Noel S. Weiss's research while affiliated with Trinity Washington University and other places
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Publications (732)
Purpose
The incidence of endometrial cancer (EC) has been increasing faster among Black women than among other racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Although the mortality rate is nearly twice as high among Black than White women, there is a paucity of literature on risk factors for EC among Black women, particularly regarding menopausal hormo...
Background:
Few empirical data are available to inform older adults' decisions about whether to screen or continue screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) based on their prior history of screening, particularly among individuals with a prior negative exam.
Methods:
Using a retrospective cohort of older adults receiving healthcare at three Kaiser P...
Background:
Pain may be a modifiable risk factor for lower health-related quality of life after pediatric critical illness.
Aim:
To evaluate the association between severe pain experienced in the (pediatrc intensive care unit) and postdischarge health-related quality of life.
Methods:
This was a retrospective cohort study. Children aged 1 mont...
Rationale & Objective
Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are subject to physical and psychosocial challenges which may confer a greater risk of developing psychiatric disorders. We sought to examine key psychiatric diagnoses in children with CKD compared to the general pediatric population and assess correlation between parent-reported diag...
The objective of this article was to identify demographic and clinical factors associated with early recurrent arrest (RA) (<48 hours) and late RA (≥48 hours) among pediatric inpatients following an initial in-hospital cardiac arrest. A retrospective cohort study of inpatients was performed in a free-standing academic quaternary care children's hos...
Objective
To evaluate the association between hyperoxia in the first 24 hours after in-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest and mortality and poor neurological outcome.
Methods
This is a retrospective cohort study of inpatients in a freestanding children’s hospital. We included all patients younger than 18 years of age with in-hospital cardiac arrest...
Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests may soon be available to screen for many cancers using a single blood test, yet little is known about these tests beyond their diagnostic performance. Taking lessons from the history of cancer early detection, we highlight three factors that influence how performance of early detection tests translates into...
Purpose:
The aim of the study was to evaluate the association of antidepressant continuation in pregnancy with infant birth weight among women using antidepressants before pregnancy.
Methods:
This retrospective cohort study used electronic health data linked with state birth records. We identified singleton live births (2001-2014) to enrolled wo...
Objective:
While persons in the upper fourth or fifth of the distribution of serum levels of N-terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) are at a sharply increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation, their absolute risk of this condition (about 20 per 1000 per year) is not clearly high enough to justify prevention or early detection...
In studies of cancer risk, detection bias arises when risk factors are associated with screening patterns, affecting the likelihood and timing of diagnosis. To eliminate detection bias in a screened cohort, we propose modeling the latent onset of cancer and estimating the association between risk factors and onset rather than diagnosis. We apply th...
Rational & Objective
The clearance of protein-bound solutes by the proximal tubules is an innate kidney mechanism for removing putative uremic toxins that could exert cardiovascular toxicity in humans. However, potential associations between impaired kidney clearances of secretory solutes and cardiovascular events among patients with chronic kidney...
Background
: Transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is a complication of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) that often occurs follow the development of acute graft versus host disease (aGVHD).
Objectives
: We aim to identify early TMA biomarkers among patients with aGVHD.
Study Design
: We performed a nested-case...
Background
Case-fatality from COVID-19 has been reported to be relatively high in patients age 65 years or older. We sought to determine the age-specific rates of COVID-19 mortality at the population level.
Methods
We obtained information regarding the total number of COVID-19 reported deaths for six consecutive weeks beginning at the 50th recorde...
Background:
β-Hemolytic streptococci are frequently implicated in necrotizing soft-tissue infections (NSTIs). Clindamycin administration may improve outcomes in patients with serious streptococcal infections. However, clindamycin resistance is growing worldwide, and resistance patterns in NSTIs and their impact on outcomes are unknown.
Methods:...
Background and Aims
Patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection routinely undergo screening for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the efficacy of screening remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate the impact of screening with ultrasound (USS) and/or serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) on HCC-related mortality in patients with CHB.
Methods
We perfor...
Background and aims:
At present, surveillance strategy for pre-malignant esophageal lesions in China is based solely on the pathologic diagnosis in Lugol's chromoendoscopy (LCE). In this study, we sought to determine the degree to which various unstained features under LCE may lead to improved ability to predict the risk of progression in esophage...
Concerns about SARS-CoV-2 exposure in healthcare settings may cause patients to delay care. Among 2992 patients testing negative on admission to an academic, three-hospital system, 8 tested positive during hospitalization or within 14 days post-discharge. Following adjudication of each instance, healthcare-associated infection incidence ranged from...
