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Is ignorance bliss? Depression, antidepressants, and the diagnosis of prediabetes and type 2 diabetesBriana Mezuk
Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Health Psychol 32:254-63. 2013..To examine the association between clinically identified and undiagnosed prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes with depression and antidepressant medication use...- Examining variation in depressive symptoms over the life course: a latent class analysisB MEZUK
Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Psychol Med 42:2037-46. 2012..The aim of this study was to examine variation in depressive symptomatology in the general population across the lifespan... 
Depression and body composition among older adultsBriana Mezuk
Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA
Aging Ment Health 16:167-72. 2012..The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between depression and body composition among older adults...- Depression and frailty in later life: a synthetic reviewBriana Mezuk
Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 27:879-92. 2012..This review synthesizes existing studies that examined depression and frailty among older adults and provides suggestions for future research... - The influence of a major disaster on suicide risk in the populationBriana Mezuk
Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine, Richmond, VA 23298 0212, USA
J Trauma Stress 22:481-8. 2009..g., cultural norms, availability of lethal methods) may be key drivers of suicide risk in this context... - Job strain, depressive symptoms, and drinking behavior among older adults: results from the health and retirement studyBriana Mezuk
Department of Epidemiology and Community Heath, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 66:426-34. 2011..To examine the relationship between job strain and two indicators of mental health, depression and alcohol misuse, among currently employed older adults... - Reconsidering the role of social disadvantage in physical and mental health: stressful life events, health behaviors, race, and depressionBriana Mezuk
Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298, USA
Am J Epidemiol 172:1238-49. 2010..34) relative to 1 (OR = 1.12) and ≥2 (OR = 0.94) poor health behaviors. Findings are consistent with the proposed model of mental and physical health disparities... - Evaluating the buffering vs. direct effects hypotheses of emotional social support on inflammatory markers: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosisBriana Mezuk
Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, School ofMedicine, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Brain Behav Immun 24:1294-300. 2010..042). Overall, social support was only modestly associated with inflammation in this relatively healthy sample, and these relationships varied by age and gender... - Anticonvulsant use, bipolar disorder, and risk of fracture among older adults in the Veterans Health AdministrationBriana Mezuk
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:245-55. 2010..To investigate the association between anticonvulsant use and fracture risk among older patients, including those with bipolar disorder (BD), an indicated condition for treatment with this class of medications... - Voluntary and involuntary driving cessation in later lifeMoon Choi
Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
J Gerontol Soc Work 55:367-76. 2012..These findings imply that distinction between voluntary and involuntary driving cessation is ambiguous and that factors beyond health status, including financial strain, play a role in the transition to non-driving... - Subsidized housing not subsidized health: health status and fatigue among elders in public housing and other community settingsPamela L Parsons
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Internal Medicine, Box 980102, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Ethn Dis 21:85-90. 2011..To estimate trends in the prevalence of fatigue among elders living in public housing or in the community; to compare health status of elders living in public housing to their community-dwelling counterparts... - Examining the aging process through the stress-coping framework: application to driving cessation in later lifeMoon Choi
Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Aging Ment Health 16:75-83. 2012.... - Depression, stress, and heart disease in earthquakes and Takotsubo cardiomyopathyW Victor R Vieweg
Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 23238 5414, USA
Am J Med 124:900-7. 2011....