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Virginia Commonwealth University

EducationRichmond, Virginia, United States
About: Virginia Commonwealth University is a education organization based out in Richmond, Virginia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 23822 authors who have published 49587 publications receiving 1787046 citations. The organization is also known as: VCU.


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Ali H. Mokdad1, Katherine Ballestros1, Michelle Echko1, Scott D Glenn1, Helen E Olsen1, Erin C Mullany1, Alexander Lee1, Abdur Rahman Khan2, Alireza Ahmadi3, Alireza Ahmadi4, Alize J. Ferrari5, Alize J. Ferrari1, Alize J. Ferrari6, Amir Kasaeian7, Andrea Werdecker, Austin Carter1, Ben Zipkin1, Benn Sartorius8, Benn Sartorius9, Berrin Serdar10, Bryan L. Sykes11, Christopher Troeger1, Christina Fitzmaurice1, Christina Fitzmaurice12, Colin D. Rehm13, Damian Santomauro1, Damian Santomauro5, Damian Santomauro6, Daniel Kim14, Danny V. Colombara1, David C. Schwebel15, Derrick Tsoi1, Dhaval Kolte16, Elaine O. Nsoesie1, Emma Nichols1, Eyal Oren17, Fiona J Charlson6, Fiona J Charlson5, Fiona J Charlson1, George C Patton18, Gregory A. Roth1, H. Dean Hosgood19, Harvey Whiteford6, Harvey Whiteford1, Harvey Whiteford5, Hmwe H Kyu1, Holly E. Erskine5, Holly E. Erskine6, Holly E. Erskine1, Hsiang Huang20, Ira Martopullo1, Jasvinder A. Singh15, Jean B. Nachega21, Jean B. Nachega22, Jean B. Nachega23, Juan Sanabria24, Juan Sanabria25, Kaja Abbas26, Kanyin Ong1, Karen M. Tabb27, Kristopher J. Krohn1, Leslie Cornaby1, Louisa Degenhardt1, Louisa Degenhardt28, Mark Moses1, Maryam S. Farvid29, Max Griswold1, Michael H. Criqui30, Michelle L. Bell31, Minh Nguyen1, Mitch T Wallin32, Mitch T Wallin33, Mojde Mirarefin1, Mostafa Qorbani, Mustafa Z. Younis34, Nancy Fullman1, Patrick Liu1, Paul S Briant1, Philimon Gona35, Rasmus Havmoller3, Ricky Leung36, Ruth W Kimokoti37, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi38, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi39, Simon I. Hay40, Simon I. Hay1, Simon Yadgir1, Stan Biryukov1, Stein Emil Vollset41, Stein Emil Vollset1, Tahiya Alam1, Tahvi Frank1, Talha Farid2, Ted R. Miller42, Ted R. Miller43, Theo Vos1, Till Bärnighausen29, Till Bärnighausen44, Tsegaye Telwelde Gebrehiwot45, Yuichiro Yano46, Ziyad Al-Aly47, Alem Mehari48, Alexis J. Handal49, Amit Kandel50, Ben Anderson51, Brian J. Biroscak52, Brian J. Biroscak31, Dariush Mozaffarian53, E. Ray Dorsey54, Eric L. Ding29, Eun-Kee Park55, Gregory R. Wagner29, Guoqing Hu56, Honglei Chen57, Jacob E. Sunshine51, Jagdish Khubchandani58, Janet L Leasher59, Janni Leung5, Janni Leung51, Joshua A. Salomon29, Jürgen Unützer51, Leah E. Cahill60, Leah E. Cahill29, Leslie T. Cooper61, Masako Horino, Michael Brauer1, Michael Brauer62, Nicholas J K Breitborde63, Peter J. Hotez64, Roman Topor-Madry65, Roman Topor-Madry66, Samir Soneji67, Saverio Stranges68, Spencer L. James1, Stephen M. Amrock69, Sudha Jayaraman70, Tejas V. Patel, Tomi Akinyemiju15, Vegard Skirbekk41, Vegard Skirbekk71, Yohannes Kinfu72, Zulfiqar A Bhutta73, Jost B. Jonas44, Christopher J L Murray1 
