Publications by authors named "Kelsey Sinclair"

Background: In the United States, caregivers of people living with Alzheimer disease and Alzheimer disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD) provide >16 billion hours of unpaid care annually. These caregivers experience high levels of stress and burden related to the challenges associated with providing care. Social media is an emerging space for individuals to seek various forms of support.

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  • Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are linked to obesity, but their connection to weight cycling hasn't been thoroughly investigated, which is concerning given the challenges of maintaining weight loss and the stigma associated with obesity.
  • A study of 78 overweight/obese adults, mostly educated white women, found that higher ACE scores were significantly associated with a history of weight cycling, particularly in those with four or more ACEs.
  • This suggests that ACEs may influence patterns of weight loss and regain, indicating a need for further research to see how ACEs affect long-term weight loss success and the stigma surrounding obesity.
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College students with disordered eating (DE) are at increased risk of body focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs). Both DE and BFRBs are described as impulsive and compulsive. However, the associations of impulsive DE with impulsive BFRBs and compulsive DE with compulsive BFRBs have not been examined.

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This study examined self-reported and actigraphy-assessed sleep and depression as moderators of the effect of a Tibetan yoga intervention on sleep and depression among women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. This is a secondary analysis of an RCT examining a 4-session Tibetan yoga program (TYP; n = 74) versus stretching program (STP; n = 68) or usual care (UC; n = 85) on self-reported sleep (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), actigraphy-assessed sleep efficiency (SE)) and depression (Centers for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale; CES-D) for women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. Data were collected at baseline and 1-week and 3-month post-intervention.

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Allelic imbalance (AI) occurs when alleles in a diploid individual are differentially expressed and indicates cis acting regulatory variation. What is the distribution of allelic effects in a natural population? Are all alleles the same? Are all alleles distinct? The approach described applies to any technology generating allele-specific sequence counts, for example for chromatin accessibility and can be applied generally including to comparisons between tissues or environments for the same genotype. Tests of allelic effect are generally performed by crossing individuals and comparing expression between alleles directly in the F1.

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