Publications by authors named "M A Hood"
Background: Intimate partner violence affects about a third of women in their lifetimes and can result in short- and long-term health consequences, including less favorable performance on measures of cognitive function.
Objectives: We assess whether experiencing physical intimate partner violence in midlife was associated with steeper declines in subsequent tests of cognitive performance.
Design: This study used data from 1713 women in the longitudinal cohort Study of Women's Health Across the Nation to relate baseline information on physical intimate partner violence to declines in scores from the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, the East Boston Memory Test and the Digit Span Backwards spanning follow-up visits 7 through 15.
Purpose: To compare breast cancer survivors (BCS) to women without breast cancer (controls) on sleep health risk factors and actigraphy-derived dimensions of sleep (duration, maintenance, timing, and regularity) and examine whether the effect of breast cancer on sleep differs by time since diagnosis.
Methods: Analyses included data from 68 BCS and 1042 controls who participated in actigraphy and Pink SWAN sub-studies within the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. BCS and control characteristics were compared using chi-square, Fisher's exact, and Wilcoxon rank sum tests.
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- Clinical testing after COVID hospitalization often misses lingering cardiac issues that could lead to more heart problems later on.
- An exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) study with 15 recovering patients showed they had lower heart function and higher heart rate compared to healthy individuals during physical activity.
- The findings indicate that post-COVID patients may experience hidden heart dysfunction that could affect their recovery and long-term health, possibly due to factors like autonomic dysfunction or microvascular damage.
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- New diseases pose significant challenges, but variations in host resistance can help species adapt and survive through evolutionary changes.
- Research on the anther-smut disease in wild plants shows that resistances to new and existing pathogens come from different genetic sources, even though they appear linked in natural settings.
- The study found that resistance to new pathogens is genetically simpler and can evolve more quickly than resistance to existing ones, countering the traditional belief that defenses against novel diseases are just improved versions of defenses against familiar ones.
A protein's energy landscape, all the accessible conformations, their populations, and their dynamics of interconversion, is encoded in its primary sequence. While we have a good understanding of how a protein's primary sequence encodes its native state, we have a much weaker understanding of how sequence encodes the kinetic barriers such as unfolding and refolding. Here we have looked at two subtiliase homologs from the , Intracellular Subtilisin Protease 1 (ISP1) and Subtilisin E (SbtE) that are expected to have very different dynamics.
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