Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Daniela Esposito, Daniel S. Olsson, Stefan Franzen, Mervete Miftaraj, Jonatan Natman, Soffia Gudbjornsdottir, Gudmundur Johannsson
Summary: This study suggests that the presence of diabetes in patients with acromegaly is associated with increased overall mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and morbidity.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Zhitao Liu, Huilie Zheng, Yuhang Wu, Shengwei Wang, Yong Liu, Songbo Hu
Summary: The study evaluated the trends of self-rated healthy life expectancy (SRHLE) of residents aged 15 and older in Jiangxi Province of China, and found that SRHLE is decreasing, primarily due to the increased prevalence of chronic diseases and improved health awareness among residents. Policy efforts are needed to control the increased morbidity of chronic diseases and reduce gender and urban-rural differences.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
XiaoYan Hu, MingWen Hu
Summary: The study conducted in Chengdu, China, found that social capital, leisure satisfaction, and leisure hindrance have different levels of impact on self-rated health. Leisure satisfaction has a higher impact on self-rated health than social capital, and acts as an intermediary in the process of social capital affecting self-rated health.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Weixi Kang
Summary: The study aims to explore the relationship between personality traits and self-rated health (SRH) in individuals with diabetes, compared with healthy controls. The findings indicate that diabetes significantly moderates the association between Neuroticism and SRH. Personality traits predict SRH differently in people with and without diabetes.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Guoyong Wu, Jianwei Cheng, Fan Yang, Noman Riaz
Summary: With the rapid economic and social development, the demand for domestic water in rural China and other developing countries has increased. As a result, the use of intermittent water supply systems has become common, but it poses hygiene risks that require attention.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Weixi Kang
Summary: Self-rated health (SRH) is a subjective evaluation of one's own health. Personality traits, including Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Openness, Conscientiousness, and Extraversion, have consistently been found to be significant predictors of SRH. The current study, analyzing data from 33,256 participants, found that age significantly moderates the associations between Agreeableness, Openness, and Conscientiousness and SRH after controlling for demographic covariates. This suggests that the relationship between personality traits and SRH varies across different ages.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Cristina Ortiz, Teresa Lopez-Cuadrado, Carmen Rodriguez-Blazquez, Roberto Pastor-Barriuso, Inaki Galan
Summary: The study aimed to identify sociodemographic characteristics of the population at risk for a greater clustering of unhealthy behaviors and evaluate the association of such clustering with self-rated health status and disability. The findings showed that the majority of participants had 2 or more risk factors, with men, middle-age individuals, and those with low socioeconomic status being more likely to have multiple risk factors.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sungjin Park, June-Hee Lee
Summary: Recent findings suggest that occupational and leisure-time physical activity have different effects on self-rated health. Occupational physical activity increases the risk of poor health, while leisure-time physical activity lowers the risk. Sedentary behavior is also associated with poor health. Therefore, promoting leisure-time physical activity, reducing occupational physical activity and sedentary behavior are important for improving health.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Weixi Kang
Summary: There is a link between epilepsy and self-rated health (SRH), which becomes stronger with age. Older adults with epilepsy require more attention regarding their SRH.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Daiana Elias Rodrigues, Cibele Comini Cesar, Cesar Coelho Xavier, Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Fernando Augusto Proietti
Summary: The study found that individuals living in economically advantaged neighborhoods were less likely to rate their health as poor, with this relationship being mediated by the perception of violence. Violence perception may explain part of the impact of neighborhood socioeconomic disparity on self-rated health.
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Zhongliang Bai, Jing Yang, Zijing Wang, Wenwen Cao, Chenglin Cao, Zhi Hu, Ren Chen
Summary: This study found that social capital is associated with self-rated health among older adults, and the association varies among those with and without health conditions. Different dimensions of social capital have different associations with self-rated health. It is recommended to focus on vulnerable subgroups, especially depressed and lonely older adults, as they have low reciprocity and cohesion.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Shiyi Shan, Jin Cao, Ke Tang, Siqing Cheng, Ziyang Ren, Shuting Li, Weidi Sun, Leying Hou, Qian Yi, Dingwan Chen, Peige Song
Summary: This study investigated the associations between self-rated health, interviewer-rated health, objective health and mortality among Chinese older adults. The findings showed that baseline self-rated health, interviewer-rated health, and objective health were significantly associated with 10-year mortality. Additionally, changes in self-rated health, interviewer-rated health, and objective health from 2008 to 2014 were significantly associated with 4-year mortality. It is suggested to promote the use of cost-effective indicators in primary medical institutions to improve health management for older adults.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Karina W. Davidson, Michael J. Barry, Carol M. Mangione, Michael Cabana, Aaron B. Caughey, Esa M. Davis, Katrina E. Donahue, Chyke A. Doubeni, Alex H. Krist, Martha Kubik, Li Li, Gbenga Ogedegbe, Douglas K. Owens, Lori Pbert, Michael Silverstein, James Stevermer, Chien-Wen Tseng, John B. Wong
Summary: Diabetes and prediabetes have significant impacts on health, with screening and preventive interventions for overweight or obese adults aged 35 to 70 being recommended to improve health outcomes.
JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Valerii Baidin, Christopher J. Gerry, Maria Kaneva
Summary: The study found that individual self-rated health is influenced by both individual characteristics and regional economic characteristics, particularly an individual's relative standing in their local economy can condition their response to health questionnaires. Furthermore, the study suggests that both a relative income mechanism and a mechanism linking the cognitive process of choice with the sense of optimism individuals have for their institutional environment are plausible explanations for the observed aggregate level effects.
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Siqi Shao, Tiantian Che, Deshui Zhou
Summary: Based on the empirical analysis using CHARLS data, this study finds that medical assistance and life assistance have negative influences on self-rated health. The study also reveals heterogeneity in these influences across different regions and population groups.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Ophthalmology
Janice Sutton, Martin J. Menten, Sophie Riedl, Hvroje Bogunovic, Oliver Leingang, Philipp Anders, Ahmed M. Hagag, Sebastian Waldstein, Amber Wilson, Angela J. Cree, Ghislaine Traber, Lars G. Fritsche, Hendrik Scholl, Daniel Rueckert, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, Sobha Sivaprasad, Toby Prevost, Andrew Lotery
Summary: This study aims to utilize machine learning and advanced statistical modeling to discover biomarkers for disease progression in intermediate age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and report the natural history of its progression through multimodal retinal imaging.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Xiaoming Jia, Mahmoud Al Rifai, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Salim S. Virani, James A. de Lemos, Emmanuel Lee, Amil M. Shah, Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Biykem Bozkurt, Ron Hoogeveen, Elizabeth Selvin, Christie M. Ballantyne, Vijay Nambi
Summary: This study evaluated the impact of incorporating cardiac biomarkers in reclassifying heart failure (HF) and assessed the prognosis of HF using these biomarkers. The results showed that approximately 1 in 5 older adults without prevalent HF were reclassified as Stage B HF, and the measurement of cardiac biomarkers can help identify individuals at higher HF risk.
JACC-HEART FAILURE
(2023)
Review
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Cullen Soares, Michael Kwok, Kent-Andrew Boucher, Mohammed Haji, Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Christopher T. Longenecker, Gerald S. Bloomfield, David Ross, Eric Jutkowtiz, Jennifer L. Sullivan, James L. Rudolph, Wen-Chih Wu, Sebhat Erqou
Summary: This study synthesized available data on the performance of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk score models in people living with HIV. The results showed that both general population and HIV-specific CVD risk models had comparable, moderate discrimination ability, but there was a general tendency to underpredict risk. Therefore, the current recommendations by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines to consider HIV as a risk-enhancing factor when estimating CVD risk are reinforced.
Letter
Medicine, General & Internal
Michael Fang, Yein Jeon, Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Elizabeth Selvin
ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Hematology
Caitlin W. Hicks, Dan Wang, Katherine McDermott, Kunihiro Matsushita, Olive Tang, Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, John W. McEvoy, Robert H. Christenson, Elizabeth Selvin
Summary: This study aimed to explore the associations of NT-proBNP, hs-troponin T, and hs-troponin I with lower extremity disease in adults without known cardiovascular disease. The results showed that elevated cardiac biomarkers were significantly associated with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in adults with PAD or PN.
ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Mary R. R. Rooney, Michael Fang, Katherine Ogurtsova, Bige Ozkan, Justin B. B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Edward J. J. Boyko, Dianna J. J. Magliano, Elizabeth Selvin
Summary: This study aims to estimate the global, regional, and national prevalence of prediabetes, defined as impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose. The results show that although two-thirds of countries lack high-quality data, the global burden of prediabetes is substantial and increasing.
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Mohammed K. Ali, Giuseppina Imperatore, Stephen R. Benoit, Matthew J. O. 'Brien, Christopher S. Holliday, Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Kai McKeever Bullard
Summary: Based on recent USPSTF and ADA guidelines, we examined eligibility and performance of glucose testing among different subgroups of US adults. Our findings show that an additional 12-14 million adults are eligible for diabetes screening, but there are disparities in testing rates among various populations. The ADA recommendations were found to be more sensitive but less specific, while the USPSTF recommendations had higher specificity but lower sensitivity.
DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE
(2023)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Ramachandran C. Rajalakshmi, Joana Vasconcelos, A. Toby Prevost, Sobha Sivaprasad, Mohan Deepa, Rajiv Raman, Kim Ramasamy, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Dolores Conroy, Taraprasad Das, Wasim Hanif, Viswanathan Mohan
Summary: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of undiagnosed and suboptimally controlled diabetes in India and identify the associated risk factors. The findings revealed a high prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes (6.0%) and suboptimally controlled diabetes. These results emphasize the urgent need to identify and optimize treatment for individuals with diabetes to reduce the burden of the disease.
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Eric K. Broni, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Olatokunbo Osibogun, Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Parag A. Chevli, Michael D. Shapiro, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Erin D. Michos
Summary: This study evaluated the association between ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) and adipokine levels. The concept of ideal CVH was introduced to promote 7 key health factors and behaviors, and previous studies found a strong association between obesity and ideal CVH. However, there is limited existing literature on the link between CVH and adipokines.
ENDOCRINE PRACTICE
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Sui Zhang, Natalie Daya, John W. McEvoy, Olive Tang, Stephen P. Juraschek, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Josef Coresh, Robert H. Christenson, Elizabeth Selvin
Summary: NT-proBNP is strongly associated with mortality in patients with heart failure. In a representative sample of the US adult population, NT-proBNP was an important independent risk factor for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality, and may be useful for monitoring risk in the general adult population.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Xiaoming Jia, Mahmoud Al Rifai, Ron Hoogeveen, Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Amil M. M. Shah, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Salim S. Virani, Biykem Bozkurt, Elizabeth Selvin, Christie M. Ballantyne, Vijay Nambi
Summary: This study assessed the association between change in NT-proBNP and the risk for incident heart failure and death. The results showed that change in NT-proBNP was positively correlated with the risk of heart failure and death. Additionally, changes in blood pressure, cholesterol, triglyceride levels, body mass index, and estimated glomerular filtration rate were associated with change in NT-proBNP.
Letter
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Anum S. Minhas, Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Sui Zhang, Chiadi E. Ndumele, J. William McEvoy, Robert Christenson, Elizabeth Selvin
Article
Primary Health Care
Gillian Doe, Stephanie J. C. Taylor, Marko Topalovic, Richard Russell, Rachael A. Evans, Julie Maes, Karolien Van Orshovon, Anthony Sunjaya, David Scott, A. Toby Prevost, Ethaar El-Emir, Jennifer Harvey, Nicholas S. Hopkinson, Samantha S. Kon, Suhani Patel, Ian Jarrold, Nanette Spain, William D-C Man, Ann Hutchinson
Summary: This study aimed to explore perspectives on spirometry provision in primary care and the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) decision support software to improve quality and interpretation. The study found historical challenges and the impact of the pandemic on inequity in spirometry provision. It suggests delivering services closer to patients’ homes by appropriately trained staff and highlights the potential role of AI in supporting clinicians. However, sufficient validation of the software is crucial for clinician and healthcare commissioner trust in the process.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE
(2023)
Article
Medical Laboratory Technology
Justin B. Echouffo-Tcheugui, Sui Zhang, John W. McEvoy, Stephen P. Juraschek, Josef Coresh, Robert H. Christenson, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Elizabeth Selvin
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the associations between N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-pro-BNP) and body mass and composition as measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). The study found that lean mass exhibited a strong inverse association with NT-pro-BNP in US adults.
CLINICAL CHEMISTRY
(2023)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Andrea G. Rockall, Xingfeng Li, Nicholas Johnson, Ioannis Lavdas, Shalini Santhakumaran, A. Toby Prevost, Shonit Punwani, Vicky Goh, Tara D. Barwick, Nishat Bharwani, Amandeep Sandhu, Harbir Sidhu, Andrew Plumb, James Burn, Aisling Fagan, Georg J. Wengert, Dow-Mu Koh, Krystyna Reczko, Qi Dou, Jane Warwick, Xinxue Liu, Christina Messiou, Nina Tunariu, Peter Boavida, Neil Soneji, Edward W. Johnston, Christian Kelly-Morland, Katja N. De Paepe, Heminder Sokhi, Kathryn Wallitt, Amish Lakhani, James Russell, Miriam Salib, Sarah Vinnicombe, Adam Haq, Eric O. Aboagye, Stuart Taylor, Ben Glocker
Summary: The study aimed to develop a machine learning algorithm to improve radiologists' sensitivity and specificity for metastasis detection in whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI). The results showed that using the algorithm can enhance the detection accuracy and reduce reading times for radiologists.
INVESTIGATIVE RADIOLOGY
(2023)
