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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Improving Awareness Of Factors Contributing To Pediatric Obesity In Detroit, Vikash Mehan, Constance Cleveland, Dipra Debnath, Ranya Krayem, Jay Maixner, Zane Mustafa, Deepa Raghavan, Zoha Qureshi

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Optimizing Parenting Strategies To Reduce The Probability Of Separation Anxiety Development, Neil Garg, Sara Naessig, Sohini Pandit, Meet Patel, Lara Rostomian, Dhiraj Tadikamalla, Alyssa Kalsbeek

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Hypertension Infographic Targeting Adults 45 Years And Older In Southeast Michigan, Kareem Tayeb, Karthek Ramchander, Keri Angers, Amogh Chilukuri, Medjie Pascal-Harris, Kavon Rahmani, Divya Venkat, Nathan Sim

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Local Detroit Programs To Improve Children’S Health, Brizzy Brown, Madilyn Mason, Emmanuel Meram, Hasti Nema, Samaah Saifullah, Connor Cook

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Hiv Treatment Accessibility & Access To Clinics (Ages 18+) In Detroit, Brennan Burrows, Gabriella Cascio, Tiffany Chu, Samantha Odeesho, Sumeet Saini, Nickolas Vinokurov, Zachary Vaishampayan

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Nontraditional Factors That Affect Blood Glucose: Things Diabetic Should Know, Hazem Alata, Rebecca Cameron, Desiree Duncan, Kyle O'Hollaren, Nicole Oska, Kyriacos Vlachos, Trey Vanaken

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Providing Resources For Wsusom Students Exhibiting Major Depressive Symptoms, Ece Erder, Zunaira Imran, Parsa Kamalipour, Deni Peterson, John Pum, Kishwar Basith

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Available Mental Health Resources For Students With Anxiety And Depression, Carline Dugue, Lauren Fleckenstein, Ethan Mathew, Alexander Minos, Katherine Sommers, Peter Zakaria, Anna Kang

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Glycemic Index And Diabetes, Michelle Chung, Olivia Decker, Nevil Khurana, Breanna Ramsey, Riley Wistrom, Sinyu Yang, Jacqueline Townshend

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Carbohydrate Intake Log For Adolescents With Type I Diabetes To Estimate Their Own Insulin Dose., Christopher Carter, Neha Chava, Mai Daigle, Pranav Gopalakrishnan, William Mcroy, Stephanie Schervish, Jacqueline Townshend

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Pediatric Type Ii Diabetes Awareness And Management, Cameron Bear, Ashley Frei, Mithil Gudi, Justin Hassen, Madison Meyer, Grant Zydeck, Kinan Sawar

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Recognizing And Managing Anxiety And Depression In Medical Students, Angie Achkar, Brandon Doan, Abigail Jaczkowski, Julian Johnson, Diana Mcmahon, Kevin Tran, Anna Kang

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: Healthy Living With Diabetes: How To Use And Understand Continuous Glucose Monitor (Cgm), Hussein Bazzi, Emma Breukink, Ranganath Kathawate, Ron Lukose, Vikram Rajan, Noor Sulaiman, Anneliese Rademacher

Patient Education Projects

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Chronic Illness Education 2023: The Impact Of Food Deserts On Adult Diabetes Mellitus, Stephanie Barna, Blaise Deschamps, Jack Mao, Armaan Naghdi, Anjani Raja, Noor Sulieman, Anneliese Rademacher

Patient Education Projects

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Individual Differences In Late Positive Potential Amplitude And Theta Power Predict Cue-Induced Eating, Kyla D Gibney, George Kypriotakis, Francesco Versace

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Cue-induced reward-seeking behaviors are regulated by both the affective and cognitive control systems of the brain. This study aimed at investigating how individual differences in affective and cognitive responses to cues predicting food rewards contribute to the regulation of cue-induced eating. We recorded electroencephalogram (EEG) from 59 adults while they viewed emotional and food-related images that preceded the delivery of food rewards (candies) or non-food objects (beads). We measured the amplitude of the late positive potential (LPP) in response to a variety of motivationally relevant images and power in the theta (4-8 Hz) frequency band after candies or beads were …

Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus In Person Living With Hiv, Connecticut, Usa, 2021, Jonathan Dyal, Shiv Gandhi, Caitlin M Cossaboom, Austin Leach, Ketan Patel, Marjorie Golden, Joseph Canterino, Marie-Louise Landry, Debi Cannon, Mary Choi, Inna Krapiunaya, John D Klena, Trevor Shoemaker

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus is an underreported cause of miscarriage and neurologic disease. Surveillance remains challenging because of nonspecific symptomatology, inconsistent case reporting, and difficulties with diagnostic testing. We describe a case of acute lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus disease in a person living with HIV in Connecticut, USA, identified by using quantitative reverse transcription PCR.

Feasibility And Clinical Acceptability Of Automation-Assisted 3d Conformal Radiotherapy Planning For Patients With Cervical Cancer In A Resource-Constrained Setting, Sikudhani Muya, Jerry Ndumbalo, Sarah Kutika Nyagabona, Shaid Yusuf, Dong Joo Rhee, Beatrice Paul Mushi, Benjamin Li, Li Zhang, Surbhi Grover, Mary Feng, I-Chow Hsu, Elia Mmbaga, Katherine Van Loon, Laurence Court, Melody Xu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Purpose: The Ocean Road Cancer Institute (ORCI) in Tanzania began offering 3D conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT) in 2018. Steep learning curves, high patient volume, and a limited workforce resulted in long radiation therapy (RT) planning workflows. We aimed to establish the feasibility of implementing an automation-assisted cervical cancer 3DCRT planning system.

Materials and methods: We performed chart abstractions on 30 patients with cervical cancer treated with 3DCRT at ORCI. The Radiation Planning Assistant (RPA) generated a new automated set of contours and plans on the basis of anonymized computed tomography images. Each were assessed for edit time requirements, dose-volume safety …

Meta Echo: Using All-Payers Claims Data Analysis As Part Of A Multi-Layered Approach To Plan An Evaluate Echo Programs, Marcy Doyle, Erica Plante

Faculty Publications

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Transfusion Reactions Associated With Covid-19 Convalescent Plasma In Outpatient Clinical Trials, Moises A Huaman, Jay S Raval, James H Paxton, Giselle S Mosnaim, Bela Patel, Shweta Anjan, Barry R Meisenberg, Adam C Levine, Christi E Marshall, Anusha Yarava, Aarthi G Shenoy, Sonya L Heath, Judith S Currier, Yuriko Fukuta, Janis E Blair, Emily S Spivak, Joann R Petrini, Patrick B Broderick, William Rausch, Marieelena Cordisco, Jean Hammel, Benjamin Greenblatt, Valerie C Cluzet, Daniel Cruser, Kevin Oei, Matthew Abinante, Laura L Hammitt, Catherine G Sutcliffe, Donald N Forthal, Martin S Zand, Edward R Cachay, Seble G Kassaye, Malathi Ram, Ying Wang, Piyali Das, Karen Lane, Nichol A Mcbee, Amy L Gawad, Nicky Karlen, Daniel E Ford, Oliver Laeyendecker, Andrew Pekosz, Sabra L Klein, Stephan Ehrhardt, Bryan Lau, Sheriza N Baksh, David M Shade, Arturo Casadevall, Daniel F Hanley, Jiangda Ou, Thomas J Gniadek, Alyssa Ziman, Shmuel Shoham, Kelly A Gebo, Evan M Bloch, Aaron A R Tobian, David J Sullivan, Jonathan M Gerber

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) is an important therapeutic option for outpatients at high risk of hospitalization from SARS-CoV-2 infection. We assessed the safety of outpatient CCP transfusions administered during clinical trials.

STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: We analyzed data pertaining to transfusion-related reactions from two randomized controlled trials in the U.S. that evaluated the efficacy of CCP versus control plasma in various ambulatory settings. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess whether CCP was associated with transfusion reactions, after adjusting for potential confounders.

