Submissions from 2013
Randomized trial of the effectiveness of combined behavioral/pharmacological smoking cessation treatment in Syrian primary care clinics, Kenneth D. Ward, Taghrid Asfar, Radwan Al Ali, Samer Rastam, Mark W.Vander Weg, Thomas Eissenberg, and Wasim Maziak
Calcium and Vitamin D Intake of Boys Who Have Autism, Ruth Williams-Hooker, E. Olusegun George, Marian Levy, Christin Morgan, Terra L. Smith, and Joyce B. Bittle
Using an agent-based model to simulate children's active travel to school, Yong Yang and Ana V. Diez-Roux
A 25-year experience of endomyocardial biopsy safety in infants, Derek Zhorne, Christopher J. Petit, Frank F. Ing, Henri Justino, John L. Jefferies, William J. Dreyer, Debra Kearney, and Matthew A. Crystal
Submissions from 2012
Comparison of nutritional intake in US adolescent swimmers and non-athletes
Congenital heart surgery in infants: Effects of acute kidney injury on outcomes, Joshua J. Blinder, Stuart L. Goldstein, Vei Vei Lee, Alixandra Baycroft, Charles D. Fraser, David Nelson, and John L. Jefferies
Effects of smoking on the levels of urinary biomarkers of aromatic hydrocarbons in oil refinery workers, Marie Cecile Chalbot, Ino Christina Vei, Ilias G. Kavouras, and Ioannis Bartzis
Environmental tobacco smoke aerosol in non-smoking households of patients with chronic respiratory diseases, Marie Cecile Chalbot, Ino Christina Vei, Maria Lianou, Anastasia Kotronarou, Anna Karakatsani, Klea Katsouyanni, Gerard Hoek, and Ilias G. Kavouras
Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy in barth syndrome: An example of an undulating cardiac phenotype necessitating mechanical circulatory support as a bridge to transplantation, Samuel P. Hanke, Aimee B. Gardner, John P. Lombardi, Peter B. Manning, David P. Nelson, Jeffrey A. Towbin, John L. Jefferies, and Angela Lorts
Uneven magnitude of disparities in cancer risks from air toxics, Wesley James, Chunrong Jia, and Satish Kedia
Mechanical circulatory support in children: Bridge to transplant versus recovery, John L. Jefferies and David L. Morales
Cardiovascular findings in duplication 17p11.2 syndrome, John L. Jefferies, Ricardo H. Pignatelli, Hugo R. Martinez, Patricia J. Robbins-Furman, Pengfei Liu, Wenli Gu, James R. Lupski, and Lorraine Potocki
Particulate matter air pollution and respiratory symptoms in individuals having either asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A European multicentre panel study, Anna Karakatsani, Antonis Analitis, Dimitra Perifanou, Jon G. Ayres, Roy M. Harrison, Anastasia Kotronarou, Ilias G. Kavouras, Juha Pekkanen, Kaarle Hämeri, Gerard Pa Kos, Jeroen J. De Hartog, Gerard Hoek, and Klea Katsouyanni
Erratum: In situ observations of soil minerals and organic matter in the early phases of prescribed fires (Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres (2012) 117 (D12313) DOI: 10.1029/2011JD017420), Ilias G. Kavouras, George Nikolich, Vic Etyemezian, David W. DuBois, James King, and David Shafer
In situ observations of soil minerals and organic matter in the early phases of prescribed fires, Ilias G. Kavouras, George Nikolich, Vic Etyemezian, David W. Dubois, James King, and David Shafer
The effects of fuel evaporation and biomass burning on toluene concentrations in an urban area, Ilias G. Kavouras and Barbara Zielinska
Association between exhaled breath condensate nitrate + nitrite levels with ambient coarse particle exposure in subjects with airways disease, Sarah Manney, C. M. Meddings, R. M. Harrison, A. H. Mansur, A. Karakatsani, A. Analitis, Klea Katsouyanni, D. Perifanou, I. G. Kavouras, N. Kotronarou, J. J. De Hartog, J. Pekkanen, K. Hämeri, Harry Ten Brink, Gerard Hoek, and Jon G. Ayres
