Articles
Susceptibility to nicotine dependence: the Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth 2 study (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Judith A. Savageau, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Lori Pbert, Jennifer L. O'Loughlin, Ann D. McNeill, Karen Friedman, Jennifer Hazelton, Constance Wood, Gretchen Dussault, and Robert J. Wellman), Pediatrics (2007)
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this work was to identify characteristics that predict progression from the...
Predictors of dietary change and maintenance in the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial (with Lesley F. Tinker, Milagros C. Rosal, Anne F. Young, Michael G. Perri, Ruth E. Patterson, Linda Van Horn, Annlouise R. Assaf, Deborah J. Bowen, Jennifer Hays, and Lieling Wu), Journal of the American Dietetic Association (2007)
OBJECTIVE: To identify predictors of dietary change to and maintenance of a low-fat eating pattern...
Symptoms of tobacco dependence after brief intermittent use: the Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth-2 study. (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Judith A. Savageau, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Jennifer L. O'Loughlin, Lori Pbert, Ann D. McNeill, Jennifer Hazelton, Karen Friedman, Gretchen Dussault, Constance Wood, and Robert J. Wellman), Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine (2007)
OBJECTIVE: To extend the findings of the first Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in...
Estrogen therapy and coronary-artery calcification (with JoAnn E. Manson, Matthew A. Allison, Jacques E. Rossouw, J. Jeffrey Carr, Robert D. Langer, Judith Hsia, Lewis H. Kuller, Barbara B. Cochrane, Julie R. Hunt, Shari E. Ludlam, Mary B. Pettinger, Margery Gass, Karen L. Margolis, Lauren Nathan, Ross L. Prentice, John Robbins, and Marcia L. Stefanick), The New England journal of medicine 17881758 17891834 (2007)
BACKGROUND: Calcified plaque in the coronary arteries is a marker for atheromatous-plaque burden and is...
Enrollment in a brain magnetic resonance study: results from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study (WHIMS-MRI) (with Sarah A. Jaramillo, Deborah Felton, Leeann Andrews, Lisa Desiderio, Rose K. Hallarn, Sharon D. Jackson, Laura H. Coker, Jennifer G. Robinson, and Mark A. Espeland), Academic radiology (2007)
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The rates of enrollment of volunteers for brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...
Integrating evidence-based clinical and community strategies to improve health (with Elizabeth A. Edgerton, Steven M. Teutsch, Lucy N. Marion, Therese Miller, Janice L. Genevro, Carol J. Loveland-Cherry, Jonathan E. Fielding, and Peter A. Briss), American journal of preventive medicine (2007)
Multiple and diverse preventive strategies in clinical and community settings are necessary to improve health....
Elderly women diagnosed with nonspecific chest pain may be at increased cardiovascular risk (with Jennifer G. Robinson, Robert B. Wallace, Marian C. Limacher, Alicia Sato, Barbara B. Cochrane, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Patricia L. Blanchette, and Marcia G. Ko), Journal of women's health (2002) (2007)
BACKGROUND: Women are more likely than men to have nonspecific chest pain (NSCP) symptoms. The...
Impact of cyclooxygenase inhibitors in the Women's Health Initiative hormone trials: secondary analysis of a randomized trial (with Judith Hsia, JoAnn E. Manson, Lewis H. Kuller, Mary B. Pettinger, John H. Choe, Robert D. Langer, Marian C. Limacher, Albert Oberman, Mary Jo O'Sullivan, and Jennifer G. Robinson), PLoS clinical trials (2006)
OBJECTIVES: We evaluated the hypothesis that cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor use might have counteracted a beneficial...
Will an adverse pregnancy outcome influence the risk of continued smoking in the next pregnancy (with Sven Cnattingius, Olof Akre, Mats Lambe, and Fredrik Granath), American journal of obstetrics and gynecology (2006)
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to study the effect of pregnancy outcomes on...
Sustainability of public health programs: the example of tobacco treatment services in Massachusetts (with Nancy R. LaPelle and Jane G. Zapka), American journal of public health (2006)
Sustaining important public or grant-funded services after initial funding is terminated is a major public...
External validity: we need to do more (with Russell E. Glasgow, Lawrence W. Green, Lisa M. Klesges, David B. Abrams, Edwin B. Fisher, Michael G. Goldstein, Laura L. Hayman, and C. Tracy Orleans), Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (2006)
The article discusses the implications of two health research trends for improving the design, review...
Effects of combination estrogen plus progestin hormone treatment on cognition and affect (with Susan M. Resnick, Pauline M. Maki, Stephen R. Rapp, Mark A. Espeland, Robert L. Brunner, Laura H. Coker, Iris A. Granek, Patricia Hogan, and Sally A. Shumaker), The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism (2006)
CONTEXT: Some studies of hormone treatment in postmenopausal women suggest benefits on specific cognitive functions,...
Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and the risk of colorectal cancer (with Jean Wactawski-Wende, Jane Morley Kotchen, Garnet L. Anderson, Annlouise R. Assaf, Robert L. Brunner, Mary Jo O'Sullivan, Karen L. Margolis, Lawrence Phillips, Linda Pottern, Ross L. Prentice, John Robbins, Thomas E. Rohan, Gloria E. Sarto, Santosh Sharma, Marcia L. Stefanick, Linda Van Horn, Robert B. Wallace, Evelyn Whitlock, Tamsen Bassford, Shirley A. A. Beresford, Henry R. Black, Denise E. Bonds, Robert G. Brzyski, Bette Caan, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Barbara B. Cochrane, Cedric Garland, Margery Gass, Jennifer Hays, Gerardo Heiss, Susan L. Hendrix, Barbara V. Howard, Judith Hsia, F. Allan Hubbell, Rebecca D. Jackson, Karen C. Johnson, Howard Judd, Charles L. Kooperberg, Lewis H. Kuller, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Dorothy S. Lane, Robert D. Langer, Norman L. Lasser, Cora E. Lewis, Marian C. Limacher, and JoAnn E. Manson), The New England journal of medicine (2006)
BACKGROUND: Higher intake of calcium and vitamin D has been associated with a reduced risk...
Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and the risk of fractures (with Rebecca D. Jackson, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Margery Gass, Robert B. Wallace, John Robbins, Cora E. Lewis, Tamsen Bassford, Shirley A. A. Beresford, Henry R. Black, Patricia L. Blanchette, Denise E. Bonds, Robert L. Brunner, Robert G. Brzyski, Bette Caan, Jane A. Cauley, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Steven R. Cummings, Iris A. Granek, Jennifer Hays, Gerardo Heiss, Susan L. Hendrix, Barbara V. Howard, Judith Hsia, F. Allan Hubbell, Karen C. Johnson, Howard Judd, Jane Morley Kotchen, Lewis H. Kuller, Robert D. Langer, Norman L. Lasser, Marian C. Limacher, Shari E. Ludlam, JoAnn E. Manson, Karen L. Margolis, Joan McGowan, Mary Jo O'Sullivan, Lawrence Phillips, Ross L. Prentice, Gloria E. Sarto, Marcia L. Stefanick, Linda Van Horn, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Evelyn Whitlock, Garnet L. Anderson, Annlouise R. Assaf, and David H. Barad), The New England journal of medicine (2006)
BACKGROUND: The efficacy of calcium with vitamin D supplementation for preventing hip and other fractures...
