Reliability of birth weight recall by parent or guardian respondents in a study of healthy adolescents.

Objective: Birth weight, which can be an indicator for risk of chronic diseases throughout the lifespan, is one of the most commonly used measures in the study of developmental origins of health and disease. There is limited information on the reliability of parent/guardian reported birth weight by race or by respondent type (i.e.

Patient characteristics and participation in a genetic study: a type 2 diabetes cohort.

Background: Recruitment of large, diverse populations into genetic studies remains challenging. Potential strategies to overcome limitations include leveraging electronic health data and minimizing patient burden. We sought to describe the overall participation rate and identify characteristics associated with participation in a genetic substudy of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, in which patients were identified via electronic hospital data and asked to participate by providing DNA samples by mail.

Cardiovascular outcomes in women with advanced breast cancer exposed to chemotherapy.

Purpose: To quantify incidence of cardiovascular outcomes in patients with advanced breast cancer receiving cardiotoxic and non-cardiotoxic chemotherapy.

Methods: This study identified all women at a Midwestern health system with initial diagnosis of American Joint Commission on Cancer Stage III/IV breast cancer (1995-2003) and random sample of 50 women initially diagnosed with Stage I/II who progressed to Stage III/IV. The rate of new cardiovascular outcomes (heart failure, dysrhythmia, and ischemia events) for cardiotoxic (anthracycline or trastuzumab) and non-cardiotoxic agents was calculated.