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Area-level socioeconomic status and cancer outcomes: Is there an association and can it be explained by behavior?
(2013-07-23)Increasingly, area-level socioeconomic status (SES) is recognized as an important predictor of health outcomes and health behaviors independent of individual-level socioeconomic characteristics; however, associations between ... -
Assessing Climate Driven West Nile Virus Risk in Washington State
Background: West Nile virus (WNV) is becoming a significant public health concern in Washington State (WA). Climate factors likely impact WNV case numbers in WA, but this has not been widely explored. Methods: We examined ... -
Assessing Helicobacter pylori infections among adults from the Navajo Nation
Background:Although the burden of gastric cancer is low in the United States (US) overall, a substantial burden of gastric cancer continues to be observed in American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN), particularly in the ... -
ASSESSING OPTIMAL INTERVENTION TARGETS FOR RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS IN STRUCTURED POPULATIONS
Background: Respiratory Viral Infections (RVI) are one of the most common health conditions globally, and are an enormous burden to health systems and society in terms of direct medical expenses and indirect productivity ... -
Assessing Relationships Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Viral Suppression Among Persons Living with HIV in Washington State
Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been linked to a variety of negative health outcomes in adulthood and have been recognized as a hurdle to participating in HIV care. However, few studies have examined ... -
Assessing the Association between Receipt of Antimalarial Drugs and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes using Pooled Data
Malaria is a major cause of maternal morbidity and mortality and neonatal death in areas of malaria transmission. Worldwide, it is responsible for up to 100,000 neonatal deaths and 10,000 maternal deaths annually. There ... -
Assessing the Individual and Interactive Associations of Pre- and Postnatal Air Pollution Exposures and Maternal Nutrition During Pregnancy with Child Blood Pressure: A Prospective Study in a Community-based Birth Cohort
Background: Limited data suggest that the intrauterine environment and early life experience may contribute to increased child blood pressure, with effects possibly extending into adulthood. The individual and interactive ... -
Assessment of Repeat HIV Testing and Utilization of HIV Self-Testing to Increase Repeat Testing Amongst Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Kisumu County, Kenya
University of Washington Abstract Assessment of Repeat HIV Testing and Utilization of HIV Self-Testing to Increase Repeat Testing Amongst Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Kisumu County, Kenya Patrick Oyaro Owiti Chair of ... -
Association Between Isolation Source, Clonal Composition, and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Escherichia coli Samples Collected in Washington State
Background:The growing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a significant global health problem. AMR is caused by the overuse of antibiotics in humans, animals, and the environment, making it necessary ... -
Association between Air Pollution Exposure and Self-Report of Recent Respiratory Infection: A MESA Air study
Background: Ambient air pollution has been linked to multiple adverse health outcomes. Most of these studies have use large-scale models to estimate air pollution exposures and have identified health outcomes based on ... -
Association between carcinogenic HPV and selected STIs and risk behaviors in HIV positive men who have sex with men in Lima, Peru
(2013-07-23)Background: HIV infection in Peru is concentrated among MSM, and over the last 25 years, rates of anal cancer due to HPV have increased in this population. Currently, fifteen types of HPV types have been described as ... -
The association between cardiometabolic risk factors and breast cancer outcomes
Background: Prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors contributing to metabolic syndrome is common, and numerous metabolic syndrome components are associated with increased primary breast cancer risk. However, less is ... -
Association between depressive symptoms, risk factors for sexually transmitted infections, and nongonococcal urethritis
BACKGROUND: Depressive symptoms and urethritis are common, and may be associated with one another. Severe depression may lead to different risk behaviors than more moderate depression. Therefore individuals with moderate ... -
The Association between Domestic Violence and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Southern India
(2013-07-25)Background: An estimated 2.4 million HIV positive individuals reside in India; of whom approximately 485,000 are on antiretroviral therapy (ART). The Indian government provides public ART services throughout the country ... -
The Association between Early Antibiotic Exposure and Obesity Development in Childhood
Young children are frequently exposed to antibiotics, an improved understanding of the relationship between antibiotic exposure in early life and adiposity in childhood is warranted. We hypothesize early childhood antibiotic ... -
Association between environmental modifiable risk score and molecular subtypes in colorectal cancer patients
Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is associated with several modifiable environmental risks, including dietary and non-dietary factors like calcium intake and smoking habits. It is unknown if the association between ... -
Association between Longitudinally Assessed Dietary Composition and Blood Telomere Length among Young Adult Filipinos
Diet and nutrition are known to play a pivotal role in the onset and progression of aging-related diseases, but it remains unclear how diet and nutrition influence aging processes in general. Telomeres, the nucleotide ... -
Association between menopause and unprotected sex in high-risk HIV-positive women in Mombasa, Kenya
Objectives: A growing number of HIV-positive women now live well beyond menopause. There is little information about condom use in postmenopausal women in sub-Saharan Africa. Postmenopausal women are no longer at risk ... -
The association between neighborhood socioeconomic status and the prevention and control of prediabetes and diabetes in King County, Washington
<bold>Introduction</bold> Diabetes, a recognized and increasing public health problem, disproportionately affects low poverty neighborhoods. The mechanisms connecting place and health disparities have not been well-described ...