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  Selected 2008 NERI publications

• Adams A, Buckingham CD, Lindenmeyer A, McKinlay JB, Link C, Marceau L, Arber S.  The influence of patient and doctor gender on diagnosing coronary heart disease. Sociology Of Health And Illness. 2008;30(1):1-18.
• Anderson, PAW, Sleeper, LA, Mahony, L, Colan, SD, Atz, AM, Breitbart, RE, Gersony WM, Gallagher, D, Geva, T, Margossian, R., McCrindle, B, Paridon, S, Schwartz, M, Stylianou, M, Williams, RV, Clark, BJ. Contemporary Outcomes after the Fontan Procedure: A Pediatric Heart Network Multicenter Study Brief title:  Children Following the Fontan Procedure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008; In press.
• Araujo AB, Travison TG, Bhasin S, et al. Association of testosterone and estradiol with age-related declines in physical function in a diverse sample of men. J Am Geriatr Soc 2008; In press.
• Araujo AB, Travison TG, Leder BZ, McKinlay JB. Correlations between serum testosterone, estradiol, and sex hormone-binding globulin and bone mineral density in a diverse sample of men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008; In press.
• Barry MJ, Link CL, McNaughton-Collins MF, McKinlay JB; Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Investigators.  Overlap of different urological symptom complexes in a racially and ethnically diverse, community-based population of men and women.  BJU Int. 2008;101(1):45-51.
• Barregard L, Trachtenberg F, McKinlay SM. Renal Effects of Dental Amalgam in Children: The New England children’s Amalgam Trial. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2008; 116(3):394-399.
• Blaufox AD, Sleeper LA, Bradley DJ, Breitbart RE, Hordof A, Kanter RJ, Stephenson E, Stylianou M, Vetter V, Saul JP.  Functional Status, Heart Rate, and Rhythm Abnormalities in 521 Fontan Patients 6-18 Years of Age. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2008; In press.
• Blinderman CD, Homel P, Billings JA, Portenoy RK, Tennstedt SL. Symptom distress and quality of life in patients with advanced congestive heart failure. JPSM, 2008 Jan 19 [Epub ahead of print].
• Bönte M, Knesebeck Ovd, Siegrist J, Marceau L, Link C, Arber S, Adams A, McKinlay JB. Women and men with coronary heart disease in three countries. Are they treated differently? Women's Health Issues. 2008; In press.
• Brookes ST, Link CL, Donovan JL, McKinlay JB.  Relationship between lower urinary tract symptoms and erectile dysfunction: results from the Boston Area Community Health Survey. J Urol. 2008;179(1):250-5.
• Chao SY, Dwyer JT, Houser RF, Jacques P, Tennstedt S.  Experts stress both wellness and amenity aspects of food and nutrition services in assisted living facilities for older adults. J Am Diet Assoc. 2008; In press.
• Chao SY, Dwyer JT, Houser RF, Tennstedt S, Jacques P,. Practitioners' Opinions on Food and Nutrition Care Indicators (FANCI) in Assisted Living Facilities for Older Adults. J Am Diet Assoc. 2008; In press.
• Everson GT, Shiffman ML, Morgan TR, Hoefs JC, Sterling RK, Wagner DA, Kulig CC, Curto TM, Wright EC, HALT-C Trial Group. The spectrum of hepatic functional impairment in compensated chronic hepatitis C: results from the HALT-C trial.  Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2008 Feb 7; [Epub ahead of print].
• Farkouh ME, Dangas G, Leon MB, Smith C, Nesto R, Buse JB, Cohen DJ, Mahoney E, Sleeper L, King S III, Domanski M, McKinlay S, Fuster V. Design of the Future Revascularization Evaluation in patients with Diabetes mellitus: Optimal management of Multivessel disease (FREEDOM) Trial. American Heart Journal. 2008; 155(2):215-223.   
• Fontana RJ, Goodman ZD, Dienstag JL, Bonkovsky HL, Naishadham D, Sterling RK, Su GL, Ghosh M, Wright EC, and the HALT-C Trial Group.  Relationship of serum fibrosis markers with liver fibrosis stage and collagen content in patients with advanced chronic hepatitis C. Hepatology. 2008 Mar;47(3):789-798.
• Hall SA, Araujo AB, Esche GR, Williams RE, Clark RV, Travison TG, McKinlay JB.  Is symptomatic androgen deficiency treated? Results from the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey. Arch Intern Med. 2008; In press.
• Hall SA, Cinar A, Link CL, Kopp ZS, Roehrborn CG, Kaplan SA, Rosen RC. Do urologic symptoms cluster among women? Results from the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey. Br J Urol 2008; In press.
• Hall SA, Link CL, Pulliam SJ, Hanno PM, Eggers PW, Kusek JW, McKinlay JB. The relationship of common medical conditions and medication usage with symptoms of painful bladder syndrome: Results from the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey. J Urol. 2008; In press.
• Hannan MT, Litman HJ, Araujo AB, McLennan CE, McLean RR, McKinlay JB, Chen TC, Holick MF.  Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and bone mineral density in a racially and ethnically diverse group of men.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2008;93(1):40-6. 
• Larson MJ,  Amodeo M,  Storti S, et al. A Novel CBT Web Course for the Substance Abuse Workforce: Community Counselors’ Perceptions. Substance Abuse. 2008; In press.
