Browsing Other Campus Research by Author "Efird, Jimmy T."
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The association between trust in health care providers and medication adherence among Black women with hypertension
Abel, Willie M.; Efird, Jimmy T. (2013-12-05)Background: Black women have the highest prevalence of hypertension in the world. Reasons for this disparity are poorly understood. The historical legacy of medical maltreatment of Blacks in the U.S. provides some insight ... -
Brachial Flow-Mediated Dilation and Incident Atrial Fibrillation The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
O'Neal, Wesley T.; Efird, Jimmy T.; Yeboah, Joseph; Nazarian, Saman; Alonso, Alvaro; Heckbert, Susan R,; Soliman, Elsayed Z. (2014)Objective—It is unknown whether endothelial dysfunction precedes atrial fibrillation (AF) development. The objective of this study was to examine the association of brachial flow-mediated dilation (FMD) with incident ... -
Corrigendum to “Obesity in a model of gpx4 haploinsufficiency uncovers a causal role for lipid-derived aldehydes in human metabolic disease and cardiomyopathy” [Mol Metab 4 (6) (2015) 493–506]
Katunga, Lalage A.; Gudimell, Preeti; Efird, Jimmy T.; Abernathy, Scott; Mattox, Taylor A.; Beatty, Cherese; Darden, Timothy M.; Thayne, Kathleen A.; Alwair, Hazaim; Kypson, Alan P.; Virag, Jitka A.; Anderson, Ethan (2015) -
The effect of race and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on long-term survival after coronary artery bypass grafting
Efird, Jimmy T.; O'Neal, Wesley T.; Anderson, Curtis A.; O'Neal, Jason B.; Kindell, Linda C.; Ferguson, T. Bruce; Chitwood, W. Randolph; Kypson, Alan P. (2013-04)Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a known predictor of decreased long-term survival after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Differences in survival by race have not been examined. Methods: ... -
Factors Associated with Discharge to a Skilled Nursing Facility after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery
Horne, Carolyn E.; Goda, Tamara S.; Nifong, L. Wiley; Kypson, Alan P.; O’Neal, Wesley T.; Kindell, Linda C.; Jindal, Charulata; Efird, Jimmy T. (2018-12-28)An assumption regarding transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a minimally invasive procedure for treating aortic stenosis, is that patients remain at, or near baseline and soon return to their presurgical home to ... -
Failure patterns and survival outcomes in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC): a 15 year comparison of 448 non-Hispanic black and white women
Prasad, Shreya; Efird, Jimmy T.; James, Sarah E.; Walker, Paul R.; Zagar, Timothy M.; Biswas, Tithi (2016-06-17)Purpose: Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a distinct subtype of breast cancer with unique pathologic, molecular and clinical behavior. It occurs more frequently in young blacks and has been reported to have a shorter ... -
Grand challenge: Understanding survival paradoxes in epidemiology
Efird, Jimmy T.; O’Neal, Wesley T.; Kennedy, Whitney L.; Kypson, Alan P. (2013-04-02) -
Increased Coronary Artery Disease Severity in Black Women Undergoing Coronary Bypass Surgery
Efird, Jimmy T.; O'Neal, Wesley T.; Griffin, William F.; Anderson, Ethan; Davies, Stephen W.; Landrine, Hope; O'Neal, Jason B.; Shiue, Kristin Y.; Kindell, Linda C.; Ferguson, Bruce; Chitwood, W. Randolph; Kypson, Alan P. (2015)Race and sex disparities are believed to play an important role in heart disease. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between race, sex, and number of diseased vessels at the time of coronary artery ... -
Increased Long-Term Mortality among Black CABG Patients Receiving Preoperative Inotropic Agents
Efird, Jimmy T.; Griffin, William F.; Sarpong, Daniel F.; Davies, Stephen W.; Vann, Lulia; Koutlas, Nathaniel T.; Anderson, Ethan; Crane, Patricia B.; Landrine, Hope; Kindell, Linda; Iqbal, Zahra J.; Ferguson, T. Bruce; Chitwood, W. Randolph; Kypson, Alan P. (2015-07)The aim of this study was to examine racial differences in long-term mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), stratified by preoperative use of inotropic agents. Black and white patients who required ... -
