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Prevalence of dementia after age 90 : Results from The 90+ Study by CORRADA, M. M, BROOKMEYER, R, BERLAU, D, PAGANINI-HILL, A, KAWAS, C. H

“…Although the prevalence of dementia increases with age from ages 65 to 85, whether this increase continues after age 90 is unclear. Most studies reporting on…”
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Projections of Alzheimer's disease in the United States and the public health impact of delaying disease onset by Brookmeyer, R, Gray, S, Kawas, C

“…The goal of this study was to project the future prevalence and incidence of Alzheimer's disease in the United States and the potential impact of interventions…”
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Age-specific incidence rates of Alzheimer's disease: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging by Kawas, C, Gray, S, Brookmeyer, R, Fozard, J, Zonderman, A

“…To estimate age-specific incidence rates of AD in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA). The BLSA is a volunteer cohort of normal subjects followed…”
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Calcium channel blockers and risk of AD: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging by Yasar, S., Corrada, M., Brookmeyer, R., Kawas, C.

“…Objective: To investigate the association between use of calcium channel blockers (CCB), dihydropyridine (DHP) or nondihydropyridine (nonDHP) type CCB and risk…”
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The impact of broader hepatitis C treatment strategies on population health and social value in England by Van Nuys, K, Chou, J.W, Silverstein, A, Brookmeyer, R, Goldman, D.P

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Visual memory predicts Alzheimer's disease more than a decade before diagnosis by KAWAS, C. H, CORRADA, M. M, BROOKMEYER, R, MORRISON, A, RESNICK, S. M, ZONDERMAN, A. B, ARENBERG, D

“…Recent studies have suggested that AD may reflect a chronic process that begins many years before the clinical expression of dementia. The current study…”
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Combined effects of HIV and obesity on the gastrointestinal microbiome of young men who have sex with men by Cook, RR, Fulcher, JA, Tobin, NH, Li, F, Lee, D, Woodward, C, Javanbakht, M, Brookmeyer, R, Shoptaw, S, Bolan, R, Aldrovandi, GM, Gorbach, PM

“…Objectives The prevalence of obesity is rising among people living with HIV, which may synergistically increase inflammation and the risk of associated…”
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1212 Improvements in progression-free survival and real-world cost: A study of treatments for five tumor sites by Shafrin, J, Brookmeyer, R, Peneva, D, Park, J, Zhang, J, Figlin, R.A, Lakdawalla, D.N

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P0025 : The public health value of sparing livers for transplantation through systematic treatment of hepatitis C by Stevens, W, Sanchez, Y, Brookmeyer, R, Lakdawalla, D, Marx, S, Juday, T

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A prospective study of estrogen replacement therapy and the risk of developing Alzheimerʼs disease: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging by Kawas, C, Resnick, S, Morrison, A, Brookmeyer, R, Corrada, M, Zonderman, A, Bacal, C, Lingle, D Donnell, Metter, E

“…Previous reports have suggested that estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) in women may exert a protective effect on their risk of developing Alzheimerʼs disease…”
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Global effects estimation for multidimensional outcomes by Travison, T. G., Brookmeyer, R.

“…Many health studies focus on multifaceted outcomes that are not easily measured with a single variable; examples include studies on quality of life (QOL) and…”
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An Evaluation of Classification Rules Based on Date of Symptom Onset to Identify Health-Care–associated Infections by Lessler, Justin, Brookmeyer, Ron, Perl, Trish M.

“…The date of symptom onset is often used to distinguish health-care–associated from community-acquired infections. Those patients developing symptoms early in…”
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Modeling Maternal-Infant HIV Transmission in the Presence of Breastfeeding with an Imperfect Test by Gupte, N, Brookmeyer, R, Bollinger, R, Gray, G

“…An important public health question is to determine the probabilities of perinatal HIV transmission and when it occurs, whether antepartum, intrapartum, or…”
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Measuring the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Approaches and Challenges by Brookmeyer, Ron

“…In this article, the author reviews current approaches and methods for measuring the scope of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency…”
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Recent Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Infection and the Risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Acquisition in India by Reynolds, Steven J, Risbud, Arun R, Shepherd, Mary E, Zenilman, Jonathan M, Brookmeyer, Ronald S, Paranjape, Ramesh S, Divekar, Anand D, Gangakhedkar, Raman R, Ghate, Manisha V, Bollinger, Robert C, Mehendale, Sanjay M

“…To estimate the impact of prevalent and incident herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection on the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1…”
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APOE genotype and survival in men and women with Alzheimer's disease by DAL FORNO, G, CARSON, K. A, BROOKMEYER, R, TRONCOSO, J, KAWAS, C. H, BRANDT, J

“…The epsilon 4 allele of the APOE gene (APOE) is more frequent in patients with AD than in the general population, but studies are inconclusive as to whether it…”
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Trends in crime and the introduction of a needle exchange program by Marx, MA, Crape, B, Brookmeyer, RS, Junge, B, Latkin, C, Vlahov, D, Strathdee, SA

“…This study sought to determine whether introduction of a needle exchange program would be associated with increased crime rates. Trends in arrests were…”
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Sensitivity and specificity of rapid HIV testing of pregnant women in India by Bhore, A V, Sastry, J, Patke, D, Gupte, N, Bulakh, P M, Lele, S, Karmarkar, A, Bharucha, K E, Shrotri, A, Pisal, H, Suryawanshi, N, Tripathy, S, Risbud, A R, Paranjape, R S, Shankar, A V, Kshirsagar, A, Phadke, M A, Joshi, P L, Brookmeyer, R S, Bollinger, Jr, R C

“…Efforts to prevent HIV transmission from mother to infants in settings like India may benefit from the availability of reliable methods for rapid and simple…”
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Incidence and Predictors of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Seroconversion in Patients Attending Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics in India by Mehendale, Sanjay M., Rodrigues, Jeanette J., Brookmeyer, Ronald S., Gangakhedkar, Raman R., Divekar, Anand D., Gokhale, Manjusha R., Risbud, Arun R., Paranjape, Ramesh S., Shepherd, Mary E., Rompalo, Ann E., Sule, Rajiv R., Tolat, Sunil N., Jadhav, Vijay D., Quinn, Thomas C., Bollinger, Robert C.

“…The first estimates of the seroincidence of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and of the risk factors for seroconversion in a cohort of high-risk…”
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Should biomarker estimates of HIV incidence be adjusted? by BROOKMEYER, Ron

“…To evaluate adjustment procedures that have been proposed to correct HIV incidence rates derived from cross-sectional surveys of biomarkers (e.g. BED capture…”
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