Fulfilling our assignment to improve the health of all: good science just isn't enough, Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (2006)
This article was the presidential address presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine 2005 SBM...
Practical behavioral trials to advance evidence-based behavioral medicine (with Russell E. Glasgow, Karina W. Davidson, Patricia L. Dobkin, and Bonnie Spring), Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (2006)
There is a well-documented gap between research and practice in many areas of behavioral medicine....
Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of cardiovascular disease: the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial (with Barbara V. Howard, Linda Van Horn, Judith Hsia, JoAnn E. Manson, Marcia L. Stefanick, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Lewis H. Kuller, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Robert D. Langer, Norman L. Lasser, Cora E. Lewis, Marian C. Limacher, Karen L. Margolis, W. Jerry Mysiw, Linda M. Parker, Michael G. Perri, Lawrence Phillips, Ross L. Prentice, John Robbins, Jacques E. Rossouw, Gloria E. Sarto, Irwin J. Schatz, Linda G. Snetselaar, Victor J. Stevens, Lesley F. Tinker, Maurizio Trevisan, Mara Z. Vitolins, Garnet L. Anderson, Annlouise R. Assaf, Tamsen Bassford, Shirley A. A. Beresford, Henry R. Black, Robert L. Brunner, Robert G. Brzyski, Bette Caan, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Margery Gass, Iris A. Granek, Philip Greenland, Jennifer Hays, David Heber, Gerardo Heiss, Susan L. Hendrix, F. Allan Hubbell, Karen C. Johnson, and Jane Morley Kotchen), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2006)
CONTEXT: Multiple epidemiologic studies and some trials have linked diet with cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention,...
Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of colorectal cancer: the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial (with Shirley A. A. Beresford, Karen C. Johnson, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Norman L. Lasser, Linda G. Snetselaar, Henry R. Black, Garnet L. Anderson, Annlouise R. Assaf, Tamsen Bassford, Deborah J. Bowen, Robert L. Brunner, Robert G. Brzyski, Bette Caan, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Margery Gass, Rosanne C. Harrigan, Jennifer Hays, David Heber, Gerardo Heiss, Susan L. Hendrix, Barbara V. Howard, Judith Hsia, F. Allan Hubbell, Rebecca D. Jackson, Jane Morley Kotchen, Lewis H. Kuller, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Dorothy S. Lane, Robert D. Langer, Cora E. Lewis, JoAnn E. Manson, Karen L. Margolis, Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Linda M. Parker, Michael G. Perri, Lawrence Phillips, Ross L. Prentice, John Robbins, Jacques E. Rossouw, Gloria E. Sarto, Marcia L. Stefanick, Linda Van Horn, Mara Z. Vitolins, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Robert B. Wallace, and Evelyn Whitlock), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2006)
CONTEXT: Observational studies and polyp recurrence trials are not conclusive regarding the effects of a...
Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of invasive breast cancer: the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial (with Ross L. Prentice, Bette Caan, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Ruth E. Patterson, Lewis H. Kuller, Karen L. Margolis, Marian C. Limacher, JoAnn E. Manson, Linda M. Parker, Electra Paskett, Lawrence Phillips, John Robbins, Jacques E. Rossouw, Gloria E. Sarto, James M. Shikany, Marcia L. Stefanick, Cynthia A. Thomson, Linda Van Horn, Mara Z. Vitolins, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Robert B. Wallace, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Evelyn Whitlock, Katsuhiko Yano, Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, Garnet L. Anderson, Annlouise R. Assaf, Shirley A. A. Beresford, Henry R. Black, Robert L. Brunner, Robert G. Brzyski, Leslie Ford, Margery Gass, Jennifer Hays, David Heber, Gerardo Heiss, Susan L. Hendrix, Judith Hsia, F. Allan Hubbell, Rebecca D. Jackson, Karen C. Johnson, Jane Morley Kotchen, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Dorothy S. Lane, Robert D. Langer, Norman L. Lasser, and Maureen M. Henderson), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2006)
CONTEXT: The hypothesis that a low-fat dietary pattern can reduce breast cancer risk has existed...
Predictors of smoking cessation in pregnancy and maintenance postpartum in low-income women (with Yunsheng Ma, Karin V. Goins, and Lori Pbert), Maternal and child health journal (2005)
OBJECTIVE: To describe factors associated with smoking status of low-income women during pregnancy and postpartum.
METHODS:...
Effects of conjugated equine estrogen on health-related quality of life in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: results from the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Clinical Trial (with Robert L. Brunner, Margery Gass, Aaron K. Aragaki, Jennifer Hays, Iris A. Granek, Nancy Woods, Ellen Mason, Robert G. Brzyski, Annlouise R. Assaf, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Karen Matthews, and Robert B. Wallace), Archives of internal medicine (2005)
BACKGROUND: The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) clinical trial of conjugated equine estrogens (CEEs), involving 10,739...
Symptom experience after discontinuing use of estrogen plus progestin (with David H. Barad, Barbara B. Cochrane, Joseph C. Larson, Margery Gass, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, JoAnn E. Manson, Vanessa M. Barnabei, Dorothy S. Lane, Robert G. Brzyski, Milagros C. Rosal, Judy Wylie-Rosett, and Jennifer Hays), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2005)
CONTEXT: Little is known about women's experiences after stopping menopausal hormone therapy.
OBJECTIVE: To describe...
Screening for overweight in children and adolescents: where is the evidence? a commentary by the childhood obesity working group of the US Preventive Services Task Force (with Virginia A. Moyer, Jonathan D. Klein, Steven M. Teutsch, Mark S. Johnson, and Janet D. Allan), Pediatrics (2005)
Tobacco control competencies for US medical students (with Alan C. Geller, Jane G. Zapka, Katie R. Brooks, Catherine Dube, Catherine A. Powers, Nancy A. Rigotti, and Joseph O'Donnell), American journal of public health (2005)
The 2004 National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation recommended that the US Department of Health...
The relationship between checklist scores on a communication OSCE and analogue patients' perceptions of communication (with Kathleen M. Mazor, H. Jane Rogers, Michele M. Carlin, and Mark E. Quirk), Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice (2005)
Many efforts to teach and evaluate physician-patient communication are based on two assumptions: first, that...
