Recent Single-Family Home Buyer Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Related to Lead and Radon Exposure Prevention.

Context: Federal law requires property owners to disclose the presence of known lead-based paint and/or lead hazards to potential home buyers and renters in homes built before 1978.

Objective: Using 2015-2016 randomized survey data, we measured lead and radon knowledge, awareness, and exposure avoidance practices.

Setting: Home buyers from 4 US states (Illinois, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Ohio).

A comparison of chronic conditions and health characteristics between cancer survivors and non-cancer survivors.

Objective: Cancer survivors have unique healthcare needs. An important consideration for survivorship is chronic diseases and health risk factors. The purpose of this study is to describe demographics, risk factors, and comorbid health conditions in adult cancer survivors.

Associations between maternal reports of periconceptional fever from miscellaneous causes and structural birth defects.

Background: Associations between birth defects and fevers attributed to colds, influenza, and urinary tract infections (UTIs) have been observed in previous studies. Our aim was to study associations between birth defects and fevers attributed to other causes.

Methods: We analyzed data from 34,862 participants in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, a multistate case-control study of major structural birth defects.

Disparities of Access, Use, and Barriers to Seeking Health Care Services in Arizona.

Background: Access to health care (HC) services is important for promoting and maintaining health, preventing and managing disease, reducing unnecessary disability and premature death, and achieving health equity for all persons.

Objectives: We assess social indicators among people living in Arizona that are associated with access, use, and barriers to seeking HC services.

Research Design: We analyzed data (n=8073) from the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to describe demographic and health characteristics among persons by HC access and use, and for whom costs were a barrier to seeking care.

Emergency department visits among people with cancer: Frequency, symptoms, and characteristics.

Objective: People with cancer are increasingly more likely to visit an emergency department for acute care than the general population. They often have long wait times and more exposure to infection and receive treatment from staff less experienced with cancer-related problems. Our objective was to examine emergency department (ED) visits among people with cancer to understand how often and why they seek care.

Identifying Smoking Status and Smoking Cessation Using a Data Linkage Between the Kentucky Cancer Registry and Health Claims Data.

Purpose: Linkage of cancer registry data with complementary data sources can be an informative way to expand what is known about patients and their treatment and improve delivery of care. The purpose of this study was to explore whether patient smoking status and smoking-cessation modalities data in the Kentucky Cancer Registry (KCR) could be augmented by linkage with health claims data.

Methods: The KCR conducted a data linkage with health claims data from Medicare, Medicaid, state employee insurance, Humana, and Anthem.

Understanding geographic variations of indoor radon potential for comprehensive cancer control planning.

Purpose: Lung cancer is the leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths and radon is the second leading risk factor for lung cancer.

Smoking Cessation Treatment Programs Offered at Hospitals Providing Oncology Services.

Background: Many people with cancer continue smoking despite evidence that it negatively effects cancer treatment, worsens chemotherapy toxicity, and increases risk for a second cancer.

Aims: We examined tobacco treatment services offered to cancer patients at hospitals providing oncology services, including National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Cancer Centers (NDCCs).

Methods: We examined survey data of 6,400 U.

The association between combat exposure and negative behavioral and psychiatric conditions.

This study evaluated the association between cumulative combat exposures and negative behavioral and psychiatric conditions. A total of 6128 active-duty soldiers completed a survey approximately 6 months after their unit's most recent combat deployment. The soldiers self-reported combat exposures and behavioral and psychiatric conditions.

Factors associated with physical aggression among US Army soldiers.

There are a growing number of studies that have approximated levels of aggression and associated outcomes among combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan using brief screening assessments. However, further research to evaluate the relative role of combat exposures and overt physical behaviors is required to further elucidate potential associations between military service, combat deployment, and overt physical aggression. The purpose of the current study was to assess the prevalence of self-reported physical aggression in a sample of US Army soldiers using an adaptation of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS2), and examine factors associated with higher levels of aggression.

Use of oral contraceptives in pregnancy and major structural birth defects in offspring.

Background: Oral contraceptives (OCs) are the most commonly used reversible contraceptive method among US women. Although the majority of previous studies have reported no association between OC use during pregnancy and birth defects, some studies have reported increased occurrence of neural tube defects, limb reduction defects, and urinary tract anomalies.

Methods: We assessed OC use among mothers who participated in the multisite, case-control, National Birth Defects Prevention Study.