*Adolescent Behavior

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,...

 

*Adolescent Psychology

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,...

 

*Alcohol Drinking

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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 

*Attitude of Health Personnel

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Attitude to Health

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...

 
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;...

 
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...

 

*Behavior Therapy

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Bias (Epidemiology)

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...

 
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...

 

*Biomedical Research

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)...

 

*Blood Pressure

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...

 

*Body Weight

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...

 

*Certification

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...

 

*Chewing Gum

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...

 

*Chronic Disease

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...

 

*Clinical Competence

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...

 
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...

 

*Clinical Trials as Topic

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....

 
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...

 

*Communication

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...

 
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...

 

*Community Health Centers

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,...

 
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...

 

*Community Health Services

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....

 

*Coronary Angiography

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...

 

*Coronary Disease

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)...

 

*Counseling

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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Curriculum

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...

 
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...

 

*Dentists

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...

 

*Diet

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Diet Records

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...

 

*Diet, Fat-Restricted

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...

 
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...

 

*Dietetics

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...

 

*Diffusion of Innovation

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...

 
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)
 

*Education

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...

 

*Education, Medical

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...

 
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)
 
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...

 

*Education, Medical, Continuing

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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 

*Educational Measurement

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...

 

*Effect Modifiers (Epidemiology)

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...

 

*Electrocardiography

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%...

 

*Estrogen Replacement Therapy

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Evidence-Based Medicine

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....

 

*Exercise

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...

 

*Family

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)...

 

*Family Practice

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...

 

*Food Habits

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Food Services

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...

 

*Forced Expiratory Volume

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...

 

*Gender Identity

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...

 
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...

 

*Health

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...

 

*Health Behavior

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
Changing provider behaviour: provider education and training (with Jane G. Zapka), Tobacco control (1997)
 
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...

 

*Health Education

Changing provider behaviour: provider education and training (with Jane G. Zapka), Tobacco control (1997)
 
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...

 
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....

 

*Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 

*Health Promotion

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Health Status

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Health Status Indicators

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...

 

*Health Surveys

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...

 

*Hormone Replacement Therapy

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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...

 

*Hospital Administration

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)
 

*Hyperlipidemias

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...

 

*Hysterectomy

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...

 
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...

 

*Industry

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...

 

*Infant, Small for Gestational Age

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...

 

*Internal Medicine

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...

 

*Internship and Residency

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Interview, Psychological

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...

 

*Knowledge

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...

 

*Life Style

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...

 
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....

 
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...

 

*Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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)...

 

*Manifest Anxiety Scale

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...

 

*Marriage

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...

 

*Menopause

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...

 

*Mental Recall

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...

 

*Models, Psychological

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...

 

*Motivation

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...

 

*Myocardial Infarction

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)
 

*Nicotine

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...

 
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...

 

*Nurse Practitioners

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...

 

*Nutrition Physiology

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Obstetrics

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...

 

*Occupational Health

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...

 
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,...

 

*Overweight

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)
 

*Patient Acceptance of Health Care

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...

 

*Patient Compliance

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...

 
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...

 

*Patient Education as Topic

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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 

*Patient Selection

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)...

 
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...

 

*Patient-Centered Care

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,...

 

*Pediatrics

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...

 

*Personal Autonomy

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,...

 

*Physician's Practice Patterns

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Physician's Role

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....

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
Smoking intervention: the expanding role of the physician, American journal of public health (1987)
 
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...

 

*Physician-Patient Relations

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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' 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...

 
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...

 

*Physicians

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Physicians, Family

Smoking cessation counseling by family physicians (with Joseph R. DiFranza and Barbara E. Moser), The Journal of family practice (1988)
 

*Plants, Toxic

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...

 
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)
 

*Policy Making

Hospital nonsmoking policies (with Glorian Sorensen), Archives of internal medicine (1991)
 

*Postnatal Care

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...

 

*Postpartum Period

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:...

 
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,...

 

*Poverty

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:...

 
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...

 

*Practice Guidelines as Topic

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...

 
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...

 

*Practice Management, Medical

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...

 

*Prenatal Care

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...

 

*Primary Health Care

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Program Development

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)
 

*Program Evaluation

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...

 
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...

 

*Psychology

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...

 

*Public Health

Toward a smoke-free society, American journal of public health (1984)
 

*Public Policy

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...

 

*Quality Indicators, Health Care

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...

 

*Quality of Life

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...

 
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...

 

*Questionnaires

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...

 

*Research Support as Topic

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)
 

*Risk Reduction Behavior

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...