Organizational systems to support publicly funded tobacco treatment services (with Jane G. Zapka, Mary Jo White, George W. Reed, Elena List, Lori Pbert, Denise Jolicoeur, and Sarah Reiff-Hekking), American journal of preventive medicine (2005)
BACKGROUND: Professional societies and government organizations have promoted guidelines and best practices that encourage clinicians...
Brief physician and nurse practitioner-delivered counseling for high-risk drinking. Results at 12-month follow-up (with Sarah Reiff-Hekking, Thomas G. Hurley, and George W. Reed), Journal of general internal medicine : official journal of the Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine (2005)
BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to determine the effects of a brief primary...
Association between reported alcohol intake and cognition: results from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (with Mark A. Espeland, Lin Gu, Kamal H. Masaki, Robert D. Langer, Laura H. Coker, Marcia L. Stefanick, and Stephen R. Rapp), American journal of epidemiology (2005)
Some, but not all, observational studies have suggested that moderate levels of alcohol intake may...
A primer on current evidence-based review systems and their implications for behavioral medicine (with Karina W. Davidson, Kimberlee J. Trudeau, C. Tracy Orleans, and Robert M. Kaplan), Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (2004)
BACKGROUND: Multiple review systems have been established within medicine and psychology to evaluate and disseminate...
Coronary heart disease multiple risk factor reduction. Providers' perspectives (with Milagros C. Rosal, Roger S. Luckmann, Jane G. Zapka, Karin V. Goins, Gordon M. Saperia, Theresa Mason, and Gary Donnelly), American journal of preventive medicine (2004)
BACKGROUND: Although primary care physicians understand the importance of preventive services for patients with multiple...
Translating what we have learned into practice. Principles and hypotheses for interventions addressing multiple behaviors in primary care (with Russell E. Glasgow, Michael G. Goldstein, and Nicolaas P. Pronk), American journal of preventive medicine (2004)
BACKGROUND: The evidence base regarding what works in practice for helping patients change multiple risk...
Translating efficacy research to effectiveness studies in practice: lessons from research to promote smoking cessation in community health centers (with Jane G. Zapka, Karin V. Goins, and Lori Pbert), Health promotion practice (2004)
Researchers and their community partners have been challenged by funders and political entities to translate...
Trait anxiety and nicotine dependence in adolescents: a report from the DANDY study (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Judith A. Savageau, Nancy A. Rigotti, Ann D. McNeill, Mardia A. Coleman, and Constance Wood), Addictive behaviors (2004)
The Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) and the Hooked on Nicotine Checklist (HONC) were...
A community health center smoking-cessation intervention for pregnant and postpartum women (with Lori Pbert, Jane G. Zapka, Yunsheng Ma, 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,...
The effects of continuing medical education credits on physician response rates to a mailed questionnaire (with Mary McGrae McDermott, Philip Greenland, Elizabeth A. Hahn, Donna Brogan, David Cella, William H. Pearce, Michael H. Criqui, Alan T. Hirsch, Martin S. Lipsky, Linda Odom, Kendra Hanley, and Shaheen Khan), Health marketing quarterly (2004)
This study investigated whether the opportunity to obtain Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit together with...
Effects of conjugated equine estrogen in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial (with Garnet L. Anderson, Marian C. Limacher, Annlouise R. Assaf, Tamsen Bassford, Shirley A. A. Beresford, Henry R. Black, Denise E. Bonds, Robert L. Brunner, Robert G. Brzyski, Bette Caan, Rowan T. Chlebowski, David Curb, Margery Gass, Jennifer Hays, Gerardo Heiss, Susan L. Hendrix, Barbara V. Howard, Judith Hsia, F. Allan Hubbell, Rebecca D. Jackson, Karen C. Johnson, Howard Judd, Jane Morley Kotchen, Lewis H. Kuller, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Dorothy S. Lane, Robert D. Langer, Norman L. Lasser, Cora E. Lewis, JoAnn E. Manson, Karen L. Margolis, Mary Jo O'Sullivan, Lawrence Phillips, Ross L. Prentice, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, John Robbins, Jacques E. Rossouw, Gloria E. Sarto, Marcia L. Stefanick, Linda Van Horn, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Robert B. Wallace, and Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2004)
CONTEXT: Despite decades of use and considerable research, the role of estrogen alone in preventing...
Depression and cardiovascular sequelae in postmenopausal women. The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) (with Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Sally A. Shumaker, Greg A. Talavera, Philip Greenland, Barbara B. Cochrane, John Robbins, Aaron K. Aragaki, and Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob), Archives of internal medicine (2004)
BACKGROUND: Subclinical depression, often clinically unrecognized, may pose increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Few studies...
Recollections and repercussions of the first inhaled cigarette (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Judith A. Savageau, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Nancy A. Rigotti, Ann D. McNeill, Mardia A. Coleman, and Constance Wood), Addictive behaviors (2004)
CONTEXT: It has not been determined if a youth's reaction to the first smoking experience...
Barriers to preventive interventions for coronary heart disease (with David E. Chiriboga and Ira S. Ockene), Cardiology clinics (2003)
Many barriers exist to the delivery of preventive services by cardiologists and other physicians. Appropriate...
The Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification trial: overview and baseline characteristics of participants (with Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Ruth E. Patterson, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Bette Caan, Lesley F. Tinker, and Barbara V. Howard), Annals of epidemiology (2003)
The Dietary Modification (DM) component of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) is a randomized controlled...
Self-management of type 2 diabetes: a survey of low-income urban Puerto Ricans (with Dorothea S. von Goeler, Milagros C. Rosal, Jeffrey Scavron, and Fernando De Torrijos), The Diabetes educator (2003)
PURPOSE: This study explored self-reported barriers to diabetes self-management in a population of urban, low-income...
Recreational physical activity and the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Cohort Study (with Anne McTiernan, Charles L. Kooperberg, Emily White, Sara Wilcox, Ralph Coates, Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, and Nancy Woods), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2003)
CONTEXT: Women who are physically active have a decreased risk for breast cancer, but the...
Effect of communications training on medical student performance (with Michael J. Yedidia, Colleen C. Gillespie, Elizabeth Kachur, Mark D. Schwartz, Amy E. Chepaitis, Clint W. Snyder, Aaron Lazare, and Mack Lipkin Jr.), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2003)
CONTEXT: Although physicians' communication skills have been found to be related to clinical outcomes and...
Pulmonary function as a predictor of lung cancer mortality in continuing cigarette smokers and in quitters (with Lynn E. Eberly, Roger Sherwin, Lingfeng Yang, and Lewis H. Kuller), International journal of epidemiology (2003)
BACKGROUND: Forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV(1)) may be useful for identifying smokers at...