Restrictive physiology is associated with poor outcomes in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Shiraz A. Maskatia, Jamie A. Decker, Joseph A. Spinner, Jeffrey J. Kim, Jack F. Price, John L. Jefferies, William J. Dreyer, E. O.Brian Smith, Joseph W. Rossano, and Susan W. Denfield
Patterns of left ventricular remodeling in patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A cardiac MRI study of ventricular geometry, global function, and strain, Wojciech Mazur, Kan N. Hor, Joshua T. Germann, Robert J. Fleck, Hussein R. Al-Khalidi, Janaka P. Wansapura, Eugene S. Chung, Michael D. Taylor, John L. Jefferies, D. Woodrow Benson, and William M. Gottliebson
Seroprevalence of HIV/AIDS and HIV risk factors among prison inmates in Ogun State, Nigeria, Omoleye T. Muhammed, Onoja Matthew Akpa, Glory O. Atilola, and I. O.O. Komolafe
Translational research to develop a human pbpk models tool kit-volatile organic compounds (VOCS), M. Moiz Mumtaz, Meredith Ray, Susan R. Crowell, Deborah Keys, Jeffrey Fisher, and Patricia Ruiz
Patterns of water-pipe and cigarette smoking initiation in schoolchildren: Irbid longitudinal smoking study, Fawaz Mzayek, Yousef Khader, Thomas Eissenberg, Radwan Al Ali, Kenneth D. Ward, and Wasim Maziak
Incidence of and risk factors for sudden cardiac death in children with dilated cardiomyopathy: A report from the pediatric cardiomyopathy registry, Elfriede Pahl, Lynn A. Sleeper, Charles E. Canter, Daphne T. Hsu, Minmin Lu, Steven A. Webber, Steven D. Colan, Paul F. Kantor, Melanie D. Everitt, Jeffrey A. Towbin, John L. Jefferies, Beth D. Kaufman, James D. Wilkinson, and Steven E. Lipshultz
Faith leaders' comfort implementing an HIV prevention curriculum in a faith setting, Latrice C. Pichon, Derek M. Griffith, Bettina Campbell, Julie Ober Allen, Terrinieka T. Williams, and Angela Y. Addo
Two-dimensional speckle strain imaging: In the management of paraganglioma, acute junctional tachycardia, and myocardial dysfunction in a child, Ricardo Pignatelli, Mark A. Law, Hugo Martinez, Carolyn Altman, Nancy Ayres, John L. Jefferies, and Javier Ganame
Malonyl coenzyme a decarboxylase deficiency: Early dietary restriction and time course of cardiomyopathy, Carlos E. Prada, John L. Jefferies, Michelle A. Grenier, Christina M. Huth, Kimberley I. Page, Robert L. Spicer, Jeffrey A. Towbin, and Nancy D. Leslie
Prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of heart failure-related hospitalizations in children in the United States: A population-based study, Joseph W. Rossano, Jeffrey J. Kim, Jamie A. Decker, Jack F. Price, Farhan Zafar, Daniel E. Graves, David L.S. Morales, Jeffrey S. Heinle, Biykem Bozkurt, Jeffrey A. Towbin, Susan W. Denfield, William J. Dreyer, and John L. Jefferies
Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy and aortopathy in a patient with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, Thomas D. Ryan, Stephanie M. Ware, Anne W. Lucky, Jeffrey A. Towbin, John L. Jefferies, and Robert B. Hinton
Congenital Cardiomyopathies, Jeffrey A. Towbin, Stephanie Ware, and John Lynn Jefferies
Conduction abnormalities in pediatric patients with restrictive cardiomyopathy, Mark A. Walsh, Michelle A. Grenier, John L. Jefferies, Jeffrey A. Towbin, Angela Lorts, and Richard J. Czosek
Nicotine dependence among clients receiving publicly funded substance abuse treatment, Kenneth D. Ward, Satish Kedia, Larita Webb, and George E. Relyea