 

*Risk-Taking

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...

 

*Role

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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
Smoking intervention: the expanding role of the physician, American journal of public health (1987)
 
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...

 

*Self Concept

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...

 

*Sick Role

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

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...

 
Smoking after acute myocardial infarction. A good thing (with Ira S. Ockene), Circulation (1993)
 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Smoking Cessation

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...

 
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:...

 
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...

 
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)...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Social Conformity

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...

 

*Social Desirability

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...

 
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...

 

*Stillbirth

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...

 

*Substance Withdrawal Syndrome

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...

 

*Telephone

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...

 

*Temperance

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...

 

*Tobacco

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...

 
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)
 

*Tobacco Smoke Pollution

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...

 

*Truth Disclosure

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...

 

*Urban Health

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...

 

*Weight Loss

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...

 

*Women's Health

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...

 
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)...

 
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...

 
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...

 

*Women, Working

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...

 

*Workplace

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...

 
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...

 
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;...

 

Adenocarcinoma

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...

 

Adenoma

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...

 

administration

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...

 
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...

 

Administration, Cutaneous

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...

 

Administration, Oral

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...

 

Administration, Topical

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...

 

Adolescent

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...

 
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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Adolescent Behavior

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...

 
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...

 

Adult

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...

 
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:...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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;...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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)
 
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...

 

Advertising as Topic

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...

 
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)
 

Affect

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,...

 

Age Distribution

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...

 

Age Factors

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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)...

 

Aged

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...

 
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)...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 

Aged, 80 and over

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...

 
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...

 

Aging

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...

 

Air Pollutants, Occupational

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;...

 

Alcohol Drinking

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Alcoholism

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...

 
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...

 

Algorithms

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,...

 
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...

 

Ambulatory Care

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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Analysis of Variance

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

and control

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...

 

Anger

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...

 

Angina Pectoris

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,...

 

Angina, Unstable

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...

 

Antidepressive Agents

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...

 

Antihypertensive Agents

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...

 
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%...

 

Anxiety

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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 

Arteriosclerosis

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...

 

Aspirin

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...

 

Asthma

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...

 

Attitude

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...

 
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,...

 

Attitude of Health Personnel

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...

 
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...

 
Women and smoking. Promoting cessation, Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972) (1989)
 
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...

 

Attitude to Health

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Aversive Therapy

Control of cigarette smoking from a psychological perspective (with Robert C. Benfari and Kevin M. McIntyre), Annual review of public health (1982)
 

Behavior

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...

 
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...

 

Behavior Therapy

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...

 
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)...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
Control of cigarette smoking from a psychological perspective (with Robert C. Benfari and Kevin M. McIntyre), Annual review of public health (1982)
 

Behavior, Addictive

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...

 

Behavioral Medicine

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....

 
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...

 
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...

 

Biological Markers

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...

 

Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring

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...

 

Blood Pressure

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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%...

 

Body Height

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...

 

Body Mass Index

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)
 
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...

 
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...

 

Body Weight

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Bone Density

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...

 

Boston

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:...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Brain

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...

 

Breast Neoplasms

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Breath Tests

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...

 

Calcinosis

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...

 

Calcium

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...

 

Calcium Carbonate

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...

 

Canada

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...

 

Carbon Monoxide

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...

 
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...

 

Cardiovascular Diseases

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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)
 

Cause of Death

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...

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)

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....

 

Cereals

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...

 

Cerebrovascular Disorders

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...

 

Chest Pain

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...

 

Chewing Gum

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...

 
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...

 
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 cessation counseling by family physicians (with Joseph R. DiFranza and Barbara E. Moser), The Journal of family practice (1988)
 

Chi-Square Distribution

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...

 
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...

 

Child

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...

 
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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Cholesterol

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Cholesterol, HDL

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...

 

Cholesterol, LDL

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Chronic Disease

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...

 

Clinical Competence

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 

Clinical Trials as Topic

Smoking after acute myocardial infarction: a good thing (with Ira S. Ockene), Heart disease and stroke : a journal for primary care physicians (1993)
 
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...

 
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%...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committees

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...

 

Cognition

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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Cognition Disorders

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)...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Cohort Studies

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Colonic Polyps

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...

 
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...

 

Colorectal Neoplasms

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Combined Modality Therapy

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)...

 
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...

 

Community Health Centers

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Community Health Planning

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....

 

Community Health Services

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...

 

Community Mental Health Centers

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...

 

Community Mental Health Services

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...

 

Community Networks

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...

