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| M PaltaSummaryAffiliation: University of Wisconsin Country: USA Publications
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Latent variables, measurement error and methods for analysing longitudinal binary and ordinal dataM Palta
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison 53705, USA
Stat Med 18:385-96. 1999....- Respiratory symptoms at age 8 years in a cohort of very low birth weight childrenM Palta
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Am J Epidemiol 154:521-9. 2001..Antenatal steroid therapy had a borderline-significant protective association with wheezing (odds ratio = 0.56, 95% confidence interval: 0.29, 1.1). There were interaction effects between several of the predictors... - Functional assessment of a multicenter very low-birth-weight cohort at age 5 years. Newborn Lung ProjectM Palta
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53705, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 154:23-30. 2000..Most studies reflect an era of neonatal care that was fundamentally different from the present... - Chronic nasal congestion at night is a risk factor for snoring in a population-based cohort studyT Young
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:1514-9. 2001..Intervention studies are needed to determine if snoring can be reduced with treatment of nasal congestion... - The gender bias in sleep apnea diagnosis. Are women missed because they have different symptoms?T Young
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Arch Intern Med 156:2445-51. 1996..In this investigation, data from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, a community-based study of the natural history of sleep apnea, were used to determine whether women with sleep apnea have unique symptoms or complaints... - Age-related maculopathy in a multiracial United States population: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IIIR Klein
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53705 2397, USA
Ophthalmology 106:1056-65. 1999..To investigate the prevalence of and risk factors for age-related maculopathy (ARM) in three racial/ethnic groups: non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and Mexican-Americans... - Risk factors for frequent and severe hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetesC Allen
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
Diabetes Care 24:1878-81. 2001..To determine the risk of frequent and severe hypoglycemia and the associated demographic and clinical risk factors... - Prospective study of the association between sleep-disordered breathing and hypertensionP E Peppard
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison 53705, USA
N Engl J Med 342:1378-84. 2000.... - Lutein and zeaxanthin in the diet and serum and their relation to age-related maculopathy in the third national health and nutrition examination surveyJ A Mares-Perlman
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 610 North Walnut Street, 460 WARF, Madison, WI 53705 2397, USA
Am J Epidemiol 153:424-32. 2001..Relations of these carotenoids to ARM may be influenced by age and race and require further evaluation in separate populations and in prospective studies... - Blood pressure perturbations caused by subclinical sleep-disordered breathingB J Morgan
Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Sleep 21:737-46. 1998..We speculate that these fluctuations may play a role in the pathogenesis of hypertension in individuals with subclinical sleep-disordered breathing... - Long-term hyperglycemia is related to peripheral nerve changes at a diabetes duration of 4 years. The Wisconsin Diabetes RegistryC Allen
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53705, USA
Diabetes Care 20:1154-8. 1997..To examine longitudinal hyperglycemia and peripheral nerve responses in a population-based incident cohort... - Longitudinal study of moderate weight change and sleep-disordered breathingP E Peppard
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, 502 N Walnut St, Madison, WI 53705, USA
JAMA 284:3015-21. 2000..Excess body weight is positively associated with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), a prevalent condition in the US general population. No large study has been conducted of the longitudinal association between SDB and change in weight... - Vitamin supplement use and incident cataracts in a population-based studyJ A Mares-Perlman
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison Medical School, 610 N Walnut St, 460 WARF, Madison, WI 53705 2397, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 118:1556-63. 2000..To determine the relationship between vitamin supplement use and the 5-year incidence of nuclear, cortical, and posterior subcapsular cataract in the Beaver Dam Eye Study cohort... - Temporal association between hospitalization and rate of falls after dischargeJ E Mahoney
Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 2870 University Ave, Suite 100, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Arch Intern Med 160:2788-95. 2000..Evidence suggests that acute illness and hospitalization may increase the risk for falls... - Sleep-disordered breathing and motor vehicle accidents in a population-based sample of employed adultsT Young
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53705, USA
Sleep 20:608-13. 1997..If the association is causal, unrecognized sleep-disordered breathing may account for a significant proportion of motor vehicle accidents... - Snoring as part of a dose-response relationship between sleep-disordered breathing and blood pressureT Young
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Sleep 19:S202-5. 1996..The results provide evidence that simple snoring represents the beginning of the SDB severity spectrum and that simple snoring has a proportionately smaller but, nevertheless, significant, risk for elevated blood pressure and CVD... 
