Articles

A dietary quality comparison of popular weight-loss plans (with Sherry L. Pagoto, Jennifer A. Griffith, Philip A. Merriam, Ira S. Ockene, Andrea R. Hafner, and Barbara C. Olendzki), Journal of the American Dietetic Association (2007)

Popular weight-loss plans often have conflicting recommendations, which makes it difficult to determine the most...

 
Negative life events: risk to health-related quality of life in children and youth with HIV infection (with Lois C. Howland, Deborah S. Storm, Sybil L. Crawford, Steven L. Gortmaker, and James M. Oleske), The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC (2007)

Children and youth with perinatally acquired HIV infection are living longer because of improved drug...

 
Methodology for adding glycemic index and glycemic load values to 24-hour dietary recall database (with Barbara C. Olendzki, Annie L. Culver, Ira S. Ockene, Jennifer A. Griffith, Andrea R. Hafner, and James R. Hebert), Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) (2006)

OBJECTIVES: We describe a method of adding the glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL)...

 
Low-carbohydrate and high-fat intake among adult patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (with Barbara C. Olendzki, Andrea R. Hafner, David E. Chiriboga, Annie L. Culver, Victoria A. Andersen, Philip A. Merriam, and Sherry L. Pagoto), Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) (2006)

OBJECTIVE: This study examined baseline dietary intake, body weight, and physiologic status in patients enrolled...

 
Predictors of weight status following laparoscopic gastric bypass (with Sherry L. Pagoto, Barbara C. Olendzki, Andrea R. Hafner, Richard A. Perugini, Robin Mason, and John J. Kelly), Obesity surgery (2006)

BACKGROUND: Weight loss after bariatric surgery varies and depends on many factors, such as time...

 
PDA-assisted low glycemic index dietary intervention for type II diabetes: a pilot study (with Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, Milagros C. Rosal, E. Sinagra, Sybil L. Crawford, Andrea R. Hafner, Sherry L. Pagoto, Robert P. Magner, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and dietary intervention studies suggest that a low-glycemic index (GI) diet is beneficial...

 
Association between dietary fiber and serum C-reactive protein (with Jennifer A. Griffith, Lisa Chasan-Taber, Barbara C. Olendzki, Elizabeth Jackson, Edward J. Stanek III, Wenjun Li, Sherry L. Pagoto, Andrea R. Hafner, and Ira S. Ockene), The American journal of clinical nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: High sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP) is a marker of acute inflammation recently recognized as...

 
Association between carbohydrate intake and serum lipids (with Youfu Li, David E. Chiriboga, Barbara C. Olendzki, James R. Hebert, Wenjun Li, Katherine Leung, Andrea R. Hafner, and Ira S. Ockene), Journal of the American College of Nutrition (2006)

BACKGROUND: The effect of dietary carbohydrate on blood lipids has received considerable attention in light...

 
Seasonal variation in food intake, physical activity, and body weight in a predominantly overweight population (with Barbara C. Olendzki, Wenjun Li, Andrea R. Hafner, David E. Chiriboga, James R. Hebert, MaryJane Campbell, M. Sarnie, and Ira S. Ockene), European journal of clinical nutrition (2005)

OBJECTIVE: To describe seasonal variation in food intake, physical activity, and body weight in a...

 
Detecting attitudinal changes about death and dying as a result of end-of-life care curricula for medical undergraduates (with Carolyn E. Schwartz, David M. Clive, Kathleen M. Mazor, George W. Reed, and Marjorie Clay), Journal of palliative medicine (2005)

BACKGROUND: There is heightened emphasis on teaching end-of-life (EOL) care in the medical school curriculum,...

 
Predictors of smoking cessation in pregnancy and maintenance postpartum in low-income women (with Karin V. Goins, Lori Pbert, and Judith K. Ockene), Maternal and child health journal (2005)

OBJECTIVE: To describe factors associated with smoking status of low-income women during pregnancy and postpartum.

METHODS:...

 
Association of stress, hostility and plasma testosterone levels (with Jean A. King, Milagros C. Rosal, and George W. Reed), Neuro endocrinology letters (2005)

OBJECTIVES: Many studies assessing the role of sex hormones, like testosterone, on stress and hostility...

 
Effect of soy protein containing isoflavones on blood lipids in moderately hypercholesterolemic adults: a randomized controlled trial (with David E. Chiriboga, Barbara C. Olendzki, Robert J. Nicolosi, Philip A. Merriam, and Ira S. Ockene), Journal of the American College of Nutrition (2005)

BACKGROUND: Dietary intake of soy protein with isoflavones may be associated with reductions in serum...

 
Association between dietary carbohydrates and body weight (with Barbara C. Olendzki, David E. Chiriboga, James R. Hebert, Youfu Li, Wenjun Li, MaryJane Campbell, Katherine Gendreau, and Ira S. Ockene), American journal of epidemiology (2005)

The role of dietary carbohydrates in weight loss has received considerable attention in light of...

