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Global inflammation predicts cardiovascular risk in women: a report from the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) studyKevin E Kip
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Am Heart J 150:900-6. 2005..However, no studies have collectively evaluated how inflammatory markers cluster empirically and relate to angiographic coronary artery disease and CVD events...- Clinical importance of obesity versus the metabolic syndrome in cardiovascular risk in women: a report from the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) studyKevin E Kip
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Circulation 109:706-13. 2004..Both are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the contribution of obesity to cardiovascular risk, independent of the presence of the metabolic syndrome, remains controversial... 
Twenty-year evolution of percutaneous coronary intervention and its impact on clinical outcomes: a report from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-sponsored, multicenter 1985-1986 PTCA and 1997-2006 Dynamic RegistriesLakshmi Venkitachalam
Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, and Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Interv 2:6-13. 2009..Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has undergone rapid progress, both in technology and adjunct therapy. However, documentation of long-term temporal trends in relation to contemporary practice is lacking...- Biogeographic ancestry, self-identified race, and admixture-phenotype associations in the Heart SCORE StudyIndrani Halder
Heart and Vascular Institute, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Epidemiol 176:146-55. 2012.... - Temporal trends in patient-reported angina at 1 year after percutaneous coronary revascularization in the stent era: a report from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-sponsored 1997-2006 dynamic registryLakshmi Venkitachalam
Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2:607-15. 2009..Little, however, is known about the temporal impact on patient-reported symptoms and quality of life after PCI... 
Postoperative infliximab is not associated with an increase in adverse events in Crohn's diseaseMiguel Regueiro
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 200 Lothrop Street, PUH C Wing Mezzanine Level, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Dig Dis Sci 56:3610-5. 2011..It is not known whether administration of infliximab shortly after resective surgery for Crohn's disease increases postoperative complications...- Serum amyloid A as a predictor of coronary artery disease and cardiovascular outcome in women: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-Sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE)B Delia Johnson
Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Parran 127, 130 DeSoto St, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Circulation 109:726-32. 2004..However, prior studies have yielded inconsistent results, and the independent predictive value of SAA for coronary artery disease (CAD) severity and cardiovascular events remains unclear... - Metabolic syndrome modifies the cardiovascular risk associated with angiographic coronary artery disease in women: a report from the Women's Ischemia Syndrome EvaluationOscar C Marroquin
Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Circulation 109:714-21. 2004..Specifically, the metabolic syndrome was found to be a predictor of 4-year cardiovascular risk only when associated with significant angiographic CAD... - Impact of drug-eluting stents among insulin-treated diabetic patients: a report from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Dynamic RegistrySuresh R Mulukutla
Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
JACC Cardiovasc Interv 1:139-47. 2008..This study sought to evaluate the safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents (DES) compared with bare-metal stents (BMS) in patients with insulin- and noninsulin-treated diabetes... - Crohn's disease activity index does not correlate with endoscopic recurrence one year after ileocolonic resectionMiguel Regueiro
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Inflamm Bowel Dis 17:118-26. 2011..We evaluated the extent of agreement between clinical recurrence/remission as defined by the CDAI and endoscopic recurrence 1 year after intestinal resection for Crohn's disease (CD)... - Poor 1-year outcomes after percutaneous coronary interventions in systemic lupus erythematosus: report from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Dynamic RegistryKathleen Maksimowicz-McKinnon
Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3500 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Interv 1:201-8. 2008..Although percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is used frequently to treat coronary artery disease in SLE, little is known regarding PCI outcomes immediately after PCI and after discharge... - Inflammation, endothelial cell activation, and coronary microvascular dysfunction in women with chest pain and no obstructive coronary artery diseaseOscar C Marroquin
