• THE IMPACT OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS 

  Wilkerson, Thomas G. (2017)

  Cardiovascular disease (CVD) tends to be more prevalent in individuals older than 18 years of age with serious mental illness (SMI) and CVD is the leading cause of death of African Americans in the United States. Socioeconomic ...

• The Health Implications of Stress among Asian Americans in the US and Chinese In China: the Effects of Perceived Stress and Caregiving Stress on Cardiovascular Risk Factors 

  Lu, Xiaoxiao (2018)

  Prior research suggests that stress plays a role in the etiology and progression of cardiovascular disease (CVD). To lend a more accurate depiction of the associations between stress and CVD risk factors, this dissertation ...

• ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN AMBIENT PARTICULATE MATTER EXPOSURES, STROKE, AND MARKERS OF CARDIOVASCULAR INFLAMMATION 

  Fisher, Jared A. (2017)

  Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States with 795,000 people experiencing a new or recurrent stroke every year. Identifying modifiable risk factors for stroke should therefore be considered ...

• MODE OF BIRTH AND VAGINAL MICROBIOTA IN REPRODUCTIVE-AGE WOMEN 

  Stennett, Christina (2017)

  It is well documented that women with robust, Lactobacillus-dominated vaginal microbiotas are less likely to develop a range of adverse reproductive health outcomes. The birthing process is thought to be a critical event ...

• The Impact of Excluding Trials from Network Meta-Analyses - An Empirical Study 

  Zhang, Jing; Yuan, Yiping; Chu, Haitao (PLoS (Public Library of Science), 2016-12-07)

  Network meta-analysis (NMA) expands the scope of a conventional pairwise meta-analysis to simultaneously compare multiple treatments, which has an inherent appeal for clinicians, patients, and policy decision makers. Two ...

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