The Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health was known as the Department of Epidemiology before July 1, 2022.

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Submissions from 2021

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An Experimental Education Project for Consultations of Older Adults during the Pandemic and Healthcare Lockdown, Agnieszka Neumann-Podczaska, Mikołaj Seostianin, Konrad Madejczyk, Piotr Merks, Urszula Religioni, Zofia Tomczak, Sławomir Tobis, Daniela C. Moga, Melody Ryan, and Katarzyna Wieczorowska-Tobis

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Predictors of Chronic Opioid Therapy in Medicaid Beneficiaries with HIV Who Initiated Antiretroviral Therapy, GYeon Oh, Emily S. Brouwer, Erin L. Abner, David W. Fardo, Patricia R. Freeman, Chris Delcher, and Daniela C. Moga

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Dementia Risk Reduction: Why Haven't the Pharmacological Risk Reduction Trials Worked? An In-Depth Exploration of Seven Established Risk Factors, Ruth Peters, John Breitner, Sarah James, Gregory A. Jicha, Pierre-Francois Meyer, Marcus Richards, A. David Smith, Hussein N. Yassine, Erin L. Abner, Atticus H. Hainsworth, Patrick G. Kehoe, Nigel Beckett, Christopher Weber, Craig Anderson, Kaarin J. Anstey, and Hiroko H. Dodge

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Association of Manganese Biomarker Concentrations with Blood Pressure and Kidney Parameters among Healthy Adolescents: NHANES 2013–2018, Maria D. Politis, Jacob C. Freedman, Erin N. Haynes, and Alison P. Sanders

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Proximal and Distal Effects of Genetic Susceptibility to Multiple Sclerosis on the T Cell Epigenome, Tina Roostaei, Hans-Ulrich Klein, Yiyi Ma, Daniel Felsky, Pia Kivisäkk, Sarah M. Connor, Alexandra Kroshilina, Christina Yung, Belinda J. Kaskow, Xiaorong Shao, Brooke Rhead, José M. Ordovás, Devin M. Absher, Donna K. Arnett, Jia Liu, Nikolaos Patsopoulos, Lisa F. Barcellos, Howard L. Weiner, and Philip L. De Jager

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Aberrant AZIN2 and Polyamine Metabolism Precipitates Tau Neuropathology, Leslie A. Sandusky-Beltran, Andrii Kovalenko, Devon S. Placides, Kevin Ratnasamy, Chao Ma, Jerry B. Hunt, Huimin Liang, John Ivan T. Calahatian, Camilla Michalski, Margaret Fahnestock, Laura J. Blair, April L. Darling, Jeremy D. Baker, Sarah N. Fontaine, Chad A. Dickey, Joshua J. Gamsby, Kevin R. Nash, Erin L. Abner, Maj-Linda B. Selenica, and Daniel C. Lee

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Identification of Novel and Rare Variants Associated with Handgrip Strength Using Whole Genome Sequence Data from the NHLBI Trans-Omics in Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Program, Chloé Sarnowski, Han Chen, Mary L. Biggs, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Jan Bressler, Marguerite R. Irvin, Kathleen A. Ryan, David Karasik, Donna K. Arnett, L. Adrienne Cupples, David W. Fardo, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Benjamin D. Heavner, Deepti Jain, Hyun Min Kang, Charles Kooperberg, Arch G. Mainous, Braxton D. Mitchell, Alanna C. Morrison, and Jeffrey R. O'Connell

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Association of Nonacute Opioid Use and Cardiovascular Diseases: A Scoping Review of the Literature, Jade H. Singleton, Erin L. Abner, Peter D. Akpunonu, and Anna M. Kucharska-Newton

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Age and Sex Are Associated with the Plasma Lipidome: Findings from the GOLDN Study, Emily Slade, Marguerite R. Irvin, Kevin Xie, Donna K. Arnett, Steven A. Claas, Tobias Kind, David W. Fardo, and Gregory A. Graf

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Novel Influences of Sex and APOE Genotype on Spinal Plasticity and Recovery of Function after Spinal Cord Injury, Lydia E. Strattan, Daimen R. Britsch, Chris M. Calulot, Rachel S. J. Maggard, Erin L. Abner, Lance A. Johnson, and Warren J. Alilain

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Framing Future of Work Considerations through Climate and Built Environment Assessment of Volunteer Work Practices in the United States Equine Assisted Services, Kimberly I. Tumlin, Sa Liu, and Jae-Hong Park

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An Investigation of New Medications Initiation during Ambulatory Care Visits in Patients with Dementia, Alexandra Wallem, Ashley I. Martinez, Lauren Vickers, Michael Singleton, and Daniela C. Moga

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Serological Survey of Leptospira Infection in Arabian Horses in Poland, Bernard Wasiński, Katarzyna Paschalis-Trela, Jan Trela, Michał Czopowicz, Jerzy Kita, Monika Żychska, Anna Cywińska, Iwona Markowska-Daniel, Craig N. Carter, and Lucjan Witkowski