Association of BPD and IVH with early neutrophil and white counts in VLBW neonates with gestational age <32 weeksM Palta
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53726, USA
J Perinatol 28:604-10. 2008....- Estimation of the clinically diagnosed proportion of sleep apnea syndrome in middle-aged men and womenT Young
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53705, USA
Sleep 20:705-6. 1997..These findings provide a baseline for assessing health care resource needs for sleep apnea... - Sleep-disordered breathing and self-reported general health status in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort StudyL Finn
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53705, USA
Sleep 21:701-6. 1998..Given the growing emphasis of the importance of patients' perceptions of health, these findings are relevant to estimating the overall impact of sleep-disordered breathing... - Relationship of dietary fat to age-related maculopathy in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyR A Heuberger
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 610 N Walnut St, 460 WARF, Madison, WI 53705-2397, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 119:1833-8. 2001..Further adjustments for other potential confounders did not significantly affect the ORs. CONCLUSION: Age-related maculopathy was not significantly associated with dietary fat in this large cross-sectional survey... - Problems of older adults living alone after hospitalizationJ E Mahoney
Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, and Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI 53705, USA
J Gen Intern Med 15:611-9. 2000..More intensive resources may be required to continue community living and maximize independence... - A semiautomated ultrasound border detection program that facilitates clinical measurement of ultrasound carotid intima-media thicknessJames H Stein
Atherosclerosis Imaging Research, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, G7 341 CSC MC 3248, Madison, WI 53792, USA
J Am Soc Echocardiogr 18:244-51. 2005..001). We conclude that our novel AUTO CIMT measurement program improved reproducibility and was accurate. Compared with MAN tracing, the AUTO method agreed better with the REF lab and decreased reading time... - A longitudinal measurement error model with a semicontinuous covariateLiang Li
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Wb4, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
Biometrics 61:824-30. 2005..The estimation procedure is similar to regression calibration but involves a distributional assumption for the latent variable. Modeling and model-fitting strategies are explored and illustrated through an example from the WSCS... - The association of increased total glycosylated hemoglobin levels with delayed age at menarche in young women with type 1 diabetesKirstie K Danielson
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53726 2397, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 90:6466-71. 2005..The effect of diabetes management on menarche is important to clarify, because tighter control might prevent these complications... - School achievement in a regional cohort of children born very low birthweightErika W Hagen
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 27:112-20. 2006..VLBW children more likely to struggle academically could be identified by early childhood measures, allowing for targeted interventions to mitigate their difficulties... - Lower-than-expected prevalence and severity of retinopathy in an incident cohort followed during the first 4-14 years of type 1 diabetes: the Wisconsin Diabetes Registry StudyTamara Lecaire
Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, 53726, USA
Am J Epidemiol 164:143-50. 2006..The observed decreased prevalence has important implications for persons with type 1 diabetes, since retinopathy is a serious microvascular complication... - Pulmonary testing using peak flow meters of very low birth weight children born in the perisurfactant era and school controls at age 10 yearsMari Palta
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 42:819-28. 2007..4 (95% CI: 2.0-9.8) for FEV(1) and 5.1 (95% CI: 2.0-13.2) for diurnal PEF variation. Our results show that respiratory abnormalities persist to at least age 10 years for VLBW children born in the surfactant era... - Increases in central aortic impedance precede alterations in arterial stiffness measures in type 1 diabetesNancy K Sweitzer
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Diabetes Care 30:2886-91. 2007..This study was performed to define early changes in central arterial properties in a group of young individuals with type 1 diabetes... - US norms for six generic health-related quality-of-life indexes from the National Health Measurement studyDennis G Fryback
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA
Med Care 45:1162-70. 2007..A number of indexes measuring self-reported generic health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) using preference-weighted scoring are used widely in population surveys and clinical studies in the United States... 
