Search Results - "Bersch, Andrew"
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Physical Activity and Survival after Diagnosis of Invasive Breast Cancer
Published in Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention (01-02-2008)“…Previous studies suggest that increased physical activity may lower the risk of breast cancer incidence, but less is known about whether levels of physical…”
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Food Insecurity and Cardiovascular Health: Findings from a Statewide Population Health Survey in Wisconsin
Published in Preventive medicine (01-12-2016)“…Abstract Background The social and economic environment has become a major area of interest regarding the determinants of cardiovascular health. Among markers…”
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Body Mass Index Before and After Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Associations with All-Cause, Breast Cancer, and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality
Published in Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention (01-05-2009)“…Background: Factors related to improving outcomes in breast cancer survivors are of increasing public health significance. We examined postdiagnosis weight…”
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Predictors of discordance between perceived and objective neighborhood data
Published in Annals of epidemiology (01-03-2014)“…Abstract Purpose Pathways by which the social and built environments affect health can be influenced by differences between perception and reality. This…”
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The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), a novel infrastructure for population health research: rationale and methods
Published in BMC public health (23-12-2010)“…Evidence-based public health requires the existence of reliable information systems for priority setting and evaluation of interventions. Existing data systems…”
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Effects of Stress and Phenotypic Variation on Inbreeding Depression in Brassica rapa
Published in Evolution (01-04-2008)“…Stressful environments are often said to increase the expression of inbreeding depression. Alternatively, Crow's “opportunity for selection” (the squared…”
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Sense of neighborhood belonging and health: geographic, racial, and socioeconomic variation in Wisconsin
Published in Frontiers in public health (2024)“…Individuals' sense of belonging (SoB) to their neighborhood is an understudied psychosocial factor that may influence the association between neighborhood…”
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The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) Program: An Infrastructure for Advancing Population Health
Published in Frontiers in public health (31-03-2022)“…The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) was established in 2008 by the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) with the…”
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The Wisconsin Assessment of the Social and Built Environment (WASABE): a multi-dimensional objective audit instrument for examining neighborhood effects on health
Published in BMC public health (13-11-2014)“…Growing evidence suggests that mixed methods approaches to measuring neighborhood effects on health are needed. The Wisconsin Assessment of the Social and…”
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Post-diagnosis dietary factors and survival after invasive breast cancer
Published in Breast cancer research and treatment (01-07-2011)“…Little is known about the effects of diet after breast cancer diagnosis on survival. We prospectively examined the relation between post-diagnosis dietary…”
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Survey of Radon Testing and Mitigation by Wisconsin Residents, Landlords, and School Districts
Published in Wisconsin medical journal (Madison, Wis.) (01-12-2019)“…Radon is the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the United States, the leading cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers, and is estimated to cause 21,000 deaths…”
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Overall prescription medication use among adults: findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Published in Wisconsin medical journal (Madison, Wis.) (01-12-2014)“…To analyze overall prescription medication use patterns among study participants in a representative statewide sample of Wisconsin adults. We analyzed data on…”
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Nitrogen-nitrate exposure from drinking water and colorectal cancer risk for rural women in Wisconsin, USA
Published in Journal of water and health (01-09-2008)“…One unintentional result of widespread adoption of nitrogen application to croplands over the past 50 years has been nitrate contamination of drinking water…”
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Fertility Drug Use and Mammographic Breast Density in a Mammography Screening Cohort of Premenopausal Women
Published in Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention (01-11-2008)“…The widespread use of ovulation-inducing drugs to enhance fertility has raised concerns about its potential effects on breast cancer risk, as ovarian…”
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Street-level neighborhood greenery linked to active transportation: A case study in Milwaukee and Green Bay, WI, USA
Published in Landscape and urban planning (01-11-2019)“…•Neighborhood greenery measures were developed to focus on walkable roads.•Street and overall greenery was assessed in 500 m to 1250 m buffers at 424…”
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Participant attrition from statewide, population-based Survey of the Health of Wisconsin into the longitudinal SHOW COVID-19 cohort
Published in Annals of epidemiology (01-06-2024)“…Longitudinal studies are essential for examining how social and institutional determinants of health, historical and contemporary, affect disparities in…”
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A study on the sample representativeness of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Clinical Core participants versus the Wisconsin state population
Published in Alzheimer's & dementia (01-12-2023)“…Background Understanding how representative a research sample is compared to the population can help inform future recruitment planning, data analysis…”
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Prescribed Opiate use in Wisconsin from 2008–2016: Findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)
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What moves us: Subjective and objective predictors of active transportation
Published in Journal of transport & health (01-12-2019)“…The majority of commuting trips in the United States are taken by motor vehicle. Yet, lack of regular physical activity has been identified as one of its most…”
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Prescribed Opioid Use in Wisconsin 2008-2016: Findings From the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Published in Wisconsin medical journal (Madison, Wis.) (01-06-2020)“…The opioid epidemic is a national crisis. The objectives of this report were to describe prescription opioid use in Wisconsin from 2008 through 2016 using…”
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