Issue 4, January 25, 2010

Vol. 2, Issue: 4, 1/25/10 Welcome to Knowledge to Action Science Clips, CDC's new weekly digest!

Featured this week is a Supplement focusing on American Indians/Alaskan Natives (AI/AN) and indigenous populations that coincides with the 4th Biannual CDC Tribal Consultation session in Atlanta on January 26-28, 2010. In addition to CDC-authored publications and public health articles noted in the media during the past six months, multiple CDC subject matter experts have selected featured articles on health topics relevant to AI/AN and indigenous populations.

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1. CDC Authored Publications
   The names of CDC authors are indicated in bold text.
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     1. Differences in radiographic features of knee osteoarthritis in African-Americans and Caucasians: the Johnston County osteoarthritis project
        Braga L, Renner JB, Schwartz TA, Woodard J, Helmick CG, Hochberg MC, Jordan JM.
        Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2009 Dec;17(12):1554-61.
        
   • Communicable Diseases
     2. From research to community-based practice--working with Latino researchers to translate and diffuse a culturally relevant evidence-based intervention: the Modelo de Intervencion Psicomedica (MIP) experience
        Pemberton G, Andia J, Robles R, Collins C, Colon-Cartagena N, Perez Del Pilar O, Vega TS.
        AIDS Educ Prev. 2009 Oct;21(5 Suppl):171-85.
        
     3. Cost-effectiveness of newborn circumcision in reducing lifetime HIV risk among U.S. males
        Sansom SL, Prabhu VS, Hutchinson AB, An Q, Hall HI, Shrestha RK, Lasry A, Taylor AW.
        PLoS One. 2010 ;5(1):e8723.
        
   • Community Health Services
     4. Outcomes from a community-based, participatory lay health adviser HIV/STD prevention intervention for recently arrived immigrant Latino men in rural North Carolina
        Rhodes SD, Hergenrather KC, Bloom FR, Leichliter JS, Montano J.
        AIDS Educ Prev. 2009 Oct;21(5 Suppl):103-8.
        
   • Entomology
     5. Effects of Rickettsia conorii infection on the survival of Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks
        Levin ML, Killmaster L, Eremeeva ME, Dasch GA.
        Clin Microbiol Infect. 2009 Dec;15(s2):277-8.
        
   • Environmental Health
     6. National use of asbestos in relation to economic development
        Le GV, Takahashi K, Karjalainen A, Delgermaa V, Hoshuyama T, Miyamura Y, Furuya S, Higashi T, Pan G, Wagner G.
        Environ Health Perspect. 2010 Jan;118(1):116-9.
        
     7. Investigating ozone-induced decomposition of surface-bound permethrin for conditions in aircraft cabins
        Coleman BK, Wells JR, Nazaroff WW.
        Indoor Air. 2010 Feb 1;20(1):61-71.
        
   • Epidemiology and Surveillance
     8. Drug use and the risk of HIV infection amongst injection drug users participating in an HIV vaccine trial in Bangkok, 1999-2003
        Martin M, Vanichseni S, Suntharasamai P, Mock PA, van Griensven F, Pitisuttithum P, Tappero JW, Chiamwongpaet S, Sangkum U, Kitayaporn D, Gurwith M, Choopanya K.
        Int J Drug Policy. 2010 Jan 13.
        
     9. Evaluation of the optimal recall period for disease symptoms in home-based morbidity surveillance in rural and urban Kenya
        Feikin DR, Audi A, Olack B, Bigogo GM, Polyak C, Burke H, Williamson J, Breiman RF.
        Int J Epidemiol. 2010 Jan 20.
        
     10. Travel-associated dengue infections in the United States, 1996 to 2005
         Mohammed HP, Ramos MM, Rivera A, Johansson M, Munoz-Jordan JL, Sun W, Tomashek KM.
         J Travel Med. 2010 Jan-Feb;17(1):8-14.
         
     11. Rates of virological failure in patients treated in a home-based versus a facility-based HIV-care model in Jinja, southeast Uganda: a cluster-randomised equivalence trial
         Jaffar S, Amuron B, Foster S, Birungi J, Levin J, Namara G, Nabiryo C, Ndembi N, Kyomuhangi R, Opio A, Bunnell R, Tappero JW, Mermin J, Coutinho A, Grosskurth H.
         Lancet. 2009 Nov 23;374(9707):2080-9.
         
     12. Variations in BMI and prevalence of health risks in diverse racial and ethnic populations
         Stommel M, Schoenborn CA.
         Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 Jan 14.
         
