While debated , components of social capital include reciprocity, trust, safety, social agency, social networks, value of life, and employment connections . Research on social capital and HIV has predominantly focused on preventing HIV transmission with increased social capital being associated with decreased HIV transmission . High social capital was the strongest predictor of HIV […]
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All opioid prescriptions except buprenorphine were included in the analysis of opioid use
The sample is derived from 7,728 patients treated in an academic health center in Los Angeles, consisting of 2,576 patients with OUD diagnosis in the EHR aged 18 to 64 years at their first OUD diagnosis and 5,152 control patients, matched by sex, date of birth , first encounter , and the Elixhauser Comorbidity Index. Data […]
LASSO identified the sleep metrics or combination that best predicted demographic and clinical variables
To date these traits have only been studied in smaller samples but this approach will be invaluable as sample sizes increase. Another challenge for AUD genetics is that AUD is a dynamic phenotype, even more so than other psychiatric conditions, and therefore may necessitate yet larger sample sizes. Ever-larger studies, particularly those extending mere alcohol […]
Prospective work is needed to better elucidate the temporal ordering of the observed relations
Also consistent with past work , ART side-effect severity was significantly negatively associated with ART adherence, as measured by pill counts. In addition to the severity of distress , the degree to which one is able and/or willing to tolerate such distress appears to be further influencing ART medication adherence and viral load status in […]
The three were each personally affected by mental illness either directly or through a close relative
Though mental illnesses do have a low morbidity, mentally ill people experience many years living with pain, stigma, lifestyle changes, complicated therapeutic regimes, the long-term threat of decline, and shortened life expectancy. With a lack of general funding for healthcare, more money is given to high fatality, international attention-grabbing physical diseases like malaria, AIDS, TB, […]
Malnutrition and poor reproductive health are also familiar problems to sub-Saharan countries
The food industry is predictably upset about these measures and will fight them tooth-and-nail, much like the tobacco companies fought against the TPPA.But the question remains whether the measures will survive long enough to be brought in front of the WTO Dispute Settlement Panel. While there are frightening health statistics that seem to favor implementation […]
A micro-longitudinal design allowed for daily assessments during the course of treatment
Alcohol cue-elicited reward activation is predictive of treatment response; thus demonstrating that functional neuroimaging can provide mechanistic data for AUD pharmacotherapy development. This may be particularly relevant in the case of IBUD, where the mechanism of action as an AUD treatment is currently unknown, but can be hypothesized to involve the striatum, which is activated […]
There are numerous approaches for classifying the myriad aspects of childhood temperament
The proportion of variance explained by genetic variants on GWAS chips ranges from 4 to 13% . It is possible that a significant portion of the heritability can be explained by SNPs not tagged by GWAS chips, including rare variants . For instance, a recent study showed that rare variants explained 1-2% of phenotypic variance and […]
The Cole Memo reversed this trend by increasing supplier costs back to pre-Ogden levels
While federal law has remained unchanged throughout years of state experimentation with marijuana liberalization, federal enforcement in these states has varied widely. Before 2009, the federal government made direct threats toward MML states, stating that even users and suppliers in compliance with state policy would remain subject to federal prosecution . However, between 2009 and […]
Many researchers opt to make marijuana and other drug use exclusion criteria
Given that many smoking studies use CO as an endpoint for bio-verifying tobacco use status, researchers will need to determine how to use this information.It is unknown whether excluding marijuana use was done to isolate cigarette smoking as a source of CO for bio-verifying smoking reduction, or whether this exclusion was a strategy to exclude […]