 

Competency-Based Education

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...

 
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...

 

Computer-Assisted Instruction

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...

 

Confidence Intervals

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...

 
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...

 

Congenital Abnormalities

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...

 

Continental Population Groups

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...

 

control

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...

 

Coronary Angiography

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...

 
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...

 

Coronary Disease

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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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 after acute myocardial infarction: a good thing (with Ira S. Ockene), Heart disease and stroke : a journal for primary care physicians (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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Costs and Cost Analysis

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)
 

Cotinine

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...

 

Counseling

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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 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,...

 
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...

 
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 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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
Smoking cessation counseling by family physicians (with Joseph R. DiFranza and Barbara E. Moser), The Journal of family practice (1988)
 
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...

 
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...

 

Cross-Sectional Studies

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Culture

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...

 

Curriculum

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...

 
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...

 

Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors

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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...

 

data

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...

 

Data Collection

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)...

 

Data Interpretation, Statistical

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...

 
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...

 

Databases, Factual

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...

 

Decision Making

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...

 

Delivery of Health Care

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...

 

Dementia

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...

 

Demography

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...

 

Depression

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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Diabetes Complications

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...

 

Diabetes Mellitus

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....

 

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

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...

 

Diet

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Diet Records

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...

 

Diet Surveys

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...

 

Diet, Fat-Restricted

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...

 
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...

 

Dietary Carbohydrates

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...

 

Dietary Fats

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Dietary Fiber

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...

 
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...

 

Dietetics

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...

 

Disease Susceptibility

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...

 

Diuretics

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%...

 

Dizziness

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...

 

Dose-Response Relationship, Drug

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...

 
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...

 

Double-Blind Method

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)...

 
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...

 

Drug Combinations

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...

 

Drug Interactions

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...

 

Drug Therapy

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...

 

Drug Utilization

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...

 

Eating

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...

 

Ecology

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....

 

Ecuador

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...

 

Education, Medical

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...

 

Education, Medical, Continuing

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 

Education, Medical, Undergraduate

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...

 
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...

 

Educational Status

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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)...

 

Emotions

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...

 

Endometrial Neoplasms

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...

 

Energy Intake

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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Estrogen Replacement Therapy

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)...

 
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 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...

 
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...

 

Estrogens

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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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Estrogens, Conjugated (USP)

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...

 

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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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Ethnic Groups

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...

 

Evaluation Studies as Topic

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...

 
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...

 

Evidence-Based Medicine

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....

 
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)
 
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...

 

Exercise

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Exertion

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...

 

Expert Systems

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...

 

Exploratory Behavior

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...

 

Factor Analysis, Statistical

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,...

 

Family

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...

 
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...

 

Family Practice

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Fatty Acids

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,...

 

Feedback

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...

 

Female

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)...

 
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...

 

PDF

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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 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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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;...

 
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: 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...

 
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 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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
Smoking cessation counseling by family physicians (with Joseph R. DiFranza and Barbara E. Moser), The Journal of family practice (1988)
 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)...

 

Financing, Government

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...

 

Fluoxetine

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)...

 
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...

 

Focus Groups

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...

 
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...

 

Follow-Up Studies

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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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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%...

 
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...

 

Food Habits

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...

 

Food Services

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...

 

Forced Expiratory Volume

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...

 
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...

 

Forecasting

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...

 
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...

 

Fractures, Bone

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...

 
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...

 

Fruit

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...

 

Gonadal Steroid Hormones

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...

 

Guideline Adherence

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...

 
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...

 

Health Behavior

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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 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...

 

Health Benefit Plans, Employee

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...

 
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...

 

Health Care Surveys

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Health Education

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
Toward a smoke-free society, American journal of public health (1984)
 

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Health Maintenance Organizations

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
Changing provider behaviour: provider education and training (with Jane G. Zapka), Tobacco control (1997)
 
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...

 
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,...

 

Health Personnel

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...

 
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...

 
Changing provider behaviour: provider education and training (with Jane G. Zapka), Tobacco control (1997)
 

Health Planning

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...

 

Health Policy

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...

 

Health Promotion

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....

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
Hospital nonsmoking policies (with Glorian Sorensen), Archives of internal medicine (1991)
 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Health Resources

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...

 

Health Services Needs and Demand

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...

 

Health Services Research

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...

 
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...

 

Health Status

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Health Surveys

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...

 
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...

 

Heart Catheterization

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...

 

Heart Diseases

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...

 

Hip Fractures

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...

 
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...

 

Hispanic Americans

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...

