Publications

Department of Medicine faculty members published more than 3,600 peer-reviewed articles in 2024.

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Current osteoporosis reports

Bisphosphonate Drug Holidays in Primary Care: When and What to Do Next?

2021

Authors: Bauer DC, Abrahamsen B

AIDS (London, England)

Factors associated with worse cerebrovascular function in aging women with and at risk for HIV.

2021

Authors: Chow FC, Ma Y, Manion M, Rupert A, Lambert-Messerlian G, Bushnell CD, Cedars MI, Sereti I, Sorond FA, Hsue PY, Tien PC

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.)

Association of Race and Ethnicity With COVID-19 Outcomes in Rheumatic Disease: Data From the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance Physician Registry.

2021

Authors: Gianfrancesco MA, Leykina LA, Izadi Z, Taylor T, Sparks JA, Harrison C, Trupin L, Rush S, Schmajuk G, Katz P, Jacobsohn L, Hsu TY, D'Silva KM, Serling-Boyd N, Wallwork R, Todd DJ, Bhana S, Costello W, Grainger R, Hausmann JS, Liew JW, Sirotich E, Sufka P, Wallace ZS, Machado PM, Robinson PC, Yazdany J, COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance

CJC open

Machine Learning Methods for Identifying Atrial Fibrillation Cases and Their Predictors in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: The HCM-AF-Risk Model.

2021

Authors: Bhattacharya M, Lu DY, Ventoulis I, Greenland GV, Yalcin H, Guan Y, Marine JE, Olgin JE, Zimmerman SL, Abraham TP, Abraham MR, Shatkay H

European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society

Precision medicine in acute respiratory distress syndrome: workshop report and recommendations for future research.

2021

Authors: Bos LDJ, Artigas A, Constantin JM, Hagens LA, Heijnen N, Laffey JG, Meyer N, Papazian L, Pisani L, Schultz MJ, Shankar-Hari M, Smit MR, Summers C, Ware LB, Scala R, Calfee CS

Diabetes care

Quantifying Variation in Treatment Utilization for Type 2 Diabetes Across Five Major University of California Health Systems.

2021

Authors: Peterson TA, Fontil V, Koliwad SK, Patel A, Butte AJ

Volume 36 of Issue 2 | Journal of intensive care medicine

Prone Positioning in Moderate to Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Due to COVID-19: A Cohort Study and Analysis of Physiology.

2021

Authors: Shelhamer MC, Wesson PD, Solari IL, Jensen DL, Steele WA, Dimitrov VG, Kelly JD, Aziz S, Gutierrez VP, Vittinghoff E, Chung KK, Menon VP, Ambris HA, Baxi SM

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BACKGROUND

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) but it is unknown whether prone positioning improves outcomes in mechanically ventilated patients with moderate to severe ARDS due to COVID-19.

METHODS

A cohort study at a New York City hospital at the peak of the early pandemic in the United States, under crisis conditions. The aim was to determine the benefit of prone positioning in mechanically ventilated patients with ARDS due to COVID-19. The primary outcome was in-hospital death. Secondary outcomes included changes in physiologic parameters. Fine-Gray competing risks models with stabilized inverse probability treatment weighting (sIPTW) were used to determine the effect of prone positioning on outcomes. In addition, linear mixed effects models (LMM) were used to assess changes in physiology with prone positioning.

RESULTS

Out of 335 participants who were intubated and mechanically ventilated, 62 underwent prone positioning, 199 met prone positioning criteria and served as controls and 74 were excluded. The intervention and control groups were similar at baseline. In multivariate-adjusted competing risks models with sIPTW, prone positioning was significantly associated with reduced mortality (SHR 0.61, 95% CI 0.46-0.80, < 0.005). Using LMM to evaluate the impact of positioning maneuvers on physiological parameters, the oxygenation-saturation index was significantly improved during days 1-3 ( < 0.01) whereas oxygenation-saturation index (OSI), oxygenation-index (OI) and arterial oxygen partial pressure to fractional inspired oxygen (PO: FiO) were significantly improved during days 4-7 (P < 0.05 for all).

CONCLUSIONS

Prone positioning in patients with moderate to severe ARDS due to COVID-19 is associated with reduced mortality and improved physiologic parameters. One in-hospital death could be averted for every 8 patients treated. Replicating results and scaling the intervention are important, but prone positioning may represent an additional therapeutic option in patients with ARDS due to COVID-19.

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Volume 90 of Issue 2 | The journal of trauma and acute care surgery

Roadway features associated with elderly drivers in motor vehicle crashes.

2021

Authors: Presser M, Nwabuo A, Soltani S, Morris D, Wier M, Plevin RE

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BACKGROUND

As the number of older US drivers has increased over the past decades, so has the number of injuries, hospitalizations, and deaths from motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) involving elderly drivers. We seek to identify personal, environmental, and roadway features associated with increased crashes involving elderly drivers. We hypothesize that elderly drivers are more likely to be involved in MVCs at intersections with more complex signage and traffic flow.

METHODS

This is a retrospective observational study using 2015 to 2019 police traffic crash reports and a Department of Public Health database of built-environment variables from a single urban center. Demographics and environmental/road features were compared for vehicle-only MVCs involving elderly (≥65 years) and younger drivers. χ2 and nonparametric tests were used to analyze 36,168 drivers involved in MVCs.

RESULTS

There were 2,575 (7.1%) elderly drivers involved in MVCs during the study period. Left turns and all-way stop signs were associated with increased crash risk among elderly drivers compared with younger drivers. Elderly-involved MVCs were less likely to occur at intersections with left-turn restrictions, traffic lights, only one-way streets, and bike lanes compared with MVCs with younger drivers. Elderly drivers were more likely to be involved in MVCs on weekdays, less often intoxicated at the time of the crash, and less frequently involved in fatal MVCs compared with younger drivers. However, elderly drivers were more frequently the at-fault party, especially after the age of 75 years.

CONCLUSION

Updates to roadway features have potential to decrease injury and death from MVCs involving elderly adults. Left turn restrictions or other innovative safety treatments at all-way stops or where left turns are permitted may mitigate road crashes involving older adults. Education may increase awareness of higher-risk driving tasks such as turning left, and driving alternatives including public transportation/paratransit may offer alternate means to maintain activities of daily living.