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| Naveed Z JanjuaSummaryAffiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham Country: USA Publications
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Determinants of low birth weight in urban PakistanNaveed Zafar Janjua
Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1665 University Blvd, RPHB 430, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Public Health Nutr 12:789-98. 2009..To identify determinants of low birth weight (LBW) in Karachi, Pakistan, including environmental exposures and nutritional status of the mother during pregnancy...
Maternal nutritional status during pregnancy and surma use determine cord lead levels in Karachi, PakistanNaveed Zafar Janjua
Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1665 University Blvd, RPHB 430, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Environ Res 108:69-79. 2008..To estimate the umbilical cord blood lead levels (BLLs) of Pakistani neonates and to identify determinants for umbilical BLLs...- Poor knowledge--predictor of nonadherence to universal precautions for blood borne pathogens at first level care facilities in PakistanNaveed Z Janjua
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
BMC Infect Dis 7:81. 2007..We conducted an assessment of knowledge about blood borne pathogens (BBP) and use of universal precautions at first level care facilities (FLCF) in two districts of Pakistan... 
Estimates of intraclass correlation coefficient and design effect for surveys and cluster randomized trials on injection use in Pakistan and developing countriesNaveed Zafar Janjua
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Trop Med Int Health 11:1832-40. 2006..The design of cluster-based studies requires estimates of intraclass correlation coefficients that have to be obtained from previous studies. This study presents such estimates...- Pattern of health care utilization and determinants of care-seeking from GPs in two districts of PakistanNaveed Z Janjua
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 37:1242-53. 2006..7), an education level > 5 years, and who received both injections and oral drugs were more likely to visit private general practitioners... - Acute health effects of the Tasman Spirit oil spill on residents of Karachi, PakistanNaveed Zafar Janjua
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
BMC Public Health 6:84. 2006..Oil on the coastal areas and fumes in air raised health concerns among people. We assessed the immediate health impact of oil spill from the tanker Tasman Spirit on residents of the affected coastline in Karachi, Pakistan... - Population beliefs about the efficacy of injections in Pakistan's Sindh provinceNaveed Z Janjua
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
Public Health 120:824-33. 2006..We conducted this study to identify factors associated with receiving at least one injection during the past 3 months in an urban and a rural area in the Sindh province of Pakistan... - 1,3-Butadiene and leukemia among synthetic rubber industry workers: exposure-response relationshipsHong Cheng
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ryals School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Birmingham, AL, USA
Chem Biol Interact 166:15-24. 2007..The present results support the presence of a causal relationship between high cumulative exposure and high intensity of exposure to BD and leukemia... - Improving the prediction of medication compliance: the example of bisphosphonates for osteoporosisJeffrey R Curtis
Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
Med Care 47:334-41. 2009..We tested whether adding information on compliance with other drugs used to treat chronic, asymptomatic conditions would improve the predictive ability of administrative data to identify adherent individuals... - Mortality and cancer incidence among tire manufacturing workers hired in or after 1962Colleen Beall
Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Bermingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
J Occup Environ Med 49:680-90. 2007..This study evaluated mortality during 1962 through 2003 and cancer incidence during 1995 through 2003 at a tire manufacturing plant... - Placebo adherence, clinical outcomes, and mortality in the women's health initiative randomized hormone therapy trialsJeffrey R Curtis
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1530 3rd Ave South, FOT 805D, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Med Care 49:427-35. 2011..We examined associations between adherence to placebo and the risk of fracture, coronary heart disease, cancer, and all-cause mortality in the 2 Women's Health Initiative hormone therapy randomized trials... - Health services utilization after fractures: evidence from MedicareDavid J Becker
Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1665 University Blvd, RPHB 330H, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 65:1012-20. 2010..Postfracture utilization of health care services represents an alternative measure of the resource costs associated with these fractures... - Mortality among semiconductor and storage device-manufacturing workersColleen Beall
Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
J Occup Environ Med 47:996-1014. 2005..We evaluated mortality during 1965 to 1999 among 126,836 workers at two semiconductor facilities and one storage device facility... - Population-based fracture risk assessment and osteoporosis treatment disparities by race and genderJeffrey R Curtis