Outcomes of restrictive cardiomyopathy in childhood and the influence of phenotype: A report from the pediatric cardiomyopathy registry, Steven A. Webber, Steven E. Lipshultz, Lynn A. Sleeper, Minmin Lu, James D. Wilkinson, Linda J. Addonizio, Charles E. Canter, Steven D. Colan, Melanie D. Everitt, John Lynn Jefferies, Paul F. Kantor, Jacqueline M. Lamour, Renee Margossian, Elfriede Pahl, Paolo G. Rusconi, and Jeffrey A. Towbin
Walking distance by trip purpose and population subgroups, Yong Yang and Ana V. Diez-Roux
Exploring walking differences by socioeconomic status using a spatial agent-based model, Yong Yang, Ana V. Diez Roux, Amy H. Auchincloss, Daniel A. Rodriguez, and Daniel G. Brown
Submissions from 2011
HIV/AIDS-related stigma and access to HIV treatments by people living with HIV/AIDS: A case study of selected states in North-West Nigeria, Onoja Matthew Akpa, Victoria Adeolu-Olaiya, C. Adenike Olusegun-Odebiri, and Doyin Aganaba
Small-Sample Corrected Akaike Information Criterion: An appropriate statistical tool for ranking of adsorption isotherm models, Onoja M. Akpa and Emmanuel I. Unuabonah
Competing risks for death and cardiac transplantation in children with dilated cardiomyopathy: Results from the pediatric cardiomyopathy registry, Jorge A. Alvarez, E. John Orav, James D. Wilkinson, Lora E. Fleming, David J. Lee, Lynn A. Sleeper, Paolo G. Rusconi, Steven D. Colan, Daphne T. Hsu, Charles E. Canter, Steven A. Webber, Gerald F. Cox, John L. Jefferies, Jeffrey A. Towbin, and Steven E. Lipshultz
Are primary health care providers prepared to implement an anti-smoking program in Syria?, Taghrid Asfar, Radwan Al-Ali, Kenneth D. Ward, Mark W.Vander Weg, and Wasim Maziak
Targeted enrichment beyond the consensus coding DNA sequence exome reveals exons with higher variant densities, Matthew N. Bainbridge, Min Wang, Yuanqing Wu, Irene Newsham, Donna M. Muzny, John L. Jefferies, Thomas J. Albert, Daniel L. Burgess, and Richard A. Gibbs
Imaging for cardiotoxicity in cancer patients, Jose Banchs, John L. Jefferies, Juan Carlos Plana, and W. Gregory Hundley
Genetic disorders with both hearing loss and cardiovascular abnormalities, John W. Belmont, William Craigen, Hugo Martinez, and John Lynn Jefferies
Noncompaction of the left ventricular myocardium in a boy with a novel chromosome 8p23.1 deletion, Joshua J. Blinder, Hugo R. Martinez, William J. Craigen, John Belmont, Ricardo H. Pignatelli, and John L. Jefferies
Dilation of the aortic root in mitochondrial disease patients, Nicola Brunetti-Pierri, Ricardo Pignatelli, Negin Fouladi, Jeffrey A. Towbin, John W. Belmont, William J. Craigen, Lee Jun Wong, John L. Jefferies, and Fernando Scaglia
The development of a model of pandemic preparedness planning utilizing critical success factors from the united states and the European union, Y. Draine, J. Johnson, M. Levy, and W. Sumrall
Dog walking: Its association with physical activity guideline adherence and its correlates, Katherine D. Hoerster, Joni A. Mayer, James F. Sallis, Nicole Pizzi, Sandra Talley, Latrice C. Pichon, and Dalila A. Butler
Effects of steroids and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition on circumferential strain in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study utilizing cardiovascular magnetic resonance, Kan N. Hor, Wojciech Mazur, Michael D. Taylor, Hussein R. Al-Khalidi, Linda H. Cripe, John L. Jefferies, Subha V. Raman, Eugene S. Chung, Kathi J. Kinnett, Katelyn Williams, William M. Gottliebson, and D. Woodrow Benson