 
Stress, social support, and cortisol: inverse associations (with Milagros C. Rosal, Jean A. King, and George W. Reed), Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.) (2004)

An association between stress and health has been hypothesized. However, the association pathways are unclear....

 
A community health center smoking-cessation intervention for pregnant and postpartum women (with Lori Pbert, Judith K. Ockene, Jane G. Zapka, Karin V. Goins, Cheryl A. Oncken, and Anne M. Stoddard), American journal of preventive medicine (2004)

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect of a provider counseling and office systems intervention in obstetric,...

 
Seasonal variation in serum cholesterol levels: treatment implications and possible mechanisms (with Ira S. Ockene, David E. Chiriboga, Edward J. Stanek III, Morton G. Harmatz, Robert J. Nicolosi, Gordon M. Saperia, Arnold D. Well, Patty S. Freedson, Philip A. Merriam, George W. Reed, Charles E. Matthews, and James R. Hebert), Archives of internal medicine 15596653 15596654 (2004)

BACKGROUND: A variety of studies have noted seasonal variation in blood lipid levels. Although the...

 
Honing an advance care planning intervention using qualitative analysis: the Living Well interview (with Carolyn E. Schwartz, Inga Lennes, Bernard Hammes, Carrie Lapham, and Wayne Bottner), Journal of palliative medicine (2003)

Advance care planning requires an explicit and comprehensive discussion of patient values and conceptualization of...

 
Validation of a new measure of concept of a good death (with Carolyn E. Schwartz, Kathleen M. Mazor, H. Jane Rogers, and George W. Reed), Journal of palliative medicine (2003)

BACKGROUND: The concept of a good death is central to end-of-life care research. Despite its...

 
Altruistic social interest behaviors are associated with better mental health (with Carolyn E. Schwartz, Janice Bell Meisenhelder, and George W. Reed), Psychosomatic medicine (2003)

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether altruistic social interest behaviors such as engaging in helping others...

 
Association between eating patterns and obesity in a free-living US adult population (with Elizabeth R. Bertone, Edward J. Stanek III, George Reed, James R. Hebert, Nancy L. Cohen, Philip A. Merriam, and Ira S. Ockene), American journal of epidemiology (2003)

Some studies have suggested that eating patterns, which describe eating frequency, the temporal distribution of...

 
Systematic errors in middle-aged women's estimates of energy intake: comparing three self-report measures to total energy expenditure from doubly labeled water (with James R. Hebert, Cara B. Ebbeling, Charles E. Matthews, Thomas G. Hurley, Susan Druker, and Lynn Clemow), Annals of epidemiology (2002)

PURPOSE: To evaluate energy intake (EI) derived from a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), seven-day dietary...

 
Treating nicotine dependence during pregnancy and postpartum: understanding clinician knowledge and performance (with Debra Bonollo, Jane G. Zapka, Anne M. Stoddard, Lori Pbert, and Judith K. Ockene), Patient education and counseling (2002)

This study investigated the relationship of clinicians' knowledge of treatments for nicotine dependence during pregnancy...

 
Spontaneous cessation of smoking and alcohol use among low-income pregnant women (with Judith K. Ockene, Jane G. Zapka, Lori Pbert, Karin V. Goins, and Anne M. Stoddard), American journal of preventive medicine (2002)

BACKGROUND: Despite the strong evidence of harmful effects, tobacco and alcohol use during pregnancy continue...

 
Early intervention in planning end-of-life care with ambulatory geriatric patients: results of a pilot trial (with Carolyn E. Schwartz, H. Brownell Wheeler, Bernard Hammes, Noreen Basque, Jean Edmunds, George W. Reed, Lynn Li, Patricia Tabloski, and Julianne Yanko), Archives of internal medicine (2002)

BACKGROUND: A large discrepancy exists between the wishes of dying patients and their actual end-of-life...

 

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Eating patterns in relation to body weight and blood lipids, Electronic Doctoral Dissertations for UMass Amherst (2002)

Eating patterns, which describe the temporal distribution of eating across the 24-hour day, meal size,...

 
Behavioral risk factors among members of a health maintenance organization (with Milagros C. Rosal, Judith K. Ockene, James R. Hebert, Philip A. Merriam, Charles E. Matthews, and Ira S. Ockene), Preventive medicine (2001)

BACKGROUND: Co-occurrence of risk behaviors (RBs) substantially increases the risk of disease. This study examines...

 
Change in women's diet and body mass following intensive intervention for early-stage breast cancer (with James R. Hebert, Cara B. Ebbeling, Barbara C. Olendzki, Thomas G. Hurley, Nancy Saal, Judith K. Ockene, and Lynn Clemow), Journal of the American Dietetic Association (2001)

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effectiveness of an intensive dietary intervention on diet and body mass...

 
Thrombin generation after the abrupt cessation of intravenous unfractionated heparin among patients with acute coronary syndromes: potential mechanisms for heightened prothrombotic potential (with Richard C. Becker, Frederick A. Spencer, Youfu Li, Steven P. Ball, Thomas G. Hurley, and James R. Hebert), Journal of the American College of Cardiology (1999)

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine the mechanistic basis for thrombin generation...

