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Featured Publications
The following publications were featured in the the latest edition of the RTI Publications Bulletin.
The study found that being in debt, being injured by a partner, having someone close attempt suicide, and being divorced were associated with an increased risk of preterm delivery, but 13 other events were not. According to the research, women who reported being in debt were the most consistently at risk for preterm delivery.
The study estimated the cost burden associated of six major illnesses among Americans age 65 or older: chronic lung disease, ischemic heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, pneumonia and gastrointestinal illness. These illnesses are common among older Americans and environmental exposures are a significant risk factor for each of them.
The paper summarizes the data resources available for detection and evaluation of safety signals for possible adverse events related to drugs, and describes the resources and methods used in drug safety research. According to the researchers, the most relevant and available data resources primarily include anonymized electronic health care claims and electronic medical records and can be used to identify new safety issues and to evaluate known or suspected problems.
The study found that white adolescents who had a television in their bedroom were more likely to regularly view mature content television programs, have less parental oversight of their media practices, and initiate health risk behaviors, including cigarette smoking and sex. The study also showed that white adolescents who had a bedroom television were, after two years, nearly three and a half times more likely to have ever tried smoking and nearly two times more likely to have had sex than adolescents who had no bedroom television.
The author suggests institutional barriers to cooperation and shared learning need to be overcome, along with tendencies to revert to earlier, simplistic management approaches to solving international development problems.
The researchers found that medical management combined with naltrexone, or combined with naltrexone-acamprosate, two common anti-dependency drugs, were both cost-effective options for clinics to use to treat alcohol dependency.
The results showed that businesses that used these practices had staff members who showed decreases in high blood pressure, serum cholesterol concentrations and body weight.