Temporal variations of atmospheric aerosol in four European urban areas, Maria Lianou, Marie Cecile Chalbot, Ilias G. Kavouras, Anastasia Kotronarou, Anna Karakatsani, Antonis Analytis, Klea Katsouyanni, Arto Puustinen, Kaarle Hameri, Marko Vallius, Juha Pekkanen, Claire Meddings, Roy M. Harrison, Jon G. Ayres, H. M. ten Brink, Gerard Kos, Kees Meliefste, Jeroen de Hartog, and Gerard Hoek
Left ventricular noncompaction in Sotos syndrome, Hugo R. Martinez, John W. Belmont, William J. Craigen, Michael D. Taylor, and John L. Jefferies
Coffin-Lowry syndrome and left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy with a restrictive pattern, Hugo R. Martinez, Mary C. Niu, V. Reid Sutton, Ricardo Pignatelli, Matteo Vatta, and John L. Jefferies
Childhood onset of left ventricular dysfunction in a female manifesting carrier of muscular dystrophy, Hugo R. Martinez, Ricardo Pignatelli, John W. Belmont, William J. Craigen, and John L. Jefferies
Adolescents' use of indoor tanning: A large-scale evaluation of psychosocial, environmental, and policy-level correlates, Joni A. Mayer, Susan I. Woodruff, Donald J. Slymen, James F. Sallis, Jean L. Forster, Elizabeth J. Clapp, Katherine D. Hoerster, Latrice C. Pichon, John R. Weeks, George E. Belch, Martin A. Weinstock, and Todd Gilmer
Nicotine exposure in daily waterpipe smokers and its relation to puff topography, Wasim Maziak, Samer Rastam, Alan L. Shihadeh, Asma Bazzi, Iman Ibrahim, Ghazi S. Zaatari, Kenneth D. Ward, and Thomas Eissenberg
Design, baseline results of irbid longitudinal, school-based smoking study, Fawaz Mzayek, Yousef Khader, Thomas Eissenberg, Kenneth D. Ward, and Wasim Maziak
Comparative analysis of waterpipe and cigarette suppression of abstinence and craving symptoms, Samer Rastam, Thomas Eissenberg, Iman Ibrahim, Kenneth D. Ward, Rami Khalil, and Wasim Maziak
Marketing for Public Health: We Need an App for That, Marla B. Royne and Marian Levy
The public health implications of consumers' environmental concern and their willingness to pay for an eco-friendly product, Marla B. Royne, Marian Levy, and Jennifer Martinez
Development of a human Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) toolkit for environmental pollutants, Patricia Ruiz, Meredith Ray, Jeffrey Fisher, and Moiz Mumtaz
Heart Failure as a Consequence of Genetic Cardiomyopathy, Jeffrey A. Towbin and John Lynn Jefferies
Cardiomyopathies in Infants and Children, Jeffrey A. Towbin, John Lynn Jefferies, and Matteo Vatta
Involving faith-based organizations in adolescent HIV prevention., Terrinieka T. Williams, Derek M. Griffith, Latrice C. Pichon, Bettina Campbell, Julie Ober Allen, and Jennifer C. Sanchez
Effectiveness of mechanical circulatory support in children with acute fulminant and persistent myocarditis, Ivan Wilmot, David L.S. Morales, Jack F. Price, Joseph W. Rossano, Jeffrey J. Kim, Jamie A. Decker, Mary Claire McGarry, Susan W. Denfield, William J. Dreyer, Jeffrey A. Towbin, and John L. Jefferies
Analysis of CDC social control measures using an agent-based simulation of an influenza epidemic in a city, Yong Yang, Peter M. Atkinson, and Dick Ettema
A spatial agent-based model for the simulation of adults' daily walking within a city, Yong Yang, Ana V. Diez Roux, Amy H. Auchincloss, Daniel A. Rodriguez, and Daniel G. Brown
Variability and seasonality of active transportation in USA: Evidence from the 2001 NHTS, Yong Yang, Ana V. Diez Roux, and C. Raymond Bingham
Submissions from 2010
Mathematical modeling of the epidemiology and the transmission dynamics of HIV/AIDS infections in Nigeria., O. M. Akpa and B. A. Oyejola
