What Influences the Decision to Interview a Candidate for Medical School?

Introduction: Holistic review, in which medical schools seek to balance applicant attributes and experiences alongside traditional academic metrics in making admissions decisions, has been in place for over a decade. Medical school applicants and the admissions' community are still trying to understand the impact of holistic review on the composition of those medical schools choose to interview and accept.

Materials And Method: The study cohort included all candidates who applied to Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) in 2014, 2015, and 2016 (N = 8,920).

A comparison of fatigue failure responses of old versus middle-aged lumbar motion segments in simulated flexed lifting.

Study Design: Survival analysis techniques were used to compare the fatigue failure responses of elderly motion segments to a middle-aged sample.

Objectives: To compare fatigue life of a middle-aged sample of lumbosacral motion segments to a previously tested elderly cohort. An additional objective was to evaluate the influence of bone mineral content on cycles to failure.

Orthopedic outcomes of long-term daily corticosteroid treatment in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Objective: To document the effects of long-term daily corticosteroid treatment on a variety of orthopedic outcomes in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Methods: We reviewed the charts of 159 boys with genetically confirmed dystrophinopathies followed at the Ohio State University Muscular Dystrophy Clinic between 2000 and 2003. Charts were reviewed for ambulation status, type and duration of steroid treatment (if any), and orthopedic complications including presence and location of long bone fractures, vertebral compression fractures, and the presence and degree of scoliosis.

Calcium supplementation and bone mineral density in females from childhood to young adulthood: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Short-term studies established that calcium influences bone accretion during growth. Whether long-term supplementation influences bone accretion in young adults is not known.

Objective: This study evaluated the long-term effects of calcium supplementation on bone accretion among females from childhood to young adulthood.

Nutrition influences skeletal development from childhood to adulthood: a study of hip, spine, and forearm in adolescent females.

This study evaluated the long-term efficacy of supplemental calcium and dairy products on bone mineral areal density of the hip and spine and on the bone geometry and volumetric bone mineral density of the forearm in young females during late adolescence. The study was conducted among participants of a randomized double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial with calcium supplements and among participants of an observational study with higher consumption of dairy products. Hip and spine measurements by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry were done every 6 mo (dairy group every 12 mo) during last 3 y of the follow-up while peripheral quantitative computerized tomography of the forearm was done at the last visit.

Selenium intakes, absorption, retention, and status in adolescent girls.

Objectives: To assess selenium intakes, absorption, retention, and status in healthy adolescent girls and the effect of calcium supplementation on selenium parameters.

Design: Annual 2-week study conducted each year for 3 consecutive years in which yearly selenium intakes, absorption, and retention and blood selenium status were measured.

Setting: A metabolic unit in a large metropolitan hospital located in Columbus, Ohio--a low selenium region of the United States.

Comparison of absorptiometric evaluations from total-body and local-regional skeletal scans.

The most common measurement sites for dual-energy absorptiometry (DXA) in clinical practice are posteroanterior (PA) spine and femur. However, other skeletal regions may provide different bone density information. The purpose of this study was to establish the least number of DXA measurements needed to obtain complete information about bone.

Leptin is inversely related to age at menarche in human females.

Over the last century there has been a trend toward an earlier onset of menarche attributed to better nutrition and body fatness. With the discovery of the obesity gene and its product, leptin, we reexamined this hypothesis from a new perspective. As delayed menarche and leanness are considered risk factors for osteoporosis, we also evaluated the relation between leptin and bone mass.

Gain in body fat is inversely related to the nocturnal rise in serum leptin level in young females.

Both genetic and environmental factors contribute to adolescent obesity. Evidence of a genetic basis for obesity development is substantial, although the exact mechanism of action has yet to be identified. The purpose of this study was to document the circadian rhythmicity of the serum leptin level in young females and to assess the impact of the change in body fat stores during growth on the nocturnal rise in the serum leptin level with implications for obesity traits.