Publications by authors named "S O Bergquist"
Introduction: Teaching kitchens are being used to facilitate lifestyle changes with a focus on culinary and nutrition programs to improve health behaviors. Less is known regarding their use as a worksite wellness program and their influence on employees' quality of life, body weight, and adoption of healthy behaviors. We evaluated changes in self-reported healthy behaviors, overall health, and weight during a one-year multidisciplinary teaching kitchen program.
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- Mutations in the SETD2 gene are common in renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and a specific single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), E902Q, was found in some RCC patients as an inherited or tumor-related mutation.
- Researchers used CRISPR to create a similar mutation in the fruit fly gene Set2, discovering that it significantly lowered an important histone modification (H3K36me3) and led to problems with spindle formation during cell division.
- The findings suggest that the SETD2 E902Q SNP not only influences histone methylation and spindle integrity but could also have important implications for understanding and treating RCC clinically.
Objective: To measure changes in micronutrient adequacy and diet quality in healthcare and university employees who underwent a 10-week teaching kitchen program.
Methods: Thirty-eight healthcare and university employees participated in a 10-week teaching kitchen program. Twenty-seven completed self-administered, 24-hour dietary recalls to measure dietary intake at baseline and 3-months.
Objective: To examine whether the financial burden of hospitalizations affects the health care utilization of household members of the admitted patient.
Data Sources: We utilized health care claims data from the Massachusetts All-Payer Claims Database, 2010-2015, to identify emergency hospitalizations of patients on family insurance plans and the health care utilization of the family members on those plans.
Study Design: We used an event-study analysis to compare health care spending and utilization of family members of a hospitalized individual and family members of an individual who was hospitalized 1 year later.
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- - Chronic stress is linked to negative health effects and can accelerate biological aging, as measured by epigenetic clocks.
- - This study investigates how chronic stress (measured by the Perceived Stress Scale) and resilience (assessed using the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale) impact Grim Age acceleration among business executives.
- - Results show that individuals with low stress and low resilience had the highest Grim Age acceleration, while those with high resilience experienced a complex interaction where high stress had a weaker impact on aging, indicating resilience may moderate the effects of stress on biological aging.