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10 Apr 2018-JAMA
TL;DR: There are wide differences in the burden of disease at the state level and specific diseases and risk factors, such as drug use disorders, high BMI, poor diet, high fasting plasma glucose level, and alcohol use disorders are increasing and warrant increased attention.
Abstract: Introduction Several studies have measured health outcomes in the United States, but none have provided a comprehensive assessment of patterns of health by state. Objective To use the results of the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) to report trends in the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors at the state level from 1990 to 2016. Design and Setting A systematic analysis of published studies and available data sources estimates the burden of disease by age, sex, geography, and year. Main Outcomes and Measures Prevalence, incidence, mortality, life expectancy, healthy life expectancy (HALE), years of life lost (YLLs) due to premature mortality, years lived with disability (YLDs), and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 causes and 84 risk factors with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) were computed. Results Between 1990 and 2016, overall death rates in the United States declined from 745.2 (95% UI, 740.6 to 749.8) per 100 000 persons to 578.0 (95% UI, 569.4 to 587.1) per 100 000 persons. The probability of death among adults aged 20 to 55 years declined in 31 states and Washington, DC from 1990 to 2016. In 2016, Hawaii had the highest life expectancy at birth (81.3 years) and Mississippi had the lowest (74.7 years), a 6.6-year difference. Minnesota had the highest HALE at birth (70.3 years), and West Virginia had the lowest (63.8 years), a 6.5-year difference. The leading causes of DALYs in the United States for 1990 and 2016 were ischemic heart disease and lung cancer, while the third leading cause in 1990 was low back pain, and the third leading cause in 2016 was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Opioid use disorders moved from the 11th leading cause of DALYs in 1990 to the 7th leading cause in 2016, representing a 74.5% (95% UI, 42.8% to 93.9%) change. In 2016, each of the following 6 risks individually accounted for more than 5% of risk-attributable DALYs: tobacco consumption, high body mass index (BMI), poor diet, alcohol and drug use, high fasting plasma glucose, and high blood pressure. Across all US states, the top risk factors in terms of attributable DALYs were due to 1 of the 3 following causes: tobacco consumption (32 states), high BMI (10 states), or alcohol and drug use (8 states). Conclusions and Relevance There are wide differences in the burden of disease at the state level. Specific diseases and risk factors, such as drug use disorders, high BMI, poor diet, high fasting plasma glucose level, and alcohol use disorders are increasing and warrant increased attention. These data can be used to inform national health priorities for research, clinical care, and policy.

