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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Population Health Sciences"”.
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Epidemiological Investigations of Dietary Patterns and Physical Activity on Longevity and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes
Unhealthy diets and physical inactivity are important modifiable risk factors for premature mortality and major chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (diabetes). However, few large-scale studies have examined the combined influence of overall diet quality and …
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Cardiovascular Disease: Prevention and Management
… project is a community intervention to improve health outcomes of recently-discharged heart failure patients, regardless of statin use.
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The Roles of Estate Planning and Social Support in Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care
… and assigning a durable power of attorney for healthcare – may be associated with improvements in quality of end of life care and more specifically with receiving care congruent with one’s wishes. Despite this, stark differences in completion rates by Non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics compared …
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The Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease and Associated Risk Factors among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Texas: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2015, 2017, and 2019
… Texas is home to the second-largest SGM population, however due to a lack of state-level data collection on sexual orientation or gender identity, very little is known about the well-being of this population. The purpose of this dissertation is to determine the prevalence of …
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Location, Location, Location: Assessing the Role of Context in Moderating the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Mental Health Burden
… experiences (ACEs) have profound mental health implications throughout the life course. While literature has focused on individual risk factors for ACEs and their burden on health, there are social and physical environmental contextual factors outside the individual that have been …
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Influence of Natural Disasters on the Long-term Incidence of Depressive Symptoms, Cognitive Impairment, and Limitations in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Mexican Americans
… 7 (2010-2011) to examine the incidence of three health outcomes. The analyses were restricted to participants that did not have indicators of 1) depressive symptoms (n=725), 2) cognitive impairment (n=774) and 3) limitations in activities of daily living (n=715) at Wave 5; natural disaster …
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Simulating Space Radiation for Testing Shielding Material Effectiveness
The space radiation environment poses health risks to astronauts. There are three sources of space radiation: trapped radiation, Solar Particle Events, and Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) and these sources consist primarily of protons and heavier (HZE) ions. NASA has developed a radiation protection …
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Evaluating Comorbidity Indices for Predicting Post-Acute Outcomes
… of various comorbidity indices on post-acute health outcomes has not been investigated using administrative data. The overarching goal of this study was to compare the performances of five comorbidity indices, including Charlson Comorbidity Index, Elixhauser Comorbidity Index, the Functional …
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Obesity, Diabetes, and Disability in Older Mexican Americans, 1993-2011
… short-term longitudinal studies of non-Hispanic populations to explain disparities by age, gender, and nativity. There have only been a few long-term longitudinal studies that have looked at obesity, diabetes, and disability among older Mexican Americans. Using data from the Hispanic Established …
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Comparing Different Methods of Applying Propensity Score in Controlling Selection Bias for Studies of Prostate Cancer
… cancer among men. There is growing interest in population-based comparative effectiveness research on different therapies for prostate cancer because of the limitations on generalizability of randomized controlled trials. The major challenge for population-based studies using observational data …
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Biological and Functional Consequences of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of the O6-Methylguanine-DNA-Methyltransferase Gene
… biologically relevant endpoints in an exposed population of 350 individuals to determine the association between genetic damage and SNPs in MGMT; chromosome aberrations to examine macrolesions, and mutation frequency to examine microlesions. In addition, we used the luciferase reporter assay to …
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Impulsivity: Psychometrics of impulsivity in adolescents and links to adolescent risk behaviors
… of the measure is understudied in adolescent populations in the U.S. The studies in this dissertation used data from Dating It Safe, an ongoing, longitudinal study of adolescent behaviors of a large, high school-based sample of 894 ethnically and socioeconomically diverse adolescents (mean age …
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Does Context Matter to ACEs? The Role of State Economic Context and Selected State Policies in Childhood Adversity
Childhood adversity is a widespread public health problem in the United States. Half of adults experienced at least one serious adversity during childhood, and a quarter experienced two or more. Childhood adversity, often referred to as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), has been associated with …
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Opioid Prescribing and Opioid-Related Health Outcomes Among Cancer Survivors
The US population of older long-term cancer survivors—Americans who are free of cancer 5-years post-cancer diagnosis and not receiving cancer treatment—is growing. The prevalence of pain among cancer survivors after curative treatment is approximately 40% and opioids are frequently prescribed to …
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Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes for Patients with Debility
… with debility, consider trends with respect to health care policy changes, identify risk factors for discharge to acute or subacute care, and examine readmission to acute care after discharge to community. Aim 1: National benchmark data for years 2000 – 2010 were retrospectively analyzed for …
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Correlations of Balance & Gait Measures with the UPDRS and with Each Other
Abstract The purpose of the study was to determine whether a)current balance and gait measures correlate with the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) total and motor scores; b)performance and self-perceived measures of balance correlate; c)instrumented and non-instrumented over ground …
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The Effect of Modeled Microgravity and Radiation on Epstein-Barr Virus in a Modeled Spaceflight System
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the causative agent of mononucleosis and is also associated with several malignancies, including Burkitt’s lymphoma, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, among others. EBV is known to reactivate during …
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A cross-national comparison of the effect of diabetes on the cognitive function of older adults- The case of Mexico and the United States
… used to study Mexico and the U.S., the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), respectively. The outcome of interest was cognitive function, measured with a total cognitive score, by cognitive domain, and categorized into dementia vs. normal cognition. …
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Essays on the impact of housing insecurity and other socioeconomic factors on health-related outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries during the Great Recession
… they have informed less of relevant housing or healthcare policies focused on preventing or mitigating the effects of housing insecurity during economic crises. In this dissertation, I drew from nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data to evaluate the role of housing …
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