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What do you think caused your ALS? An analysis of the CDC national amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient registry qualitative risk factor data using artificial intelligence and qualitative methodology.
Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener
August 2024
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Office of Innovation and Analytics, National ALS Registry (CDC/ATSDR), Atlanta, GA, USA, and.
Objective: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an incurable, progressive neurodegenerative disease with a significant health burden and poorly understood etiology. This analysis assessed the narrative responses from 3,061 participants in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National ALS Registry who answered the question, "What do you think caused your ALS?"
Methods: Data analysis used qualitative methods and artificial intelligence (AI) using natural language processing (NLP), specifically, Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) to explore responses regarding participants' perceptions of the cause of their disease.
Results: Both qualitative and AI analysis methods revealed several, often aligned themes, which pointed to perceived causes including genetic, environmental, and military exposures.
Antimony and sleep-related disorders: NHANES 2005-2008.
Environ Res
July 2017
Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Background: Antimony is used as a flame-retardant in textiles and plastics, in semiconductors, pewter, and as pigments in paints, lacquers, glass and pottery. Subacute or chronic antimony poisoning has been reported to cause sleeplessness. The prevalence of short sleep duration (<7h/night) has been reported to be 37.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPosttraumatic Stress Disorder after Hurricane Sandy among Persons Exposed to the 9/11 Disaster.
Int J Emerg Ment Health
January 2015
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, USA.
Background: Traumatic exposure during a hurricane is associated with adverse mental health conditions post-event. The World Trade Center Health Registry provided a sampling pool for a rapid survey of persons directly affected by Hurricane Sandy in the New York City (NYC) metropolitan area in late October 2012. This study evaluated the relationship between Sandy experiences and Sandy-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among individuals previously exposed to the September 11, 2001 (9/11) disaster.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAgricultural occupational health and safety perspectives among Latino-American youth.
J Agromedicine
December 2016
a Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences , University of Washington, Seattle , Washington , USA.
Agricultural work is one of the most dangerous jobs for adolescents. Through a university-community partnership, the authors surveyed young primarily acculturated Latino-American farmworkers 14 to 18 years of age regarding their agricultural work experience. Topics included occupational health and safety education, work history, and information sources.
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