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| C D ZickSummaryAffiliation: University of Utah Country: USA Publications
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Genetic testing for Alzheimer's disease and its impact on insurance purchasing behaviorCathleen D Zick
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:483-90. 2005..If genetic testing for Alzheimer's risk assessment becomes common, it could trigger adverse selection in long-term care insurance...- Re-visiting the relationship between neighbourhood environment and BMI: an instrumental variables approach to correcting for residential selection biasCathleen D Zick
Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, 225 South 1400 East, Room 220, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 10:27. 2013..In cross-sectional studies, non-random residential selection impedes researchers' ability to conclude that neighbourhood environments cause these outcomes... 
An assessment of the wealth holdings of recent widowsC D Zick
Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 55:S90-7. 2000..This study examines the wealth holdings of recent widows, how they compare to those of married couple households, and the potential to use this wealth to augment the incomes of widowed women...- Genetic testing, adverse selection, and the demand for life insuranceC D Zick
Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
Am J Med Genet 93:29-39. 2000..Our analyses show that women who test positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation do not capitalize on their informational advantage by purchasing more life insurance than those women who have not undergone genetic testing... - Time use choices and healthy body weight: a multivariate analysis of data from the American Time Use SurveyCathleen D Zick
Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 8:84. 2011..We also estimate three alternative models that relate time use to BMI... 
Trends in Americans' food-related time use: 1975-2006Cathleen D Zick
Department of Family and Consumer Studies, Institute of Public and International Affairs, University of Utah, 225 South 1400 East, Room 228, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Public Health Nutr 13:1064-72. 2010..To describe how the time spent in food-related activities by Americans has changed over the past 30 years...- Running to the store? The relationship between neighborhood environments and the risk of obesityCathleen D Zick
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Soc Sci Med 69:1493-500. 2009..Finally, multiple food options within a neighborhood reduce BMI/obesity risk, relative to no food options, for individuals living in either low-income or non-low neighborhoods... - Mixed land use and walkability: Variations in land use measures and relationships with BMI, overweight, and obesityBarbara B Brown
Department of Family and Consumer Studies, 225 S 1400 E RM 228, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0080, USA
Health Place 15:1130-41. 2009..Thus the presence of walkable land uses, rather than their equal mixture, relates to healthy weight... - Are you what your mother weighs? Evaluating the impact of maternal weight trajectories on youth overweightLori Kowaleski-Jones
Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112 0080, USA
Matern Child Health J 14:680-6. 2010..Maternal weight histories offer additional insights about the youth's home environment that are associated with the risk of a youth being overweight... - Walkability and body mass index density, design, and new diversity measuresKen R Smith
Department of Family and Consumer Studies, 225 S 1400 E RM 228, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT 84112 0080, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:237-44. 2008..S. have increased interest in community designs that encourage healthy weight. This study relates neighborhood walkability-density, pedestrian-friendly design, and two novel measures of land-use diversity-to residents' excess weight... - Physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthoodCathleen D Zick
Dept of Family and Consumer Studies and Institute for Public and International Affairs, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Phys Act Health 4:125-37. 2007..We examine how age, life course roles, and contextual variables relate to both the composition and the overall level of physical activity in late adolescence and early adulthood... - Voluntary disclosure of BRCA1 mutation test resultsKen R Smith
Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Genet Test 6:89-92. 2002..High rates of disclosure to family members should promote awareness of hereditary cancer risk. Selective disclosure to co-workers and insurers may promote information asymmetries that could affect employment and insurance markets... - Risk of mortality following widowhood: age and sex differences by mode of deathK R Smith
Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
Soc Biol 43:59-71. 1996..These gender, age, and mode-of-death differences are consistent with role theory and theories of social support...