RESULTS: The combined study reported 79/1351 (5.9%) adverse events during the transfusion visit, with the majority 62/1351 …

Public Reporting For Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: The Quest For The Optimal Scorecard, Hiba Ghandour, Aaron J Weiss, Mario Gaudino, Michael Halkos, Danny Chu, Bradley S Taylor, John Puskas, Deepak L Bhatt, Marco Zenati, John Stulak, Todd Rosengart, Husam H Balkhy, Eugene H Blackstone, Lars G Svensson, Faisal G Bakaeen, Ozgun Erten, Tara Karamlou, Edward G Soltesz, A Marc Gillinov, Anthony Warmuth, Eric E Roselli, Nicholas G Smedira

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Objective: A number of publicly available rating algorithms are used to assess hospital performance in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). However, concerns remain that these algorithms fail to correlate with each other and inadequately capture the case complexity of individual center practices.

Methods: Composite star ratings for isolated CABG from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons public reporting database were extracted for 2018-2019. U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals was used to extract CABG ratings as well as overall cardiology and heart surgery ranking, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Compare was used to extract CABG volume …

Centering Communities Of Color In The Modernization Of A Public Health Survey System: Lessons From Oregon, Daniel F. López-Cevallos, Kusuma Madamala, Mira Mohsini, Andres Lopez, Roberta Hunte, Ryan Petteway, Tim Holbert

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Context: Public health survey systems are tools for informing public health programming and policy at the national, state, and local levels. Among the challenges states face with these kinds of surveys include concerns about the representativeness of communities of color and lack of community engagement in survey design, analysis, and interpretation of results or dissemination, which raises questions about their integrity and relevance.

Approach: Using a data equity framework (rooted in antiracism and intersectionality), the purpose of this project was to describe a formative participatory assessment approach to address challenges in Oregon Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and Student …

Epigenome-Wide Association Study Using Peripheral Blood Leukocytes Identifies Genomic Regions Associated With Periodontal Disease And Edentulism In The Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities Study, Naisi Zhao, Flavia Teles, Jiayun Lu, Devin C Koestler, James Beck, Eric Boerwinkle, Jan Bressler, Karl T Kelsey, Elizabeth A Platz, Dominique S Michaud

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

AIM: To investigate individual susceptibility to periodontitis by conducting an epigenome-wide association study using peripheral blood.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: We included 1077 African American and 457 European American participants of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study who had completed a dental examination or reported being edentulous at Visit 4 and had available data on DNA methylation from Visit 2 or 3. DNA methylation levels were compared by periodontal disease severity and edentulism through discovery analyses and subsequent testing of individual CpGs.

RESULTS: Our discovery analysis replicated findings from a previous study reporting a region in gene ZFP57 (6p22.1) that …

Revisiting The Use Of Antibiotics To Prevent Copd Exacerbation: Is Doxycycline The Answer?, Muhammad Adrish, Nicola A Hanania

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

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Comparison Of Bivalent And Monovalent Sars-Cov-2 Variant Vaccines: The Phase 2 Randomized Open-Label Covail Trial, Angela R Branche, Nadine G Rouphael, David J Diemert, Ann R Falsey, Cecilia Losada, Lindsey R Baden, Sharon E Frey, Jennifer A Whitaker, Susan J Little, Evan J Anderson, Emmanuel B Walter, Richard M Novak, Richard Rupp, Lisa A Jackson, Tara M Babu, Angelica C Kottkamp, Anne F Luetkemeyer, Lilly C Immergluck, Rachel M Presti, Martín Bäcker, Patricia L Winokur, Siham M Mahgoub, Paul A Goepfert, Dahlene N Fusco, Elissa Malkin, Jeffrey M Bethony, Edward E Walsh, Daniel S Graciaa, Hady Samaha, Amy C Sherman, Stephen R Walsh, Getahun Abate, Zacharoula Oikonomopoulou, Hana M El Sahly, Thomas C S Martin, Satoshi Kamidani, Michael J Smith, Benjamin G Ladner, Laura Porterfield, Maya Dunstan, Anna Wald, Tamia Davis, Robert L Atmar, Mark J Mulligan, Kirsten E Lyke, Christine M Posavad, Megan A Meagher, David S Stephens, Kathleen M Neuzil, Kuleni Abebe, Heather Hill, Jim Albert, Kalyani Telu, Jinjian Mu, Teri C Lewis, Lisa A Giebeig, Amanda Eaton, Antonia Netzl, Samuel H Wilks, Sina Türeli, Mamodikoe Makhene, Sonja Crandon, David C Montefiori, Mat Makowski, Derek J Smith, Seema U Nayak, Paul C Roberts, John H Beigel, Covail Study Group