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham 35294, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:956-62. 2009..Undertreatment of osteoporosis has been recognized as a common problem in selected patient subgroups. However, primary prevention has been hampered by limited risk assessment tools that can be applied to large populations... - Sharp injuries and their determinants among health care workers at first-level care facilities in Sindh Province, PakistanNaveed Z Janjua
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Trop Med Int Health 15:1244-51. 2010..To assess the rate and determinants of sharp injuries during the previous 6 months among health care workers at first-level care facilities in two districts of Pakistan... - Is withholding osteoporosis medication after fracture sometimes rational? A comparison of the risk for second fracture versus deathJeffrey R Curtis
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 11:584-91. 2010..Among US Medicare beneficiaries, we evaluated the risk for second fracture versus death in the 5 years following a hip, clinical vertebral, and wrist/forearm fracture... - The delivery of evidence-based preventive care for older Americans with arthritisJeffrey R Curtis
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Arthritis Res Ther 12:R144. 2010..We evaluated the proportion of older Americans with RA, psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and osteoarthritis (OA) receiving these services and the specialty of the providers delivering this care... - Health care expenditures associated with skeletal fractures among Medicare beneficiaries, 1999-2005Meredith L Kilgore
Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
J Bone Miner Res 24:2050-5. 2009..Further research is needed to ascertain other health conditions that are driving costs for Medicare beneficiaries after fractures... - The comparative risk of serious infections among rheumatoid arthritis patients starting or switching biological agentsJeffrey R Curtis
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Ann Rheum Dis 70:1401-6. 2011..This study evaluated the incidence of hospitalised infections among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients starting or switching various biological agents... - A follow-up study of mortality among women in the North American synthetic rubber industryNalini Sathiakumar
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala, USA
J Occup Environ Med 51:1314-25. 2009..To evaluate mortality from cancer and other diseases among 4863 women employed at eight North American styrene-butadiene rubber plants. Cancers of the lymphohematopoietic tissues, breast, and ovary were of strongest a priori interest... - Validation of 1,3-butadiene exposure estimates for workers at a synthetic rubber plantNalini Sathiakumar
Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
Chem Biol Interact 166:29-43. 2007..The estimates were developed without using historical measurement data and have not been validated previously... - A review of epidemiologic studies of triazine herbicides and cancerNalini Sathiakumar
Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 0022, USA
Crit Rev Toxicol 41:1-34. 2011..Based upon the assessment studies, there is no scientific basis for inferring the existence of a causal relationship between triazine exposure and the occurrence of cancer in humans... - TCDD exposure-response analysis and risk assessmentHong Cheng
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Risk Anal 26:1059-71. 2006.... - Regional variation in the denial of reimbursement for bone mineral density testing among US Medicare beneficiariesJeffrey R Curtis
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Clin Densitom 11:568-74. 2008..Greater guidance and transparency in coding policies are needed to ensure that DXA as a covered service is reimbursed for Medicare beneficiaries with the appropriate indications... - The relationship between bisphosphonate adherence and fracture: is it the behavior or the medication? Results from the placebo arm of the fracture intervention trialJeffrey R Curtis
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
J Bone Miner Res 26:683-8. 2011..Nonrandomized studies of interventions designed to maintain or improve bone density and/or hip fracture may need to consider medication compliance as a confounder to better estimate true intervention effects... - A follow-up study of women in the synthetic rubber industry: study methodsNalini Sathiakumar
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA
Chem Biol Interact 166:25-8. 2007.... - Styrene and ischemic heart disease mortality among synthetic rubber industry workersElizabeth Delzell
Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 0022, USA
J Occup Environ Med 47:1235-43. 2005..We examined the relation between styrene and ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality among 16,579 men in the synthetic rubber industry... - Mortality among triazine herbicide manufacturing workersPaul A MacLennan
School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and International Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 533 Ryals Building, 1665 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 66:501-17. 2003..It did not provide evidence that employment in triazine herbicide manufacturing and formulating operations was associated causally with overall or cause-specific mortality... - Potential and pitfalls of using large administrative claims data to study the safety of osteoporosis therapiesJie Zhang
