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| Raymond F PalmerSummaryAffiliation: University of Texas Health Science Center Country: USA Publications
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Association of suboptimal prescribing and change in lower extremity physical function over timeMary Jo V Pugh
South Texas Veterans Health Care System Verdict, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Tex, USA
Gerontology 53:445-53. 2007..This study explores the relationship between suboptimal prescribing, comorbid disease, and change in lower extremity functional limitation (LEFL)...
Explaining low rates of autism among Hispanic schoolchildren in TexasRaymond F Palmer
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio TX 78229 3900, USA
Am J Public Health 100:270-2. 2010..These findings raise questions: Is autism underdiagnosed among Hispanics? Are there protective factors associated with Hispanic ethnicity?..
Environmental mercury release, special education rates, and autism disorder: an ecological study of TexasRaymond F Palmer
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Department of Family and Community Medicine, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229 3900, USA
Health Place 12:203-9. 2006..These results have implications for policy planning and cost analysis...- Methods for evaluating practice change toward a patient-centered medical homeCarlos Roberto Jaen
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
Ann Fam Med 8:S9-20; S92. 2010..We describe the methods used to evaluate the country's first national demonstration project of the PCMH concept, with an emphasis on the quantitative measures and lessons for multimethod evaluation approaches... - Estimating the temporal evolution of Alzheimer's disease pathology with autopsy dataDonald R Royall
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
J Alzheimers Dis 32:23-32. 2012..The mediation effect of cognitive change on both AD lesion models effectively dates them within the period of cognitive surveillance. Additional analyses could lead to an improved understanding of lesion propagation in AD... - Getting Past "g": testing a new model of dementing processes in persons without dementiaDonald R Royall
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 24:37-46. 2012..These results have implications for the clinical assessment of dementia and suggest that functional status should assume a more important role... - Association between acculturation and structural assimilation and mini-mental state examination-assessed cognitive impairment in older Mexican Americans: findings from the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of AgingMarc P Simpao
Division of Community Geriatrics, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Frederic C. Bartter General Clinical Research Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:1234-9. 2005..These findings highlight the need for geriatricians to take contextual factors (including age, education, and structural assimilation) into account when interpreting MMSE scores of MA patients... - Chemical intolerance in primary care settings: prevalence, comorbidity, and outcomesDavid A Katerndahl
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229 3900, USA
Ann Fam Med 10:357-65. 2012..We evaluated comorbid medical and psychiatric disorders, functional status, and rates of health care use... - Validation of a latent variable representing the dementing processDonald R Royall
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229 3900, USA
J Alzheimers Dis 30:639-49. 2012..Our approach results in "error free" continuous variables. This suggests that δ can serve as a dementia specific endophenotype. As a result, future studies may be able to associate δ with inflammatory and genetic biomarkers... - Depression, disability and intermediate pathways: a review of longitudinal studies in eldersJason E Schillerstrom
Department of Psychiatry The University of Texas Health Seience Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 21:183-97. 2008.... - Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalenceRaymond F Palmer
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Department of Family and Community Medicine, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio Texas, Mail Code 7794, TX 78229 3900, USA
Health Place 15:18-24. 2009..0% and 1.4%, respectively (p<.05). While design limitations preclude interpretation of individual risk, further investigations of environmental risks to child development issues are warranted... - The value of ecologic studies: mercury concentration in ambient air and the risk of autismK Stephen Blanchard
Department of Sociology, Our Lady of the Lake University, 411 SW 24th Street, San Antonio, TX 78207, USA
Rev Environ Health 26:111-8. 2011..Although this does not indicate a cause, these results should not be dismissed, but rather seen as a preliminary step for generating a hypothesis for further investigation... - Construct validity in health behavior research: interpreting latent variable models involving self-report and objective measuresRaymond F Palmer
Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
J Behav Med 25:525-50. 2002.... - A randomized trial of the effects of remote intercessory prayer: interactions with personal beliefs on problem-specific outcomes and functional statusRaymond F Palmer
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229 3900, USA
J Altern Complement Med 10:438-48. 2004..Investigate the relevance of interpersonal belief factors as modifiers of the effectiveness of intercessory prayer... - The default mode network may be the key substrate of depressive symptom-related cognitive changesDonald R Royall
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
