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Aug 12, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Laura Powers |George Mason
Scientists have long studied the spread of diseases, but the emergence of COVID-19 and its profound impact on society have underscored the critical need to understand where and how diseases spread. As George Mason University doctoral student Jericho McLeod reviewed literature on disease transmission as part of his work toward a Ph.D. in computational science and informatics, he and George Mason professor Eduardo López noticed a gap in the models and now seek to correct it.
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May 24, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Buzz McClain |George Mason
A new study examining how state Medicaid programs are helping people with substance use disorders (SUD) uncovered the need to expand the programmatic features to assist individuals who are transitioning in and out of the criminal justice system.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Carolyn Drews-Botsch |George Mason |George A. Cotsonis |Marianne Celano
Patching in Children With Unilateral Congenital Cataract and Child Functioning and Parenting Stress Key PointsQuestion Among families with a child treated for a unilateral congenital cataract and who had a poor visual outcome, is continued patching negatively associated with parenting stress or with motor development, child behavior, or self-perception?
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | George Mason
Adolescence is an important period of life for healthy growth. Malnutrition during this seminal period may have long-term adverse effects on health and development. In sub-Saharan Africa, there is a lack of nutrition programming for adolescents. Adolescent malnutrition represents an urgent issue in sub-Saharan Africa, which has a long history of undernutrition and a rising issue of overweight and obesity.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
liebertpub.com | Goldie A McQuaid |John Strang |Allison Jack |George Mason
Introduction Autism is diagnosed more frequently among male than female individuals (see end of section for a note on our use of these terms), at rates currently estimated at ∼4:1.1 Among individuals without co-occurring intellectual disability, the sex-based diagnostic ratio widens, with increasing female under-representation at higher ends of the IQ continuum.2 Although some portion of this diagnostic imbalance likely reflects a true differential in underlying prevalence, there is growing...
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
scitechdaily.com | George Mason
People with diabetes (Diabetes Mellitus) have a two to three times higher likelihood of experiencing depression compared to those without diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Current treatment includes therapy, medicine, or both. However, the understanding of the multifaceted relationship between nutrition, mental health, and DM is relatively new in scientific discourse. Mason researchers sought to learn about the connection between nutrition, diabetes, and mental health.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
jamanetwork.com | Eli Raver |Jeah Jung |George Mason |Wendy Xu
In Reply In our recent Research Letter,1 we found that the number of chronic conditions was not associated with disenrollment from MA to FFS or from FFS to MA between 2010 and 2019. Dr Burke uses our study findings to discuss the MA program as a whole and raises concern that some individuals may not completely understand MA plans’ utilization management tools and subsequently find it difficult to switch to FFS because they cannot find a generous Medigap policy at an affordable price.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
medicalxpress.com | George Mason
People with diabetes (diabetes mellitus) are 2–3 times more likely to have depression than people without, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Current treatment includes therapy, medicine, or both. However, the understanding of the multifaceted relationship between nutrition, mental health, and DM is relatively new in scientific discourse. Mason researchers sought to learn about the connection between nutrition, diabetes, and mental health.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
journals.plos.org | Anne Darling |Dongqing Wang |George Mason |Nandita Perumal
Statistical analysesWe conducted 2-stage pooled analyses for risk factors of interest that were measured in at least 3 studies. In a few cases, we excluded studies if the risk factor had an extremely high number of missing values. These analyses involved first estimating study-specific regression coefficients using modified Poisson regression with robust variance estimates and pooling all regression coefficients in a meta-analysis.
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Jul 24, 2023 | journals.plos.org | Anne Darling |Dongqing Wang |George Mason |Nandita Perumal
Statistical analysesWe conducted 2-stage pooled analyses for risk factors of interest that were measured in at least 3 studies. In a few cases, we excluded studies if the risk factor had an extremely high number of missing values. These analyses involved first estimating study-specific regression coefficients using modified Poisson regression with robust variance estimates and pooling all regression coefficients in a meta-analysis.
