5 results match your criteria: "University of California San Diego; and the VA San Diego Healthcare System[Affiliation]"
Process evaluation of Dulce Digital-Me: an adaptive mobile health (mHealth) intervention for underserved Hispanics with diabetes.
Transl Behav Med
September 2023
Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, Scripps Health, San Diego, CA, USA.
Type 2 diabetes disproportionately impacts ethnic minorities and individuals from low socioeconomic status. Diabetes self-management education and support has been shown to improve clinical outcomes in these populations, and mobile health (mHealth) interventions can reduce barriers to access. Dulce Digital-Me (DD-Me) was developed to integrate adaptive mHealth technologies to enhance self-management and reduce disparities in the high-risk, underserved Hispanic population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffect of Convalescent Plasma on Organ Support-Free Days in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA
November 2021
School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, Kings College London, London, England.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of convalescent plasma in improving outcomes for critically ill COVID-19 patients, as previous evidence was unclear.
- A total of 4,763 adults were enrolled in a trial, with 1,084 receiving convalescent plasma and 916 not receiving it, within 48 hours after randomization.
- The primary outcomes measured were organ support-free days and survival rates, using a Bayesian statistical model to evaluate the results and determine the efficacy of the treatment.
The joint association of cardiometabolic health and weight on mortality in the multiethnic cohort.
Ethn Health
April 2022
Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology), University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Manoa, HI, USA.
While cardiometabolic abnormalities are associated with elevated risk of morbidity, they may not occur in all individuals with obesity. Less is known about associations with mortality, especially cancer mortality. This study examined associations between cardiometabolic-weight categories and mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and all causes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetes knowledge, fatalism and type 2 diabetes-preventive behavior in an ethnically diverse sample of college students.
J Am Coll Health
May 2022
Department of Psychology, California State University, Carson, California, USA.
This study examined diabetes knowledge, health fatalism (the belief that health outcomes are outside one's control), and their interaction, as predictors of Type 2 Diabetes preventive behavior. Ethnically diverse college students ( = 345) without prior diagnosis of diabetes. Cross-sectional design using validated self-report measures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndividual differences in frontolimbic circuitry and anxiety emerge with adolescent changes in endocannabinoid signaling across species.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
April 2016
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10065; Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10065;
Anxiety disorders peak in incidence during adolescence, a developmental window that is marked by dynamic changes in gene expression, endocannabinoid signaling, and frontolimbic circuitry. We tested whether genetic alterations in endocannabinoid signaling related to a common polymorphism in fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), which alters endocannabinoid anandamide (AEA) levels, would impact the development of frontolimbic circuitry implicated in anxiety disorders. In a pediatric imaging sample of over 1,000 3- to 21-y-olds, we show effects of the FAAH genotype specific to frontolimbic connectivity that emerge by ∼12 y of age and are paralleled by changes in anxiety-related behavior.
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