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Socioeconomic inequality of obesity in the United States: do gender, age, and ethnicity matter?Qi Zhang
Department of Medicine, MC2007, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Soc Sci Med 58:1171-80. 2004..Our analyses suggested that gender, age, and ethnicity could be important factors on socioeconomic inequality in obesity...- Trends in the association between obesity and socioeconomic status in U.S. adults: 1971 to 2000Qi Zhang
Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Obes Res 12:1622-32. 2004..To study the secular trends in the disparity of obesity across socioeconomic status (SES) groups among U.S. adults... 
Upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage: have new therapeutics made a difference?Chad T Whelan
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
J Hosp Med 4:E6-10. 2009..To explore the distribution of etiologies and risk factors of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage (UGH) in the context of new pharmacologic therapies that may alter the risk of UGH...
The increasing number of clinical items addressed during the time of adult primary care visitsElmer D Abbo
Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:2058-65. 2008..Primary care physicians report that there is insufficient time to meet patients' needs during clinical visits, but visit time has increased over the past decade...- The effect of comorbid illness and functional status on the expected benefits of intensive glucose control in older patients with type 2 diabetes: a decision analysisElbert S Huang
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Ann Intern Med 149:11-9. 2008..Physicians are uncertain about when to pursue intensive glucose control among older patients with diabetes... - Do hospitalists or physicians with greater inpatient HIV experience improve HIV care in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy? Results from a multicenter trial of academic hospitalistsJohn A Schneider
Department of Medicine, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Clin Infect Dis 46:1085-92. 2008..Hospitalists are caring for this population with increasing frequency... - The cost-effectiveness of improving diabetes care in U.S. federally qualified community health centersElbert S Huang
The University of Chicago, 5841 S, Maryland Avenue, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Health Serv Res 42:2174-93; discussion 2294-323. 2007..To estimate the incremental cost-effectiveness of improving diabetes care with the Health Disparities Collaborative (HDC), a national collaborative quality improvement (QI) program conducted in community health centers (HCs)... - Are American children and adolescents of low socioeconomic status at increased risk of obesity? Changes in the association between overweight and family income between 1971 and 2002Youfa Wang
Center for Human Nutrition, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 84:707-16. 2006..A good understanding of the association between obesity and socioeconomic status (SES) has many important public health and policies implications, particularly for the prevention and management of obesity... - Using concentration index to study changes in socio-economic inequality of overweight among US adolescents between 1971 and 2002Qi Zhang
School of Community and Environmental Health, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
Int J Epidemiol 36:916-25. 2007..The prevalence of overweight among adolescents continues to increase in the United States. This study examines the changes in socio-economic status (SES) inequality of overweight among US adolescents in the past three decades... - Increased serum glycated albumin level is associated with the presence and severity of coronary artery disease in type 2 diabetic patientsLi Jin Pu
Department of Cardiology, Rui Jin Hospital, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People s Republic of China
Circ J 71:1067-73. 2007..The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between increased serum glycated albumin level and the presence and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)... - Increased glycated albumin and decreased esRAGE concentrations are associated with in-stent restenosis in Chinese diabetic patientsLin Lu
Department of Cardiology, Rui Jin Hospital, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People s Republic of China
Clin Chim Acta 396:33-7. 2008..We investigated the impact of glycated albumin (GA) and endogenous secretory receptor for advanced glycation end products (esRAGE) and RAGE polymorphisms on occurrence of in-stent restenosis (ISR) in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes... - Clinical comparison of branched DNA and reverse transcriptase-PCR and nucleic acid sequence-based amplification assay for the quantitation of circulating recombinant form_BC HIV-1 RNA in plasmaPinliang Pan
National Center for AIDS STD Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
AIDS 21:S27-32. 2007..To investigate the correlation between three viral load assays for circulating recombinant form (CRF)_BC... - Early infant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 detection suitable for resource-limited settings with multiple circulating subtypes by use of nested three-monoplex DNA PCR and dried blood spotsQi Zhang
National Center for Women and Children s Health, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100013, People s Republic of China
