Search Results - "Pirkle, C.M."

Data on the association between age at natural menopause and physical function in older women from the International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS) by Velez, M.P., Rosendaal, N., Alvarado, B., da Câmara, S., Belanger, E., Pirkle, C.M.

“…Women experience worse physical function and greater physical decline than men at similar ages. These sex differences are heterogeneous across settings and…”
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MATERNAL AGE AT FIRST BIRTH AND RISK OF LATER-LIFE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW by Pirkle, C.M., Rosendaal, N.T.

“…Review of the literature on age at first childbirth (AFB) and CVD, including hypothesized causal pathways. PubMed and Web of Science databases were searched…”
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Trophic and spatial patterns of contaminants in fishes from the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the equatorial Pacific by Nalley, E.M., Pirkle, C.M., Schmidbauer, M.C., Lewis, C.J., Dacks, R.S., Thompson, M.D., Sudnovsky, M.D., Whitney, J.L., Donahue, M.J.

“…The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has been affected by marine pollution from militarization and urbanization. To address concerns raised by the…”
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REPRODUCTIVE AND PARENTAL CORRELATES OF CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK IN GLOBAL POPULATIONS OF OLDER ADULTS by Pirkle, C.M., Wu, Y., Zunzunegui, M.

“…A substantial body of research investigates potentially-modifiable individual risk factors for cardiovascular (CVD) diseases including tobacco use, physical…”
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MODEL-BASED RECURSIVE PARTITIONING IDENTIFIES RISK CLUSTERS FOR METABOLIC SYNDROME AND ITS COMPONENTS by Wu, Y., Pirkle, C.M., Zunzunegui, M.

“…Examine risks clusters for metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components (hypertension, abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance) in highly distinct…”
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SOCIAL PATHWAYS LIKELY LINK PARENTHOOD TO HEART DISEASE AND STROKE IN UNITED STATES OLDER ADULTS by Wu, Y., Rosendaal, N.T., Pirkle, C.M.

“…Examine the association of number of lifetime children with heart disease and stroke in United States older adults. We analyzed the 2012 wave of the Health and…”
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EARLY AGE AT FIRST BIRTH ASSOCIATED WITH GREATER FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORES FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE by Pirkle, C.M., Wu, Y., Rosendaal, N.T.

“…Investigate the association of age at first childbirth (AFB) with Framingham Laboratory Risk Scores (FRS) for CVD. Multivariate linear regression analyses were…”
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PATHWAYS LINKING FEAR OF FALLING (FOF) AND INCIDENCE OF FUNCTIONAL LIMITATION IN OLDER ADULTS by Alvarado, B., Vafaei, A., Auais, M., Pirkle, C.M., Curcio, C.L.

“…We used longitudinal data from the International Mobility in Aging Study (n=1,355) to explore pathways between FOF measured by the Falls Efficacy…”
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEAR OF FALLING AND WALKING by Hwang, P.W., Rosendaal, N., Pirkle, C.M., Auais, M.

“…Fear of falling (FOF) is highly prevalent among older adults. We examine the relationship between fear of falling and average minutes walking per day among…”
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Socio-demographic correlates of late treatment initiation in a cohort of patients starting antiretroviral treatment in Mali, West Africa by Pirkle, C.M., Nguyen, V.-K., Ag Aboubacrine, S., Cissé, M., Zunzunegui, M.-V.

“…The objective of this study was to investigate factors correlated with late treatment initiation in a cohort of patients starting treatment in Mali, West…”
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