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Vaccine protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection wanes over time, requiring updated boosters. In a phase 2, open-label, randomized clinical trial with sequentially enrolled stages at 22 US sites, we assessed safety and immunogenicity of a second boost with monovalent or bivalent variant vaccines from mRNA and protein-based platforms targeting wild-type, Beta, Delta and Omicron BA.1 spike antigens. The primary outcome was pseudovirus neutralization titers at 50% inhibitory dilution (ID50 titers) with 95% confidence intervals against different SARS-CoV-2 strains. The secondary outcome assessed safety by solicited local and systemic adverse events (AEs), unsolicited AEs, serious AEs …

Dynamics Of Inflammatory Responses After Sars-Cov-2 Infection By Vaccination Status In The Usa: A Prospective Cohort Study, Xianming Zhu, Kelly A Gebo, Alison G Abraham, Feben Habtehyimer, Eshan U Patel, Oliver Laeyendecker, Thomas J Gniadek, Reinaldo E Fernandez, Owen R Baker, Malathi Ram, Edward R Cachay, Judith S Currier, Yuriko Fukuta, Jonathan M Gerber, Sonya L Heath, Barry Meisenberg, Moises A Huaman, Adam C Levine, Aarthi Shenoy, Shweta Anjan, Janis E Blair, Daniel Cruser, Donald N Forthal, Laura L Hammitt, Seble Kassaye, Giselle S Mosnaim, Bela Patel, James H Paxton, Jay S Raval, Catherine G Sutcliffe, Matthew Abinante, Patrick Broderick, Valerie Cluzet, Marie Elena Cordisco, Benjamin Greenblatt, Joann Petrini, William Rausch, David Shade, Karen Lane, Amy L Gawad, Sabra L Klein, Andrew Pekosz, Shmuel Shoham, Arturo Casadevall, Evan M Bloch, Daniel Hanley, David J Sullivan, Aaron A R Tobian

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: Cytokines and chemokines play a critical role in the response to infection and vaccination. We aimed to assess the longitudinal association of COVID-19 vaccination with cytokine and chemokine concentrations and trajectories among people with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

METHODS: In this longitudinal, prospective cohort study, blood samples were used from participants enrolled in a multi-centre randomised trial assessing the efficacy of convalescent plasma therapy for ambulatory COVID-19. The trial was conducted in 23 outpatient sites in the USA. In this study, participants (aged ≥18 years) were restricted to those with COVID-19 before vaccination or with breakthrough infections who had blood samples …

Intravenous Aviptadil And Remdesivir For Treatment Of Covid-19-Associated Hypoxaemic Respiratory Failure In The Usa (Tesico): A Randomised, Placebo-Controlled Trial, Samuel M Brown, Christina E Barkauskas, Birgit Grund, Shweta Sharma, Andrew N Phillips, Lindsay Leither, Ithan D Peltan, Michael Lanspa, Daniel L Gilstrap, Ahmad Mourad, Kathleen Lane, Jeremy R Beitler, Alexis L Serra, Ivan Garcia, Eyad Almasri, Mohamed Fayed, Kinsley Hubel, Estelle S Harris, Elizabeth A Middleton, Macy A G Barrios, Kusum S Mathews, Neha N Goel, Samuel Acquah, Jarrod Mosier, Cameron Hypes, Elizabeth Salvagio Campbell, Akram Khan, Catherine L Hough, Jennifer G Wilson, Joseph E Levitt, Abhijit Duggal, Siddharth Dugar, Andrew J Goodwin, Charles Terry, Peter Chen, Sam Torbati, Nithya Iyer, Uriel S Sandkovsky, Nicholas J Johnson, Bryce R H Robinson, Michael A Matthay, Neil R Aggarwal, Ivor S Douglas, Jonathan D Casey, Manuel Hache-Marliere, J Georges Youssef, William Nkemdirim, Brad Leshnower, Omar Awan, Sonal Pannu, Darragh Shane O'Mahony, Prasad Manian, J W Awori Hayanga, Glenn W Wortmann, Bruno M Tomazini, Robert F Miller, Jens-Ulrik Jensen, Daniel D Murray, Nina A Bickell, Jigna Zatakia, Sarah Burris, Elizabeth S Higgs, Ven Natarajan, Robin L Dewar, Adam Schechner, Nayon Kang, Alejandro Arenas-Pinto, Fleur Hudson, Adit A Ginde, Wesley H Self, Angela J Rogers, Cathryn F Oldmixon, Haley Morin, Adriana Sanchez, Amy C Weintrob, Alexandre Biasi Cavalcanti, Anne Davis-Karim, Nicole Engen, Eileen Denning, B Taylor Thompson, Annetine C Gelijns, Virginia Kan, Victoria J Davey, Jens D Lundgren, Abdel G Babiker, James D Neaton, H Clifford Lane