Cardiovascular Institute, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Am Heart J 150:109-15. 2005..Markers of inflammation and endothelial cell activation have been found to be elevated in patients with chest pain but without CAD. The relationship between inflammation, endothelial activation, and CFR is not known... - Paclitaxel-eluting versus sirolimus-eluting stents in diabetes mellitus: a report from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Dynamic RegistryWilliam M Wolf
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Interv 3:42-9. 2010..Accordingly, we compared the safety and efficacy of sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) with paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) among diabetic patients in a contemporary registry... - Low prevalence of "ideal cardiovascular health" in a community-based population: the heart strategies concentrating on risk evaluation (Heart SCORE) studyClaudia Bambs
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Circulation 123:850-7. 2011..The applicability of this construct to community-based populations and the distributions of its components by race and sex have not been reported... - A comparison of bare-metal and drug-eluting stents for off-label indicationsOscar C Marroquin
Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
N Engl J Med 358:342-52. 2008..Recent reports suggest that off-label use of drug-eluting stents is associated with an increased incidence of adverse events. Whether the use of bare-metal stents would yield different results is unknown... - Predictors of significant short-term increases in blood pressure in a community-based populationAryan N Aiyer
The Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, University Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Med 120:960-7. 2007..We aimed to identify predictors of a significant increase in blood pressure over a 1-year period among nonhypertensive, community-dwelling adults... - Do short-term markers of treatment efficacy predict long-term sequelae of pelvic inflammatory disease?Gail M Trautmann
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 198:30.e1-7. 2008.... - Vaginal douching and development of bacterial vaginosis among women with normal and abnormal vaginal microfloraKatherine B Hutchinson
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Sex Transm Dis 34:671-5. 2007..To evaluate the relationship between douching and bacterial vaginosis (BV) among women with and without prior abnormal vaginal flora... - A cluster analysis of bacterial vaginosis-associated microflora and pelvic inflammatory diseaseRoberta B Ness
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:585-90. 2005..77, 95% confidence interval: 1.11, 69.2). When identified by microbial culture, a combination of BV-related microorganisms significantly elevated the risk of acquiring PID... - Sleep symptoms predict the development of the metabolic syndromeWendy M Troxel
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Sleep 33:1633-40. 2010..This is the first prospective study to report the association between commonly reported sleep symptoms and the development of the metabolic syndrome, a key CVD risk factor... - Population variations in atherogenic dyslipidemia: A report from the HeartSCORE and IndiaSCORE StudiesSuresh R Mulukutla
University of Pittsburgh, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
J Clin Lipidol 2:410-7. 2008..The contribution of atherogenic dyslipidemia to CVD risk across diverse racial populations is not well established... - Black race is associated with digital artery endothelial dysfunction: results from the Heart SCORE studySuresh R Mulukutla
Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Eur Heart J 31:2808-15. 2010..Accordingly, we evaluated race-related differences in digital pulse amplitude tonometry (PAT) response to an endothelium-dependent vasodilatory stimulus... - Variability of bacterial vaginosis over 6- to 12-month intervalsRoberta B Ness
University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Pennsylvania, 15261, USA
Sex Transm Dis 33:381-5. 2006..To examine variability in bacterial vaginosis (BV) over 6- to 12-month intervals... - Infliximab prevents Crohn's disease recurrence after ileal resectionMiguel Regueiro
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Gastroenterology 136:441-50.e1; quiz 716. 2009..Crohn's disease commonly recurs after intestinal resection. We evaluated whether the administration of infliximab after resective intestinal surgery for Crohn's disease reduces postoperative recurrence... - Acute physiologic effects of secondhand smoke exposure in childrenDeborah R Moss
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3414 5th Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 12:708-14. 2010..We investigated the hypothesis that exhaled carbon monoxide (eCO), heart rate (HR), and blood pressure (BP) would increase acutely in exposed but not in unexposed children... - Racial differences in coronary artery calcification are not attributed to differences in lipoprotein particle sizes: the Heart Strategies Concentrating on Risk Evaluation (Heart SCORE) StudyAryan N Aiyer
Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Am Heart J 153:328-34. 2007..As a group, blacks have less coronary artery calcification (CAC) than whites. We evaluated whether racial differences in CAC are explained by differences in lipoprotein levels and particle sizes... - Condom use and its association with bacterial vaginosis and bacterial vaginosis-associated vaginal microfloraKatherine B Hutchinson
