Publications by authors named "V Stevens"
Low diet quality is related to obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) risk among Hispanic women. This cross-sectional study compared diet quality among Hispanic women with overweight/obesity based on their T2DM diagnosis (pre-diabetes/T2DM group, n = 104 vs no diagnosis, at-risk group, n = 84). It was hypothesized that having a pre-diabetes or T2DM diagnosis would be associated with better diet quality based on the Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2020 score.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntimicrobial use before and during COVID-19: data from 108 Veterans Affairs medical centers.
Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
August 2024
Objective: Inpatient antibiotic use increased during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to determine whether these changes persisted in persons with and without COVID-19 infection.
Design: Retrospective cohort analysis.
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- * Results showed that a higher PRS was more strongly related to EGFR-positive LUAD cases (OR=8.63) than to EGFR-negative cases (OR=3.50), indicating a significant association based on mutation status.
- * These findings imply that genetic susceptibility to LUAD differs in never-smoking East Asian women depending on whether the cancer has specific mutations, which could affect public health strategies and clinical practices.*
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- Australia has low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses circulating within its territory.
- A Eurasian low pathogenicity avian influenza H5 virus has recently been detected in Australia.
- This finding is important for monitoring and diagnostics, especially given the potential risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) not currently being present.