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: There is a clinical need for therapeutics for COVID-19 patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure whose 60-day mortality remains at 30-50%. Aviptadil, a lung-protective neuropeptide, and remdesivir, a nucleotide prodrug of an adenosine analog, were compared with placebo among patients with COVID-19 acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure.

METHODS: TESICO was a randomised trial of aviptadil and remdesivir versus placebo at 28 sites in the USA. Hospitalised adult patients were eligible for the study if they had acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure due to confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and were within 4 days of the onset of respiratory failure. Participants could be randomly …

Approach To Non-Type 2 Asthma, Muhammad Adrish, Praveen Akuthota

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

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Immune Infiltration In Tumor And Adjacent Non-Neoplastic Regions Codetermines Patient Clinical Outcomes In Early-Stage Lung Cancer, Chao Cheng, Thinh T Nguyen, Mabel Tang, Xinan Wang, Chongming Jiang, Yanhong Liu, Ivan Gorlov, Olga Gorlova, John Iafrate, Michael Lanuti, David C Christiani, Christopher I Amos

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

INTRODUCTION: In recent years, the proportion of patients with NSCLC diagnosed at an early stage has increased continuously.

METHODS: In this study, we analyzed samples and data collected from 119 samples from 67 early stage patients with NSCLC, including 52 pairs of tumor and adjacent non-neoplastic samples, and performed RNA-sequencing analysis with high sequencing depth.

RESULTS: We found that immune-related genes were highly enriched among the differentially expressed genes and observed significantly higher inferred immune infiltration levels in adjacent non-neoplastic samples than in tumor samples. In survival analysis, the infiltration of certain immune cell types in tumor, but not adjacent …

Disparities In Cancer Mortality Patterns: A Comprehensive Examination Of Us Rural And Urban Adults, 1999–2020, Itunu O Sokale, Syed Ahsan Raza, Aaron P Thrift

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Cancer mortality rates overall in the U.S. have decreased significantly; however, the rate of decline has not been uniform across sociodemographic groups. We aimed to compare trends in cancer mortality rates from 1999 to 2020 between rural and urban individuals and to examine whether any rural-urban differences are uniform across racial and ethnic groups.

METHODS: We used U.S.-wide data from the National Center for Health Statistics, for all cancer deaths among individuals aged 25 years or older. We estimated average annual percentage change (AAPC) in age-standardized cancer mortality rates in the U.S. by cancer type, rural-urban status, sex, and …

Reinvigorating Engineered Noise Controls: A Systems Approach, Jeremy Slagley, Adam Dudarewicz, Pawlaczyk-Łuszczyńska Małgorzata, Francis Slagley

Faculty Publications

Excerpt: Hearing loss is a major worldwide health issue affecting an estimated 1.5 billion people. Causes of hearing loss include genetics, chemicals, medications, lifestyle habits such as smoking, and noise. Noise is probably the largest contributing factor for hearing loss. Noise arises from the workplace, ambient environment, and leisure activities. The easiest noise sources to control are workplace and environmental. Workplace noise is unique in that the employer is responsible for the noise and the worker. Also, workers may be exposed to much higher levels of noise than they would accept elsewhere. Employers follow the traditional hierarchy of controls (substitution/engineering, …