Gynecologic Infection Follow Through GIFT Investigators, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Epidemiology 18:702-8. 2007..Previous studies have been inconsistent with regard to whether condom use is associated with bacterial vaginosis. We evaluated this association using case-crossover analyses... - Hormone therapy, estrogen metabolism, and risk of breast cancer in the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy TrialRachel H Mackey
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:2022-32. 2012.... - Sleep apnea is related to the atherogenic phenotype, lipoprotein subclass BFaith S Luyster
School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Clin Sleep Med 8:155-61. 2012..We examined the relationship between sleep apnea and LDL subclass B, considering body size... - Infliximab dose intensification in Crohn's diseaseMiguel Regueiro
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Inflamm Bowel Dis 13:1093-9. 2007..The aims of this study were to determine the proportion of CD patients who require dose intensification and factors associated with dose intensification... - Physician assessment of ulcerative colitis activity correlates poorly with endoscopic disease activityMiguel Regueiro
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Inflamm Bowel Dis 17:1008-14. 2011..The aim was to assess the level of agreement between physician's clinical impression of UC disease activity and endoscopic and histologic findings of inflammation... - Clinical and demographic predictors of outcomes in recent onset dilated cardiomyopathy: results of the IMAC (Intervention in Myocarditis and Acute Cardiomyopathy)-2 studyDennis M McNamara
Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 58:1112-8. 2011..We sought to determine clinical and demographic predictors of recovery of left ventricular function for subjects with recent onset cardiomyopathy (ROCM)... - Condom use and the risk of recurrent pelvic inflammatory disease, chronic pelvic pain, or infertility following an episode of pelvic inflammatory diseaseRoberta B Ness
University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, 130 DeSoto St, A530 Crabtree Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1327-9. 2004..Consistent condom use (about 60% of encounters) at baseline also reduced these risks, after adjustment for confounders, by 30% to 60%. Self-reported persistent and consistent condom use was associated with lower rates of PID sequelae... - Douching, pelvic inflammatory disease, and incident gonococcal and chlamydial genital infection in a cohort of high-risk womenRoberta B Ness
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, Room A530 Crabtree Hall, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:186-95. 2005..These data do not support an association between douching and development of PID or gonococcal/chlamydial genital infection among predominantly young, African-American women... - Bacterial vaginosis and risk of pelvic inflammatory diseaseRoberta B Ness
University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Magee Womens Hospital and Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Obstet Gynecol 104:761-9. 2004..Bacterial vaginosis commonly is found in women with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), but it is unclear whether bacterial vaginosis leads to incident PID... - Early pregnancy lipid concentrations and spontaneous preterm birthJanet M Catov
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 197:610.e1-7. 2007..Women who deliver preterm infants may be at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, perhaps related to dyslipidemia... - Impact of age on procedural and 1-year outcome in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: a report from the NHLBI Dynamic RegistryHoward A Cohen
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Am Heart J 146:513-9. 2003..After PCI, the long-term relative risk of death is similar to that expected among persons of similar ages in the general population... - Ventricular arrhythmia risk after subarachnoid hemorrhageJ Michael Frangiskakis
Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, S572 Scaife Hall, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Neurocrit Care 10:287-94. 2009..Our objective was to test the relationships between QTc prolongation, VA, and survival after SAH... - Risk of early or severe pre-eclampsia related to pre-existing conditionsJanet M Catov
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:412-9. 2007..We estimated the population attributable fractions of severe or early PE associated with pre-existing conditions among nulliparous and multiparous women... - Associations of increases in serum creatinine with mortality and length of hospital stay after coronary angiographySteven D Weisbord
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Mailstop 111F U, 7E Room 120, Pittsburgh, PA 15240, USA
J Am Soc Nephrol 17:2871-7. 2006..This observation will help guide the post-procedure care of patients who undergo coronary angiography and has important implications for future studies that investigate RCN... - Screening children to identify families at increased risk for cardiovascular diseaseEvelyn Cohen Reis