Submissions from 2020

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Evidence of Nickel and Other Trace Elements and Their Relationship to Clinical Findings in Acute Mesoamerican Nephropathy: A Case-Control Analysis, Rebecca S. B. Fischer, Jason M. Unrine, Chandan Vangala, Wayne T. Sanderson, Sreedhar Mandayam, and Kristy O. Murray

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Appalachian Environmental Health Literacy: Building Knowledge and Skills to Protect Health, Anna G. Hoover, Annie Koempel, W. Jay Christian, Kimberly I. Tumlin, Kelly G. Pennell, Steven Evans, Malissa McAlister, Lindell E. Ormsbee, and Dawn Brewer

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Distinct Clinicopathologic Clusters of Persons with TDP-43 Proteinopathy, Yuriko Katsumata, Erin L. Abner, Shama Karanth, Merilee A. Teylan, Charles N. Mock, Matthew D. Cykowski, Edward B. Lee, Kevin L. Boehme, Shubhabrata Mukherjee, John S. K. Kauwe, Richard J. Kryscio, Frederick A. Schmitt, David W. Fardo, and Peter T. Nelson

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EGFR Testing and Erlotinib Use in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients in Kentucky, Kara L. Larson, Bin Huang, Quan Chen, Thomas C. Tucker, Marissa Schuh, Susanne M. Arnold, and Jill M. Kolesar

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Cardiac Biomarkers and Subsequent Risk of Hospitalization With Bleeding in the Community: Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Lena Mathews, Junichi Ishigami, Ning Ding, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Anna Kucharska-Newton, Christie M. Ballantyne, Rebecca Gottesman, Elizabeth Selvin, and Kunihiro Matsushita

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Genetic-Based Hypertension Subtype Identification Using Informative SNPs, Yuanjing Ma, Hongmei Jiang, Sanjiv J. Shah, Donna K. Arnett, Marguerite R. Irvin, and Yuan Luo

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Loss-of-Function Genomic Variants Highlight Potential Therapeutic Targets for Cardiovascular Disease, Jonas B. Nielsen, Oren Rom, Ida Surakka, Sarah E. Graham, Wei Zhou, Tanmoy Roychowdhury, Lars G. Fritsche, Sarah A. Gagliano Taliun, Carlo Sidore, Yuhao Liu, Maiken E. Gabrielsen, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Brooke Wolford, William Overton, Ying Zhao, Jin Chen, He Zhang, Whitney E. Hornsby, Akua Acheampong, Austen Grooms, Amanda Schaefer, Gregory J. M. Zajac, Luis Villacorta, Jifeng Zhang, Ben Brumpton, Mari Løset, Vivek Rai, Pia R. Lundegaard, Morten S. Olesen, Kent D. Taylor, and Donna K. Arnett

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Limbic-Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy Differs from Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, John L. Robinson, Sílvia Porta, Filip G. Garrett, Panpan Zhang, Sharon X. Xie, EunRan Suh, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, Erin L. Abner, Gregory A. Jicha, Justin M. Barber, Virginia M-Y Lee, Edward B. Lee, John Q. Trojanowski, and Peter T. Nelson

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Brain Structure Changes over Time in Normal and Mildly Impaired Aged Persons, Charles D. Smith, Linda J. Van Eldik, Gregory A. Jicha, Frederick A. Schmitt, Peter T. Nelson, Erin L. Abner, Richard J. Kryscio, Richard R. Murphy, and Anders H. Andersen

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Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study Accounting for Gene-Psychosocial Factor Interactions Identifies Novel Loci for Blood Pressure Traits, Daokun Sun, Melissa A. Richard, Soloman K. Musani, Yun Ju Sung, Thomas W. Winkler, Karen Schwander, Jin Fang Chai, Xiuqing Guo, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Dina Vojinovic, Hugues Aschard, Traci M. Bartz, Lawrence F. Bielak, Michael R. Brown, Kumaraswamy Chitrala, Fernando P. Hartwig, Andrea R. V. R. Horimoto, Yongmei Liu, Alisa K. Manning, Raymond Noordam, and Donna K. Arnett

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COVID-19 and Opioid Use in Appalachian Kentucky: Challenges and Silver Linings, Rachel Vickers-Smith, Hannah L.F. Cooper, and April M. Young

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Genome-Wide Association Study of Smoking Trajectory and Meta-Analysis of Smoking Status in 842,000 Individuals, Ke Xu, Boyang Li, Kathleen A. McGinnis, Rachel Vickers-Smith, Cecilia Dao, Ning Sun, Rachel L. Kember, Hang Zhou, William C. Becker, Joel Gelernter, Henry R. Kranzler, Hongyu Zhao, Amy C. Justice, and VA Million Veteran Program