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External Validation of the Veterans Affairs Women Cardiovascular Disease Risk Score to Nonveteran Women [PDF]

JACC: Advances
Background: The Veterans Affairs (VA) women cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk score is an internally validated tool to assess the ten-year atherosclerosis CVD (ASCVD) risk in women veterans and has been successfully applied to assess the CVD risk for ...
Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter, PhD, Xiaofei Chen, PhD, Erum Z. Whyne, PhD, Shirling Tsai, MD, Monica R. Barbosa, MD, Bala Ramanan, MBBS, Sujata Bhushan, MD, Dian Cao, MD   +7 more
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The "trauma pitch": How stigma emerges for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking disability compensation.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder continues to be a highly stigmatized disease for the veteran population and stigma, experienced as a mark of discredit or shame, continues to be identified as the main deterrent in treatment seeking.
Katinka Hooyer
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VeCHAT: a proof-of-concept study on screening and managing veterans [PDF]

Journal of Primary Health Care, 2021
INTRODUCTIONNew Zealand veterans may have complex mental and physical complaints related to multiple exposures to war environments. They are entitled to, but often do not, access a range of physical, mental health and social services funded through ...
Jim Warren, Margot Darragh, Felicity Goodyear-Smith   +2 more
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Polarized macrophages regulate fibro/adipogenic progenitor (FAP) adipogenesis through exosomes

Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2023
Background Macrophage polarization has been observed in the process of muscle injuries including rotator cuff (RC) muscle atrophy and fatty infiltration after large tendon tears.
Mengyao Liu, Martin Ng, Tuan Phu, Laura Bouchareychas, Brian T. Feeley, Hubert T. Kim, Robert L. Raffai, Xuhui Liu   +7 more
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The Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and Academic Pathology Departments: Evaluation of the Relationship

Academic Pathology, 2020
A survey was conducted to evaluate the relationship between Veterans Affairs Healthcare Systems and academic departments of pathology in their respective affiliated schools of medicine.
David N. Bailey MD
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The Veterans Affairs Precision Oncology Data Repository, a Clinical, Genomic, and Imaging Research Database

Patterns, 2020
Summary: The Veterans Affairs Precision Oncology Data Repository (VA-PODR) is a large, nationwide repository of de-identified data on patients diagnosed with cancer at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Danne C. Elbers, Nathanael R. Fillmore, Feng-Chi Sung, Spyridon S. Ganas, Andrew Prokhorenkov, Christopher Meyer, Robert B. Hall, Samuel J. Ajjarapu, Daniel C. Chen, Frank Meng, Robert L. Grossman, Mary T. Brophy, Nhan V. Do   +12 more
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Characterization of occupational, demographic and health determinants in Canadian reservists veterans and the relationship with poor self-rated health

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020
Background Self-rated health is an useful indicator of the general health in specific populations and used to propose interventions after service in the military context.
Julian Reyes, Jill Sweet, MaryBeth MacLean, Alain Poirier, Linda VanTil   +4 more
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Inpatient stroke care quality for Veterans: Are there differences between VA medical centers in the stroke belt and other areas? [PDF]

, 2015
Background Stroke mortality has been found to be much higher among residents in the stroke belt region than in the rest of United States, but it is not known whether differences exist in the quality of stroke care provided in Department of Veterans ...
Bravata, Dawn M., Castro, Jaime, Chumbler, Neale R., Jia, Huanguang, Li, Xinli, Myers, Jennifer, Ordin, Diana L., Phipps, Michael S., Vogel, W. Bruce, Williams, Linda S.   +9 more
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It Takes an Act of Congress or Does It? Naming Practices of VA Facilities

Names, 2018
The Veterans Health Administration, a division under the US Department of Veterans Affairs, oversees more than 1700 healthcare facilities that provide support for more than eight million veterans annually.
Alice Crosetto, Thomas Atwood
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Predictive modeling of housing instability and homelessness in the Veterans Health Administration [PDF]

, 2019
OBJECTIVE: To develop and test predictive models of housing instability and homelessness based on responses to a brief screening instrument administered throughout the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
Baggett, Bejan, Burt, DeVoe, Dichter, Elixhauser, Folsom, Fung, Gamache, Garg, Garg, Garg, Gold, Gottlieb, Gottlieb, Green, Greer, Gundlapalli, Hosmer, Hwang, Hwang, James, Japkowicz, Kessler, Kuhn, Kuhn, LaForge, Latimer, McCarthy, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Morone, O'Toole, Oreskovic, Peterson, Salit, Shaw, Shelton, Shinn, Tsai, Vickery, Zech   +42 more
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