• Lindsay KL, Morishima C, Wright EC, Dienstag JL, Shiffman ML, Everson GT, Lok ASF, Bonkovsky HL, Lee WM, Morgan TR, Ghany MG, for the HALT-C Trial Group. Blunted Cytopenias and Weight Loss: New Correlates of Virologic Null Response to Retreatment of Chronic Hepatitis C. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2008 Feb;6(2):234-41.
• Lutfey KE, Link CL, Marceau LD, McKinlay JB. Enter a fifth blind man: sociological contributions to the study of clinician decision making.  Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making. 2008; In press.
• Lutfey KE, Link CL, Rosen RC, Wiegel M, McKinlay JB.  Prevalence and Correlates of Sexual
  Activity and Function in Women: Results from the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey. Arch Sex Behav. 2008 Jan 11; [Epub ahead of print].
• Mallett VT, Brubaker L, Stoddard AM, Borello-France D, Tennstedt S, Hall L, Hammontree L  for the Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network. The expectations of patients who undergo surgery for stress incontinence. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2008;198:308.e1-308.e6.
  McKinlay JB. In reply.  Menopause. 2008;15(2):401-2.
• McKinlay, JB, Marceau, L. When there is no doctor: Reasons for the disappearance of primary care physicians in the US during the early 21st century. Social Science and Medicine. 2008; In press.
• Nager CW, Fitzgerald MP, Chai TC, Zyczynski H, Sirls L, Lemack GE, Lloyd LK, Litman HJ, Stoddard AM, Baker J, Steers W. Urodynamic measures do not predict stress continence outcomes after surgery for stress incontinence in selected women. J Urol. 179(4):1470-4, 2008.
• Ohye RG, Gaynor JW, Ghanayem NS, Goldberg CS, Laussen PC, Frommelt PC, Newburger JW, Pearson GD, Tabbutt S, Wernovsky G, Wruck LM, Atz AM, Colan SD, Jaggers J, McCrindle BW, Prakash A, Puchalski MD, Sleeper LA, Stylianou MP, Mahony L. Design and Rationale of a randomized Trial comparing the Blalock-Taussig and Right Ventricle-To-Pulmonary Artery Shunts in the Norwood Procedure. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2008; In press.
• Page ST, Mohr BA, Link CL, O'Donnell AB, Bremner WJ, McKinlay JB.  Higher testosterone levels are associated with increased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in men with cardiovascular disease: results from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study. Asian J Androl. 2008;10(2):193-200.
• Paridon SM, Mitchell PD, Colan SD, Williams RV, Blaufox A, Li JS, Margossian R, Mital S, Russell J, Rhodes J. A cross-sectional study of exercise performance during the first two decades of life following the Fontan operation. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008; In press.
  Ragni MV, Journeycake JM, Brambilla DJ.  Tissue plasminogen activator to prevent central venous access device infections: a systematic review of central venous access catheter thrombosis, infection and thromboprophylaxis.  Haemophilia. 2008;14:30-38.
• Saitz, R., Larson, MJ., LaBelle, C, Richardson, J, & Samet, JH (In press). The Case for Chronic Disease Management for Addiction. Journal of Addiction Medicine. 2008; In press.
• Seeff LB, Curto TM, Szabo G, Everson GT, Bonkovsky HL, Dienstag JL, Shiffman ML, Lindsay KL, Lok ASF, Di Bisceglie AM, Lee WM, Ghany MG, and the HALT-C Trial Group. Herbal product use by persons enrolled in the Hepatitis C Antiviral Long-Term Treatment against Cirrhosis (HALT-C) Trial.  Hepatology. 2008 Feb;47(2):605-12.
• Subak LL, Brubaker L, Chai TCC, Creasman JM, Diokno AC, Goode PS, Kraus SR, Kusek JW, Leng WW, Lucakz ES, Norton P, Tennstedt S. High costs of urinary incontinence among women electing surgery to treat stress incontinence. Obstetrics & Gynecology. 111(4):899-907, 2008.
• Tennstedt SL, Link CL, Steers, WD, McKinlay JB. Prevalence of and risk factors for urine leakage in a racially and ethnically diverse population of adults: the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey.  American Journal of Epidemiology, 167(4):390-9, 2008.
• Travison TG, Araujo AB, Esche GR, Beck TJ, McKinlay JB. Lean mass and not fat mass is associated with male proximal femur strength. J Bone Miner Res. 2008;23(2):189-98.
• Travison TG, Araujo AB, Esche GR, McKinlay JB. The relationship between body composition and bone mineral content: threshold effects in a racially and ethnically diverse group of men. Osteoporos Int. 2008;19(1):29-38.
• Travison TG, Beck TJ, Esche GR, Araujo AB, McKinlay JB. Age trends in proximal femur geometry in men: variation by race and ethnicity. Osteoporos Int 2008;19(3):277-87.
• Travison TG, Shackelton R, Araujo AB, Hall SA, Williams RE, Clark RV, O’Donnell AB, McKinlay JB. The natural history of symptomatic androgen deficiency in men: Onset, progression and spontaneous remission. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008; In press.
• Walter PB, Macklin EA, Porter J, Evans P, Kwiatkowski JL, Neufeld EJ, Coates T, Giardina PJ, Vichinsky E, Olivieri N, Alberti D, Holland J, Harmatz P. Inflammation and Oxidant-Stress in β-Thalassemia Patients Treated with Iron Chelators Deferasirox (ICL670) or Deferoxamine: An Ancillary Study of the Novartis CICL670A0107 Trial. Haematologica, 2008; In press.