. 2008
    ..The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between serum levels of IL-6 and CRP and the rate of cognitive change across a range of cognitive domains in a sample of healthy older persons...
  15. ncbi Socioeconomic status and C-reactive protein levels in the US population: NHANES IV
    Dawn E Alley
    Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, USA
    Brain Behav Immun 20:498-504. 2006
    ..Results suggest that differences in very high CRP may be due to factors beyond acute illness and may also reflect chronic health, behavioral and disease processes associated with low socioeconomic status...

Research Grants2

  1. Effects of Antioxidants and Inflammation in Older People
    Peifeng Hu; Fiscal Year: 2007
    The candidate, Peifeng Hu, M.D., Ph.D., seeks support for further training in clinical epidemiology research...
  2. Progestin Levels and Inflammation in Postmenopause
    Peifeng Hu; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....