Estrogen plus progestin and the incidence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study: a randomized controlled trial (with Sally A. Shumaker, Claudine Legault, Stephen R. Rapp, Leon Thal, Robert B. Wallace, Susan L. Hendrix, Beverly N. Jones III, Annlouise R. Assaf, Rebecca D. Jackson, Jane Morley Kotchen, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, and Jean Wactawski-Wende), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2003)
CONTEXT: Postmenopausal women have a greater risk than men of developing Alzheimer disease, but studies...
Developing and testing new smoking measures for the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (with Lori Pbert, Nancy Vuckovic, Jack F. Hollis, and Karen Riedlinger), Medical care (2003)
OBJECTIVE: To develop and test items for the Health Plan Employee Data and Information Set...
Effects of estrogen plus progestin on health-related quality of life (with Jennifer Hays, Robert L. Brunner, Jane Morley Kotchen, JoAnn E. Manson, Ruth E. Patterson, Aaron K. Aragaki, Sally A. Shumaker, Robert G. Brzyski, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Iris A. Granek, and Barbara G. Valanis), The New England journal of medicine (2003)
BACKGROUND: The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) and other clinical trials indicate that significant health risks...
Treating nicotine dependence during pregnancy and postpartum: understanding clinician knowledge and performance (with Debra Bonollo, Jane G. Zapka, Anne M. Stoddard, Yunsheng Ma, and Lori Pbert), Patient education and counseling (2002)
This study investigated the relationship of clinicians' knowledge of treatments for nicotine dependence during pregnancy...
Atherosclerotic risk factor reduction in peripheral arterial diseasea: results of a national physician survey (with Mary McGrae McDermott, Elizabeth A. Hahn, Philip Greenland, David Cella, Donna Brogan, William H. Pearce, Alan T. Hirsch, Kendra Hanley, Linda Odom, Shaheen Khan, Michael H. Criqui, Martin S. Lipsky, and Stacie Hudgens), Journal of general internal medicine : official journal of the Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine (2002)
OBJECTIVE: Individuals with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) have a 3- to 6-fold increased risk of...
Spontaneous cessation of smoking and alcohol use among low-income pregnant women (with Yunsheng Ma, 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...
Development of symptoms of tobacco dependence in youths: 30 month follow up data from the DANDY study (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Judith A. Savageau, Nancy A. Rigotti, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Ann D. McNeill, Mardia A. Coleman, and Constance Wood), Tobacco control (2002)
OBJECTIVE: To determine if there is a minimum duration, frequency or quantity of tobacco use...
Multicenter trial of fluoxetine as an adjunct to behavioral smoking cessation treatment (with Raymond Niaura, Bonnie Spring, Belinda Borrelli, Donald Hedeker, Michael G. Goldstein, Nancy J. Keuthen, Judy DePue, Jean L. Kristeller, Allan Prochazka, John A. Chiles, and David B. Abrams), Journal of consulting and clinical psychology (2002)
The authors evaluated the efficacy of fluoxetine hydrochloride (Prozac; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN)...
Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women: principal results From the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial (with Jacques E. Rossouw, Garnet L. Anderson, Ross L. Prentice, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Charles L. Kooperberg, Marcia L. Stefanick, Rebecca D. Jackson, Shirley A. A. Beresford, Barbara V. Howard, Karen C. Johnson, and Jane Morley Kotchen), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (2002)
CONTEXT: Despite decades of accumulated observational evidence, the balance of risks and benefits for hormone...
Evaluation of a cancer prevention and detection curriculum for medical students (with Alan C. Geller, Marianne N. Prout, Donald R. Miller, Benjamin Siegel, Ting Sun, and Howard K. Koh), Preventive medicine (2002)
BACKGROUND: Undergraduate medical education needs revision to ensure that medical students graduate with the skills...
Influences on older women's adherence to a low-fat diet in the Women's Health Initiative (with Margaret H. Kearney, Milagros C. Rosal, and Linda C. Churchill), Psychosomatic medicine (2002)
OBJECTIVE: Most studies of dietary change during aging have focused on maintaining adequate intake by...
Measuring the loss of autonomy over nicotine use in adolescents: the DANDY (Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youths) study (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Judith A. Savageau, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Nancy A. Rigotti, Ann D. McNeill, Mardia A. Coleman, and Constance Wood), Archives of pediatrics and adolescent medicine (2002)
CONTEXT: There is no validated, theory-based tool for assessing the onset of nicotine dependence. However,...
Primary care-based smoking interventions, Nicotine and tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2002)
The primary care setting is an important place for promoting smoking cessation. Randomized clinical trials...
Behavioral risk factors among members of a health maintenance organization (with Milagros C. Rosal, Yunsheng Ma, 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, Yunsheng Ma, Nancy Saal, 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...
Facilitating dietary change: the patient-centered counseling model (with Milagros C. Rosal, Cara B. Ebbeling, Ingrid Lofgren, Ira S. Ockene, and James R. Hebert), Journal of the American Dietetic Association (2001)
Recent data indicate that the patient-centered counseling model enhances long-term dietary adherence. This model facilitates...
Development of a state wide tobacco treatment specialist training and certification programme for Massachusetts (with Lori Pbert, Beth M. Ewy, Ellen Sachs Leicher, and Donna D. Warner), Tobacco control (2000)
OBJECTIVE: To describe the research conducted to structure and develop a statewide tobacco training and...
Dietary adherence: characteristics and interventions (with Aurora M. Sherman, Deborah J. Bowen, Mara Z. Vitolins, Michael G. Perri, Milagros C. Rosal, and Mary Ann Sevick), Controlled clinical trials (2000)
This paper reviews issues regarding dietary adherence. Issues and barriers unique to dietary adherence, in...
Predictors of adherence to behavior change interventions in the elderly (with S. Nicole Culos-Reed, W. Jack Rejeski, Edward McAuley, and Debra L. Roter), Controlled clinical trials (2000)
Considering factors at the individual, interpersonal, and environmental level may enhance adherence to interventions in...
Initial symptoms of nicotine dependence in adolescents (with Joseph R. DiFranza, Nancy A. Rigotti, Ann D. McNeill, Judith A. Savageau, Dorothy M. St. Cyr, and Mardia A. Coleman), Tobacco control (2000)
OBJECTIVES: It has been assumed that nicotine dependence has a slow onset and occurs only...
Prevalence and co-occurrence of health risk behaviors among high-risk drinkers in a primary care population (with Milagros C. Rosal, Thomas G. Hurley, and Sarah Reiff), Preventive medicine (2000)
BACKGROUND: Approximately 10% of patients seen in the primary care setting meet criteria for high-risk...
