Publications by authors named "Tahmina Ahmad"
Introduction: A critical and as-yet unmet need in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the discovery of peripheral small molecule biomarkers. Given that brain pathology precedes clinical symptom onset, we set out to test whether metabolites in blood associated with pathology as indexed by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) AD biomarkers.
Methods: This study analyzed 593 plasma samples selected from the European Medical Information Framework for Alzheimer's Disease Multimodal Biomarker Discovery study, of individuals who were cognitively healthy (n = 242), had mild cognitive impairment (n = 236), or had AD-type dementia (n = 115).
Aim: To test the hypothesis that, in ELBW infants who did not receive antenatal MgSO4, lower baseline serum Mg is associated with poorer neurodevelopmental outcomes (NDO).
Study Design: The study was conducted in two phases: phase 1-- retrospective, and phase 2--prospective.
Subjects: Extremely low birth weight infants.
Objective: To examine the association of maternal hemoglobin (Hb) concentrations with preterm and low birth weight (LBW) deliveries in African Americans compared to Caucasians.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of perinatal data on 17,338 African-American and Caucasian pregnant women who delivered at the George Washington University Hospital (GWUH) between January 1990 and December 2003. We used univariate and logistic regression analyses to examine for associations.
Background: Asthma during pregnancy may compromise the well-being of the fetus and potentially impact an infant's birth weight via different mechanisms.
Aims: 1) To assess the influence of asthma during pregnancy on the incidence of LBW outcomes in white non-Hispanic (WNH) and black non-Hispanic (BNH) women. 2) To identify other risk factors that affect low birth weight (LBW) (birth weight<2500g) outcomes among asthmatic women.