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Young H, Susi A, Kozel P, Towers S, Magnus M, Michaels D. Meat Processing Facilities and County Level Risk Factors for COVID-19. Ann Epidemiol 2020. [PMCID: PMC7519709 DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.08.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Scott-Sheldon LAJ, Hedges LV, Cyr C, Young-Hyman D, Khan LK, Magnus M, King H, Arteaga S, Cawley J, Economos CD, Haire-Joshu D, Hunter CM, Lee BY, Kumanyika SK, Ritchie LD, Robinson TN, Schwartz MB. Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of a New Taxonomy of Intervention Components to Improve Weight Status in Children 2-5 Years of Age, 2005-2019. Child Obes 2020; 16:S221-S248. [PMID: 32936038 PMCID: PMC7482126 DOI: 10.1089/chi.2020.0139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of childhood obesity interventions and conduct a taxonomy of intervention components that are most effective in changing obesity-related health outcomes in children 2-5 years of age. Methods: Comprehensive searches located 51 studies from 18,335 unique records. Eligible studies: (1) assessed children aged 2-5, living in the United States; (2) evaluated an intervention to improve weight status; (3) identified a same-aged comparison group; (4) measured BMI; and (5) were available between January 2005 and August 2019. Coders extracted study, sample, and intervention characteristics. Effect sizes [ESs; and 95% confidence intervals (CIs)] were calculated by using random-effects models. Meta-regression was used to determine which intervention components explain variability in ESs. Results: Included were 51 studies evaluating 58 interventions (N = 29,085; mean age = 4 years; 50% girls). Relative to controls, children receiving an intervention had a lower BMI at the end of the intervention (g = 0.10, 95% CI = 0.02-0.18; k = 55) and at the last follow-up (g = 0.17, 95% CI = 0.04-0.30; k = 14; range = 18-143 weeks). Three intervention components moderated efficacy: engage caregivers in praise/encouragement for positive health-related behavior; provide education about the importance of screen time reduction to caregivers; and engage pediatricians/health care providers. Conclusions: Early childhood obesity interventions are effective in reducing BMI in preschool children. Our findings suggest that facilitating caregiver education about the importance of screen time reduction may be an important strategy in reducing early childhood obesity.
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- Lori A J Scott-Sheldon
- Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Impact Genome Project, Mission Measurement, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Impact Genome Project, Mission Measurement, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Division of Nutrition Interventions, Communication, and Behavior Change, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Obesity Prevention and Policy Research, Brown School, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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- Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Policy, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Community Health and Prevention, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Nutrition Policy Institute, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford Solutions Science Lab, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, USA
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King H, Magnus M, Hedges LV, Cyr C, Young-Hyman D, Kettel Khan L, Scott-Sheldon LAJ, Saul JA, Arteaga S, Cawley J, Economos CD, Haire-Joshu D, Hunter CM, Lee BY, Kumanyika SK, Ritchie LD, Robinson TN, Schwartz MB. Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: Methods for Taxonomy Development for Application in Taxonomic Meta-Analysis. Child Obes 2020; 16:S27-S220. [PMID: 32936039 PMCID: PMC7482109 DOI: 10.1089/chi.2020.0138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Meta-analysis has been used to examine the effectiveness of childhood obesity prevention efforts, yet traditional conventional meta-analytic methods restrict the kinds of studies included, and either narrowly define mechanisms and agents of change, or examine the effectiveness of whole interventions as opposed to the specific actions that comprise interventions. Taxonomic meta-analytic methods widen the aperture of what can be included in a meta-analysis data set, allowing for inclusion of many types of interventions and study designs. The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research Childhood Obesity Evidence Base (COEB) project focuses on interventions intended to prevent childhood obesity in children 2-5 years old who have an outcome measure of BMI. The COEB created taxonomies, anchored in the Social Ecological Model, which catalog specific outcomes, intervention components, intended recipients, and contexts of policies, initiatives, and interventions conducted at the individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and societal level. Taxonomies were created by discovery from the literature itself using grounded theory. This article describes the process used for a novel taxonomic meta-analysis of childhood obesity prevention studies between the years 2010 and 2019. This method can be applied to other areas of research, including obesity prevention in additional populations.
