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Predictors and Outcomes of Pica
Pica is an eating disorder of chewing non-nutritional substances such as ice, dirt, corn starch, paint etc. for more than one month, as diagnosed based on DSM-V criteria. Pagophagia (consumption of ice) is the predominant ... -
Predictors of Early Readmission Among Patients Aged 40 to 64 Years Hospitalized For Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Rationale: Various causes can contribute to the high rates of readmissions among patients hospitalized with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Objective: To determine the frequency and predictors of early ... -
Predictors of prolonged opioid use following lumbar fusion
The United States has the highest rate of lumbar fusion in the world.1 The lumbar fusion rate increased 2.4 times between 1998 and 2008.2 Rates of opioid pain reliever (OPR) use at 24 months post-lumbar fusion have been ... -
Prehospital Delay, Procrastination and Personality in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome
Coronary heart disease alone caused one out of every six deaths in the United States in 2009. Individuals who experience signs and symptoms of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) often delay seeking treatment. Compared to patients ... -
Prenatal exposure to maternal obesity and SFLT-1 overexpression and cardiovascular function in the adult offspring
(2010-03-11)Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Adult smoking, type II diabetes, and other environments and conditions, have been identified as risk factors for cardiovascular diseases; however, ... -
Presentation And Understanding Of Mortality Through Geospatial And Administrative Boundaries: An Examination Of Rates And Correlates Of Mortality In Texas Census Tracts
This capstone project analyses Texas vital statistics data through visual and tabular presentation of county-level age-adjusted mortality rates for all-cause and cause-specific mortality (including heart, cancer, and stroke) ... -
Prevention of childhood drowning: A review of current community interventions and their effect on recreational drowning mortality in children
(2007-09-01)Accidents are the leading cause of mortality in American children today. Accidental death by drowning is the second-most common cause of accidental injury-related death among children ages 1 to 14 and the leading cause ... -
Problem Food Cravings: a Cycle Fed by Stigma and Shame, a Classical Grounded Theory Exploration of the Experience of Food Cravings in Obese and Formerly-Obese Women
Food cravings, commonly defined as intense desires for a specific food, were identified decades ago as problems for people with a variety of health conditions, including eating disorders (Bruch, 1973), mood disorders ... -
Procollagen Biosynthesis and Osteoblast Malfunction in the G610C Mouse Model of Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a hereditary disease that disrupts bone formation and function resulting in skeletal deformities and fragile bones. OI is diagnosed based on clinical and radiological examination, with patient ... -
Production and Testing of a Novel Live-Attenuated Chikungunya Vaccine
The following work was focused on production and testing of a novel live-attenuated chikungunya virus (CHIKV) vaccine. To this end, multiple strategies were adapted from the IRES-based vaccine strategy first employed with ... -
Proposed Social Media Intervention to Improve Galveston Adolescent Sexual Health Behaviors
For many students, high school is a pivotal time in which there is preparation for adulthood and independence from parental guidance. It is therefore imperative that students be given the tools to prevent disease and ... -
Proposing a Model School-based Childhood Obesity Prevention Program for Cuero, TX, A Rural Underserved City
Abstract: Childhood obesity has become a national public health crisis in America. While many reports on childhood obesity prevention programs exist, the results are heterogeneous due to the diversity of the interventions, ... -
Prostate Specific Antigen Screening in Texas Medicare Population: The Role of Patient Characteristics
The objectives of this study were to 1) determine the prevalence of prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing in the Texas Medicare population and 2) assess which patient characteristics are associated with receipt of PSA ... -
Protective Nursing Advocacy Scale
(2008-09-24)Nursing advocacy for patients is considered to be an important function of nursing practice. The research surrounding nursing advocacy is relatively new, with few psychometric instruments developed to measure nursing ... -
Protein-Protein Interactions with Serotonin G Protein Coupled Receptors: Novel Targets for Neurotherapeutics Drug Discovery
G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are involved in many physiological processes and are important therapeutic targets for a variety of human health disorders. In fact, approximately 30% of current FDA-approved medications ... -
Psychometric evaluation of a new pressure ulcer skin risk assessment scale for the pediatric burn patient
(2009-07-13)Prevention of pressure ulcers is a primary goal in nursing practice, and achievement implies excellence in clinical care. One component of prevention is to understand the risk for pressure ulcer development. The benefit ... -
Psychoneuroimmunology of Interleukin-10
(2006-07-14)Appropriate interactions between the neuroendocrine and immune systems are important for optimal host defense and homeostasis. Pro-inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-1, interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha, ... -
PTEN loss induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition in human colon cancer cells
(2009-06-16)Background: Epithelial-mesenchymal transition is a critical early event in the invasion and metastasis of many cancers, including colorectal cancer. Chronic inflammation is an inducer of several cancers and inflammatory ... -
Race differences in self-assessed health: The role of job strain
(2009-07-03)A firmly established and frequently reported pattern in the distribution of health status in the U.S. is that non-Hispanic blacks (NHB) have higher rates of morbidity and mortality than do non-Hispanic whites (NHW). Although ... -
RADIOSENSITIZING EFFECTS OF THROMBIN PEPTIDE TP508 ON MEDULLOBLASTOMA CANCER STEM CELLS
Brain cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in children in the United States, with medulloblastoma leading all pediatric cases. With intensive treatments, including surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy, ...