Individualized Relative-Intensity Physical Activity Accelerometer Cut Points.

Purpose: Physical activity (PA) intensity is expressed as either absolute or relative intensity. Absolute intensity refers to the energy required to perform an activity. Relative intensity refers to a level of effort that takes into account how hard an individual is working relative to their maximum capacity.

Real-World Study of Once-Daily, Extended-Release Tacrolimus Versus Twice-Daily, Immediate-Release Tacrolimus in Kidney Transplantation: Clinical Outcomes and Healthcare Resource Utilization.

Introduction: Real-world data with extended-release tacrolimus (ER-T) are lacking in the USA. This study examined clinical outcomes and healthcare resource utilization in kidney transplant patients receiving ER-T in clinical practice.

Methods: This was a retrospective, single-center analysis (February-June 2016) using data from Northwestern University's Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Pre-pregnancy blood pressure and body mass index trajectories and incident hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

There are few studies examining patterns in body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP) and subsequent hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDPs). We examined the association of BMI (n = 1342) or BP (n = 2266) trajectories in the 5 years preceding birth with HDPs using adjusted logistic regression. Compared to normal-weight BMI and low-normal BP groups, membership to the overweight BMI group (OR: 2.

Association of sleep characteristics with cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors in a population sample: the Chicago Area Sleep Study.

Objectives: To investigate the association of sleep characteristics with prevalent hypertension, diabetes, and obesity in a multiethnic cohort.

Design: This study used a population-based cross-sectional study design.

Setting: Participants were recruited between 2009 and 2011 from Chicago, Illinois, and the surrounding suburbs.

The Mediation of Racial Differences in Hypertension by Sleep Characteristics: Chicago Area Sleep Study.

Background: Racial disparities in hypertension prevalence in the United States are established. Given our understanding of racial and ethnic disparities in sleep characteristics and demonstrated associations between sleep characteristics and hypertension, we tested whether sleep characteristics mediated racial disparities in hypertension.

Methods: Analyses were performed in the Chicago Area Sleep Study, a population-based cohort study of 154 Blacks, 128 Whites, 103 Hispanics, and 109 Asians without obstructive sleep apnea.