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Factors Associated With Weight Loss, Low BMI, and Malnutrition Among Nursing Home Patients: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Tamura, Bruce K., MD, Bell, Christina L., MD, MS, Masaki, Kamal H., MD, Amella, Elaine J., PhD, RN, FAAN

“…Abstract Background Weight loss and poor nutrition are important quality measures in long term care. Long term care professionals need to identify factors…”
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Adaptive Care Planning: A paradigm shift by Moody, Sandra Y., Bell, Christina L., Lindenberger, Elizabeth C., Reid, M. Carrington

“…A key challenge of implementing advance care planning lies in the fact that decisions made in advance require patients and their family members to imagine what…”
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Reply to: Comment on: Adaptive care planning: A paradigm shift by Moody, Sandra Y., Bell, Christina L., Lindenberger, Elizabeth C., Reid, M. Carrington

“…This letter comments on the letter by Tan et al…”
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Malnutrition in the nursing home by Bell, Christina L, Lee, Angela S.W, Tamura, Bruce K

“…PURPOSE OF REVIEWMalnutrition in the nursing home is increasingly recognized as a major international research priority, given the expanding geriatric…”
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Prevalence and Measures of Nutritional Compromise Among Nursing Home Patients: Weight Loss, Low Body Mass Index, Malnutrition, and Feeding Dependency, A Systematic Review of the Literature by Bell, Christina L., MD, Tamura, Bruce K., MD, Masaki, Kamal H., MD, Amella, Elaine J., PhD, RN, FAAN

“…Abstract Weight loss and poor nutrition have been important considerations in measuring quality of nursing home care since 1987. Our purpose was to examine,…”
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Factors Associated with Congruence Between Preferred and Actual Place of Death by Bell, Christina L., MD, Somogyi-Zalud, Emese, MD, Masaki, Kamal H., MD

“…Abstract Congruence between preferred and actual place of death may be an essential component in terminal care. Most patients prefer a home death, but many…”
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Fall Ascertainment and Development of a Risk Prediction Model Using Electronic Medical Records by Oshiro, Caryn E. S., Frankland, Timothy B., Rosales, A. Gabriela, Perrin, Nancy A., Bell, Christina L., Lo, Serena H. Y., Trinacty, Connie M.

“…OBJECTIVES To examine the use of electronic medical record (EMR) data to ascertain falls and develop a fall risk prediction model in an older population…”
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The Impact of Multimorbidity and Coronary Disease Comorbidity on Physical Function in Women Aged 80 Years and Older: The Women's Health Initiative by Rillamas-Sun, Eileen, LaCroix, Andrea Z, Bell, Christina L, Ryckman, Kelli, Ockene, Judith K, Wallace, Robert B

“…A better understanding of medically centered outcomes, such as physical function, for older women with multiple chronic conditions is a national public health…”
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Proteomics Analysis of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1‑Infected Cells Reveals Dynamic Changes of Viral Protein Expression, Ubiquitylation, and Phosphorylation by Bell, Christina, Desjardins, Michel, Thibault, Pierre, Radtke, Kerstin

“…Herpesviruses are among the most complex and widespread human viruses and cause a number of diseases ranging from cold sores to genital infections and…”
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Outcomes of Polypharmacy in Nursing Home Residents by Tamura, Bruce K., MD, Bell, Christina L., MD, MS, Inaba, Michiko, MD, PhD, Masaki, Kamal H., MD

“…This article provides a comprehensive review of the outcomes of polypharmacy in nursing homes. Our review had some limitations. First, we only included studies…”
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A comprehensive characterization of membrane vesicles released by autophagic human endothelial cells by Pallet, Nicolas, Sirois, Isabelle, Bell, Christina, Hanafi, Laïla-Aïcha, Hamelin, Katia, Dieudé, Mélanie, Rondeau, Christiane, Thibault, Pierre, Desjardins, Michel, Hebert, Marie-Josée

“…The stress status of the apoptotic cell can promote phenotypic changes that have important consequences on the immunogenicity of the dying cell. Autophagy is…”
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The 22q11.2 region regulates presynaptic gene-products linked to schizophrenia by Nehme, Ralda, Pietiläinen, Olli, Artomov, Mykyta, Tegtmeyer, Matthew, Valakh, Vera, Lehtonen, Leevi, Bell, Christina, Singh, Tarjinder, Trehan, Aditi, Sherwood, John, Manning, Danielle, Peirent, Emily, Malik, Rhea, Guss, Ellen J., Hawes, Derek, Beccard, Amanda, Bara, Anne M., Hazelbaker, Dane Z., Zuccaro, Emanuela, Genovese, Giulio, Loboda, Alexander A., Neumann, Anna, Lilliehook, Christina, Kuismin, Outi, Hamalainen, Eija, Kurki, Mitja, Hultman, Christina M., Kähler, Anna K., Paulo, Joao A., Ganna, Andrea, Madison, Jon, Cohen, Bruce, McPhie, Donna, Adolfsson, Rolf, Perlis, Roy, Dolmetsch, Ricardo, Farhi, Samouil, McCarroll, Steven, Hyman, Steven, Neale, Ben, Barrett, Lindy E., Harper, Wade, Palotie, Aarno, Daly, Mark, Eggan, Kevin

