Publications by authors named "J F Healy"
The extent and robustness of the interaction between exposures to heat and ambient PM is unclear and little is known of the interaction between exposures to cold and ambient PM. Clarifying these interactions, if any, is crucial due to the omnipresence of PM in the atmosphere and increasing scope and frequency of extreme temperature events. To investigate both of these interactions, we merged 6 073 575 individual-level mortality records from thirteen states spanning seventeen years with 1 km daily PM predictions from sophisticated prediction model and 1 km meteorology from Daymet V4.
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- - The study analyzed autopsy reports from New South Wales to investigate trends in sudden unexpected cardiovascular (CV) deaths from 2018 to 2022, with a specific focus on how these trends changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- - Findings showed a significant increase in CV deaths over these years, with the percentage of CV deaths rising from 18.3% in 2018 to 23.4% in 2022, and a notable rise in sudden arrhythmic death syndrome cases especially in 2021 and 2022.
- - The majority of CV deaths were among males, with younger individuals (average age 42.8) more affected by sudden arrhythmic death syndrome compared to
Reducing biases in the criminal legal system: A perspective from expected utility.
Law Hum Behav
September 2024
Objective: Racial biases exist in almost every aspect of the criminal legal system, resulting in disparities across all stages of legal procedures-before, during, and after a legal procedure. Building on expected utility theory, we propose an expected utility framework to organize and quantify racial disparities in legal procedures.
Hypotheses: Corresponding to the parameteres involved in estimating expected utility, we hypothesized that racial biases would occur at different stages of legal procedures.
Introduction: Ivacaftor (IVA) has been shown to change the trajectory of cystic fibrosis (CF) disease progression by slowing the rate of lung function decline in clinical studies. Long-term real-world data help to confirm the durability of this response.
Methods: This non-interventional, longitudinal study used data from the US CF Foundation Patient Registry to describe the annualized rate of change in lung function in people with CF receiving IVA.