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Healthy living in hard times [PDF]

Journal of Health Economics, 2003
Using microdata for adults from 1987 to 2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), I show that smoking and excess weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among heavy smokers, the fall in body weight among the severely ...
Christopher J. Ruhm
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Developing a digital informed consent app: opportunities and challenges of a new format to inform and obtain consent in public health research

BMC Medical Ethics, 2023
Background Informed consent procedures for large population-based cohort studies should be comprehensive and easy-to-use. This is particularly challenging when participants from different socio-economic groups and multicultural ethnic backgrounds are ...
Luuk V. Haring, Joy T. Hall, Anton Janssen, J. Marleen Johannes, Arnoud P. Verhoeff, Joanne K. Ujcic-Voortman   +5 more
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The effect of human autonomy and robot work pace on perceived workload in human-robot collaborative assembly work

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023
Collaborative robots (in short: cobots) have the potential to assist workers with physically or cognitive demanding tasks. However, it is crucial to recognize that such assistance can have both positive and negative effects on job quality.
Wietse van Dijk, Saskia J. Baltrusch, Ezra Dessers, Michiel P. de Looze   +3 more
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A Real-World Effectiveness Study Using a Mobile Application to Evaluate Early Outcomes with Upadacitinib in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatology and Therapy, 2023
Introduction The impact of upadacitinib on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) symptoms was evaluated during the first 12 weeks of treatment via patient-reported outcomes (PROs) using a mobile health application (app).
Leslie R. Harrold, Patrick Zueger, W. Benjamin Nowell, Taylor Blachley, Amy Schrader, Paul R. Lakin, David Curtis, Laura Stradford, Shilpa Venkatachalam, Namita Tundia, Pankaj A. Patel   +10 more
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Perturbing the Normal Level of SIDT1 Suppresses the Naked ASO Effect

Journal of Nucleic Acids, 2021
Although antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapeutics can be taken up by living cells without carrier molecules, a large part of incorporated ASOs are trapped in the endosomes and do not exert therapeutic effects. To improve their therapeutic effects, it
Masayuki Takahashi, Mineaki Seki, Masayuki Nashimoto, Tomohiro Kabuta   +3 more
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Patient perspectives on the pathway to psoriatic arthritis diagnosis: results from a web-based survey of patients in the United States

BMC Rheumatology, 2020
Background There are limited real-world data on the diagnostic experiences of patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), including medical care sought and potential barriers to diagnosis.
Alexis Ogdie, W. Benjamin Nowell, Eddie Applegate, Kelly Gavigan, Shilpa Venkatachalam, Marie de la Cruz, Emuella Flood, Ethan J. Schwartz, Beverly Romero, Peter Hur   +9 more
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Which patient-reported outcomes do rheumatology patients find important to track digitally? A real-world longitudinal study in ArthritisPower

Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2021
Background Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are increasingly used to track symptoms and to assess disease activity, quality of life, and treatment effectiveness.
W. Benjamin Nowell, Kelly Gavigan, Carol L. Kannowski, Zhihong Cai, Theresa Hunter, Shilpa Venkatachalam, Julie Birt, Jennifer Workman, Jeffrey R. Curtis   +8 more
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Healthy lives, healthy transport [PDF]

Journal of Public Health, 2011
Public health is travelling through an interesting time in its history. The profound—though not fully clear—implications of the world economic crisis have brought an international wave of political change, a mood of austerity and much public reflection as to what went wrong and who was to blame.
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Real-World Patient Experience on the Path to Diagnosis of Ankylosing Spondylitis

Rheumatology and Therapy, 2019
Introduction We describe the journey to diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) from the patient perspective and examine differences in this journey by sex.
Alexis Ogdie, W. Benjamin Nowell, Regan Reynolds, Kelly Gavigan, Shilpa Venkatachalam, Marie de la Cruz, Emuella Flood, Ethan J. Schwartz, Beverly Romero, Yujin Park   +9 more
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EAT HEALTHY – LIVE HEALTHY!

Education and Technologies Journal, 2023
Creating an environment that promotes children’s health and well-being from an early age has an effect on their ability and desire to learn and develop. The goals of the project are related to activities such as healthy eating, physical activity and emotional well-being. This symbiosis prepares the child for entering the modern world.
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