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Pediatrics 118:e1789-97. 2006..The purpose of this study was to investigate whether cardiovascular disease risk-factor assessment in children can identify families who are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease... - Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS): a significant contributor to the overall burden of type 2 diabetes in womenEvelyn O Talbott
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 16:191-7. 2007..g., PCOS) to the burden of type 2 diabetes in the total population of middle-aged women... - Accessing adult smokers in the pediatric setting: What do parents think?Deborah Moss
Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Academic Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 8:67-75. 2006..In a heterogeneous sample of parents, strong support exists for pediatricians addressing parental smoking at pediatric office visits. This finding is encouraging for pediatricians who are concerned about negative parental reaction... - Differential influence of diabetes mellitus on increased jeopardized myocardium after initial angioplasty or bypass surgery: bypass angioplasty revascularization investigationKevin E Kip
Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Circulation 105:1914-20. 2002..Importantly, diabetes mellitus may differentially influence long-term survival after PTCA or CABG... - Cigarette smoking and age at diagnosis of inflammatory bowel diseaseMiguel Regueiro
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Inflamm Bowel Dis 11:42-7. 2005.... - Obesity, hormone therapy, estrogen metabolism and risk of postmenopausal breast cancerFrancesmary Modugno
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 516A Parran Hall, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Int J Cancer 118:1292-301. 2006..Estrogen metabolism differs according to both BMI and HT use, potentially explaining the interaction between BMI and HT in relation to breast cancer risk... - Bacterial vaginosis (BV) and the risk of incident gonococcal or chlamydial genital infection in a predominantly black populationRoberta B Ness
University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Sex Transm Dis 32:413-7. 2005..The objective of this study was to assess in prospective data whether bacterial vaginosis (BV) is associated with gonococcal/chlamydial cervicitis... - Coronary bypass graft patency in patients with diabetes in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI)Leonard Schwartz
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Circulation 106:2652-8. 2002..Previously observed differences in survival between CABG-treated patients with and without diabetes may be largely a result of differential risk of mortality from noncardiac causes... - Native coronary disease progression exceeds failed revascularization as cause of angina after five years in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI)Edwin L Alderman
Cardiovascular Division, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 44:766-74. 2004..Coronary angiograms obtained five years following revascularization were examined to assess the extent of compromise in myocardial perfusion due to failure of revascularization versus progression of native disease... - The impact of body mass index on short- and long-term outcomes inpatients undergoing coronary revascularization. Insights from the bypass angioplasty revascularization investigation (BARI)Hitinder S Gurm
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 39:834-40. 2002.... - What constitutes optimal surgical revascularization? Answers from the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI)Thomas J Vander Salm
Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655 3304, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 39:565-72. 2002..The study was done to derive the optimum definition of complete revascularization in coronary artery bypass surgery... - Postmenopausal women with a history of irregular menses and elevated androgen measurements at high risk for worsening cardiovascular event-free survival: results from the National Institutes of Health--National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute sponsored WLeslee J Shaw
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cedars Sinai Research Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 93:1276-84. 2008..Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have a greater clustering of cardiac risk factors. However, the link between PCOS and cardiovascular (CV) disease is incompletely described... - The economic burden of angina in women with suspected ischemic heart disease: results from the National Institutes of Health--National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute--sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome EvaluationLeslee J Shaw
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cedars Sinai Research Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif, USA
Circulation 114:894-904. 2006..Few data exist regarding the type and intensity of resource consumption in women with chest pain after coronary angiography... - Outcomes of 6906 patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention in the era of drug-eluting stents: report of the DEScover RegistryDavid O Williams
