Integrating Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use with Primary Care is Associated with Greater Retention in Treatment.

Background: METHOD: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 257 MAT patients in our family medicine clinic to assess retention in treatment for patients receiving MAT integrated with primary care compared with our MAT patients who received their primary care elsewhere.

Results: At 1 year after enrollment, 60% of patients receiving MAT integrated with primary care remained in treatment versus 43% of patients who received their primary care separately. In multivariate analysis, the patients receiving integrated MAT had a significantly lower risk of dropout (hazard ratio 0.

Menopausal hormone therapy and sleep-disordered breathing: evidence for a healthy user bias.

Purpose: Observational studies suggest that menopausal hormone therapy protects against sleep-disordered breathing, but such findings may be biased by a "healthy user effect." When the Women's Health Initiative Study reported in 2002 that estrogen-progestin therapy increases heart disease risk, many women discontinued hormone therapy. We investigate healthy user bias in the association of hormone therapy with sleep-disordered breathing in the Sleep in Midlife Women Study.

The sleep-time cost of parenting: sleep duration and sleepiness among employed parents in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study.

Insufficient sleep is associated with poor health and increased mortality. Studies on whether parenthood (including consideration of number and ages of children) is associated with sleep duration or sleep problems are scant and inconclusive. Using data collected in the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study (n = 4,809) between 1989 and 2008, we examined cross-sectional associations of number and ages of children with self-reported parental sleep duration, daytime sleepiness, and dozing among employed adults.

Respiratory and allergic health effects of dampness, mold, and dampness-related agents: a review of the epidemiologic evidence.

Objectives: Many studies have shown consistent associations between evident indoor dampness or mold and respiratory or allergic health effects, but causal links remain unclear. Findings on measured microbiologic factors have received little review. We conducted an updated, comprehensive review on these topics.