Weekly Recap: Recent Publications

October 31, 2019

Rollins students and faculty are frequent authors and collaborators on articles that advance research, provoke thought, and inspire action. Below are a few of this week’s publication highlights.

Carlos del Rio, MD, was an author on the article, “HIV drug resistance in a cohort of HIV-infected men who have sex with men in the United States,” published in AIDS.

Carlos del Rio, MD, was an author on the article, “Improving Outcomes for People With Injection Drug-related Endocarditis,” published in Journal of Addiction Medicine.

Roger Rochat, MD, was an author on the article, “Methodology for sampling women at high maternal risk in administrative data,” published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

Juan S. Leon, PhD, was an author on the article, “Production and Clinical Evaluation of Norwalk GI.1 Virus Lot 001-09NV in Norovirus Vaccine Development,” published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD, was an author on the article, “Educational attainment is an independent predictor of adverse outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease,” published in European Heart Journal.

Alvaro Alonso, MD, PhD, was an author on the article, “Mid-life serum Vitamin D concentrations were associated with incident dementia but not late-life neuropsychological performance in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study,” published in BMC Neurology.

Vijaya Kancherla, PhD, was an author on the article, “Analysis of Mortality among Neonates and Children with Spina Bifida: An International Registry‐Based Study, 2001‐2012,” published in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.

Timothy L. Lash, DSc, was an author on the article, “Prediction of Sex-Specific Suicide Risk Using Machine Learning and Single-Payer Health Care Registry Data From Denmark,” published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Christina Mehta, PhD, and Christine D. Angert, BS, were authors on the article, “Effects of Integrase Strand-Transfer Inhibitor Use on Lipids, Glycemic Control, and Insulin Resistance in the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS),” published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Christina Mehta, PhD, was an author on the article, “The Prevalence and Burden of Non-AIDS Co-Morbidities in Women with or At-risk for HIV Infection in the United States,” published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Howard Chang, PhD, was an author on the article, “Incidences and Characteristics of Influenza Among Pregnant Women in Middle-Income Countries: Preliminary Results of the Pregnancy and Influenza Multinational Epidemiologic (PRIME) Study,” published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Rebecca Zhang, MS, was an author on the article, “Access to Kidney Transplantation in Persons Living with HIV and Endstage Renal Disease in Network 6,” published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Patrick S. Sullivan, DVM, and Kevin M. Weiss, MPH, were authors on the article, “Population and individual-level effects of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) on STI epidemics among men who have sex with men (MSM),” published in Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Jeffrey Switchenko, PhD, was an author on the article, “P1.17-03 Inter-Fraction Variability of 18-FDG PET During Lung SBRT and the Effect of Systemic and Immunotherapy: Results of a Prospective Pilot Study,” published in Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

Ben Lopman, PhD, was an author on the article, “Burden of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infection Among Hospitalized Older Adults and Those with Underlying Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or Congestive Heart Failure (CHF),” published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Sierra Patterson, MPH, was an author on the article, “Gaps in Diabetic Foot Care in an Inner-City Hospital,” published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.