Conducting case–control studies using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) has the potential to introduce selection bias and misclassification through control selection. Some studies that use NVDRS compare groups of individuals who died by one mechanism, intent or circumstance, to individuals who died by another mechanism, intent or...
Objective Both excessive and inadequate gestational weight gain (GWG) are associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her child. Antidepressant use in pregnancy could affect GWG, based on evidence in nonpregnant women that some antidepressants may cause weight gain and others weight loss. Previous studies of antidepressant use and GWG...
Using data for 20,912 patients from two large academic health systems, we analyzed the frequency of SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test-discordance among individuals initially testing negative by nasopharyngeal swab who were retested on clinical grounds within 7 days. The frequency of subsequent positivity within this window was 3.5% and similar across institut...
Objective:
To examine whether receiving a fecal occult blood test after a negative sigmoidoscopy reduced mortality from colorectal cancer.
Methods:
We used a nested case-control design with incidence-density matching in historical cohorts of 1,877,740 50-90-year-old persons during 2006-2012, in an integrated health-system setting. We selected 17...
Background: SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing remains the cornerstone of laboratory-based identification of patients with COVID-19. As the availability and speed of SARS-CoV-2 testing platforms improve, results are increasingly relied upon to inform critical decisions related to therapy, use of personal pro...
Background
Flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy are both recommended colorectal cancer screening options, but their relative effectiveness needs clarification. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy for reduction of colorectal cancer incidence.
Methods
We conducted a case-control study wi...
Disclosures:
Schmidt: Kypha Inc: Employment, Equity Ownership. Lee:Incyte: Research Funding; Syndax: Research Funding; Amgen: Research Funding; Novartis: Research Funding; Takeda: Research Funding; Kadmon: Consultancy, Research Funding; Pfizer: Consultancy, Research Funding; AstraZeneca: Research Funding.
Some forms of cancer screening have the potential to reduce cancer incidence, if the screening modality can identify not only a malignancy but a treatable premalignant condition (such as a colon polyp) as well. Cohort studies of the efficacy of these forms of screening in reducing the incidence of cancer face many challenges, notably the difficulty...
Purpose:
Previous studies observed modestly higher risk of gestational diabetes (GDM) associated with antidepressant use in pregnancy, potentially due to confounding by indication. We assessed the association of antidepressant continuation in pregnancy with GDM, as well as blood glucose levels, after accounting for confounding.
Methods:
We condu...
Purpose
Colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy are both recommended colorectal cancer (CRC) screening strategies, but their relative effectiveness is unclear. We sought to evaluate the ability of each of these two modalities to reduce CRC mortality.
Methods
We conducted a case-control study using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SE...
Objective:
To examine associations between post-diagnosis use of antihypertensive (AH) medications including thiazide diuretics (TDs), angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs), beta blockers (BBs) [both non-selective (NSBBs) and selective (SBBs)] and calcium channel blockers (CCBs) and ovarian cancer-specific survival.
Methods:
This coho...
Background: It has been suggested that the likelihood of survival among women with ovarian cancer could be increased by postdiagnosis statin use. This study examines the potential association between postdiagnosis statin use and cancer-specific mortality among women with ovarian cancer.
Methods: This cohort study used SEER-Medicare data on women ≥6...
Background
Chili peppers have properties that plausibly could either increase or decrease a person’s risk of developing colorectal cancer, but their consumption in relation to disease risk has not been well studied. We sought to explore the association between chili peppers intake and the risk of colorectal cancer.
Methods
Eight hundred subjects (...
Evidence is required to evaluate the effectiveness of population-level endoscopic screening for esophageal cancer (EC). In this study, 5,632 permanent residents aged 25-65 years from 6 villages in Hua County, Henan Province, China, were defined as the screening cohort and were offered intensive endoscopic screening. Residents of all 914 remaining v...
Case-control studies evaluating a screening test's efficacy in reducing cancer mortality require accurate classification of test indication to obtain a valid result. However, for analogous studies of cancer incidence, determination of test indication is not as critical because, to define exposure, we need consider only tests that can identify precu...
In cohort studies, “immortal time” bias refers to a portion of time during which events cannot occur for a particular group of participants. Typically, immortal time bias occurs when: 1) Exposure can be initiated after follow-up of cohort members has begun; and 2) analytically, the preexposure experience is combined with that which takes place foll...