PedsQL relates to function and behavior in very low and normal birth weight 2- and 3-year-olds from a regional cohortMari Palta
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, 610 Walnut Street, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Qual Life Res 17:691-700. 2008..To compare PedsQL scores in young children who were very low (< or =1,500 g) or normal birth weight (>2,500 g) and to examine the relationship of the PedsQL score to behavioral and functional scores...- Permissive hypercapnia and risk for brain injury and developmental impairmentErika W Hagen
University of Wisconsin, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, 610 Walnut St, WARF 662, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Pediatrics 122:e583-9. 2008.... - Outcomes monitoring of health, behavior, and quality of life after nutrition intervention in adults with type 2 diabetesChristina C Lemon
Department of Human Biology, University of Wisconsin Green Bay, WI, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 104:1805-15. 2004.... - Cardiovascular disease, mortality, and retinal microvascular characteristics in type 1 diabetes: Wisconsin epidemiologic study of diabetic retinopathyBarbara E K Klein
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53726, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:1917-24. 2004..Retinal vascular characteristics were associated with these end points, but this association was confounded by nephropathy... - Bias adjustment in analysing longitudinal data with informative missingnessSoomin Park
Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 W. Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Stat Med 21:277-91. 2002..We apply the methods to data from the Wisconsin Diabetes Registry Project, a longitudinal study tracking glycaemic control and acute and chronic complications from the diagnosis of type I diabetes... - HLA-DR3 and DR4 and their relation to the incidence and progression of diabetic retinopathyTien Yin Wong
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53705-2397, USA
Ophthalmology 109:275-81. 2002.... - The relation of retinal vessel caliber to the incidence and progression of diabetic retinopathy: XIX: the Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic RetinopathyRonald Klein
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53726, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 122:76-83. 2004..To describe the relation of retinal arteriolar and venular caliber to the incidence and progression of diabetic retinopathy in people with type 1 diabetes mellitus... - The effect of correction of sleep-disordered breathing on BP in untreated hypertensionK Mae Hla
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 2828 Marshall Court, Suite 100, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Chest 122:1125-32. 2002.... - Relations of serum ascorbic acid and alpha-tocopherol to diabetic retinopathy in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyAmy E Millen
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53705-2397, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:225-33. 2003..In summary, no significant associations were observed between serum levels of major dietary antioxidants and retinopathy. Recent use of supplements for treatment of complications of diabetes may explain the direct associations... - Retinal vascular abnormalities in persons with type 1 diabetes: the Wisconsin Epidemiologic Study of Diabetic Retinopathy: XVIIIRonald Klein
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA
Ophthalmology 110:2118-25. 2003..To describe the distribution of retinal vascular characteristics and their correlates in people with type 1 diabetes... - Self-rated health among young people with type 1 diabetes in relation to risk factors in a longitudinal studyGuan Hua Huang
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:364-72. 2004..This could imply either that there is variability in perception even with the same health status or that there are independent unmeasured risk factors for poor health in persons with type 1 diabetes... - Relation between intake of vitamins C and E and risk of diabetic retinopathy in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities StudyAmy E Millen
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 610 North Walnut Street, 405 WARF Building, Madison, WI 53705-2197, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 79:865-73. 2004..The observed association between risk of retinopathy and supplement use may reflect nondietary factors or a possible benefit of supplementation... - Postmenopausal hormone therapy and its association with cognitive impairmentJulie L Mitchell
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA
Arch Intern Med 163:2485-90. 2003..Results of recent trials suggest that HT is inappropriate for prevention of heart disease, and we sought to determine the role of HT in the risk of cognitive impairment... - Validation of a carotid intima-media thickness border detection program for use in an office settingAdam D Gepner
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI 53792, USA
J Am Soc Echocardiogr 19:223-8. 2006..1%) or NOV (7.8%) reader. CONCLUSION: CIMT measurements using BDP were accurate and reproducible. It was mastered easily by a NOV reader and appeared suitable for use in an office setting... - Relation of blood homocysteine and its nutritional determinants to age-related maculopathy in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyRoschelle A Heuberger
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53705-2397, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 76:897-902. 2002..There is a need for further investigation to rule out potential associations in subgroups with low folate status that may not have been detected because of the cross-sectional survey design... - Properties of R(2) statistics for logistic regressionBo Hu
Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1300 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Stat Med 25:1383-95. 2006..Statistical variability can then be taken into account when assessing the predictive value of a logistic regression model... - Testing model fit in longitudinal data analysis against alternatives with omitted covariatesJin Wang
Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 W Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706-1685, USA
Stat Med 21:729-41. 2002..We study the significance level and the power of the quasi-score test in linear and logistic regression models. The test is then applied to an analysis of excessive daytime sleepiness... - A measurement error model with a Poisson distributed surrogateLiang Li
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Wb4, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Stat Med 23:2527-36. 2004..No distributional assumption is made for the unobserved covariate. The proposed method is illustrated with an example from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study...