2025
Depression and Low Social Support Mediate the Association of Marital Stress and 12-Month Cardiac-Specific Quality of Life in Young Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction
Zhu C, Dreyer R, Li F, Spatz E, Caraballo C, Mahajan S, Raparelli V, Leifheit E, Lu Y, Krumholz H, Spertus J, D’Onofrio G, Pilote L, Lichtman J. Depression and Low Social Support Mediate the Association of Marital Stress and 12-Month Cardiac-Specific Quality of Life in Young Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Biopsychosocial Science And Medicine 2025, 87: 129-137. PMID: 39909011, DOI: 10.1097/psy.0000000000001363.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLow social supportCardiac-specific quality of lifeNatural direct effectSocial supportMonths post-AMIQuality of lifeAcute myocardial infarctionMarital stressComprehensive secondary preventive strategySignificant depressive symptomsPost-AMISecondary prevention strategiesYoung adultsMyocardial infarctionSociodemographic factorsDepressive symptomsAMI survivorsCovariate adjustmentPrevention strategiesSelf-reportContinuous scoresQoLBaseline QoLCategorical depressionDepressionWeighting methods for truncation by death in cluster-randomized trials
Isenberg D, Harhay M, Mitra N, Li F. Weighting methods for truncation by death in cluster-randomized trials. Statistical Methods In Medical Research 2025, 34: 473-489. PMID: 39885759, PMCID: PMC11951466, DOI: 10.1177/09622802241309348.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSurvivor average causal effectAverage causal effectCluster randomized trialAsymptotic variance estimatorsSubgroup treatment effectsCausal effectsPrincipal stratification frameworkFinite-sampleVariance estimationDistributional assumptionsIdentification assumptionsStratification frameworkPatient-centered outcomesNon-mortality outcomesOutcome modelQuality of lifeRandomized trialsIll patient populationMeasurement time pointsTruncationEstimationLength of hospital stayAssumptionsSurvivorsPatient population
2021
Black Women Are More Likely Than White Women to Schedule a Uterine-Sparing Treatment for Leiomyomas
Wegienka G, Stewart E, Nicholson W, Zhang S, Li F, Thomas L, Spies J, Venable S, Laughlin-Tommaso S, Diamond M, Anchan R, Maxwell G, Marsh E, Myers E, Vines A, Wise L, Wallace K, Jacoby V. Black Women Are More Likely Than White Women to Schedule a Uterine-Sparing Treatment for Leiomyomas. Journal Of Women's Health 2021, 30: 355-366. PMID: 33524308, DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2020.8634.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUterine fibroidsWhite womenBlack womenUterine-sparing treatmentClinical sitesTertiary care centerPatients' medical recordsRandom effects logistic regressionTreatment RegistryHysterectomyUF symptomsSubgroup analysisTreatment selectionConclusion:</i></b>Quality of lifeWorse symptomsMedical recordsCare centerMyomectomyLogistic regressionWomenResults:</i></b>Evaluate differencesTreatmentWhite counterparts
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