Search Results - "Melgar, Jennifer"

Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP) in U.S. Latinas and Chileans: Clinical features, Ancestry Analysis, and Admixture Mapping by Bull, Laura N, Hu, Donglei, Shah, Sohela, Temple, Luisa, Silva, Karla, Huntsman, Scott, Melgar, Jennifer, Geiser, Mary T, Sanford, Ukina, Ortiz, Juan A, Lee, Richard H, Kusanovic, Juan P, Ziv, Elad, Vargas, Juan E

“…In the Americas, women with Indigenous American ancestry are at increased risk of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP), relative to women of other…”
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Discharge Instruction Comprehension and Adherence Errors: Interrelationship Between Plan Complexity and Parent Health Literacy by Glick, Alexander F., Farkas, Jonathan S., Mendelsohn, Alan L., Fierman, Arthur H., Tomopoulos, Suzy, Rosenberg, Rebecca E., Dreyer, Benard P., Melgar, Jennifer, Varriano, John, Yin, H. Shonna

“…To examine associations between parent health literacy, discharge plan complexity, and parent comprehension of and adherence to inpatient discharge…”
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Accuracy of Parent Perception of Comprehension of Discharge Instructions: Role of Plan Complexity and Health Literacy by Glick, Alexander F., Farkas, Jonathan S., Rosenberg, Rebecca E., Mendelsohn, Alan L., Tomopoulos, Suzy, Fierman, Arthur H., Dreyer, Benard P., Migotsky, Michael, Melgar, Jennifer, Yin, H. Shonna

“…Inpatient discharge education is often suboptimal. Measures of parents’ perceived comprehension of discharge instructions are included in national metrics…”
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Liver inflammation is a risk factor for prediabetes in at-risk latinos with and without hepatitis C infection by Burman, Blaire E., Bacchetti, Peter, Ayala, Claudia E., Gelman, Nicholas, Melgar, Jennifer, Khalili, Mandana

“…Background & Aims Early recognition of prediabetes can lead to timely clinical interventions to prevent type 2 diabetes. Both Latino ethnicity and chronic…”
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Insulin Sensitivity and Variability in Hepatitis C Virus Infection Using Direct Measurement by Mukhtar, Nizar A., Bacchetti, Peter, Ayala, Claudia E., Melgar, Jennifer, Christensen, Spencer, Maher, Jacquelyn J., Khalili, Mandana

“…Background and Aims Studies investigating insulin resistance (IR) in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have used surrogate measures of IR that have…”
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