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| Patrick G O'MalleySummaryAffiliation: Walter Reed Army Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Prognostic value of coronary electron-beam computed tomography for coronary heart disease events in asymptomatic populationsP G O'Malley
General Internal Medicine Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Am J Cardiol 85:945-8. 2000..Further study is needed on the incremental value of EBCT over conventional risk prediction before this test is used in screening asymptomatic populations...- The impact of cardiovascular risk factor case management on the metabolic syndrome in a primary prevention population: results from a randomized controlled trialPatrick G O'Malley
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Cardiology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307, USA
J Cardiometab Syndr 1:6-12. 2006..Further study is needed to clarify the overall health impact of preventing the metabolic syndrome... - Studying optimal healing environments: challenges and proposalsPatrick G O'Malley
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307 5001, USA
J Altern Complement Med 11:S17-22. 2005.... - Cost-effectiveness of using electron beam computed tomography to identify patients at risk for clinical coronary artery diseasePatrick G O'Malley
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Am Heart J 148:106-13. 2004..The use of electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) to screen for coronary artery calcification (CAC) has been widely promulgated, although the cost effectiveness of this practice is unknown... - Lack of correlation between psychological factors and subclinical coronary artery diseaseP G O'Malley
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
N Engl J Med 343:1298-304. 2000..We studied the relation between multiple psychological variables and subclinical coronary artery disease to assess the possible role of such variables in atherogenesis... 
The relationship between the cardiometabolic syndrome and coronary artery calcium progressionAllen J Taylor
Department of Medicine and Cardiology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 11:505-11. 2009..65; P=.022). Cardiometabolic syndrome is associated with the baseline CAC score, and independently associated with the progression of CAC over 4 years...- Comparison of coronary artery calcium progression in African American and white menAllen J Taylor
Department of Medicine and Cardiology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 3:71-7. 2009..In a prospective rescan substudy of the Prospective Army Coronary Calcium (PACC) Project, we evaluated ethnic differences in the rates of CAC progression over 4 years... - Coronary calcium independently predicts incident premature coronary heart disease over measured cardiovascular risk factors: mean three-year outcomes in the Prospective Army Coronary Calcium (PACC) projectAllen J Taylor
Department of Medicine, Cardiology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307 5001, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 46:807-14. 2005..We sought to examine the independent predictive value of coronary artery calcium detection for coronary outcomes in a non-referred cohort of healthy men and women ages 40 to 50 years... - Community-based provision of statin and aspirin after the detection of coronary artery calcium within a community-based screening cohortAllen J Taylor
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307 5001, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 51:1337-41. 2008..We examined the association of coronary artery calcium (CAC) detected on a screening exam with subsequent statin and aspirin usage in a healthy male screening cohort... - Relation between the Framingham Risk Score, coronary calcium, and incident coronary heart disease among low-risk menAllen J Taylor
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Am J Cardiol 106:47-50. 2010..3). In conclusion, CAC screening could be of benefit in refining risk assessment of low-risk men, but only when the FRS exceeds approximately 5%... - Does the diagnosis of coronary calcification with electron beam computed tomography motivate behavioral change in smokers?Patrick G O'Malley
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307, USA
Mil Med 167:211-4. 2002..Electron beam computed tomography is promoted as a test that may enhance patient motivation to alter cardiovascular risk behaviors... - Conventional, emerging, heredity, lifestyle, and psychosocial coronary risk factors: relationships to subclinical atherosclerosisAllen J Taylor
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307 5001, USA
Prev Cardiol 9:25-32. 2006..The large residual variance, however, supports the potential of atherosclerosis imaging to incrementally and independently identify coronary heart disease risk... - Progression of calcified coronary atherosclerosis: relationship to coronary risk factors and carotid intima-media thicknessAllen J Taylor
Department of Medicine and Cardiology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307 5001, USA
Atherosclerosis 197:339-45. 2008..We hypothesized that the extent of non-calcified atherosclerosis detected using carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) would predict progression of calcified atherosclerosis... - The relationship between subclinical atherosclerosis and electrocardiographic abnormalities as biomarkers of cardiovascular riskAllen J Taylor
Cardiology Service, Department of Medicine and Radiology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307 5001, USA
Biomarkers 13:496-504. 2008..This suggests these two biomarkers may be complementary towards broader detection of latent CV risk... - Does prolonged warfarin exposure potentiate coronary calcification in humans? Results of the warfarin and coronary calcification studyTodd C Villines
Cardiology Service, Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20307, USA
Calcif Tissue Int 85:494-500. 2009..001). Among patients without known coronary heart disease, duration of warfarin exposure was not associated with extent of coronary calcification... - Physical activity and the presence and extent of calcified coronary atherosclerosisAllen J Taylor
Cardiovascular Research, Cardiology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307 5001, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 34:228-33. 2002..These correlations suggest that higher levels of physical activity should also attenuate the presence and extent of coronary atherosclerosis... - Subclinical calcified atherosclerosis in men and its association with a family history of premature coronary heart disease in first- and second-degree relativesAllen J Taylor
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue, NW, Building 2, Room 4A, Washington, DC 20307 5001, USA
Prev Cardiol 7:163-7. 2004..41; p=0.049) family history of coronary heart disease were similar. Clinical coronary risk assessments should broadly include an assessment of premature coronary heart disease in both first- and second-degree relatives... - Relationship between depression and C-reactive protein in a screening populationKevin M Douglas
General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Psychosom Med 66:679-83. 2004..This study examined the relationship between CRP and depression in a cohort of participants undergoing a periodic physical to assess potential for interaction as either mediation or confounding of effect on cardiovascular risk... - Postmenopausal osteoporosis risk management in primary care: how well does it adhere to national practice guidelines?Gina S Wei
VA Medical Center in Washington, DC, USA
J Am Med Womens Assoc 58:99-104. 2003..This study evaluated primary care adherence to the recommendations and factors associated with such adherence... - Relation between coronary artery calcium and incident chest pain in a community-dwelling screening populationAllen J Taylor
Cardiology Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Am J Cardiol 96:61-3. 2005..Incident chest pain is common and should be examined according to a patient's pretest probability of developing coronary artery disease, without excessive influence of the presence of coronary artery calcium... - Impact of electron beam tomography, with or without case management, on motivation, behavioral change, and cardiovascular risk profile: a randomized controlled trialPatrick G O'Malley
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307 5001, USA
JAMA 289:2215-23. 2003..Although the use of electron beam tomography (EBT) as a motivational tool to change behavior is practiced, its efficacy has not been studied... - Ethical practice under fire: deployed physicians in the global war on terrorismLaura L Sessums
Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20307, USA
Mil Med 174:441-7. 2009..We also present examples of ethical challenges deployed clinicians have faced and their ethical solution. Finally, we propose a practical strategy to educate physicians on how to manage complex ethical dilemmas in war time settings... - The presence of psychiatric disorders reduces the likelihood of neurologic disease among referrals to a neurology clinicJohn R Ekstrand
General Internal Medicine Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
J Psychosom Res 57:11-6. 2004..This study aims to explore the prevalence and impact of psychiatric disorders on the likelihood of an organic, neurological explanation for symptoms among neurology referrals... - Antidepressants and cognitive-behavioral therapy for symptom syndromesJeffrey L Jackson
Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
CNS Spectr 11:212-22. 2006..For some syndromes, the data for or against treatment effectiveness is relatively robust, for many, however, the data, one way or the other is scanty...