General Department of Preventive Medicine

Obesity is associated with macrophage accumulation in adipose tissue

Obesity alters adipose tissue metabolic and endocrine function and leads to an increased release of fatty acids, hormones, and proinflammatory molecules that contribute to obesi...

Obesity is associated with macrophage accumulation in adipose tissue

Obesity alters adipose tissue metabolic and endocrine function and leads to an increased release of fatty acids, hormones, and proinflammatory molecules that contribute to obesi...

A Prediction Rule to Identify Low-Risk Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

The prediction rule we describe accurately identifies the patients with community-acquired pneumonia who are at low risk for death and other adverse outcomes. This prediction ru...

Severe functional declines, work disability, and increased mortality in seventy‐five rheumatoid arthritis patients studied over nine years

Abstract Seventy‐five patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were reviewed 9 years after an extensive evaluation which included quantitative measures of functional capacity. Th...

Past-Year Use of Outpatient Services for Psychiatric Problems in the National Comorbidity Survey

Use of outpatient services for psychiatric problems appears to have increased over the decade between the early 1980s and early 1990s, especially in the self-help sector. Aggreg...

Abnormal Glucose Metabolism and Pancreatic Cancer Mortality

These results suggest that factors associated with abnormal glucose metabolism may play an important role in the etiology of pancreatic cancer. JAMA. 2000;283:2552-2558

Long-term Survival and Function After Suspected Gram-negative Sepsis

At the onset of suspected gram-negative sepsis, severity of underlying illness and in-hospital use of vasopressors are strong and consistent predictors of short- and long-term s...

The Value of Screening for Psychiatric Disorders in Rheumatology Referrals

Forty percent of patients referred to a rheumatology clinic in this study had a psychiatric disorder, and its presence predicted a lower likelihood of a connective tissue diseas...

Health beliefs and smoking behavior.

Smoking histories and beliefs about smoking were obtained on 120 ex- and current smokers. Ex-smokers view smoking as a serious health problem, did not report having a physician ...

Contribution of a Measure of Disease Complexity (COMPLEX) to Prediction of Outcome and Charges Among Hospitalized Patients