Department of Epidemiology and Health Services Comparative Effectiveness Research Training Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1665 University Boulevard, RPHB 517B, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Curr Rheumatol Rep 13:273-82. 2011.... - 1,3-butadiene, styrene and lung cancer among synthetic rubber industry workersNalini Sathiakumar
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala, USA
J Occup Environ Med 51:1326-32. 2009..To evaluate the association between cumulative exposure to 1,3-butadiene (BD) or styrene (STY) and lung cancer among synthetic rubber industry workers... - Prevalence and socio-demographic factors associated with tobacco smoking among adult males in rural Sindh, PakistanSajid Ali
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 37:1054-60. 2006..The high prevalence of smoking suggests that there is an urgent need for developing intervention plans to address this major public health problem in this region... - Geographic distribution of endemic fungal infections among older persons, United StatesJohn W Baddley
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL35294 0006, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 17:1664-9. 2011..1%) cases, there was no patient exposure to a traditional disease-endemic area. Knowledge of areas where endemic mycosis incidence is increased may affect diagnostic or prevention measures for older adults at risk... - Case-control study of risk factors associated with hepatitis C virus infection among pregnant women in hospitals of Karachi-PakistanUzma R Khan
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Trop Med Int Health 13:754-61. 2008..To identify risk factors for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among pregnant women seeking antenatal care in tertiary care hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan... - Minor, major, low-trauma, and high-trauma fractures: what are the subsequent fracture risks and how do they vary?Amy H Warriner
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
Curr Osteoporos Rep 9:122-8. 2011..Any initial fracture event is important for patients and caregivers to recognize as an implication for future fracture risk... - Mortality following bone metastasis and skeletal-related events among women with breast cancer: a population-based analysis of U.S. Medicare beneficiaries, 1999-2006Nalini Sathiakumar
School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1665 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 131:231-8. 2012..Having a bone metastasis, as indicated by Medicare claims, was associated strongly with mortality among women with breast cancer. This association was stronger for bone metastasis complicated by SRE than for bone metastasis without SRE... - Methodologic issues in follow-up studies of cancer incidence among occupational groups in the United StatesThomas J Bender
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Ann Epidemiol 16:170-9. 2006..This article describes procedures for addressing these challenges... - Adaptation of Bayesian data mining algorithms to longitudinal claims data: coxib safety as an exampleJeffrey R Curtis
Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics of Musculoskeletal Disorders, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
Med Care 46:969-75. 2008..Their adaptation for use with longitudinal data such as administrative claims has not been previously evaluated or validated... - Which fractures are most attributable to osteoporosis?Amy H Warriner
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 64:46-53. 2011..Determining anatomic sites and circumstances under which a fracture may be a consequence of osteoporosis is a topic of ongoing debate and controversy that is important to both clinicians and researchers... - Benefit of adherence with bisphosphonates depends on age and fracture type: results from an analysis of 101,038 new bisphosphonate usersJeffrey R Curtis
Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
J Bone Miner Res 23:1435-41. 2008..These results provide estimates of absolute fracture effectiveness across age subgroups and fracture types that have been minimally evaluated in clinical trials and may be useful for future cost-effectiveness studies... - Identifying neonates at a very high risk for mortality among children with congenital diaphragmatic hernia managed with extracorporeal membrane oxygenationRamanath N Haricharan
Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
J Pediatr Surg 44:87-93. 2009.... - The incidence of gastrointestinal perforations among rheumatoid arthritis patientsJeffrey R Curtis
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Arthritis Rheum 63:346-51. 2011..This study was undertaken to characterize the incidence and risk factors for GI perforation in RA patients... - From conflict to collaboration, local political climate accelerates ITREOH's regionalization in South AsiaNalini Sathiakumar
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama 352924, USA
Int J Occup Environ Health 12:386-91. 2006..Research initiatives of regional and/or global concern are also under way in the other participating countries. The combination of face-to-face training with Web-based interaction for follow-up was optimal for short-term training... - Assessment of historical exposures to talc at a mining and milling facilityKent Oestenstad
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, 35294 0022, USA
Ann Occup Hyg 46:587-96. 2002..55 with an average difference of 0.01 mg/m(3) and a range of 0.60 to -0.48 mg/m(3). The estimates were considered to be acceptable for determining relative ranking of subjects according to cumulative exposure... - Association of various reproductive rights, domestic violence and marital rape with depression among Pakistani womenFaridah A Ali
Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
BMC Psychiatry 9:77. 2009..Therefore we designed this study to determine the association of depression with lack of various reproductive rights and domestic violence among married women in Karachi, Pakistan... - Historical estimation of exposure to 1,3-butadiene, styrene, and dimethyldithiocarbamate among synthetic rubber workersMaurizio Macaluso
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 1:371-90. 2004..Nevertheless, the new exposure estimates were highly correlated with the old, yielding equivalent exposure ranking of workers and were comparable to limited industrial hygiene data published by NIOSH... - Blinding trachoma: a disease of povertyPashtoon M Kasi
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
PLoS Med 1:e44. 2004 - Longitudinal trends in use of bone mass measurement among older americans, 1999-2005Jeffrey R Curtis
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
J Bone Miner Res 23:1061-7. 2008..Given the importance of central DXA to assess the risk of osteoporotic fractures, strategies to increase central DXA use to test at-risk persons are warranted... - Importance and challenges of studying marketed drugs: what is a phase IV study? Common clinical research designs, registries, and self-reporting systemsStephen P Glasser
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Prev Medicine, 1717 11th Ave S, MT638, Birmingham, AL 35205 4731, USA
J Clin Pharmacol 47:1074-86. 2007..The authors discuss the different types of study designs that are common under the phase IV terminology and provide some examples. They also discuss the use of registries and self-reporting of adverse events using the MedWatch System... - Cancer incidence among triazine herbicide manufacturing workersPaul A MacLennan
Department of Epidemiology and International Health, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
J Occup Environ Med 44:1048-58. 2002..There is no epidemiologic or other information that clearly supports a causal relation between atrazine and prostate cancer... - Mortality among hourly motor vehicle manufacturing workersElizabeth Delzell
Department of Epidemiology and International Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
J Occup Environ Med 45:813-30. 2003..Further information on employees' occupational exposures and personal attributes is required to clarify the interpretation of these results... - Behavioral problems among children living in orphanage facilities of Karachi, Pakistan: comparison of children in an SOS Village with those in conventional orphanagesZohra S Lassi
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 46:787-96. 2011..This study compared the behavioral problems of children living in an SOS Village, which attempts to provide a family setup for its children, with those living in conventional orphanages... - Mortality among workers at a talc mining and milling facilityYasushi Honda
Environmental Health Sciences Program, Institute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Ann Occup Hyg 46:575-85. 2002..This study evaluated mortality among workers at a talc mining and milling facility... - Chemical exposures in the synthetic rubber industry and lymphohematopoietic cancer mortalityJohn J Graff
Department of Family Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
J Occup Environ Med 47:916-32. 2005..This study evaluated the association between exposure to several chemicals and mortality from lymphohematopoietic cancer (LHC) among 16,579 synthetic rubber industry workers who were followed up from 1943 to 1998... - Exposure assessment for retrospective follow-up studies of semiconductor- and storage device-manufacturing workersRobert F Herrick
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Occup Environ Med 47:983-95. 2005..This exposure assessment was conducted in the first large study of mortality and cancer incidence in semiconductor and storage device manufacturing... - Re: Mortality from lymphohematopoietic malignancies among workers in formaldehyde industriesMercedes Casanova
J Natl Cancer Inst 96:966-7; author reply 967-8. 2004 - Exposure reconstruction for the TCDD-exposed NIOSH cohort using a concentration- and age-dependent model of eliminationLesa L Aylward
Exponent, Inc, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA
Risk Anal 25:945-56. 2005.... - Cancer risk assessment for 1,3-butadiene: dose-response modeling from an epidemiological perspectiveRobert L Sielken
Sielken and Associates Consulting, Inc, 3833 Texas Avenue, Suite 230, Bryan, TX 77802, USA
Chem Biol Interact 166:140-9. 2007.... - Re: "Occupational exposure to lead compounds and risk of cancer among men: a population-based case-control study" 1681012181218Elizabeth Delzell
Am J Epidemiol 168:1216-7; author reply 1217-8. 2008 - A comprehensive evaluation of the potential health risks associated with occupational and environmental exposure to styreneJoshua T Cohen
Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev 5:1-265. 2002 - Occupational exposure to glycol ethers and human congenital malformationsGeorge Maldonado
School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St SE, Mayo Mail Code 807, Minneapolis, MN 55455 0392, USA
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 76:405-23. 2003..This commentary reviews toxicological information and critically evaluates epidemiological information on the relationship between glycol ethers and congenital malformations...