Provider education to promote implementation of clinical practice guidelines (with Jane G. Zapka), Chest (2000)
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Although the interest in and promulgation of clinical practice guidelines have significantly increased...
Nicotine replacement prescription practices of obstetric and pediatric clinicians (with Cheryl A. Oncken, Lori Pbert, Jane G. Zapka, and Anne M. Stoddard), Obstetrics and gynecology (2000)
OBJECTIVE: To assess smoking cessation counseling and nicotine replacement therapy prescription and recommendation practices among...
Relapse and maintenance issues for smoking cessation (with Karen M. Emmons, Robin J. Mermelstein, Kenneth A. Perkins, Debra Bonollo, Carolyn C. Voorhees, and Jack F. Hollis), Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (2000)
This article reviews short-term (6 months) and longer term (12-24 months) maintenance of cessation and...
Smoking cessation counseling with pregnant and postpartum women: a survey of community health center providers (with Jane G. Zapka, Lori Pbert, Anne M. Stoddard, Karin V. Goins, and Debra Bonollo), American journal of public health (2000)
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed providers' performance of smoking cessation counseling steps with low-income pregnant and...
Brief physician- and nurse practitioner-delivered counseling for high-risk drinkers: does it work (with Abigail Adams, Thomas G. Hurley, Elizabeth V. Wheeler, and James R. Hebert), Archives of internal medicine (1999)
BACKGROUND: There is a need for primary care providers to have brief effective methods to...
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, Yunsheng Ma, Linda Rider, Philip A. Merriam, 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...
An automated telephone-based smoking cessation education and counseling system (with Harley Z. Ramelson and Robert H. Friedman), Patient education and counseling (1999)
Automated patient education and counseling over the telephone is a convenient and inexpensive method for...
The perceptions and practices of pediatricians: tobacco intervention (with Jane G. Zapka, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Lori Pbert, Susan Druker, and Liping Chen), Pediatrics (1999)
OBJECTIVES: To investigate pediatrician self-reported intervention practices related to tobacco use and cessation. We queried...
Effect of physician-delivered nutrition counseling training and an office-support program on saturated fat intake, weight, and serum lipid measurements in a hyperlipidemic population: Worcester Area Trial for Counseling in Hyperlipidemia (WATCH) (with Ira S. Ockene, James R. Hebert, Gordon M. Saperia, Edward J. Stanek III, Robert Nicolosi, Philip A. Merriam, and Thomas G. Hurley), Archives of internal medicine (1999)
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of a training program for physician-delivered nutrition counseling, alone and...
The patient exit interview as an assessment of physician-delivered smoking intervention: a validation study (with Lori Pbert, Abigail Adams, Mark E. Quirk, James R. Hebert, and Rose S. Luippold), Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (1999)
In evaluating the efficacy of physician-delivered counseling interventions for health behavior changes such as smoking...
Weight suppression and weight rebound in ex-smokers treated with fluoxetine (with Belinda Borrelli, Bonnie Spring, Raymond Niaura, Jean L. Kristeller, and Nancy J. Keuthen), Journal of consulting and clinical psychology (1999)
Fluoxetine's effect (30 mg, 60 mg, and placebo) on postcessation weight gain was studied among...
The effects of a health promotion-health protection intervention on behavior change: the WellWorks Study (with Glorian Sorensen, Anne M. Stoddard, Mary K. Hunt, James R. Hebert, Jill Spitz Avrunin, Jay S. Himmelstein, and S. Katharine Hammond), American journal of public health (1998)
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the effects of a 2-year integrated health promotion-health protection work-site intervention...
Alcohol counseling: physicians will do it (with Abigail Adams, Elizabeth V. Wheeler, and Thomas G. Hurley), Journal of general internal medicine : official journal of the Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine (1998)
OBJECTIVE: To assess the use of a brief provider-delivered alcohol counseling intervention of 5 to...
Coronary Artery Smoking Intervention Study (CASIS): 5-year follow-up (with Milagros C. Rosal, Yunsheng Ma, 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 among smokers and quitters in the Working Well Trial (with Ellen R. Gritz, Beti Thompson, Karen M. Emmons, Dale F. McLerran, and Ingrid R. Nielsen), Preventive medicine (1998)
BACKGROUND: Gender differences in smoking and smoking cessation among participants in the Working Well Trial...
Effectiveness of nicotine-containing gum in the Physician-Delivered Smoking Intervention Study (with Milagros C. Rosal, Thomas G. Hurley, Kathryn L. Kalan, and James R. Hebert), Preventive medicine (1998)
BACKGROUND: We tested the role of nicotine-containing gum (NCG) in conjunction with brief physician counseling...
Physician-based smoking intervention: a rededication to a five-step strategy to smoking research (with Jane G. Zapka), Addictive behaviors (1998)
It is well established that physicians can have a significant effect on the smoking behavior...
Gender differences in social desirability and social approval bias in dietary self-report (with James R. Hebert, Yunsheng Ma, Lynn Clemow, Ira S. Ockene, Gordon Saperia, Edward J. Stanek III, and Philip A. Merriam), American journal of epidemiology (1998)
Social desirability (the tendency to respond in such a way as to avoid criticism) and...
Provider training for patient-centered alcohol counseling in a primary care setting (with Elizabeth V. Wheeler, Abigail Adams, Thomas G. Hurley, and James R. Hebert), Archives of internal medicine (1997)
OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of a brief training program on primary care providers' skills,...
A longitudinal study of students' depression at one medical school (with Milagros C. Rosal, Ira S. Ockene, Susan V. Barrett, Yunsheng Ma, 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...
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (with Stephen J. Heishman, David J. K. Balfour, Neal L. Benowitz, Dorothy K. Hatsukami, and Jon M. Lindstrom), Addiction (Abingdon, England) (1997)
The proceedings of the second annual scientific conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine...
Strategies to increase the number and the quality of innovations in Medical Education Grants (IMEGs) (with Debra Bonollo and Donna M. Qualters), Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (1997)
Smoking cessation benefits in HMOs (with Jane G. Zapka and Philip A. Merriam), HMO practice / HMO Group (1997)
A survey was undertaken in the Spring of 1994 to understand the types of smoking...
Gender, social pressure, and smoking cessations: the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) at baseline (with Jacqueline M. Royce, Kitty Corbett, and Glorian Sorensen), Social science and medicine (1982) (1997)
This study was undertaken to examine gender differences in the perception of social constraints against...
Lung cancer mortality after 16 years in MRFIT participants in intervention and usual-care groups. Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (with B. Jessica Shaten, Lewis H. Kuller, Marcus O. Kjelsberg, Jeremiah Stamler, Jeffrey A. Cutler, and Jerome D. Cohen), Annals of epidemiology (1997)
PURPOSE: The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT), a randomized clinical trial for the primary...