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- Heather King
- Impact Genome Project, Mission Measurement, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Impact Genome Project, Mission Measurement, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Center for Impact Sciences, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Policy Analysis and Management and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Obesity Prevention and Policy Research, Brown School Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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- Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Policy, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Community Health and Prevention, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Nutrition Policy Institute, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Stanford Solutions Science Lab, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, USA
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Hedges LV, Saul JA, Cyr C, Magnus M, Scott-Sheldon LA, Young-Hyman D, Khan LK. Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Rationale for Taxonomic versus Conventional Meta-Analysis. Child Obes 2020; 16:S21-S26. [PMID: 32936036 PMCID: PMC7482128 DOI: 10.1089/chi.2020.0137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Introduction: There is a great need for analytic techniques that allow for the synthesis of learning across seemingly idiosyncratic interventions. Objectives: The primary objective of this paper is to introduce taxonomic meta-analysis and explain how it is different from conventional meta-analysis. Results: Conventional meta-analysis has previously been used to examine the effectiveness of childhood obesity prevention interventions. However, these tend to examine narrowly defined sections of obesity prevention initiatives, and as such, do not allow the field to draw conclusions across settings, participants, or subjects. Compared with conventional meta-analysis, taxonomic meta-analysis widens the aperture of what can be examined to synthesize evidence across interventions with diverse topics, goals, research designs, and settings. A component approach is employed to examine interventions at the level of their essential features or activities to identify the concrete aspects of interventions that are used (intervention components), characteristics of the intended populations (target population or intended recipient characteristics), and facets of the environments in which they operate (contextual elements), and the relationship of these components to effect size. In addition, compared with conventional meta-analysis methods, taxonomic meta-analyses can include the results of natural experiments, policy initiatives, program implementation efforts and highly controlled experiments (as examples) regardless of the design of the report being analyzed as long as the intended outcome is the same. It also characterizes the domain of interventions that have been studied. Conclusion: Taxonomic meta-analysis can be a powerful tool for summarizing the evidence that exists and for generating hypotheses that are worthy of more rigorous testing.
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- Larry V. Hedges
- Department of Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Center for Impact Sciences, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Impact Genome Project, Mission Measurement, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Paz-Bailey G, Smith A, Masciotra S, Zhang W, Bingham T, Flynn C, German D, Al-Tayyib A, Magnus M, LaLota M, Rose CE, Owen SM. Early HIV Infections Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Five Cities in the United States. AIDS Behav 2015; 19:2304-10. [PMID: 25680518 DOI: 10.1007/s10461-015-1011-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We tested blood samples from men who have sex with men (MSM) to detect early HIV infection. Early HIV included both acute (infected past 30 days) and recent (estimated recency past 240 days). Acute infections were defined as screen immunoassay (IA) negative/NAAT-positive or IA-positive/Multispot-negative/NAAT-positive. Recent infections were defined as avidity index cutoff <30 % on an avidity-based IA and, (1) not reporting antiretroviral therapy use or, (2) HIV RNA >150 copies/mL. Of 937 samples, 26 % (244) were HIV-infected and of these 5 % (12) were early. Of early infections, 2 were acute and 10 recent; most (8/12) were among black MSM. Early infection was associated with last partner of black race [adjusted relative risk (ARR) = 4.6, confidence intervals (CI) 1.2-17.3], receptive anal sex at last sex (ARR = 4.3, CI 1.2-15.0), and daily Internet use to meet partners/friends (ARR = 3.3, CI 1.1-9.7). Expanding prevention and treatment for black MSM will be necessary for reducing incidence in the United States.
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- G Paz-Bailey
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS E-46, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA.