962 citations

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15 Sep 2020-JAMA
TL;DR: Among patients with moderate COVID-19, those randomized to a 10-day course of remdesivir did not have a statistically significant difference in clinical status compared with standard care at 11 days after initiation of treatment, but the difference was of uncertain clinical importance.
Abstract: Importance Remdesivir demonstrated clinical benefit in a placebo-controlled trial in patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but its effect in patients with moderate disease is unknown. Objective To determine the efficacy of 5 or 10 days of remdesivir treatment compared with standard care on clinical status on day 11 after initiation of treatment. Design, Setting, and Participants Randomized, open-label trial of hospitalized patients with confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and moderate COVID-19 pneumonia (pulmonary infiltrates and room-air oxygen saturation >94%) enrolled from March 15 through April 18, 2020, at 105 hospitals in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The date of final follow-up was May 20, 2020. Interventions Patients were randomized in a 1:1:1 ratio to receive a 10-day course of remdesivir (n = 197), a 5-day course of remdesivir (n = 199), or standard care (n = 200). Remdesivir was dosed intravenously at 200 mg on day 1 followed by 100 mg/d. Main Outcomes and Measures The primary end point was clinical status on day 11 on a 7-point ordinal scale ranging from death (category 1) to discharged (category 7). Differences between remdesivir treatment groups and standard care were calculated using proportional odds models and expressed as odds ratios. An odds ratio greater than 1 indicates difference in clinical status distribution toward category 7 for the remdesivir group vs the standard care group. Results Among 596 patients who were randomized, 584 began the study and received remdesivir or continued standard care (median age, 57 [interquartile range, 46-66] years; 227 [39%] women; 56% had cardiovascular disease, 42% hypertension, and 40% diabetes), and 533 (91%) completed the trial. Median length of treatment was 5 days for patients in the 5-day remdesivir group and 6 days for patients in the 10-day remdesivir group. On day 11, patients in the 5-day remdesivir group had statistically significantly higher odds of a better clinical status distribution than those receiving standard care (odds ratio, 1.65; 95% CI, 1.09-2.48;P = .02). The clinical status distribution on day 11 between the 10-day remdesivir and standard care groups was not significantly different (P = .18 by Wilcoxon rank sum test). By day 28, 9 patients had died: 2 (1%) in the 5-day remdesivir group, 3 (2%) in the 10-day remdesivir group, and 4 (2%) in the standard care group. Nausea (10% vs 3%), hypokalemia (6% vs 2%), and headache (5% vs 3%) were more frequent among remdesivir-treated patients compared with standard care. Conclusions and Relevance Among patients with moderate COVID-19, those randomized to a 10-day course of remdesivir did not have a statistically significant difference in clinical status compared with standard care at 11 days after initiation of treatment. Patients randomized to a 5-day course of remdesivir had a statistically significant difference in clinical status compared with standard care, but the difference was of uncertain clinical importance. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:NCT04292730

958 citations

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TL;DR: The origins of the concept of race are reviewed, placing the contemporary discussion of racial differences in an anthropological and historical context.
Abstract: Racialized science seeks to explain human population differences in health, intelligence, education, and wealth as the consequence of immutable, biologically based differences between "racial" groups. Recent advances in the sequencing of the human genome and in an understanding of biological correlates of behavior have fueled racialized science, despite evidence that racial groups are not genetically discrete, reliably measured, or scientifically meaningful. Yet even these counterarguments often fail to take into account the origin and history of the idea of race. This article reviews the origins of the concept of race, placing the contemporary discussion of racial differences in an anthropological and historical context.

953 citations

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TL;DR: This paper developed two measures of belongingness based on H. Kohut's self psychology theory, the Social Connectedness Scale and the Social Assurance Scale, which were constructed with a split-sample procedure on 626 college students.
Abstract: The study developed 2 measures of belongingness based on H. Kohut's (1984) self psychology theory. The Social Connectedness Scale and the Social Assurance Scale were constructed with a split-sample procedure on 626 college students. Internal reliability estimates for the 2 scales were.91 and.82, respectively. Test-retest correlations revealed good test stability over a 2-week period (rs = .96 and .84, respectively). Cross-validation for the 2 measures was achieved with confirmatory factor analysis with an incremental fit index greater than .90. Scale functions are described and results are discussed in light of current research and theory

