Exercise capacity and body composition as predictors of mortality among men with diabetes

TS Church, YJ Cheng, CP Earnest, CE Barlow… - Diabetes …, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE—To quantify the relation of fitness to mortality among men with diabetes,
adjusted for BMI and within levels of BMI. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—In this …

Associations between cardiorespiratory fitness and C-reactive protein in men

TS Church, CE Barlow, CP Earnest… - … , and vascular biology, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
Objective—This study examined the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and C-
reactive protein (CRP), with adjustment for weight and within weight categories. Methods …

Association of cardiorespiratory fitness, body mass index, and waist circumference to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

TS Church, JL Kuk, R Ross, EL Priest, E Biltoff, SN Blair - Gastroenterology, 2006 - Elsevier
Background & Aims: There is a need for more work examining the potential of physical
activity and/or weight control as a preventive and/or therapeutic option in the treatment of …

A review of multifaceted care approaches for the prevention and mitigation of delirium in intensive care units

AW Collinsworth, EL Priest… - Journal of intensive …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: The objective of this review is to examine the effectiveness, implementation, and
costs of multifaceted care approaches, including care bundles, for the prevention and …

The impact of patient education and shared decision making on hospital readmissions for COPD

AW Collinsworth, RM Brown, CS James… - … Journal of Chronic …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Education on the self-management of COPD has been shown to improve patients'
quality of life and reduce hospital admissions. This study aimed to assess the feasibility of a …

Multicenter validation of American Association for the Surgery of Trauma grading system for acute colonic diverticulitis and its use for emergency general surgery …

S Shafi, EL Priest, ML Crandall, CS Klekar… - Journal of Trauma …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) has developed
a new grading system for uniform description of anatomic severity of emergency general …

Obesity, macrophage migration inhibitory factor, and weight loss

TS Church, MS Willis, EL Priest, MJ Lamonte… - International Journal of …, 2005 - nature.com
OBJECTIVE: Elevated macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) has been implicated as
a causal mechanism in a number of disease conditions including cardiovascular disease …

Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of the ABCDE bundle: impact of bundle adherence on inpatient and 1-year mortality and costs of care

AW Collinsworth, EL Priest, AL Masica - Critical care medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Growing evidence supports the Awakening and Breathing Coordination,
Delirium monitoring/management, and Early exercise/mobility (ABCDE) bundle processes …

Secretion of the fungal toxin candidalysin is dependent on conserved precursor peptide sequences

R Müller, A König, S Groth, R Zarnowski, C Visser… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida albicans damages host cells via its peptide
toxin, candidalysin. Before secretion, candidalysin is embedded in a precursor protein …

Association of white blood cell subfraction concentration with fitness and fatness

NM Johannsen, EL Priest, VD Dixit… - British journal of sports …, 2010 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objective To examine the association between fitness, BMI, and neutrophil, lymphocyte,
monocyte, basophil, and eosinophil concentrations in apparently healthy, non-smoking men …