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Charles Swencionis
Researcher at Yeshiva University
Publications - 30
Citations - 1077
Charles Swencionis is an academic researcher from Yeshiva University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Weight loss & Overweight. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 29 publications receiving 1008 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles Swencionis include University of Mississippi & Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Effect of Antihypertensives on Sexual Function and Quality of Life: The TAIM Study
Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller,M. Donald Blaufox,Albert Oberman,Barry R. Davis,Charles Swencionis,Maura O Connell Knerr,C. Morton Hawkins,Herbert G. Langford +7 more
TL;DR: In general, low-dose antihypertensive drug therapy (with chlorthalidone or atenolol) improves rather than impairs the quality of life; however, chl Forthalidone with usual diet increases sexual problems in men.
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Maladaptive eating patterns, quality of life, and weight outcomes following gastric bypass: results of an Internet survey.
TL;DR: It is suggested that eating disturbances and a loss of control when eating are significant following GBP and are risk factors for diminished weight outcomes.
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Computerized Weight Loss Intervention Optimizes Staff Time: The Clinical and Cost Results of a Controlled Clinical Trial Conducted in a Managed Care Setting
Judith Wylie-Rosett,Charles Swencionis,Mindy Ginsberg,Christopher Cimino,Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller,Arlene Caban,C J Segal-Isaacson,Tamara Martin,James B. Lewis +8 more
TL;DR: A 3-arm, 12-month randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate 3 incremental levels of intervention intensity found that staff counseling to augment the computer intervention achieved the most weight loss.
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The relationship between religion and cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality in the women's health initiative observational study
Eliezer Schnall,Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller,Charles Swencionis,Vance Zemon,Lesley F. Tinker,Mary Jo O'Sullivan,Linda Van Horn,Mimi Goodwin +7 more
TL;DR: Although self-report measures of religiosity were not associated with reduced risk of CHD morbidity and mortality, these measures were associated with reducing risk of all-cause mortality.
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Social anxiety and disordered overeating: an association among overweight and obese individuals.
TL;DR: In this study, social anxiety was associated with binge eating and emotional eating in overweight and obese men and women and interventions could address social anxiety as a barrier to normative eating patterns and weight loss.