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Roberto Mejia
Researcher at Emory University
Publications - 8
Citations - 917
Roberto Mejia is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Type 2 diabetes & Glycemic. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 8 publications receiving 851 citations. Previous affiliations of Roberto Mejia include Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Randomized study of basal-bolus insulin therapy in the inpatient management of patients with type 2 diabetes (RABBIT 2 trial).
Guillermo E. Umpierrez,Dawn Smiley,Ariel Zisman,Luz M. Prieto,Andres Palacio,Miguel Ceron,Alvaro Puig,Roberto Mejia +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the optimal management of hyperglycemia in non-intensive care unit patients with type 2 diabetes was studied, and a prospective, multicenter, randomized trial was conducted to compare the efficacy and safety of a basal-bolus insulin regimen with that of sliding-scale regular insulin (SSI) in patients with Type 2 diabetes.
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Violence Exposure and Adjustment in Inner-City Youth: Child and Caregiver Emotion Regulation Skill, Caregiver?Child Relationship Quality, and Neighborhood Cohesion as Protective Factor.
Wendy Kliewer,Jera Nelson Cunningham,Robyn L. Diehl,Katie Adams Parrish,Jean M. Walker,Cynthia Atiyeh,Brooke Neace,Larissa G. Duncan,Kelli W. Taylor,Roberto Mejia +9 more
TL;DR: Child emotion regulation skill, felt acceptance from caregiver, observed quality of caregiver–child interaction, and caregiver regulation of emotion each were protective, but the pattern of protection differed across level of the child's ecology and form of adjustment.
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Exposure to violence against a family member and internalizing symptoms in Colombian adolescents: the protective effects of family support.
TL;DR: Support from family buffered the relations between exposure to violence and adjustment and appeared to be protective for younger adolescents but harmful for older adolescents, and this relation was only observed for hopelessness.
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Prevalence and Clinical Outcome of Inpatient Hyperglycemia in a Community Pediatric Hospital
Andres Palacio,Dawn Smiley,Miguel Ceron,Robin Klein,Irene S. Cho,Roberto Mejia,Guillermo E. Umpierrez +6 more
TL;DR: Hyperglycemia is present in one-fourth of children admitted to the hospital, most of them without a history of diabetes prior to admission, and was associated with a greater need for ICU care and longer ICU stay but not with increased in-hospital mortality.
Resiliencia: Ilusión o realidad
TL;DR: The concept of resiliencia is amplio and abarca dos lados opuestos: Evaluacion de resultados positivos a pesar de lo adverso del estimulo, or resultados negativos tales como evaluacion of factores that influyen en el aparicion y desarrollo de la enfermedad mental as discussed by the authors.