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS E-46, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS E-46, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA
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- Dynamic Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Public Health, Los Angeles County, CA, USA
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- Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, MA, USA
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- Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MA, USA
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- Denver Public Health, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, CO, USA
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- School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS E-46, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, MS E-46, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA
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A Ergin, Magnus M, Ergin N, He J. #84-S short course antiretroviral treatment in the prevention of perinatal HIV-1 transmission. Ann Epidemiol 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s1047-2797(02)00372-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, 4.3 million children under 15 years of age have been infected with HIV worldwide; in the year 2000 alone, the World Health Organization estimates that 600,000 children became HIV-infected. Ancillary services offer the potential to improve access to and retention in primary care through removal of barriers to care. Globally, ancillary services may actually represent a significant proportion of all care delivered to HIV-infected children, particularly in the absence of expensive antiretroviral treatments. The purpose of this non-concurrent cohort study was to describe a population of HIV-infected children receiving ancillary services from an HIV- and family-specific ancillary service programme in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Forty-two HIV-infected children ages newborn to 13 years were included in the study. The majority were between one and five years of age (50.0%), male (54.8%), African-American (88.1%), and perinatally infected (97.6%). Services were well utilized; delivery decreased with age and increased with severity of clinical disease. Improved retention, prescription of antiretroviral treatment and HIV-related emergency room utilization were associated with ancillary service receipt. Ancillary services delivered by an HIV- and family-specific programme assist HIV-infected children to receive improved medical care. Ancillary services are a valuable adjunct to primary care, particularly in the complex care of the HIV-infected children from historically underserved populations.
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- M Magnus
- Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Children's Hospital, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
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Magnus M, Schmidt N, Park J, Brown B, Kissinger PJ. Revisiting the association between ancillary services and emergency department visits and hospitalizations among HIV-infected women. AIDS Patient Care STDS 2001; 15:503-4. [PMID: 11689136 DOI: 10.1089/108729101753205658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Magnus M, Schmidt N, Kirkhart K, Schieffelin C, Fuchs N, Brown B, Kissinger PJ. Association between ancillary services and clinical and behavioral outcomes among HIV-infected women. AIDS Patient Care STDS 2001; 15:137-45. [PMID: 11313026 DOI: 10.1089/108729101750123607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between ancillary services, including case management, and clinical and behavioral outcomes for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected women. Data were obtained from databases systematically maintained by Family Advocacy, Care and Education Services (FACES) and the HIV Outpatient Program (HOP) in New Orleans. HIV-infected women receiving primary care from HOP and ancillary services from FACES between January 1, 1997 and December 31, 1998 were eligible. Data were analyzed using generalized estimating equations (GEE) with STATA software. The majority of women included in the study were African American (86.7%), infected heterosexually (78.8%), and had absolute CD4 counts greater than 200 (58.6%). After adjusting for age, time, entry time into HOP, pregnancy, CD4 count, substance abuse status, and social and clinical stressors, receipt of more than four combined case manager contacts or ancillary services per month was significantly associated with being prescribed a protease inhibitor, improved adherence and retention in primary care, and enrolling on a research protocol. Receiving more than one transportation service per month was significantly associated with improved adherence, improved retention, one or more emergency room visits per month, and one or more hospitalizations per month. Receiving more than one contact with case managers per month was associated with improved retention in primary care. Findings suggest that receipt of case management and ancillary services is associated with improvements in multiple outcomes for HIV-infected women. A client-centered approach to providing ancillary services appears to be effective in improving behavioral and utilization characteristics in this population of low-income, high-risk women.
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- M Magnus
- Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA.