Changing provider behaviour: provider education and training (with Jane G. Zapka), Tobacco control (1997)
Tobacco control activities of primary-care physicians in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation. COMMIT Research Group (with Elizabeth A. Lindsay, Norman Hymowitz, Carol Giffen, Ted Purcell, Paul R. Pomrehn, and Terry F. Pechacek), Tobacco control (1997)
OBJECTIVE: To compare tobacco control practices of physicians and their staff in Intervention communities with...
Use of the nicotine skin patch by smokers in 20 communities in the United States, 1992-1993 (with K. Michael Cummings, Andrew Hyland, Norman Hymowitz, and Marc Manley), Tobacco control (1997)
OBJECTIVE: To measure the characteristics of smokers associated with the use of the nicotine skin...
Effect of training and a structured office practice on physician-delivered nutrition counseling: the Worcester-Area Trial for Counseling in Hyperlipidemia (WATCH) (with Ira S. Ockene, James R. Hebert, Philip A. Merriam, Thomas G. Hurley, and Gordon M. Saperia), American journal of preventive medicine (1996)
We examined the effectiveness of a training program for physician-delivered nutrition counseling, alone and in...
Worker participation in an integrated health promotion/health protection program: results from the WellWorks project (with Glorian Sorensen, Anne M. Stoddard, Mary K. Hunt, and Richard Youngstrom), Health education quarterly (1996)
According to prior reports, blue-collar workers are less likely to participate in worksite health promotion...
Double jeopardy: workplace hazards and behavioral risks for craftspersons and laborers (with Glorian Sorensen, Anne M. Stoddard, S. Katharine Hammond, James R. Hebert, and Jill Spitz Avrunin), American journal of health promotion : AJHP (1996)
PURPOSE: To address three specific questions in a sample of craftspersons and laborers: (1) Do...
Tobacco curriculum for medical students, residents and practicing physicians (with Jean L. Kristeller), Indiana medicine : the journal of the Indiana State Medical Association (1996)
Smoking and other tobacco exposure have been recognized for several decades as the most significant...
Barriers to lifestyle change, and the need to develop an integrated approach to prevention (with Ira S. Ockene), Cardiology clinics (1996)
Many barriers exist to the delivery of preventive services by both cardiologists and other physicians....
Smoking in Ecuador: prevalence, knowledge, and attitudes (with David E. Chiriboga and Juan Carlos Zevallos), Tobacco control (1996)
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prevalence of, attitudes towards, and knowledge about cigarette smoking in Ecuador...
Physician training for patient-centered nutrition counseling in a lipid intervention trial (with Ira S. Ockene, Mark E. Quirk, James R. Hebert, Gordon M. Saperia, Rose S. Luippold, Philip A. Merriam, and Sarah Ellis), Preventive medicine (1995)
BACKGROUND: We examined the effect of a 3-hr training program on physicians' lipid intervention knowledge,...
Occupational exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (with S. Katharine Hammond, Glorian Sorensen, and Richard Youngstrom), JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association (1995)
OBJECTIVES--To measure occupational exposures to environmental tobacco smoke in diverse settings, including offices and production...
ETS exposure in the workplace. Perceptions and reactions by employees in 114 work sites. Working Well Research Group [corrected] (with Beti Thompson, Karen M. Emmons, David B. Abrams, and Ziding Feng), Journal of occupational and environmental medicine / American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (1995)
Employees are often exposed to and bothered by environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the workplace;...
A model for worksite cancer prevention: integration of health protection and health promotion in the WellWorks Project (with Glorian Sorensen, Jay S. Himmelstein, Mary K. Hunt, Richard Youngstrom, James R. Hebert, S. Katharine Hammond, Ruth Palombo, and Anne M. Stoddard), American journal of health promotion : AJHP (1995)
OBJECTIVES. To describe a theoretic approach and rationale for the integration of health protection and...
Social desirability bias in dietary self-report may compromise the validity of dietary intake measures (with James R. Hebert, Lynn Clemow, Lori Pbert, and Ira S. Ockene), International journal of epidemiology (1995)
BACKGROUND. Self-report of dietary intake could be biased by social desirability or social approval thus...
The Physician-Delivered Smoking Intervention Project: factors that determine how much the physician intervenes with smokers (with Abigail Adams, Lori Pbert, Rose S. Luippold, James R. Hebert, Mark E. Quirk, and Kathryn L. Kalan), Journal of general internal medicine : official journal of the Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine (1994)
OBJECTIVE: To determine factors that affect how much physicians trained to use a patient-centered smoking...
The physician-delivered smoking intervention project: can short-term interventions produce long-term effects for a general outpatient population (with Jean L. Kristeller, Lori Pbert, James R. Hebert, Rose S. Luippold, Robert J. Goldberg, Joan Landon, and Kathryn L. Kalan), Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (1994)
Patterns of smoking cessation using 6- and 12-month follow-up data are reported for 1,261 primary...
Physicians and smoking cessation. A survey of office procedures and practices in the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (with Elizabeth A. Lindsay, Norman Hymowitz, Carol Giffen, Larry Berger, and Paul R. Pomrehn), Archives of family medicine (1994)
OBJECTIVE: To obtain a baseline measure of tobacco control activities carried out by physicians and...
Routine hospital-based quit-smoking treatment for the postmyocardial infarction patient: an idea whose time has come (with C. Tracy Orleams), Journal of the American College of Cardiology (1993)
Measuring the effect of a worksite-based nutrition intervention on food consumption (with James R. Hebert, Anne M. Stoddard, Donald R. Harris, Glorian Sorensen, Mary K. Hunt, and Diane H. Morris), Annals of epidemiology (1993)
Although current dietary guidelines focus on a combination of specific nutrients and food items, most...
Setting the policy, education, and research agenda to reduce tobacco use. Workshop I. AHA Prevention Conference III. Behavior change and compliance: keys to improving cardiovascular health (with Diane M. Becker, Richard Windsor, Barbara Berman, J. Allan Best, K. Michael Cummings, Stanton Glantz, Suzanne Haynes, Jack Henningfield, and Thomas E. Novotny), Circulation (1993)
The COMMIT dental model: tobacco control practices and attitudes (with R. B. Jones, Paul R. Pomrehn, R. E. Mecklenburg, Elizabeth A. Lindsay, and Marc Manley), Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) (1993)
The National Cancer Institute's program to help dentists reduce tobacco use among their patients is...
Smoking after acute myocardial infarction: a good thing (with Ira S. Ockene), Heart disease and stroke : a journal for primary care physicians (1993)
Factors associated with heavy smoking among men and women: the physician-delivered smoking intervention project (with Robert J. Goldberg, Jean L. Kristeller, Kathryn L. Kalan, Joan Landon, and David W. Hosmer), American heart journal (1993)
As part of a randomized trial that compared the effects of three physician-delivered smoking interventions...