Modeling the transmission dynamics of HIV/AIDS epidemics: An introduction and a review, Onoja Matthew Akpa and Benjamin Agboola Oyejola
HIV/AIDS and the long-distance truck drivers in south-west Nigeria: A cross-sectional survey on the knowledge, attitude, risk behaviour and beliefs of truckers, Glory O. Atilola, Onoja Matthew Akpa, and I. O.O. Komolafe
Viral epidemiologic shift in inflammatory heart disease: The increasing involvement of parvovirus B19 in the myocardium of pediatric cardiac transplant patients, John P. Breinholt, Mousumi Moulik, William J. Dreyer, Susan W. Denfield, Jeffrey J. Kim, John L. Jefferies, Joseph W. Rossano, Corey M. Gates, Sarah K. Clunie, Karla R. Bowles, Debra L. Kearney, Neil E. Bowles, and Jeffrey A. Towbin
Refractory dilated cardiomyopathy associated with metastatic neuroblastoma, Peter Carlson, John L. Jefferies, Debra Kearney, and Heidi Russell
Waterpipe tobacco smoking: An emerging health crisis in the United States, Caroline Cobb, Kenneth D. Ward, Wasim Maziak, Alan L. Shihadeh, and Thomas Eissenberg
Lung function and indicators of exposure to indoor and outdoor particulate matter among asthma and COPD patients, J. J. De Hartog, J. G. Ayres, A. Karakatsani, A. Analitis, H. Ten Brink, K. Hameri, R. Harrison, K. Katsouyanni, A. Kotronarou, I. Kavouras, C. Meddings, J. Pekkanen, and Gerard Hoek
Ventricular remodeling and survival are more favorable for myocarditis than for idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy in childhood: An outcomes study from the pediatric cardiomyopathy registry, Susan R. Foerster, Charles E. Canter, Amy Cinar, Lynn A. Sleeper, Steven A. Webber, Elfriede Pahl, Paul F. Kantor, Jorge A. Alvarez, Steven D. Colan, John L. Jefferies, Jacqueline M. Lamour, Renee Margossian, Jane E. Messere, Paolo G. Rusconi, Robert E. Shaddy, Jeffrey A. Towbin, James D. Wilkinson, and Steven E. Lipshultz
Dietary water and sodium intake of children and adolescents with sickle cell anemia, Katherine T. Fowler, Ruth Williams, Carol O. Mitchell, Marian C. Levy, Lucille F. Pope, Matthew P. Smeltzer, and Winfred C. Wang
Your blessed health: A faith-based CBPR approach to addressing HIV/AIDS among African Americans, Derek M. Griffith, Latrice C. Pichon, Bettina Campbell, and Julie Ober Allen
PTPN11 mutation associated with aortic dilation and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a pediatric patient with noonan syndrome, John L. Jefferies, John W. Belmont, Ricardo Pignatelli, Jeffrey A. Towbin, and William J. Craigen
Novel cardiac findings in periventricular nodular heterotopia, John L. Jefferies, Michael D. Taylor, Joseph Rossano, John W. Belmont, and William J. Craigen
Heart Failure Treatment in the Intensive Care Unit in Children, John Lynn Jefferies, Timothy M. Hoffman, and David P. Nelson
Mechanical Support in Childhood Heart Failure, John Lynn Jefferies, Jack F. Price, and David L.S. Morales
Dilated cardiomyopathy, John Lynn Jefferies and Jeffrey A. Towbin
Ambient air pollution and respiratory health effects in mail carriers, A. Karakatsani, F. Kapitsimadis, M. Pipikou, M. C. Chalbot, I. G. Kavouras, D. Orphanidou, S. Papiris, and K. Katsouyanni
Gender, depression and physical impairment: An epidemiologic perspective from Aleppo, Syria, Nael Kilzieh, Samer Rastam, Kenneth D. Ward, and Wasim Maziak
Use of ventricular assist devices in children across the United States: Analysis of 7.5 million pediatric hospitalizations, David L.S. Morales, Farhan Zafar, Joseph W. Rossano, Jorge D. Salazar, John L. Jefferies, Daniel E. Graves, Jeffrey S. Heinle, and Charles D. Fraser