     13. Rotavirus infection in hospitalized children and estimates of disease burden in Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2007
         Flem ET, Kasymbekova KT, Vainio K, Gentsch J, Abdikarimov ST, Glass RI, Bresee JS.
         Vaccine. 2009 Nov 20;27 Suppl 5:F35-9.
         
     14. A decade of the Asian Rotavirus Surveillance Network: achievements and future directions
         Nelson EA, Widdowson MA, Kilgore PE, Steele D, Parashar UD.
         Vaccine. 2009 Nov 20;27 Suppl 5:F1-3.
         
     15. Rotavirus surveillance to determine disease burden and epidemiology in Java, Indonesia, August 2001 through April 2004
         Wilopo SA, Soenarto Y, Bresee JS, Tholib A, Aminah S, Cahyono A, Gentsch JR, Kilgore P, Glass RI.
         Vaccine. 2009 Nov 20;27 (Suppl 5):F61-6.
         
     16. The epidemiology of upper extremity musculoskeletal symptoms on a college campus
         Menendez CC, Amick Iii BC, Joe Chang CH, Dennerlein JT, Harrist RB, Jenkins M, Robertson M, Katz JN.
         Work. 2009 ;34(4):401-8.
         
     17. Evaluation of two posture survey instruments for assessing computing postures among college students
         Menendez CC, Amick Iii BC, Joe Chang CH, Harrist RB, Jenkins M, Robertson M, Janowitz I, Rempel DM, Katz JN, Dennerlein JT.
         Work. 2009 ;34(4):421-30.
         
   • Genetics and Genomics
     18. Genomic medicine and racial/ethnic health disparities: promises, perils, and the challenges for health care and public health policy
         Moonesinghe R, Jones W, Honore PA, Truman BI, Graham G.
         Ethn Dis. 2009 Autumn;19(4):473-8.
         
     19. The cost-effectiveness of genetic testing strategies for Lynch syndrome among newly diagnosed patients with colorectal cancer
         Mvundura M, Grosse SD, Hampel H, Palomaki GE.
         Genet Med. 2010 Jan 15.
         
     20. Human genomics and preparedness for infectious threats
         Dowling NF, Gwinn M, Mawle A.
         Genome Med. 2009 ;1(12):119.
         
     21. Ancient common ancestry of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
         Carroll SA, Bird BH, Rollin PE, Nichol ST.
         Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2010 Jan 11.
         
     22. First isolation of an H1N1 avian influenza virus from wild terrestrial non-migratory birds in Argentina
         Alvarez P, Mattiello R, Rivailler P, Pereda A, Davis CT, Boado L, D'Ambrosio E, Aguirre S, Espinosa C, La Torre J, Donis R, Mattion N.
         Virology. 2010 Jan 5;396(1):76-84.
         
   • Health Behavior and Risk
     23. Familial and cultural influences on sexual risk behaviors among Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Dominican youth
         Guilamo-Ramos V, Bouris A, Jaccard J, Lesesne C, Ballan M.
         AIDS Educ Prev. 2009 Oct;21(5 Suppl):61-79.
         
     24. Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding influenza prevention and control measures among Hispanics in San Diego County--2006
         Bethel JW, Waterman SH.
         Ethn Dis. 2009 Autumn;19(4):377-83.
         
   • Health Disparities
     25. Health care coverage and the health care industry
         Chou CF, Johnson PJ, Ward A, Blewett LA.
         Am J Public Health. 2009 Dec;99(12):2282-8.
         
   • Healthcare Economics
     26. The personal financial burden of cancer for the working-aged population
         Finkelstein EA, Tangka FK, Trogdon JG, Sabatino SA, Richardson LC.
         Am J Manag Care. 2009 Nov;15(11):801-6.
         
   • Immunity and Immunization
     27. Sustained reductions in invasive pneumococcal disease in the era of conjugate vaccine
         Pilishvili T, Lexau C, Farley MM, Hadler J, Harrison LH, Bennett NM, Reingold A, Thomas A, Schaffner W, Craig AS, Smith PJ, Beall BW, Whitney CG, Moore MR, Active Bacterial Core Surveillance/Emerging Infections Program Network.
         J Infect Dis. 2010 Jan 1;201(1):32-41.
         
     28. Importance of background rates of disease in assessment of vaccine safety during mass immunisation with pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccines
         Black S, Eskola J, Siegrist CA, Halsey N, Macdonald N, Law B, Miller E, Andrews N, Stowe J, Salmon D, Vannice K, Izurieta HS, Akhtar A, Gold M, Oselka G, Zuber P, Pfeifer D, Vellozzi C.
         Lancet. 2009 Oct 30;374(9707):2115-22.
         
