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James F. Fries
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 369
Citations - 87747
James F. Fries is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rheumatoid arthritis & Arthritis. The author has an hindex of 100, co-authored 369 publications receiving 83589 citations. Previous affiliations of James F. Fries include University of Saskatchewan & National Institutes of Health.
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Regular Vigorous Physical Activity and Disability Development in Healthy Overweight and Normal-Weight Seniors: A 13-Year Study
TL;DR: Being physically active mitigated development of disability in these seniors, largely independent of BMI, suggesting public health efforts that promote physically active lifestyles among seniors may be more successful than those that emphasize body weight in the prevention of functional decline.
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Enhancement of clinical predictive ability by computer consultation.
TL;DR: Clinical predictive ability was assessed in 21 physicians and medical students provided with a standard set of twenty case histories in random sequence and asked to predict tlje probability of five standard outcome events for each case.
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Primary knee and hip arthroplasty among nonagenarians and centenarians in the United States.
TL;DR: In the US population, hip and knee arthroplasties are very rarely performed among centenarians, and in-hospital mortality data suggest that arthro plasties should not be denied to centenarian solely because of short-term postoperative life expectancy estimates.
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Why health care costs more in the US: comparing health care expenditures between systemic lupus erythematosus patients in Stanford and Montreal.
Gail Gironimi,Ann E. Clarke,Ann E. Clarke,Vivian H. Hamilton,Deborah Danoff,Daniel A. Bloch,James F. Fries,John M. Esdaile +7 more
TL;DR: Despite significantly greater per capita health care expenditure in the US, the data show that Canadian SLE patients actually receive more medical services than their American counterparts.
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Correlations between education and arthritis in the 1971-1975 NHANES I.
J. Paul Leigh,James F. Fries +1 more
TL;DR: Responses' education level was found to be strongly and negatively associated with self-reported arthritis in the larger samples both before and after controls were entered for employment, income and potential biological risk factors.