Viral endomyocardial infection is an independent predictor and potentially treatable risk factor for graft loss and coronary vasculopathy in pediatric cardiac transplant recipients, Mousumi Moulik, John P. Breinholt, William J. Dreyer, Debra L. Kearney, Jack F. Price, Sarah K. Clunie, Brady S. Moffett, Jeffrey J. Kim, Joseph W. Rossano, John Lynn Jefferies, Karla R. Bowles, E. O'Brian Smith, Neil E. Bowles, Susan W. Denfield, and Jeffrey A. Towbin
Perceived skin cancer risk and sunscreen Use among African American adults, Latrice C. Pichon, Irma Corral, Hope Landrine, Joni A. Mayer, and Denise Adams-Simms
Sun-Protection Behaviors Among African Americans, Latrice C. Pichon, Irma Corral, Hope Landrine, Joni A. Mayer, and Gregory J. Norman
Measuring skin cancer risk in African Americans: Is the Fitzpatrick skin type classification scale culturally sensitive?, Latrice C. Pichon, Hope Landrine, Irma Corral, Yongping Hao, Joni A. Mayer, and Katherine D. Hoerster
B-Type natriuretic peptide levels late after transplant predict graft survival in pediatric heart transplant patients, Joseph W. Rossano, Susan W. Denfield, Jeffrey J. Kim, Jack F. Price, John L. Jefferies, Jamie A. Decker, and William J. Dreyer
Impact of antibodies against human leukocyte antigens on long-term outcome in pediatric heart transplant patients: An analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing database, Joseph W. Rossano, David L.S. Morales, Farhan Zafar, Susan W. Denfield, Jeffrey J. Kim, John L. Jefferies, and William J. Dreyer
Electrocardiographic abnormalities and arrhythmias are strongly associated with the development of cardiomyopathy in muscular dystrophy, Anjan M. Shah, John L. Jefferies, Joseph W. Rossano, Jamie A. Decker, Bryan C. Cannon, and Jeffrey J. Kim
Milder clinical course of Type IV 3-methylglutaconic aciduria due to a novel mutation in TMEM70, Oleg A. Shchelochkov, Fang Yuan Li, Jing Wang, Hongli Zhan, Jeffrey A. Towbin, John Lynn Jefferies, Lee Jun Wong, and Fernando Scaglia
Heart transplants in pediatric patients: Viral infection as a loss predictor, Jeffrey A. Towbin, Stephanie M. Ware, and John Lynn Jefferies
Submissions from 2009
Risk Factors and Mode of Death in Isolated Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Children, Jamie A. Decker, Joseph W. Rossano, E. O.Brian Smith, Bryan Cannon, Sarah K. Clunie, Corey Gates, John L. Jefferies, Jeffrey J. Kim, Jack F. Price, William J. Dreyer, Jeffrey A. Towbin, and Susan W. Denfield
Careers in Applied Anthropology in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Academics and Practitioners, Carla Guerrón-Montero, Satish Kedia, and Tim Wallace
The twiddling Andersen, John L. Jefferies, Jeffrey J. Kim, John W. Belmont, and Richard A. Friedman
Development of a geospatial screening tool to identify source areas of windblown dust, Ilias G. Kavouras, Vicken Etyemezian, and David W. DuBois
Source reconciliation of atmospheric dust causing visibility impairment in Class I areas of the western United States, Ilias G. Kavouras, Vicken Etyemezian, Davis W. DuBois, Jin Xu, and Marc Pitchford
A new technique for characterizing the efficacy of fugitive dust suppressants, Ilias G. Kavouras, Vicken Etyemezian, George Nikolich, John Gillies, Mark Sweeney, Michael Young, and David Shafer
Recent Changes and Trends in the Practice of Applied Anthropology, Satish Kedia
From the editors of NAPA bulletin, Satish Kedia and David Himmelgreen
The impact of consumers' health literacy on public health, Marian Levy and Marla B. Royne