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine Rhode Island Hospital, Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Circulation 114:2154-62. 2006..The DEScover Registry was designed to characterize patients selected for drug-eluting stents (DES) in routine clinical practice and their outcomes in the United States... - The effect of coronary artery bypass grafting on specific causes of long-term mortality in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization InvestigationDavid R Holmes
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 134:38-46, 46.e1. 2007..Evaluation of cause of death might help elucidate disease mechanisms and be useful for developing treatment strategies... - Risk of T2DM and impaired fasting glucose among PCOS subjects: results of an 8-year follow-upMonique Y Boudreaux
Curr Diab Rep 6:77-83. 2006..4% and 5.8%, respectively (relative risk = 2.3). Obese cases had a fivefold risk of T2DM developing (P < 0.01) compared with age-adjusted obese controls, indicating significant interaction between PCOS and obesity to effect T2DM risk... - Recent trends in the percutaneous treatment of chronic total coronary occlusionsJ Dawn Abbott
Division of Cardiology, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Am J Cardiol 97:1691-6. 2006.... - Relief of symptoms, side effects, and psychological distress through use of complementary and alternative medicine in women with breast cancerCecile A Lengacher
College of Nursing at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Oncol Nurs Forum 33:97-104. 2006.... - Absence of risk factor change in young adults after family heart attack or stroke: the CARDIA StudyKevin E Kip
Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612 3807, USA
Am J Prev Med 22:258-66. 2002..Health behavior theories suggest that occurrence of heart attack or stroke in an immediate family member should increase one's perceived susceptibility to these conditions, which might lead to improved risk factor behavior and control... - Commentary on why national epidemiological estimates of substance abuse by race should not be used to estimate prevalence and need for substance abuse services at community and local levelsKevin E Kip
Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 28:545-56. 2002..We illustrate our recommendation through observations and potential biases (e.g., reporting bias) identified from large-scale epidemiological studies of the prevalence of substance use disorders between Black and White Americans... - Outcomes and complications associated with off-label and untested use of drug-eluting stentsNirat Beohar
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill, USA
JAMA 297:1992-2000. 2007..Limited data exist regarding use of drug-eluting stents outside of approved indications in real-world settings... - Completeness of revascularization for multivessel coronary artery disease and its effect on one-year outcome: a report from the NHLBI Dynamic RegistryVankeepuram S Srinivas
Division of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY 10461, USA
J Interv Cardiol 20:373-80. 2007..In conclusion, despite the presence of more unfavorable characteristics, patients undergoing TR demonstrate 1-year outcomes equivalent to those having CR, supporting its continued use in selected patients... - Unrestricted use of drug-eluting stents compared with bare-metal stents in routine clinical practice: findings from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Dynamic RegistryJ Dawn Abbott
Department of Cardiology, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 50:2029-36. 2007..We investigated the effectiveness and safety of drug-eluting stents (DES) as used in routine clinical practice... - Vertebral compression fractures: pain reduction and improvement in functional mobility after percutaneous polymethylmethacrylate vertebroplasty retrospective report of 245 casesAvery J Evans
Radiology Associates of Tampa, 511 W Bay St, Suite 301, Tampa, FL 33606, USA
Radiology 226:366-72. 2003..To describe the immediate outcome of a large cohort of patients who underwent percutaneous polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) vertebroplasty for treatment of one or more vertebral fractures... - Crohn's disease: a two-year prospective study of the association between psychological distress and disease activityHoussam E Mardini
University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USA
Dig Dis Sci 49:492-7. 2004..Levels of depressive symptoms are positively associated with future changes in CDAI. Routine psychological assessment may help to identify patients at higher risk for exacerbation... - Reliability and validity of a risk assessment tool for patients with kidney failureGerri Lamb
University of Arizona, College of Nursing, Member, Case Manager Solutions, LLC, Tucson, AZ, USA
Nephrol Nurs J 31:267-70, 276-82. 2004..The results indicate that the ROAD provides a useful tool to identify patients on hemodialysis at risk of poor outcomes... - Frequency of use of complementary and alternative medicine in women with breast cancerCecile A Lengacher
College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
Oncol Nurs Forum 29:1445-52. 2002..To estimate the frequency of use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies among women diagnosed with breast cancer and to identify demographic and clinical factors associated with CAM use in these patients...
Research Grants
- Dynamic Evaluation of Coronary InterventionKevin Kip; Fiscal Year: 2006..We welcome this opportunity. ..