953 citations

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27 Sep 2001
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed overview of the history of the field of flow simulation for MEMS and discuss the current state-of-the-art in this field.
Abstract: Part I: Background and Fundamentals Introduction, Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, University of Notre Dame Scaling of Micromechanical Devices, William Trimmer, Standard MEMS, Inc., and Robert H. Stroud, Aerospace Corporation Mechanical Properties of MEMS Materials, William N. Sharpe, Jr., Johns Hopkins University Flow Physics, Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, University of Notre Dame Integrated Simulation for MEMS: Coupling Flow-Structure-Thermal-Electrical Domains, Robert M. Kirby and George Em Karniadakis, Brown University, and Oleg Mikulchenko and Kartikeya Mayaram, Oregon State University Liquid Flows in Microchannels, Kendra V. Sharp and Ronald J. Adrian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Juan G. Santiago and Joshua I. Molho, Stanford University Burnett Simulations of Flows in Microdevices, Ramesh K. Agarwal and Keon-Young Yun, Wichita State University Molecular-Based Microfluidic Simulation Models, Ali Beskok, Texas A&M University Lubrication in MEMS, Kenneth S. Breuer, Brown University Physics of Thin Liquid Films, Alexander Oron, Technion, Israel Bubble/Drop Transport in Microchannels, Hsueh-Chia Chang, University of Notre Dame Fundamentals of Control Theory, Bill Goodwine, University of Notre Dame Model-Based Flow Control for Distributed Architectures, Thomas R. Bewley, University of California, San Diego Soft Computing in Control, Mihir Sen and Bill Goodwine, University of Notre Dame Part II: Design and Fabrication Materials for Microelectromechanical Systems Christian A. Zorman and Mehran Mehregany, Case Western Reserve University MEMS Fabrication, Marc J. Madou, Nanogen, Inc. LIGA and Other Replication Techniques, Marc J. Madou, Nanogen, Inc. X-Ray-Based Fabrication, Todd Christenson, Sandia National Laboratories Electrochemical Fabrication (EFAB), Adam L. Cohen, MEMGen Corporation Fabrication and Characterization of Single-Crystal Silicon Carbide MEMS, Robert S. Okojie, NASA Glenn Research Center Deep Reactive Ion Etching for Bulk Micromachining of Silicon Carbide, Glenn M. Beheim, NASA Glenn Research Center Microfabricated Chemical Sensors for Aerospace Applications, Gary W. Hunter, NASA Glenn Research Center, Chung-Chiun Liu, Case Western Reserve University, and Darby B. Makel, Makel Engineering, Inc. Packaging of Harsh-Environment MEMS Devices, Liang-Yu Chen and Jih-Fen Lei, NASA Glenn Research Center Part III: Applications of MEMS Inertial Sensors, Paul L. Bergstrom, Michigan Technological University, and Gary G. Li, OMM, Inc. Micromachined Pressure Sensors, Jae-Sung Park, Chester Wilson, and Yogesh B. Gianchandani, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sensors and Actuators for Turbulent Flows. Lennart Loefdahl, Chalmers University of Technology, and Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, University of Notre Dame Surface-Micromachined Mechanisms, Andrew D. Oliver and David W. Plummer, Sandia National Laboratories Microrobotics Thorbjoern Ebefors and Goeran Stemme, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Microscale Vacuum Pumps, E. Phillip Muntz, University of Southern California, and Stephen E. Vargo, SiWave, Inc. Microdroplet Generators. Fan-Gang Tseng, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Micro Heat Pipes and Micro Heat Spreaders, G. P. "Bud" Peterson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Microchannel Heat Sinks, Yitshak Zohar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Flow Control, Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, University of Notre Dame) Part IV: The Future Reactive Control for Skin-Friction Reduction, Haecheon Choi, Seoul National University Towards MEMS Autonomous Control of Free-Shear Flows, Ahmed Naguib, Michigan State University Fabrication Technologies for Nanoelectromechanical Systems, Gary H. Bernstein, Holly V. Goodson, and Gregory L. Snider, University of Notre Dame Index

951 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Ronald C. Kessler2741332328983
Carlo M. Croce1981135189007
Nicholas G. Martin1921770161952
Michael Rutter188676151592
Kenneth S. Kendler1771327142251
Bernhard O. Palsson14783185051
Thomas J. Smith1401775113919
Ming T. Tsuang14088573865
Patrick F. Sullivan13359492298
Martin B. Keller13154165069
Michael E. Thase13192375995
Benjamin F. Cravatt13166661932
Jian Zhou128300791402
Rena R. Wing12864967360
Linda R. Watkins12751956454
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YearPapers
202395
2022395
20213,658
20203,437
20193,039
20182,758