Search Results - "Morrell, C. H."

Age-Associated Changes in Blood Pressure in a Longitudinal Study of Healthy Men and Women by Pearson, Jay D., Morrell, Christopher H., Brant, Larry J., Landis, Patricia K., Fleg, Jerome L.

“…Background. Current knowledge of age-associated increases in blood pressure is based primarily on unscreened population studies that may not be representative…”
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Estimation of prostatic growth using serial prostate-specific antigen measurements in men with and without prostate disease by CARTER, H. B, MORRELL, C. H, PEARSON, J. D, BRANT, L. J, PLATO, C. C, METTER, E. J, CHAN, D. W, FOZARD, J. L, WALSH, P. C

“…Prostate growth curves were estimated from serial prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurements on frozen sera in three groups of men: (a) 16 men with no…”
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The effect of gestational parity on FEV1 in a group of healthy volunteer women by HARIK-KHAN, R, WISE, R.A, LOU, C, MORRELL, C.H, BRANT, L.J, FOZARD, J.L

“…In the past, studies utilizing within-subject comparisons of small groups of pregnant women showed that forced expiratory volume in 1s (FEV1) remained…”
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Low levels of prostate-specific antigen predict long-term risk of prostate cancer: results from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging by Fang, Junyong, Metter, E.Jeffrey, Landis, Patricia, Chan, Daniel W, Morrell, Christopher H, Carter, H.Ballentine

“…Objectives. To evaluate the relationship between low prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels that are considered normal and the long-term risk of prostate…”
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Likelihood Ratio Testing of Variance Components in the Linear Mixed-Effects Model Using Restricted Maximum Likelihood by Morrell, Christopher H.

“…This paper reports the results of an extensive Monte Carlo study of the distribution of the likelihood ratio test statistic using the value of the restricted…”
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Construction of hearing percentiles in women with non-constant variance from the linear mixed-effects model by Morrell, Christopher H., Pearson, Jay D., Brant, Larry J., Gordon-Salant, Sandra

“…Current age‐specific reference standards for adult hearing thresholds are primarily cross‐sectional in nature and vary in the degree of screening of the…”
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Gender differences in a longitudinal study of age-associated hearing loss by Pearson, J D, Morrell, C H, Gordon-Salant, S, Brant, L J, Metter, E J, Klein, L L, Fozard, J L

“…Current studies are inconclusive regarding specific patterns of gender differences in age-associated hearing loss. This paper presents results from the largest…”
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The relationship of obesity and the development of coronary heart disease to longitudinal changes in systolic blood pressure by Bos, A J, Brant, L J, Morrell, C H, Fleg, J L

“…In an investigation of the relationship of obesity and the development of coronary heart disease (CHD) to longitudinal changes in systolic blood pressure…”
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Age- and gender-specific reference ranges for hearing level and longitudinal changes in hearing level by Morrell, C H, Gordon-Salant, S, Pearson, J D, Brant, L J, Fozard, J L

“…This paper presents age-specific reference ranges for hearing level and change in hearing level for men and women at 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz. The…”
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Exact group comparisons using irregular longitudinal data by Maritz, J. S., Lombard, C. J., Morrell, C. H.

“…Longitudinal data on an experimental subject arise when observations of a dependent variable are made at several successive values of an indexing variable x;…”
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Risk factors related to age-associated hearing loss in the speech frequencies by Brant, L J, Gordon-Salant, S, Pearson, J D, Klein, L L, Morrell, C H, Metter, E J, Fozard, J L

“…This paper examines the relationship between several risk factors and the development of age-associated hearing loss in the speech frequencies. Hearing loss is…”
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Two-Sample Nonparametric Estimation and Confidence Intervals under Truncation by Johnson, Richard A., Morrell, Christopher H., Schick, Anton

“…We consider point estimates and confidence intervals for the difference in location or scale between two populations when the observations are subject to…”
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Basal DNA damage in individual human lymphocytes with age by Singh, N P, Danner, D B, Tice, R R, Pearson, J D, Brant, L J, Morrell, C H, Schneider, E L

“…A role for DNA damage is central to many theories of aging, but attempts to show an increase in DNA damage with age have yielded contradictory results…”
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Impact of Donor/Recipient Traits Independent of Rejection on Long-Term Renal Function by Kouli, Fahed, Morrell, Christopher H., Ratner, Lloyd E., Kraus, Edward S.

“…This study describes renal function at multiple points in time after transplantation and the influence of donor and recipient factors independent of rejection…”
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Today men with prostate cancer have larger prostates by Feneley, Mark R, Landis, Patricia, Simon, Inpakala, Metter, E.Jeffrey, Morrell, Christopher H, Carter, H.Ballentine, Walsh, Patrick C

“…Objectives. To examine the relationship between prostate size and the method of cancer detection in men with organ-confined prostate cancer, and compare…”
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Model Choice Can Obscure Results in Longitudinal Studies by Morrell, Christopher H., Brant, Larry J., Ferrucci, Luigi

“…Background This article examines how different parameterizations of age and time in modeling observational longitudinal data can affect results. Methods When…”
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Screening for prostate cancer by using random-effects models by Brant, Larry J., Sheng, Shan L., Morrell, Christopher H., Verbeke, Geert N., Lesaffre, Emmanuel, Carter, H. Ballentine

“…Random-effects models are used to screen male participants in a long-term longitudinal study for prostate cancer. By using posterior probabilities, each male…”
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Mixed-effects regression models for studying the natural history of prostate disease by Pearson, J D, Morrell, C H, Landis, P K, Carter, H B, Brant, L J

“…Although prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia are major health problems in U.S. men, little is known about the early stages of the natural history…”
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Longitudinal Paths to the Metabolic Syndrome: Can the Incidence of the Metabolic Syndrome Be Predicted? The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging by Scuteri, Angelo, Morrell, Christopher H., Najjar, Samer S., Muller, Denis, Andres, Reubin, Ferrucci, Luigi, Lakatta, Edward G.

“…Objective To determine the predictors of incidence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) (Adult Treatment Panel III criteria) and to determine if longitudinal changes…”
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Modelling hearing thresholds in the elderly by Morrell, C H, Brant, L J

“…This paper concerns a linear mixed-effects repeated measures model in the analysis of a large data set with over 17,000 observations in a longitudinal study of…”
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