Publications by authors named "A L Swan"
Objective: To investigate phenotypes of comorbidity before and after an epilepsy diagnosis in a national cohort of post-9/11 Service Members and Veterans and explore phenotypic associations with mortality.
Methods: Among a longitudinal cohort of Service Members and Veterans receiving care in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) from 2002 to 2018, annual diagnoses for 26 conditions associated with epilepsy were collected over 5 years, ranging from 2 years prior to 2 years after the year of first epilepsy diagnosis. Latent class analysis (LCA) was used to identify probabilistic comorbidity phenotypes with distinct health trajectories.
Article Synopsis
- Chronic headaches are a common issue for military Veterans after experiencing traumatic brain injuries (TBI), and their treatment is often complicated and costly.
- A study of 141,125 Veterans post-9/11 revealed that those with specific types of headache combinations, especially post-TBI migraines, faced significantly higher healthcare costs.
- There's a need for further research to understand if the high costs correlate with better treatment results or indicate persistent, harder-to-treat headaches.
Background: The Dohne Merino sheep was introduced to Australia from South Africa in the 1990s. It was primarily used in crosses with the Merino breed sheep to improve on attributes such as reproduction and carcass composition. Since then, this breed has continued to expand in Australia but the number of genotyped and phenotyped purebred individuals remains low, calling into question the accuracy of genomic selection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAbstractSexual dimorphism typically arises as a result of sexual selection or sex-specific natural selection. Species that exhibit cryptic coloration provide an excellent system for studying sex-specific selection for sexual dichromatism. In this study, we examined the sexually dichromatic use of chromatophores in the seawhip shrimp, (Borradaile, 1920), which commonly resides on colonies of (Lamarck, 1815), a gorgonian octocoral that occurs in multiple color morphs.
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- The study looked at a test called the modified-COMPASS-31 to see how well it measures symptoms after a mild brain injury, especially those related to autonomic dysregulation.
- They compared this new test to the original COMPASS-31 and another test called the Neurobehavioral Symptom Inventory (NSI) to see how accurate they were.
- The results showed that the modified-COMPASS-31 is a good way to track changes in symptoms and is helpful for doctors to know how patients are doing after treatment.