     29. Safety assessment of recalled Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccines-United States, 2007-2008
         Huang WT, Chang S, Miller ER, Woo EJ, Hoffmaster AR, Gee JE, Clark TA, Iskander JK, Ball R, Broder KR.
         Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2010 Jan 18.
         
     30. Development and characterization of candidate rotavirus vaccine strains derived from children with diarrhoea in Vietnam
         Luan le T, Trang NV, Phuong NM, Nguyen HT, Ngo HT, Tran HB, Dang HN, Dang AD, Gentsch JR, Wang Y, Esona MD, Glass RI, Steele AD, Kilgore PE, Nguyen MV, Jiang B, Nguyen HD.
         Vaccine. 2009 Nov 20;27 Suppl 5:F130-8.
         
     31. Evaluation of rotavirus vaccines in Asia--are there lessons to be learnt?
         Mirzayeva R, Steele AD, Parashar UD, Zaman K, Neuzil KM, Nelson EA.
         Vaccine. 2009 Nov 20;27 Suppl 5:F120-9.
         
   • Injury and Violence
     32. It wouldn't hurt to create a safer military
         Sleet DA, Baldwin G.
         Am J Prev Med. 2010 Jan;38(1):S218-21.
         
     33. Precipitating circumstances of suicide among women of reproductive age in 16 U.S. States, 2003-2007
         Ortega LA, Karch D.
         J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2010 Jan;19(1):5-7.
         
   • Laboratory Sciences
     34. Diagnosis of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis by antigen detection
         Swartzentruber S, Rhodes L, Kurkjian K, Zahn M, Brandt ME, Connolly P, Wheat LJ.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Dec 15;49(12):1878-82.
         
     35. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles induce JB6 cell apoptosis through activation of the caspase-8/Bid and mitochondrial pathways
         Zhao J, Bowman L, Zhang X, Vallyathan V, Young SH, Castranova V, Ding M.
         J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2009 ;72(19):1141-9.
         
     36. Application of proteomics methods for pathogen discovery
         Ye Y, Mar EC, Tong S, Sammons S, Fang S, Anderson LJ, Wang D.
         J Virol Methods. 2010 Jan;163(1):87-95.
         
   • Maternal and Child Health
     37. Universal newborn hearing screening and beyond
         Biernath KR, Montero DP, Mehl A, Toomey KE.
         Am Fam Physician. 2010 Jan 15;81(2):124.
         
     38. Use of oral contraceptives in pregnancy and major structural birth defects in offspring
         Waller DK, Gallaway MS, Taylor LG, Ramadhani TA, Canfield MA, Scheuerle A, Hernandez-Diaz S, Louik C, Correa A, National Birth Defects Prevention Study.
         Epidemiology. 2010 Jan 16.
         
     39. Sites of initial bleeding episodes, mode of delivery and age of diagnosis in babies with haemophilia diagnosed before the age of 2 years: a report from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Universal Data Collection (UDC) project
         Kulkarni R, Soucie JM, Lusher J, Presley R, Shapiro A, Gill J, Manco-Johnson M, Koerper M, Mathew P, Abshire T, Dimichele D, Hoots K, Janco R, Nugent D, Geraghty S, Evatt B.
         Haemophilia. 2009 Nov;15(6):1281-90.
         
     40. Use of intravenous fluids in Hong Kong children hospitalised for diarrhoea and relationship to severity and aetiology
         Chow CM, Choi K, Nelson EA, Chan PK, Mast TC, DiStefano D, Tam JS, Bresee JS.
         Vaccine. 2009 Nov 20;27 Suppl 5:F55-60.
         
   • Medicine
     41. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 40-2009. A 29-year-old man with fever and respiratory failure
         Uyeki TM, Sharma A, Branda JA.
         N Engl J Med. 2009 Dec 24;361(26):2558-69.
         
   • Occupational Safety and Health
     42. Concurrent silicosis and pulmonary mycosis at death
         Iossifova Y, Bailey R, Wood J, Kreiss K.
         Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Feb;16(2):Epub Ahead of Print.
         
   • Public Health Leadership and Management
     43. Examining the role of gender in career advancement at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
         Chen Z, Roy K, Gotway Crawford CA.
         Am J Public Health. 2010 Jan 14.
         
   • Social and Behavioral Sciences
     44. Smoking among adults reporting lifetime depression, anxiety, anxiety with depression, and major depressive episode, United States, 2005-2006
         Trosclair A, Dube SR.
         Addict Behav. 2009 Dec 21.
         