Comparison of patients' and their resident physicians' responses regarding smoking-cessation interventions (with Constantine Daskalakis, Robert J. Goldberg, Kathryn L. Kalan, David W. Hosmer, and Lori Pbert), Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (1993)
PURPOSE. To investigate (1) the extent of agreement between what resident physicians and their patients...
Physicians' attitudes and reported practices toward smoking intervention (with Robert J. Goldberg, Ira S. Ockene, Philip A. Merriam, and Jean L. Kristeller), Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education (1993)
The objective of this study was to examine differences in the attitudes and reported practices...
Smoking after acute myocardial infarction. A good thing (with Ira S. Ockene), Circulation (1993)
Smoking intervention for cardiac patients: in search of more effective strategies (with Jean L. Kristeller, Philip A. Merriam, Ira S. Ockene, and Robert J. Goldberg), Cardiology (1993)
Smoking cessation greatly reduces morbidity and mortality associated with coronary artery disease (CAD). This paper...
Patient characteristics and the effect of three physician-delivered smoking interventions (with James R. Hebert, Jean L. Kristeller, Joan Landon, Rose S. Luippold, Robert J. Goldberg, and Kathryn Kalan), Preventive medicine (1992)
BACKGROUND. This paper investigates individual patient characteristics predicting differential response to each of three physician-delivered...
Smoking: epidemiology, cessation, and prevention. Task Force on Research and Education for the Prevention and Control of Respiratory Diseases (with Brian R. Flay and Ira B. Tager), Chest (1992)
Heavy smoking among a sample of employed women (with Glorian Sorensen, Robert J. Goldberg, Janelle M. Klar, Terry Tannenbaum, and Stanley Lemeshow), American journal of preventive medicine (1992)
Understanding the phenomenon of heavy smoking among women and factors related to it is of...
Work-site nutrition intervention and employees' dietary habits: the Treatwell program (with Glorian Sorensen, Diane H. Morris, Mary K. Hunt, James R. Hebert, Donald R. Harris, and Anne M. Stoddard), American journal of public health (1992)
In a randomized, controlled study of the Treatwell work-site nutrition intervention program, which focused on...
Are we pushing the limits of public health interventions for smoking cessation, Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (1992)
The phenomenon of smoking cessation that takes place outside formal programs, which serve a small...
Processes of change in smoking cessation: a cross-validation study in cardiac patients (with Jean L. Kristeller, Joseph S. Rossi, Robert J. Goldberg, and James O. Prochaska), Journal of substance abuse (1992)
The processes of change associated with smoking cessation were examined for 213 smokers and recent...
Smoking cessation and severity of disease: the Coronary Artery Smoking Intervention Study (with Jean L. Kristeller, Robert J. Goldberg, Ira S. Ockene, Philip A. Merriam, Susan V. Barrett, Penelope S. Pekow, David W. Hosmer, and Ralph Gianelly), Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (1992)
We tested the effectiveness of an individually delivered behavioral multicomponent smoking intervention (SI) against offering...
Baseline factors associated with smoking cessation and relapse. MRFIT Research Group (with Norman Hymowitz, Mary Sexton, and Gregory Grandits), Preventive medicine (1991)
BACKGROUND. Data on smoking cessation and relapse for 6 yers of the Multiple Risk Factor...
Cigarette smoking and mortality. MRFIT Research Group (with Lewis H. Kuller, Elaine Meilahn, Deborah N. Wentworth, Kenneth H. Svendsen, and James D. Neaton), Preventive medicine (1991)
METHODS. The relationship of cigarette smoking and smoking cessation to mortality was investigated among men...
Cigarette smoking in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT). Introduction, overview, method, and conclusions (with B. Jessica Shaten), Preventive medicine (1991)
Comparison of smoking behavior change for SI and UC study groups. MRFIT Research Group (with Norman Hymowitz, John Lagus, and B. Jessica Shaten), Preventive medicine (1991)
BACKGROUND. The results of MRFIT smoking intervention program are presented for the 4,103 special intervention...
Smoking cessation and change in diastolic blood pressure, body weight, and plasma lipids. MRFIT Research Group (with Terence A. Gerace, Jack F. Hollis, and Kenneth H. Svendsen), Preventive medicine (1991)
Cigarette smoking cessation was examined for its impact on diastolic blood pressure, weight, and plasma...
Severity of angiographically proven coronary artery disease predicts smoking cessation (with David Frid, Ira S. Ockene, Philip A. Merriam, Robert J. Goldberg, Jean L. Kristeller, and Susan V. Barrett), American journal of preventive medicine (1991)
We investigated the relationship between the extent of coronary artery disease (CAD) and the likelihood...
Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT): opportunities for community psychologists in chronic disease prevention (with Edward Lichtenstein and Linda Nettekoven), American journal of community psychology (1991)
Opportunities for participation in chronic disease prevention programs are discussed in the context of a...
Training family practice and internal medicine residents to counsel patients who smoke: improvement and retention of counseling skills (with Mark E. Quirk, Jean L. Kristeller, Robert J. Goldberg, G. Donnelly, Terrence L. Amick, and Kathryn L. Kalan), Family medicine (1991)
This investigation builds on an earlier study by describing the final results of a training...
Hospital nonsmoking policies (with Glorian Sorensen), Archives of internal medicine (1991)
Increasing the efficacy of physician-delivered smoking interventions: a randomized clinical trial (with Jean L. Kristeller, Robert J. Goldberg, Terrence L. Amick, Penelope S. Pekow, David W. Hosmer, Mark E. Quirk, and Kathryn L. Kalan), Journal of general internal medicine : official journal of the Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine (1991)
OBJECTIVE: To assess the relative impacts of three physician-delivered smoking interventions in combination with follow-up...
Reducing the risk of cancer through worksite intervention (with Jerianne Heimendinger, Beti Thompson, Glorian Sorensen, David B. Abrams, Karen M. Emmons, Jill Varnes, Michael P. Eriksen, Claudia Probart, and Jay S. Himmelstein), Occupational medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.) (1990)
This chapter examines existing activities reported in the literature in the areas of smoking, nutrition,...
Relation of forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) to lung cancer mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) (with Lewis H. Kuller, Elaine Meilahn, and Kenneth H. Svendsen), American journal of epidemiology (1990)
For men participating in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial, the authors evaluated the relation...
The relationship of smoking cessation to coronary heart disease and lung cancer in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) (with Lewis H. Kuller, Kenneth H. Svendsen, and Elaine Meilahn), American journal of public health (1990)
The impact of smoking cessation on coronary heart disease (CHD) and lung cancer was assessed...