 

Hormone Replacement Therapy

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...

 

Hospital Administration

Hospital nonsmoking policies (with Glorian Sorensen), Archives of internal medicine (1991)
 

Hospitalization

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)
 
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,...

 

Hot Flashes

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...

 

Housing

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...

 

Humans

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...

 

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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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Hypercholesterolemia

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...

 

Hyperlipidemias

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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 

Hypertension

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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%...

 

Hypoglycemic Agents

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...

 

Hysterectomy

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...

 

Incidence

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Individuality

Control of cigarette smoking from a psychological perspective (with Robert C. Benfari and Kevin M. McIntyre), Annual review of public health (1982)
 

Infant

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...

 

Infant, Newborn

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...

 
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...

 

Informed Consent

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)...

 

Interdisciplinary Communication

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....

 

Internal Medicine

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Internal-External Control

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...

 
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)
 

International Classification of Diseases

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...

 

Internship and Residency

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Interpersonal Relations

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...

 

Intervention Studies

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Interview, Psychological

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...

 

Interviews as Topic

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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:...

 

Job Satisfaction

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...

 

Kidney Calculi

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...

 

Life Change Events

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...

 
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...

 

Life Style

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Likelihood Functions

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...

 

Linear Models

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Lipids

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...

 

Lipoproteins

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...

 

Logistic Models

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)...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Longitudinal Studies

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...

 
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,...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Lung

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...

 
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...

 

Lung Diseases, Obstructive

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...

 

Lung Neoplasms

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Male

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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;...

 
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: 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...

 
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 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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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%...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Marital Status

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...

 

Marriage

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...

 

Mass Screening

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,...

 

Massachusetts

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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 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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)...

 

Medical History Taking

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...

 

Medical Records

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...

 

Medical Staff, Hospital

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...

 

Medroxyprogesterone 17-Acetate

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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Memory

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,...

 

Mental Health

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...

 

Mental Health Services

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...

 

Mental Recall

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...

 

Metformin

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...

 

Middle Aged

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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;...

 
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' 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 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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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)
 
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...

 

Models, Educational

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...

 

Models, Psychological

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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 

Models, Theoretical

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...

 

Monitoring, Physiologic

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...

 

Motivation

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Motor Activity

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...

 

Multivariate Analysis

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Myocardial Infarction

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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...

 
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...

 
Smoking after acute myocardial infarction: a good thing (with Ira S. Ockene), Heart disease and stroke : a journal for primary care physicians (1993)
 
Smoking after acute myocardial infarction. A good thing (with Ira S. Ockene), Circulation (1993)
 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 

Myocardial Revascularization

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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...

 

National Institutes of Health (U.S.)

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...

 
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...

 

Nausea

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...

 

Needs Assessment

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...

 
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...

 

Neoplasms

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 

Neuropsychological Tests

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,...

 
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...

 

Nicotine

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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)
 
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...

 
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...

 
Smoking cessation counseling by family physicians (with Joseph R. DiFranza and Barbara E. Moser), The Journal of family practice (1988)
 
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)
 
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...

 

Nurse Practitioners

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...

 
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,...

 

Nurses

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...

 

Nutrition Assessment

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...

 

Nutrition Physiology

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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,...

 

Nutrition Surveys

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...

 

Nutritional Sciences

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...

 

Obesity

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....

 
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)
 
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...

 
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...

 

Obstetrics

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...

 

Occupational Diseases

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...

 

Occupational Exposure

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Occupational Health Services

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Occupations

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,...

 

Odds Ratio

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Ontario

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...

 

Organizational Case Studies

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...

 

Organizational Objectives

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...

 

Organizational Policy

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...

 
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;...

 
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...

 

Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)

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...

 
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...

 
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)
 

Outcome Assessment (Health Care)

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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Outpatient Clinics, Hospital

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...

 

Pain

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...

 

Parents

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...

 

Patient Acceptance of Health Care

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...

 
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...

 

Patient Care Team

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....

 

Patient Compliance

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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Patient Education as Topic

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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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....

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 
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...

 

Patient Satisfaction

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...

 

Patient Selection

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...

 

Patient-Centered Care

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...

 
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...

 
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,...

 

Patients

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...

 

Pediatrics

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...

 
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...

 

Peripheral Vascular Diseases

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...

 

Personal Autonomy

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...

 
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...

 

Personal Satisfaction

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...

 

Personality Inventory

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...

 

Personnel Staffing and Scheduling

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...

 

Physical Examination

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...

 

Physician'