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Buysse A, Magnus M. O-128. A paramedical approach to the follow-up of pregnancies and babies born after assisted fertilization. Hum Reprod 1997. [DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.suppl_2.62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Wisanto A, Bonduelle M, Camus M, Tournaye H, Magnus M, Liebaers I, Van Steirteghem A, Devroey P. Obstetric outcome of 904 pregnancies after intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Hum Reprod 1996; 11 Suppl 4:121-9; discussion 130. [PMID: 9147115 DOI: 10.1093/humrep/11.suppl_4.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The obstetric data of 904 consecutive pregnancies obtained after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) using ejaculated spermatozoa (group I), epididymal spermatozoa (group II), testicular spermatozoa (group III) and after the replacement of frozen-thawed embryos (group IV) are described. In all, there were 785 pregnancies in group I, 37 pregnancies in group II, 30 pregnancies in group III and 52 pregnancies in group IV. A total of 24 pregnancies (2.5%) have so far been lost to follow-up. The incidence of pregnancy loss, i.e. subclinical pregnancies, clinical abortions and ectopic pregnancies were highest in group IV (61.4%). Early pregnancy loss in groups I, II and III were 21.9, 37.8 and 33.3% respectively. Prenatal diagnosis was performed in 64.4% of the clinical pregnancies: amniocentesis in 48.2% and chorionic villus sampling in 16.2%. The karyotypes were normal in 97.6% of the prenatal diagnoses and there were 1.2% de novo and 1.2% inherited chromosome aberrations. Pregnancy complications such as prematurity and low birthweight were related to pregnancy multiplicity. Perinatal mortality occurred in 15 babies (17.1 per thousand), including nine intrauterine fetal deaths after 25 weeks of gestation and six cases of mortality during the first 7 days after birth. There is no evidence that the technique of ICSI using sperm cells of different origins yielded a higher obstetric risk.
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- A Wisanto
- Centre for Reproductive Medicine, University Hospital, Dutch-speaking Brussels Free University, Belgium
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Wisanto A, Magnus M, Bonduelle M, Liu J, Camus M, Tournaye H, Liebaers I, Van Steirteghem AC, Devroey P. Obstetric outcome of 424 pregnancies after intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Hum Reprod 1995; 10:2713-8. [PMID: 8567798 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a135773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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An evaluation of the outcome of pregnancies resulting from intracytoplasmic sperm injection for severe male factor infertility was conducted by analysing the data obtained from the patients and/or their obstetrician/gynaecologist on standardized questionnaires. The data from 424 pregnancies between April 1991 and September 1994 were analysed. Early pregnancy loss before 16 weeks occurred in 99 cases (23.3%), including 48 clinical abortions (11.3%), 47 subclinical pregnancies (11.1%) and four ectopic pregnancies (0.9%). Vanishing twins and triplets, which could be regarded as early embryonic wastage, were found in 36 cases (8.5%). One pregnancy was interrupted at week 15 of gestation because of anhydramnios, and four pregnancies (0.9%) ended in spontaneous late abortions before 26 weeks. A total of 320 pregnancies (75.5%) resulted in the birth of at least one child; 222 of these (69.3%) were singletons, 93 were twins (29.1%) and five were triplets (1.6%). The problems of prematurity and low birthweight were especially related to the multiplicity of pregnancies. Furthermore, from among the total of 423 babies born, we have observed three cases of stillbirth and five cases of neonatal mortality. The perinatal mortality rate was therefore 18.9 per 1000 births. The results of this study show that the obstetric outcome of these pregnancies was similar to that obtained after conventional in-vitro fertilization and other assisted reproduction techniques.
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- A Wisanto
- Centre for Reproductive Medicine, University Hospital, Dutch-speaking Brussels Free University (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
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Magnus M, Grossman M. Computers and the personnel department. Pers J 1985; 64:42-8. [PMID: 10270847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Magnus M. Employee recognition: a key to motivation. Pers J 1981; 60:103-4, 106-7. [PMID: 10249830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Productivity--why it's low and how to enhance it--is on everyone's mind these days. A major component of productivity is employee satisfaction. If an employee is dissatisfied, feels unappreciated or under-compensated, that employee will not perform to the best of his or her ability. How is the personnel administrator to address this pressing problem? One answer that emerges is employee recognition programs. In many cases, properly run recognition programs can boost awareness of the organization, build employee pride, raise morale and, ultimately, increase productivity. As some of our respondents observed, higher salary is not the best answer. While a larger paycheck is always appreciated, everyone's pride is boosted by a public demonstration of appreciation.
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Seel F, Degener E, Knorre H, Gollnick E, Magnus M. St�chiometrie und Kinetik der Umsetzungen von Hydroxylamin-N-sulfonaten mit Hydrogensulfit. Z Anorg Allg Chem 1959. [DOI: 10.1002/zaac.19592990303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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