Patients on extracorporeal life support (ECLS) are at risk for central nervous system (CNS) injury. One potentially modifiable risk factor is site of arterial cannulation in venoarterial (VA) ECLS, as in most cases one can choose the femoral or carotid artery. There is acute alteration in cerebral blood flow with carotid cannulation, potentially in...
Purpose
Tamoxifen is widely used to reduce the risk of breast cancer (BC) recurrence and extend disease-free survival among women with estrogen-sensitive breast cancers. Tamoxifen efficacy is thought to be attributable to its active metabolite, which is formed through a reaction catalyzed by the P450 enzyme, CYP2D6. Inhibition of tamoxifen metaboli...
Purpose
We examined serious long-term outcomes among childhood cancer survivors using population-based data.
Methods
We used 1982–2014 Washington State data to compare hospitalization and/or death (including cause-specific) during up to 27 years follow-up among all 5+ year childhood cancer survivors < 20 years at diagnosis (n = 3,152) and a sample...
Transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA-TMA) after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) has not been well characterized in large population studies with clinically adjudicated cases. We performed a retrospective cohort study of adults who underwent allogeneic HCT between 2006 and 2015 to determine the incidence of and ri...
Background:
Experimental and clinical evidence implicates testosterone in the aetiology of prostate cancer. Variation across the normal range of circulating free testosterone concentrations may not lead to changes in prostate biology, unless circulating concentrations are low. This may also apply to prostate cancer risk, but this has not been inve...
Background & aims:
Screening patients with cirrhosis for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been recommended. We conducted a matched case-control study within the US Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system to determine whether screening by abdominal ultrasonography (USS) and/or by measuring serum level of alpha fetoprotein (AFP) is associated with...
Objective:
To determine the occurrence of clinical peripheral artery disease in a cohort of middle-aged and older persons who, though they initially had no symptoms of peripheral artery disease, had blood pressure levels in the arteries of their ankles and feet that were at least 10% lower than those in the arteries of their arms.
Methods:
We an...
Introduction:
The development of de novo donor-specific antibodies (dnDSA) has been associated with rejection and graft loss in kidney transplantation, and DSA screening is now recommended in all kidney transplant recipients. However, the clinical significance of dnDSA detected by screening patients with a stable creatinine remains unclear.
Metho...
Background
Histamine H2 receptor activation promotes cardiac fibrosis and apoptosis in mice. However, the potential effectiveness of histamine H2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs) in humans with heart failure is largely unknown. We examined the association between H2RA initiation and all-cause mortality among patients with heart failure.
Methods
Using...
To the Editor In their recent article in JAMA Dermatology, Patel et al¹ describe the prevalence of thyroid disorders among subgroups of children with alopecia areata (eg, those with Down syndrome), and interpret the findings as justification for screening such children. Unfortunately, the authors did not attempt to exclude children presenting with...
We evaluated the frequency of chronic school absenteeism (≥18 missed school days per year) among children with mild-to-moderate chronic kidney disease. Chronic absenteeism was present in 17.3% of children with chronic kidney disease, compared with 2.7% of children in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Purpose:
The purpose of the study is to determine if the use of a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) is associated with an increased fracture risk, as some prior studies have suggested.
Methods:
This retrospective cohort study included data on 4438 participants aged 65 and older who had no fracture in the year prior to baseline and had ≥5 years of enro...
Background:
Increased risk of adverse birth outcomes is well described in women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but risk of maternal or infant infection in the peripartum period has not been well studied. We conducted a population-based cohort study of infection risk in women with and without SLE and their infants.
Methods:
Linked birth...
Background and objectives:
Diabetes is an important cause of CKD. However, among people with diabetes, it is unclear to what extent CKD is attributable to diabetes itself versus comorbid conditions, such as advanced age and hypertension. We examined associations of diabetes with clinical manifestations of CKD independent of age and BP and the exte...
Purpose:
DNA topoisomerase inhibitors are commonly used for treating small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase (TDP1) repairs DNA damage caused by this class of drugs and may therefore influence treatment outcome. In this study, we investigated whether common TDP1 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with overal...
Myocardial H2 receptor activation contributes to heart failure (HF) in preclinical models, and H2 receptor antagonists are associated with decreased HF incidence. This study evaluated whether H2 histamine receptor (HRH2) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with HF incidence and whether myocardial transcript abundance is associated...
The widely prescribed diabetes medicine metformin has been reported to lower the risk of incident breast cancer, but it is unclear if it affects malignant progression after diagnosis. In this study, we conducted a retrospective cohort study using the linked Surveillance, Epidemiology and End-Results (SEER)-Medicare database. Women were included in...
