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Filter by:To develop and evaluate a computer assisted instruction (CAI) weight management program in an adult population with low literacy at Sheehan Memorial Hospital's Family Care Center (FCC), an outpatient clinic serving the inner city of Buffalo, New York.
To determine inflammation markers over time in cardiovascular disease. To test the hypothesis that measures of coagulation and fibrinolysis correlate with the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) and other thrombosis related disorders, and to help identify those individuals at greatest risk, using the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) and Honolulu Heart Program (HHP) populations. These two genetically distinct populations had different event rates for CHD, and offered a unique opportunity to test associations that were uncovered by comparing results across populations.
To study psychosocial risk factors for coronary heart disease in Swedish women.
Among patients undergoing elective primary coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), the principal objective of this randomized trial was to compare the efficacy of two strategies of intra-operative hemodynamic management during cardiopulmonary bypass in preventing peri-operative cardiac, cognitive and neurologic morbidity and mortality, and post-operative deterioration in patients' quality of life as measured by the SF-36.
To provide a comprehensive description of smoking beliefs and behavior among rural Blacks, and to test the effectiveness of smoking cessation strategies delivered through Black churches.
To investigate the differential diagnosis and longitudinal course of medical outpatients complaining of palpitations. Also, to further examine the process of cardiac perception, the psychological factors which influence it, and the accurate awareness of cardiac arrhythmias.
To study the process of recycling failed smoking cessation attempts and relapses.
To develop a dietary intervention method that was capable of producing large sustained weight losses and was thus suitable for use in clinical trials related to obesity.
To examine racial and psychosocial influences on blood pressure control.
To perform a randomized clinical trial comparing continuing one month of treatment with heparin in patients with deep venous thrombosis to standard care using heparin for five days and oral warfarin for three months.