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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Adventist Health Study"”.
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Correlates of soy food consumption in Adventist Health Study-2
<p>Much has been discussed about the health benefits and risks of soy consumption but very little is known about who the consumers are. Most of what is known has been observed mainly in Asian populations who consume high levels of soy. Very little is known about soy food intake in the western …
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Long Term Weight Variability in Adults of Adventist Health Study 1 and 2
… weight loss - an effect that will attenuate health risk related to overweight and obesity. One potential approach to controlling for this bias would be to examine fluctuations in weight during the adult lifespan by considering multiple measures of weight or recall of body weight during …
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The Effects of Physical Activity and Nutrient Intake on the Risk of Hip Fracture : Results From The Adventist Health Study-2
<p>This is a two year of follow up study of Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2). We assessed the association between physical activity, nutrient intake and risk of hip fracture among peri- and post menopausal Caucasian women using unconditional logistic regression models. All subjects completed a …
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Assessing the Prevalence of Inadequate Nutrient Intake Among Vegetarians and Non-Vegetarians Using the Estimated Average Requirement : Results From the Adventist Health Study-2 Calibration Study
… six months apart were taken from a cohort of the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) calibration study whom were residing across United States and Canada. A vegetarian subgroup from this cohort was identified and their nutrient intake were assessed using the EAR cut-point method. The type and …
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Convergent Validity of Self Reported Physical Activity with a Seven Day Recall
… due to their inherent subjectivity. The Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) survey includes exercise items that were validated in the present investigation. A calibration study examined self-reports of exercise with two phone calls to 1,000 participants in which an interview-assisted 7-day …
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The Effects of Poverty and Allostatic Load on the Development of Chronic Disease
… there is a significant impact of poverty on poor health outcomes. Poverty is associated with limited access to education and healthcare, increased exposure to violence, and chronic stress that contribute to the development of chronic diseases. The poverty and chronic disease relationship is …
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The Relationship between Subsyndromal Symptomatic Depression and Cognitive Dysfunction
… 65 and older were recruited as part of the Adventist Health Study-2 Cognition and Neuroimaging Substudy and underwent comprehensive neuropsychological testing. Results of an independent samples t-test revealed that individuals who met criteria for SSD performed significantly worse in the …
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Relationship between Nut Consumption and Memory Domains of Cognitive Function Among Elderly Seventh-day Adventists
… data from the Biopsychosocial Religion and Health Study and dietary intake data from the Adventist Health Study-2.</p> <p><strong>Subjects/Methods</strong>. Adults aged 50 and older were administered the California Verbal Learning Test-II (CVLT) Short Form and provided self-report frequency …
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The Role of Meat, Poultry, and Fish Consumption in the Occurrence of Rheumatoid and Other Forms of Arthritis
… of meat, poultry, and fish (meat) using the Adventist Health Study and the Adventist Mortality Study databases. From these databases, it was possible to reconstruct a prospective cohort, obtain self-reported information on demographic characteristics, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, other …
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Vegetarian Dietary Patterns: Mortality, Colorectal Cancer, and Food Consumption
… by a minority of persons. Studies of important health outcomes of such diets, particularly for all-cause mortality and colorectal cancer risk, have yielded inconsistent results. We sought to examine these outcomes (mortality and colorectal cancer incidence) in a large North-American cohort. We …
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Prediction of 1976 Diabetes Incidence from 1960 Animal Product Consumption among California Seventh-Day Adventists
… diabetes incidence among California Seventh-day Adventists who were cohort members of the Adventist Mortality Study (Kahn, 1984) and the Adventist Health Study (Hammond, 1966). This study also enabled us to relate long term vegetarian dietary patterns to diabetes incidence.</p> <p>Respondents who …
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The Association of Fluid Intake With Total Natural-cause Mortality, Coronary Heart Disease and Fatal Stroke
… 34,192 white, non-Hispanic participants in the Adventist Health Study.</p> <p>Among the 27,342 reporting no CHD, stroke or diabetes at baseline, during six years of follow-up and adjusting for traditional risk factors for CHD, RR for fatal CHD in males drinking five or more, compared to two or …
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Association Between Obesity, Depression, and Inflammation Among Seventh-day Adventists in the Biopsychosocial Religion and Health Study
… target population consisted of 508 Seventh Day Adventists (SDAs) who participated in the Biopsychosocial Religion and Health Study (BHRS), a sub-study of the Adventist Health Study-2. The study was a cross-sectional analysis of the association between obesity, depression, and inflammation after …
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Role of Breastfeeding and Current Lifestyle on Maternal Long-Term Weight Change
… and exclusive breastfeeding is associated with health benefits to children and nursing mothers beyond the period of breastfeeding. Studies that support the role of breastfeeding in postpartum weight change primarily focused on short-term weight change (within 12 to 24 months postpartum) (Binns …
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Association of Dietary Intake Patterns with Emotion Regulation
… pattern is known to be favorably associated with health. Recent findings suggest a correlation between Mediterranean dietary patterns and positive affect, and an inverse correlation with negative affect. Trans fatty acid intake is also associated with negative affect. Further, affect disturbances …
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The Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice and Agriculture in California
… dietary preferences were quantified using the Adventist Health Study and state agricultural data were collected and applied to commodity production statistics. These data were used to calculate the difference in consumption patterns between the two diets and indices to compare the environmental …
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The Morbidity & Mortality of Prevalent Heart Failure
<p>The first study population included 292 unselected consecutive patients from the LLUMC heart failure clinic who were enrolled in the study from January to July 2006 and were followed up through the end of December 2010. The treatment policy at the clinic was to uptitrate dosages of …
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The Association of Diet with Affect
… fatty acids have been associated with mental health yet few studies have examined whether foods protective or deleterious for cardiovascular disease affect mood. The purpose of this study was to examine associations between consumption of foods typical of Mediterranean and Western diets and …
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Body Weight and Mortality Among Adults Who Never Smoked
… an association that, if causal among healthy adults, is without adequate pathophysiologic support.</p> <p>In this dissertation, I have conducted three studies that continue the investigation of adiposity in relation to mortality among never-smoking adults of the California Seventh-day …
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Secular Trends in Life Expectancy by Diet Status Among Never Smoking Seventh-day Adventists
… from 1960 through 1988, two cohort studies, the Adventist Mortality Study (AMS, 1960-1985, n = 27,530) and the Adventist Health Study (AHS, 1976-1988, n = 34,192) were combined. The life expectancy of omnivores was compared to vegetarians separately in never-smoking males and females for …
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