Teaching risk-factor counseling skills to medical students, house staff, and fellows (with Ira S. Ockene, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Harry L. Greene, and David Frid), American journal of preventive medicine (1990)
It is important to teach risk-factor counseling skills to medical students, primary care residents, and...
The epidemiology of pulmonary function and COPD mortality in the multiple risk factor intervention trial (with Lewis H. Kuller, Mary Townsend, Warren Browner, Elaine Meilahn, and Deborah N. Wentworth), The American review of respiratory disease (1989)
The potential determinants of the changes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) mortality were evaluated...
Women and smoking. Promoting cessation, Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) (1989)
Effects on blood pressure of a decrease in sodium use in institutional food preparation: the Exeter-Andover Project (with R. Curtis Ellison, Ann L. Capper, Wendy P. Stephenson, Robert J. Goldberg, David W. Hosmer, Kim F. Humphrey, Walter J. Gamble, Jelia C. Witschi, and Fredrick J. Stare), Journal of clinical epidemiology (1989)
To judge the effect on blood pressure, sodium intake of students at two boarding high...
A residents' training program for the development of smoking intervention skills (with Mark E. Quirk, Robert J. Goldberg, Jean L. Kristeller, Gary Donnelly, Kathryn L. Kalan, Bruce Gould, Harry L. Greene, Richard Harrison-Atlas, and James Pease), Archives of internal medicine (1988)
This article describes the results of a three-hour training program that teaches residents a patient-centered...
Smoking cessation counseling by family physicians (with Joseph R. DiFranza and Barbara E. Moser), The Journal of family practice (1988)
Benefits and costs of lifestyle change to reduce risk of chronic disease (with Glorian Sorensen, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ira S. Ockene, and Gary Donnelly), Preventive medicine (1988)
Individuals do not benefit equally from attempts to change their lifestyles in an effort to...
A survey of Massachusetts physicians' smoking intervention practices (with John Aney, Robert J. Goldberg, Janelle M. Klar, and Joanne W. Williams), American journal of preventive medicine (1988)
Attitudes toward smoking intervention, and the intervention practices of 65 residents, 51 attending physicians, and...
Cigarette smoking: the physician's role in cessation and maintenance (with Harry L. Greene and Robert J. Goldberg), Journal of general internal medicine : official journal of the Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine (1988)
Does switching from cigarettes to pipes or cigars reduce tobacco smoke exposure (with Terry F. Pechacek, Thomas M. Vogt, and Kenneth H. Svendsen), American journal of public health (1987)
Cigarette smoking histories, reported depth of inhalation, number of pipe and cigars (PC) smoked, serum...
Effects of passive smoking in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (with Kenneth H. Svendsen, Lewis H. Kuller, and Michael J. Martin), American journal of epidemiology (1987)
The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT), conducted in 1973-1982, provided a unique opportunity to...
Physician-delivered interventions for smoking cessation: strategies for increasing effectiveness, Preventive medicine (1987)
If physicians and other health-care providers were able to facilitate long-term cessation in 1 of...
The relationship of patient characteristics to physician delivery of advice to stop smoking (with David W. Hosmer, Joanne W. Williams, Robert J. Goldberg, Ira S. Ockene, Timothy Biliouris, and James E. Dalen), Journal of general internal medicine : official journal of the Society for Research and Education in Primary Care Internal Medicine (1987)
To investigate the frequency of physician delivery of advice to stop smoking and patient characteristics...
Smoking intervention: the expanding role of the physician, American journal of public health (1987)
Factors related to patient smoking status (with David W. Hosmer, Joanne W. Williams, Robert J. Goldberg, Ira S. Ockene, and Theodore J. Raia III), American journal of public health (1987)
To investigate those factors associated with patients' cigarette smoking status, 455 consecutive patients seen in...
Behaviors and attitudes among medical students concerning cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption (with Larry Maynard, Robert J. Goldberg, Barry S. Levy, John Howe III, and James E. Dalen), Journal of medical education (1986)
The investigation reported here was undertaken to assess cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption patterns and...
Coronary heart disease death, nonfatal acute myocardial infarction and other clinical outcomes in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial Research Group, The American journal of cardiology (1986)
The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial was a randomized clinical study to test whether a...
Relationship between baseline risk factors and coronary heart disease and total mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial Research Group, Preventive medicine (1986)
The relationship between selected baseline risk factors and subsequent coronary heart disease (CHD) death and...
Physicians' attitudes and practices toward CPR training in family members of patients with coronary heart disease (with Robert J. Goldberg, Diana DeCosimo, Peter St. Louis, Joel M. Gore, and James E. Dalen), American journal of public health (1985)
A survey of 482 physicians practicing in central and western Massachusetts was carried out to...
Baseline rest electrocardiographic abnormalities, antihypertensive treatment, and mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial Research Group, The American journal of cardiology (1985)
The overall results of the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) showed a nonsignificant 7%...
Factors affecting cigarette smoking status in patients with ischemic heart disease (with David W. Hosmer, James Rippe, Joanne W. Williams, Robert J. Goldberg, Diana DeCosimo, Patricia M. Maher, and James E. Dalen), Journal of chronic diseases (1985)
To determine the factors affecting cigarette smoking status after the development of ischemic heart disease,...
Toward a smoke-free society, American journal of public health (1984)
Layperson CPR--are we training the right people (with Robert J. Goldberg, Joel M. Gore, Donald G. Love, and James E. Dalen), Annals of emergency medicine (1984)
A case-control study was undertaken to examine differences in the extent of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)...
Comparison of patterns of smoking behavior change among smokers in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) (with Norman Hymowitz, Mary Sexton, and Steven K. Broste), Preventive medicine (1982)
The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) is a 6-year clinical trial for the study...
Hyperstress and outcomes in a long-term smoking intervention program (with Robert C. Benfari, Elaine D. Eaker, and Kevin M. McIntyre), Psychosomatic medicine (1982)
A group of 182 smokers in a CHD risk factor intervention program were prospectively followed...
Control of cigarette smoking from a psychological perspective (with Robert C. Benfari and Kevin M. McIntyre), Annual review of public health (1982)
A psychosocial model of smoking cessation and maintenance of cessation (with Ronald Nutall, Robert C. Benfari, Irving Hurwitz, and Ira S. Ockene), Preventive medicine (1981)
The long-term cessation rates obtained in smoking control programs have been disappointing. In order to...
The multiple risk factor intervention trial (MRFIT). V. Intervention on smoking (with Glenn H. Hughes, Norman Hymowitz, Nathan Simon, and Thomas M. Vogt), Preventive medicine (1981)
The development, implementation, and results of the smoking cessation program of the Multiple Risk Factor...