Increased TNF-alpha and sTNFR2 levels are associated with high-grade anal squamous intraepithelial lesions in HIV-positive patients with low CD4 level
Haga, Takeshi; Efird, Jimmy T.; Tugizov, Sharof; Palefsky, Joel M. (2017-12-01)Compared with HIV-negative individuals, HIV-positive individuals have a higher prevalence of anogenital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, the causative agent of anogenital cancer. TNF-alpha is a major proinflammatory ... -
Informational Odds Ratio: A Useful Measure of Epidemiologic Association in Environment Exposure Studies
Efird, Jimmy T.; Lea, Suzanne; Tol, Amanda; Phillips, Christopher J. (2012-04)The informational odds ratio (IOR) measures the post-exposure odds divided by the pre-exposure odds (ie, information gained after knowing exposure status). A desirable property of an adjusted ratio estimate is collapsibility ... -
Mapping the future-merging the old with the new across disciplines
Efird, Jimmy T. (2012-11-26) -
Obesity in a model of gpx4 haploinsufficiency uncovers a causal role for lipid-derived aldehydes in human metabolic disease and cardiomyopathy
Katunga, Lalage A.; Gudimella, Preeti; Efird, Jimmy T.; Abernathy, Scott; Mattox, Taylor A.; Beatty, Cherese; Darden, Timothy M.; Thayne, Kathleen A.; Alwair, Hazaim; Kypson, Alan P.; Virag, Jitka A.; Anderson, Ethan (2015)Objective: Lipid peroxides and their reactive aldehyde derivatives (LPPs) have been linked to obesity-related pathologies, but whether they have a causal role has remained unclear. Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPx4) is a ... -
Occurrence and Remediation of Pollutants in the Environment
Fontanals, Núria; James, Rathinam A.; Ok, Yong Sik; Balakrishnan, Malini; Efird, Jimmy T. (2015) -
Racial differences in survival among hemodialysis patients after coronary artery bypass grafting
Efird, Jimmy T.; O’Neal, Wesley T.; Bolin, Paul Jr.; Davies, Stephen W.; O’Neal, Jason B.; Anderson, Curtis A.; Ferguson, T. Bruce; Chitwood, W. Randolph; Kypson, Alan P. (2013-09-06)The aim of this study was to examine racial differences in long-term survival among hemodialysis patients after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). To our knowledge this has not been previously addressed in the literature. ... -
Refugee Policy Implications of U.S. Immigration Medical Screenings: A New Era of Inadmissibility on Health-Related Grounds
Hong, Mi-Kyung; Varghese, Reshma E.; Jindal, Charulata; Efird, Jimmy T. (2017-09-24)Refugees frequently face extended delays in their efforts to enter the United States (U.S.) and those who are successful, in many cases, encounter overwhelming obstacles, inadequate resources, and a complex system of legal ... -
Strategies to improve palatability and increase consumption intentions for momordica charantia (bitter melon): A vegetable commonly used for diabetes management
Snee, Laura S.; Nerurkar, Vivek R.; Dooley, Dian A.; Efird, Jimmy T.; Shovic, Anne C.; Nerurkar, Pratibha V. (2011-07-28)Background Although beneficial to health, dietary phytonutrients are bitter, acid and/or astringent in taste and therefore reduce consumer choice and acceptance during food selection. Momordica charantia, commonly known ... -
Trapped in Statelessness: Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Milton, Abul Hasnat; Rahman, Mijanur; Hussain, Sumaira; Jindal, Charulata; Choudhury, Sushmita; Akter, Shahnaz; Ferdousi, Shahana; Mouly, Tafzila Akter; Hall, John; Efird, Jimmy T. (2017-08-21)The Rohingya people are one of the most ill-treated and persecuted refugee groups in the world, having lived in a realm of statelessness for over six generations, and who are still doing so. In recent years, more than ... -
Trauma Affecting Asian-Pacific Islanders in the San Francisco Bay Area
Bith-Melander, Pollie; Chowdhury, Nagia; Jindal, Charulata; Efird, Jimmy T. (2017-09-12)Trauma is a transgenerational process that overwhelms the community and the ability of family members to cope with life stressors. An anthropologist trained in ethnographic methods observed three focus groups from a ...