“…It is unclear how the 22q11.2 deletion predisposes to psychiatric disease. To study this, we generated induced pluripotent stem cells from deletion carriers…”
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Reducing Cost by Reducing Polypharmacy: The Polypharmacy Outcomes Project by Kojima, Gotaro, MD, Bell, Christina, MD, Tamura, Bruce, MD, Inaba, Michiko, MD, Lubimir, Karen, MD, Blanchette, Patricia Lanoie, MD, MPH, Iwasaki, Wendy, Pharm D, Masaki, Kamal, MD

“…Abstract Objective To examine the effect of intervention by geriatric medicine fellows and a geriatrician on medication cost among long term care residents…”
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Perceived social support and the risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in the Womenʼs Health Initiative Observational Study by Freeborne, Nancy, Simmens, Samuel J, Manson, JoAnn E, Howard, Barbara V, Cené, Crystal W, Allison, Matthew A, Corbie-Smith, Giselle, Bell, Christina L, Denburg, Natalie L, Martin, Lisa Warsinger

“…OBJECTIVE:Previous studies have shown social support to be inversely associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in men, whereas fewer studies have assessed…”
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Hospice Referrals and Code Status: Outcomes of Inpatient Palliative Care Consultations Among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders With Cancer by Bell, Christina L., MD, MSc, Kuriya, Meiko, MD, Fischberg, Daniel, MD, PhD

“…Abstract Context Intensive palliative care consultations for plan of care may reduce racial differences in end-of-life care. Objectives To compare cancer…”
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Prestroke Factors Associated with Poststroke Mortality and Recovery in Older Women in the Women's Health Initiative by Bell, Christina L., LaCroix, Andrea, Masaki, Kamal, Hade, Erinn M., Manini, Todd, Mysiw, W. Jerry, Curb, Jess David, Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia

“…Objectives To examine prestroke lifestyle factors associated with poststroke mortality and recovery in older women. Design Longitudinal prospective cohort…”
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Pathogenic Pathways in Early-Onset Autosomal Recessive Parkinson's Disease Discovered Using Isogenic Human Dopaminergic Neurons by Ahfeldt, Tim, Ordureau, Alban, Bell, Christina, Sarrafha, Lily, Sun, Chicheng, Piccinotti, Silvia, Grass, Tobias, Parfitt, Gustavo M., Paulo, Joao A., Yanagawa, Fumiki, Uozumi, Takayuki, Kiyota, Yasujiro, Harper, J. Wade, Rubin, Lee L.

“…Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex and highly variable neurodegenerative disease. Familial PD is caused by mutations in several genes with diverse and…”
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Prestroke Weight Loss Is Associated With Poststroke Mortality Among Men in the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study by Bell, Christina L., MD, PhD, Rantanen, Taina, PhD, Chen, Randi, MS, Davis, James, PhD, Petrovitch, Helen, MD, Ross, G. Webster, MD, Masaki, Kamal, MD

“…Abstract Objective To examine baseline prestroke weight loss and poststroke mortality among men. Design Longitudinal study of late-life prestroke body mass…”
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Late-Life Factors Associated with Healthy Aging in Older Men by Bell, Christina L., Chen, Randi, Masaki, Kamal, Yee, Priscilla, He, Qimei, Grove, John, Donlon, Timothy, Curb, J. David, Willcox, D. Craig, Poon, Leonard W., Willcox, Bradley J.

“…Objectives To identify potentially modifiable late‐life biological, lifestyle, and sociodemographic factors associated with overall and healthy survival to age…”
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Physician Intervention for Medication Reduction in a Nursing Home: The Polypharmacy Outcomes Project by Tamura, Bruce K., MD, Bell, Christina L., MD, Lubimir, Karen, MD, Iwasaki, Wendy N., PharmD, Ziegler, Laura A., MD, Masaki, Kamal H., MD

“…Objective To examine the effects of a medication review project by geriatricians and geriatric medicine fellows on polypharmacy in a teaching nursing home…”
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