 
A dietitian-delivered group nutrition program leads to reductions in dietary fat, serum cholesterol, and body weight: the Worcester Area Trial for Counseling in Hyperlipidemia (WATCH) (with James R. Hebert, Cara B. Ebbeling, Ira S. Ockene, Linda Rider, Philip A. Merriam, Judith K. Ockene, and Gordon M. Saperia), Journal of the American Dietetic Association (1999)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of a dietitian-based nutrition counseling and education program for patients...

 
A randomized, multicenter trial of weight-adjusted intravenous heparin dose titration and point-of-care coagulation monitoring in hospitalized patients with active thromboembolic disease. Antithrombotic Therapy Consortium Investigators (with Richard C. Becker, Steven P. Ball, Paul Eisenberg, Steven Borzak, A. Christian Held, Frederick A. Spencer, Stephen J. Voyce, Robert Jesse, Robert Hendel, Thomas G. Hurley, and James R. Hebert), American heart journal (1999)

BACKGROUND: Therapy with intravenous unfractionated heparin improves clinical outcome in patients with active thromboembolic disease,...

 
The effect of dietary exposures on recurrence and mortality in early stage breast cancer (with James R. Hebert and Thomas G. Hurley), Breast cancer research and treatment (1999)

We studied the effect of diet and body weight on recurrence and death in 472...

 
Nutritional and socioeconomic factors in relation to prostate cancer mortality: a cross-national study (with James R. Hebert, Thomas G. Hurley, Barbara C. Olendzki, Jane Teas, and Jeffrey S. Hampl), Journal of the National Cancer Institute (1998)

BACKGROUND: Large international variations in rates of prostate cancer incidence and mortality suggest that environmental...

 
Coronary Artery Smoking Intervention Study (CASIS): 5-year follow-up (with Milagros C. Rosal, Judith K. Ockene, James R. Hebert, Ira S. Ockene, Philip A. Merriam, and Thomas G. Hurley), Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (1998)

The authors compared the effect of a behavioral multicomponent smoking cessation special intervention (SI) to...

 
Gender differences in social desirability and social approval bias in dietary self-report (with James R. Hebert, Lynn Clemow, Ira S. Ockene, Gordon Saperia, Edward J. Stanek III, Philip A. Merriam, and Judith K. Ockene), American journal of epidemiology (1998)

Social desirability (the tendency to respond in such a way as to avoid criticism) and...

 
Physicians and smoking cessation. Development of survey measures (with Jane G. Zapka, Kenneth E. Fletcher, and Lori Pbert), Evaluation and the health professions (1997)

Data from a mailed survey to primary care physicians (N = 122) were used to...

 
A lipid trial tracking system (with Philip A. Merriam, Ira S. Ockene, and James R. Hebert), Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP (1997)

A computerized tracking system was developed for the monitoring of recruitment and participant follow-up in...

 
Intracoronary Doppler assessment of moderate coronary artery disease: comparison with 201Tl imaging and coronary angiography. FACTS Study Group (with Louis I. Heller, Christopher Cates, Jeffrey Popma, Lawrence I. Deckelbaum, James D. Joye, Seth T. Dahlberg, Bernard J. Villegas, Anita Arnold, Robert Kipperman, W. Carter Grinstead, Sharon Balcom, Michael Cleman, Richard M. Steingart, and Jeffrey A. Leppo), Circulation (1997)

BACKGROUND: Coronary angiography may not reliably predict whether a stenosis causes exercise-induced ischemia. Intracoronary Doppler...

 
A longitudinal study of students' depression at one medical school (with Milagros C. Rosal, Ira S. Ockene, Judith K. Ockene, Susan V. Barrett, and James R. Hebert), Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (1997)

PURPOSE: Using a standardized measure of depression at three assessment points, to examine depression in...

 
A pilot study of nadolol for overt aggression in developmentally delayed individuals (with Daniel F. Connor, Kaan R. Ozbayrak, Sheldon Benjamin, and Kenneth E. Fletcher), Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1997)

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this preliminary pilot study was to investigate the safety and efficacy...

 
Possible role of indoor environment and coal combustion emission in lung carcinogenesis in Fuyuan County, China (with Y. Nakanishi, S. Chen, S. Inutsuka, X. Jiang, N. Hara, N. Sera, and H. Tokiwa), Neoplasma (1997)

Fuyuan Country, in Yunnan Province, China has an extremely high lung cancer mortality both in...

 
Clinical Utility of Electrocardiographic ST-Segment Area for Predicting Unsatisfactory Outcomes Following Thrombolytic Therapy (with Vijaya S. Velury, Thomas G. Hurley, James R. Hebert, Clinton F. Becker, and Richard C. Becker), Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Publications and Presentations (1995)

The bedside surface 12-lead electrocardiogram is a mainstay in the early diagnostic evaluation of patients...