J Alzheimers Dis 34:547-59. 2013..This conclusion suggests new opportunities for the latter's diagnosis, prevention, and treatment... - Prevalence and patterns of executive impairment in community dwelling Mexican Americans: results from the Hispanic EPESE StudyDonald R Royall
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78284 7792, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 19:926-34. 2004..We have determined the prevalence of cognitive impairment and impaired ECF in a community dwelling Mexican American elderly population, and their associations with functional status... - School district resources and identification of children with autistic disorderRaymond F Palmer
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229 7795, USA
Am J Public Health 95:125-30. 2005..We estimated the effect of community and school district resources on the identification of children with autistic disorder... - Clock-drawing potentially mediates the effect of depression on mortality: replication in three cohortsDonald R Royall
Department of Psychiatry, The South Texas Veterans Health System Audie L Murphy Division GRECC and the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 23:821-9. 2008..Previously studies have associated visuospatial tasks, particularly 'clock-drawing', with mortality. We sought to determine whether clock-drawing also mediates the association between depressive symptoms and mortality... - Suboptimal medication use and mortality in an older adult community-based cohort: results from the Hispanic EPESE StudyDavid V Espino
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, MC 7795, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr, 78229 3900, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:170-5. 2006..Our objective was to evaluate the relationship between polypharmacy, drug-drug interactions, and inappropriate medication use on the mortality of a community-based population of Mexican American older adults... - Modeling regional vulnerability to Alzheimer pathologyDonald R Royall
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78284 7792, USA
Neurobiol Aging 33:1556-63. 2012..This is the first application of LGC models to spatially-ordered data. The result is a quantification of the interindividual variation in the interregional vulnerability to Alzheimer's disease lesions... - The role of physical activity and diabetes status as a moderator: functional disability among older Mexican AmericansRaymond F Palmer
Family and Community Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78230, USA
Age Ageing 41:752-8. 2012.... - Missing data? Plan on it!Raymond F Palmer
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78284, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:S343-8. 2010..How the purposeful planning of missing data in research designs can reduce subject burden, improve data quality and statistical power, and manage costs is then described... - Evaluation of the mini-mental state examination's internal consistency in a community-based sample of Mexican-American and European-American elders: results from the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of AgingDavid V Espino
Division of Community Geriatrics, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:822-7. 2004.... - Acetaminophen, pesticide, and diethylhexyl phthalate metabolites, anandamide, and fatty acids in deciduous molars: potential biomarkers of perinatal exposureDavid E Camann
Analytical and Environmental Chemistry Department, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228 0510, USA
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 23:190-6. 2013..Validation studies are necessary to verify that each detected chemical in molars provides a biomarker of perinatal exposure... - The default mode network and related right hemisphere structures may be the key substrates of dementiaDonald R Royall
Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
J Alzheimers Dis 32:467-78. 2012..The latent variable d localizes to elements of the default mode network and related structures in the R hemisphere... - Participatory decision making, patient activation, medication adherence, and intermediate clinical outcomes in type 2 diabetes: a STARNet studyMichael L Parchman
VERDICT Health Services Research Program, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas 78229 4404, USA
Ann Fam Med 8:410-7. 2010..Participatory decision making (PDM) is associated with improved diabetes control. We examine a causal model linking PDM to improved clinical outcomes that included patient activation and medication adherence... - Patient outcomes at 26 months in the patient-centered medical home National Demonstration ProjectCarlos Roberto Jaen
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
Ann Fam Med 8:S57-67; S92. 2010..The purpose of this study was to evaluate patient outcomes in the National Demonstration Project (NDP) of practices' transition to patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs)... - Association between change in systolic blood pressure and cognitive decline among elderly Mexican Americans: data from the Hispanic established population for epidemiology study of the elderlyKathleen C Insel
University of Arizona, College of Nursing, Tuscon, AZ 85721 0203, USA
Exp Aging Res 31:35-54. 2005..These findings suggest an association between increasing SBP and cognitive decline for normotensive elderly in this study population... - The metabolic syndrome mediates the relationship between cynical hostility and cardiovascular diseaseTracy L Nelson
Department of Health and Exercise Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
Exp Aging Res 30:163-77. 2004..Results were adjusted for baseline CVD, smoking, and age. These findings suggest that a clustering of CVD risk factors partially mediate the association between cynicism and CVD in an older population...