   • Vital Statistics
     45. Expanded health data from the new birth certificate, 2006
         Osterman MJ, Martin JA, Menacker F.
         Natl Vital Stat Rep. 2009 Oct 28;58(5):1-24.
         
   • Zoonoses
     46. Recent multistate outbreaks of human salmonella infections acquired from turtles: A continuing public health challenge
         Harris JR, Neil KP, Behravesh CB, Sotir MJ, Angulo FJ.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Jan 19.
         
     47. Increasing incidence of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in a population-based study in Bangladesh
         Rahman KM, Islam S, Rahman MW, Kenah E, Galive CM, Zahid MM, Maguire J, Rahman M, Haque R, Luby SP, Bern C.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Jan 1;50(1):73-6.
         
     48. Rickettsia 364D: a newly recognized cause of eschar-associated illness in California
         Shapiro MR, Fritz CL, Tait K, Paddock CD, Nicholson WL, Abramowicz KF, Karpathy SE, Dasch GA, Sumner JW, Adem PV, Scott JJ, Padgett KA, Zaki SR, Eremeeva ME.
         Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Jan 14.
         
     49. Spotted fever rickettsiae, Ehrlichia and Anaplasma, in ticks from peridomestic environments in Panama
         Eremeeva ME, Karpathy SE, Levin ML, Caballero CM, Bermudez S, Dasch GA, Motta JA.
         Clin Microbiol Infect. 2009 Dec;15(s2):12-4.
         
     50. Detection of Rickettsia felis and Rickettsia typhi in an area of California endemic for murine typhus
         Karpathy SE, Hayes EK, Williams AM, Hu R, Krueger L, Bennett S, Tilzer A, Velten RK, Kerr N, Moore W, Eremeeva ME.
         Clin Microbiol Infect. 2009 Dec;15(s2):218-9.
         
2. Public Health Articles Noted in the Media
   • MMWR in the Media
     51. Prevalence of abnormal lipid levels among youths --- United States, 1999--2006
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2010 Jan 22;59(2):29-33.
         
     52. Update: influenza activity --- United States, August 30, 2009--January 9, 2010
         MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2010 Jan 22;59(2):38-43.
         
   • Chronic Diseases and Conditions
     53. Effects of aerobic exercise on mild cognitive impairment: a controlled trial
         Baker LD, Frank LL, Foster-Schubert K, Green PS, Wilkinson CW, McTiernan A, Plymate SR, Fishel MA, Watson GS, Cholerton BA, Duncan GE, Mehta PD, Craft S.
         Arch Neurol. 2010 Jan;67(1):71-9.
         
     54. Physical exercise, aging, and mild cognitive impairment: a population-based study
         Geda YE, Roberts RO, Knopman DS, Christianson TJ, Pankratz VS, Ivnik RJ, Boeve BF, Tangalos EG, Petersen RC, Rocca WA.
         Arch Neurol. 2010 Jan;67(1):80-6.
         
     55. Epidemiology of diabetes mellitus among First Nations and non-First Nations adults
         Dyck R, Osgood N, Lin TH, Gao A, Stang MR.
         CMAJ. 2010 Jan 19.
         
     56. Projected effect of dietary salt reductions on future cardiovascular disease
         Bibbins-Domingo K, Chertow GM, Coxson PG, Moran A, Lightwood JM, Pletcher MJ, Goldman L.
         N Engl J Med. 2010 Jan 20.
         
     57. Race- and sex-specific associations of obesity measures with ischemic stroke incidence in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
         Yatsuya H, Folsom AR, Yamagishi K, North KE, Brancati FL, Stevens J, ARIC Study Investigators.
         Stroke. 2010 Jan 14.
         
   • Communicable Diseases
     58. Incidence of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 infection in England: a cross-sectional serological study
         Miller E, Hoschler K, Hardelid P, Stanford E, Andrews N, Zambon M.
         Lancet. 2010 Jan 21.
         
   • Environmental Health
     59. Association between serum perfluoroctanoic acid (PFOA) and thyroid disease in the NHANES study
         Melzer D, Rice N, Depledge MH, Henley WE, Galloway TS.
         Environ Health Perspect. 2010 Jan 7.
         
   • Maternal and Child Health
     60. Trends in birth weight and gestational length among singleton term births in the United States: 1990-2005
         Donahue S, Kleinman KP, Gillman MW, Oken E.
         Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Feb;115(2, Part 1):357-64.
         

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