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Sleep duration and all-cause mortality: a critical review of measurement and associations by Kurina, Lianne M., PhD, McClintock, Martha K., PhD, Chen, Jen-Hao, PhD, Waite, Linda J., PhD, Thisted, Ronald A., PhD, Lauderdale, Diane S., PhD

“…Abstract Purpose Variation in sleep duration has been linked with mortality risk. The purpose of this review is to provide an updated evaluation of the…”
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Dextromethorphan Plus Ultra Low-Dose Quinidine Reduces Pseudobulbar Affect by Pioro, Erik P., Brooks, Benjamin Rix, Cummings, Jeffrey, Schiffer, Randolph, Thisted, Ronald A., Wynn, Daniel, Hepner, Adrian, Kaye, Randall

“…Objective To evaluate dextromethorphan combined with ultra low‐dose quinidine (DMq) for treating pseudobulbar affect (PBA) in patients with amyotrophic lateral…”
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The Prognostic Value of a Nomogram for Exercise Capacity in Women by Gulati, Martha, Black, Henry R, Shaw, Leslee J, Arnsdorf, Morton F, Merz, C. Noel Bairey, Lauer, Michael S, Marwick, Thomas H, Pandey, Dilip K, Wicklund, Roxanne H, Thisted, Ronald A

“…Exercise capacity is a predictor of the risk of death among both women and men. Whereas there are extensive data on expected functional capacity for age among…”
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Perceived Social Isolation Makes Me Sad: 5-Year Cross-Lagged Analyses of Loneliness and Depressive Symptomatology in the Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study by Cacioppo, John T, Hawkley, Louise C, Thisted, Ronald A

“…We present evidence from a 5-year longitudinal study for the prospective associations between loneliness and depressive symptoms in a population-based,…”
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VLDL best predicts aortic root atherosclerosis in LDL receptor deficient mice by VanderLaan, Paul A., Reardon, Catherine A., Thisted, Ronald A., Getz, Godfrey S.

“…Hyperlipidemia is a major risk factor for developing atherosclerosis in humans, and epidemiological studies have correlated specific lipoprotein levels with…”
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A systematic analysis of experimental immunotherapies on tumors differing in size and duration of growth by Wen, Frank T., Thisted, Ronald A., Rowley, Donald A., Schreiber, Hans

“…We conducted a systematic analysis to determine the reason for the apparent disparity of success of immunotherapy between clinical and experimental cancers. To…”
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Impact of Interpreter Services on Delivery of Health Care to Limited–English‐proficient Patients by Jacobs, Elizabeth A., Lauderdale, Diane S., Meltzer, David, Shorey, Jeanette M., Levinson, Wendy, Thisted, Ronald A.

“…OBJECTIVE: To determine whether professional interpreter services increase the delivery of health care to limited–English‐proficient patients. DESIGN: Two‐year…”
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Actigraphic sleep characteristics among older Americans by Kurina, Lianne M., PhD, Thisted, Ronald A., PhD, Chen, Jen-Hao, PhD, McClintock, Martha K., PhD, Waite, Linda J., PhD, Lauderdale, Diane S., PhD

“…Abstract Objectives To date, there has been no evidence about objectively measured sleep characteristics from a representative national probability sample of…”
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Loneliness Predicts Reduced Physical Activity: Cross-Sectional & Longitudinal Analyses by Hawkley, Louise C, Thisted, Ronald A, Cacioppo, John T

“…Objective: To determine cross-sectional and prospective associations between loneliness and physical activity, and to evaluate the roles of social control and…”
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Loneliness Predicts Increased Blood Pressure: 5-Year Cross-Lagged Analyses in Middle-Aged and Older Adults by Hawkley, Louise C, Thisted, Ronald A, Masi, Christopher M, Cacioppo, John T

“…Loneliness is a prevalent social problem with serious physiological and health implications. However, much of the research to date is based on cross-sectional…”
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Not all patients want to participate in decision making : A national study of public preferences by LEVINSON, Wendy, KAO, Audiey, KUBY, Alma, THISTED, Ronald A

“…The Institute of Medicine calls for physicians to engage patients in making clinical decisions, but not every patient may want the same level of participation…”
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A Marginal Structural Model Analysis for Loneliness: Implications for Intervention Trials and Clinical Practice by VanderWeele, Tyler J, Hawkley, Louise C, Thisted, Ronald A, Cacioppo, John T

“…Objective : Clinical scientists, policymakers, and individuals must make decisions concerning effective interventions that address health-related issues. We…”
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Hemicraniectomy and Durotomy Upon Deterioration From Infarction-Related Swelling Trial: Randomized Pilot Clinical Trial by FRANK, Jeffrey I, SCHUMM, L. Philip, WROBLEWSKI, Kristen, CHYATTE, Douglas, ROSENGART, Axel J, KORDECK, Christi, THISTED, Ronald A

“…Hemicraniectomy and Durotomy Upon Deterioration From Infarction-Related Swelling Trial (HeADDFIRST) was a randomized pilot study to obtain information…”
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Loneliness as a Specific Risk Factor for Depressive Symptoms: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses by Cacioppo, John T, Hughes, Mary Elizabeth, Waite, Linda J, Hawkley, Louise C, Thisted, Ronald A

“…The extent to which loneliness is a unique risk factor for depressive symptoms was determined in 2 population-based studies of middle-aged to older adults, and…”
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Results of Conservative Management of Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer by Chodak, Gerald W, Thisted, Ronald A, Gerber, Glenn S, Johansson, Jan-Erik, Adolfsson, Jan, Jones, George W, Chisholm, Geoff D, Moskovitz, Boaz, Livne, Pinhas M, Warner, John

“…Prostate cancer is now the most common cancer and the second most common cause of death from cancer among men in the United States 1 . Both the incidence and…”
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From Social Structural Factors to Perceptions of Relationship Quality and Loneliness: The Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study by Hawkley, Louise C., Hughes, Mary Elizabeth, Waite, Linda J., Masi, Christopher M., Thisted, Ronald A., Cacioppo, John T.

“…Objectives. The objective of this study was to test a conceptual model of loneliness in which social structural factors are posited to operate through proximal…”
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Sleep duration and health among older adults: associations vary by how sleep is measured by Lauderdale, Diane S, Chen, Jen-Hao, Kurina, Lianne M, Waite, Linda J, Thisted, Ronald A

“…BackgroundCohort studies have found that short and long sleep are both associated with worse outcomes, compared with intermediate sleep times. While…”
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Insomnia symptoms and actigraph-estimated sleep characteristics in a nationally representative sample of older adults by Chen, Jen-Hao, Waite, Linda, Kurina, Lianne M, Thisted, Ronald A, McClintock, Martha, Lauderdale, Diane S

“…Reports of insomnia symptoms are common among the elderly. However, little is known about the relationship between insomnia symptoms and objective assessments…”
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Heart Rate Response to Exercise Stress Testing in Asymptomatic Women: The St. James Women Take Heart Project by GULATI, Martha, SHAW, Leslee J, THISTED, Ronald A, BLACK, Henry R, BAIREY MERZ, C. Noel, ARNSDORF, Morton F

“…The definition of a normal heart rate (HR) response to exercise stress testing in women is poorly understood, given that most studies describing a normative…”
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QTc prolongation is associated with impaired right ventricular function and predicts mortality in pulmonary hypertension by Rich, Jonathan D, Thenappan, Thenappan, Freed, Benjamin, Patel, Amit R, Thisted, Ronald A, Childers, Rory, Archer, Stephen L

“…Abstract Background In rodent models of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH), the QTc interval is prolonged, reflecting…”
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