J Clin Microbiol 46:721-6. 2008..7% at 1 to 2 months, and 100% at 3 to 6 months of age. The HIV-1 DNA N3M-PCR assay on DBSs offers a simple and affordable approach for early infant HIV-1 diagnosis in regions with diverse HIV-1 circulating subtypes... - Outcomes after primary coronary intervention with drug-eluting stent implantation in diabetic patients with acute ST elevation myocardial infarctionQi Zhang
Department of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Chin Med J (Engl) 120:1862-7. 2007..This study aimed to investigate the clinical outcomes after primary coronary intervention with DES implantation for diabetic patients with acute STEMI, compared with non-diabetic counterparts... - Situational analysis of dental caries and existing oral health care of children and adolescents in Hubei Province, People's Republic of China: implications for changeQi Zhang
Key Laboratory for Oral Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Luoyu Road 237, Wuhan, 430079, PR China
Oral Health Prev Dent 6:13-21. 2008..2) To conduct a situational analysis of existing oral health care and to recommend changes to improve this care for children... - One-step purification of a fusion protein of glucagon-like peptide-1 and human serum albumin expressed in pichia pastoris by an immunomagnetic separation techniqueJiaqi Chen
Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Nankai University, Tianjin 30071, China
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 71:2655-62. 2007..Overall, this study illustrates the development of a long-acting GLP-1/HSA fusion protein expressed in Pichia pastoris... - Detection of Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus on the permanent first molars of the Mosuo people in ChinaHongkun Wu
Department of Endodontics, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, PR China
Caries Res 37:374-80. 2003..mutans or S. sobrinus alone. These results indicate that subjects harboring both S. mutans and S. sobrinus have a significantly higher prevalence of dental caries than those with S. mutans or S. sobrinus alone... - [The distribution of angiotensin converting enzyme gene I/D polymorphism and its relationship with essential hypertension]Qi Zhang
Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Kailuan Hospital, North China Coal Medical College, Tangshan, Hebei, 063000 PR China
Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi 20:438-40. 2003..To observe the distribution character of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism in Chinese population and its relationship with essential hypertension... - A coarse-grained model and associated lattice Monte Carlo simulation of the coil-helix transition of a homopolypeptideYantao Chen
Department of Macromolecular Science, Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
J Chem Phys 120:3467-74. 2004..A propagation parameter and a nucleation parameter have also been calculated, which compares favorably with the results of the Zimm-Bragg theory for the coil-helix transition... - Caries experience variables as indicators in caries risk assessment in 6-7-year-old Chinese childrenQi Zhang
Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering, Wuhan University, Ministry of Education and Department of Endodontics, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, PR China
J Dent 34:676-81. 2006..The aim of the present study is to investigate variables of the past caries experience as indicators of future caries in a Chinese child population... - [Study on the epidemiology and HCV genotype distribution of HIV/HCV co-infection among HIV infected blood donors in China]Zhen Liu
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China
Zhonghua Gan Zang Bing Za Zhi 14:464-5. 2006 
Value of serum glycated albumin and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels in the prediction of presence of coronary artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetesLi Jin Pu
Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Rui Jin Hospital, Jiaotong Univerisity Medical School, Shanghai, People s Republic of China
Cardiovasc Diabetol 5:27. 2006..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical value of serum glycated albumin and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) levels in predicting the presence of CAD in patients with type 2 diabetes...- [Atopy spectrum and its relationship with clinical characteristics in asthmatic children under 4 years of age]Li Xiang
Center of Asthma, Bejing Children s Hospital Affiliated to Capital University of Medical Science, Beijing 100045, China
Zhongguo Dang Dai Er Ke Za Zhi 8:457-60. 2006..To study the atopy spectrum and the influence of clinical characteristics upon it in asthmatic children under 4 years of age... - Association of serum levels of glycated albumin, C-reactive protein and tumor necrosis factor-alpha with the severity of coronary artery disease and renal impairment in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitusLin Lu
Department of Cardiology, Rui Jin Hospital, Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China
Clin Biochem 40:810-6. 2007.... - Gene expression of primary human bronchial epithelial cells in response to coal dusts with different prevalence of coal workers' pneumoconiosisWenwei Hu
Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York 10016, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 66:1249-65. 2003..This study is one of the first in profiling gene expressions of primary bronchial epithelial cells treated with coals from various seams, which may set stages for future studies on specific genes...