Background:
It is unclear if use of common antihypertensive medications influences the risk of adverse breast cancer outcomes.
Methods:
Using the linked Surveillance, Epidemiology and End-Results (SEER)-Medicare database, we identified 14,766 women between ages 66 and 80 years diagnosed with incident stage I/II breast cancer between 2007-2011. M...
To assess differences in the receipt of preventive health services by race/ethnicity among older women with endometrial cancer enrolled in Medicare, we conducted a retrospective population-based cohort study of women diagnosed with endometrial cancer from 2001 to 2011 in the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare database. Women...
Appendix S1. Preventative health and vaccine recommendations for adults > = 65 years.
Appendix S2. Codes for screening tests or procedures up to 5 years after endometrial cancer diagnosis.
Appendix S3. Causal diagram of potential confounders.
Objective:
The objective of the study was to evaluate the association between neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and long-term childhood morbidity and infant mortality.
Study design:
We conducted a cohort study of infants born in Washington State during 1990 to 2008 who were diagnosed with NAS (n=1900) or were unexposed (n=12,283, frequency matc...
Introduction: DNA topoisomerase inhibitors (e.g. etoposide, irinotecan, teniposide, topotecan) are commonly used for treating small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase () plays a role in repairing DNA damage caused by DNA topoisomerase inhibitors and it is believed to be responsible for resistance to this class of drugs. The purp...
A self-rating scale was developed to permit patient-reported, remote assessment of Parkinson’s disease symptom severity. The goal was to create a continuous outcome measure that does not require a clinical exam, does not fluctuate in response to dopaminergic medications, takes only a few minutes to complete, allows for stratification by symptom(s),...
In Reply We agree that the relevant question for women would be “how long should I delay conception after an operation?” rather than “how long should I delay birth after an operation?” However, the use of an operation-to-birth interval vs an operation-to-last-menstrual-period interval should not appreciably change risk estimates from the data obtai...
Background:
Lung transplantation (LTx) is frequently considered for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) when FEV1 reaches <30%. This study estimated transplant-free survival for CF patients and FEV1 <30% and identified predictors of death without LTx.
Methods:
We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the CF Foundation Patient Registry, 1/1...
Background:
Chronic lung diseases are increasingly recognized complications of vertically-acquired HIV among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa and may manifest with hypoxia or tachypnea. We sought to determine the prevalence of and risk factors for hypoxia and tachypnea among adolescents with vertically-acquired HIV in Nairobi, Kenya.
Methods:
W...
Acetaminophen has several pharmacologic properties that suggest it could be carcinogenic in human beings. A number of epidemiologic studies have been conducted to examine whether use of acetaminophen actually predisposes to the occurrence of one or more forms of cancer. There are inherent limitations to many of these studies, including the inaccura...
Pooled Risk Difference for fetal loss after 2-3rd trimester exposures to artemisinins, stratified by comparison group.
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Cochrane Bias Assessment of Randomized Controlled Trials.
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Given the high morbidity for mother and fetus associated with malaria in pregnancy, safe and efficacious drugs are needed for treatment. Artemisinin derivatives are the most effective antimalarials, but are associated with teratogenic and embryotoxic effects in animal models when used in early pregnancy. However, several organ systems are still und...
Clinical presentation of pregnant women upon enrollment from included studies.
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PICOTS Framework of the systematic search.
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Newcastle Ottawa Scale Assessing Bias in Cohort Studies.
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PubMed Search Strategy, Search Date June 15, 2015.
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Sensitivity analyses of pooled odds ratios using different modeling techniques and correction factors.
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Purpose:
Exposure to asbestos is thought to cause the large majority of pleural mesotheliomas in the USA. It is unknown whether asbestos exposure plays a role in the etiology of rarer forms of mesothelioma, e.g., those located in the pericardium or in the tunica vaginalis of the testis. In order to address this question, we sought to determine whe...
Importance:
Metabolic changes after maternal bariatric surgery may affect subsequent fetal development. Many relevant perinatal outcomes have not been studied in this postoperative population, and the risks associated with short operation-to-birth (OTB) intervals have not been well examined.
Objective:
To examine the risk for perinatal complicat...
Objective
Screening colonoscopy's effectiveness in reducing colorectal cancer mortality risk in community populations is unclear, particularly for right-colon cancers, leading to recommendations against its use for screening in some countries. This study aimed to determine whether, among average-risk people, receipt of screening colonoscopy reduces...
Importance:
Diabetic kidney disease is the leading cause of chronic and end-stage kidney disease in the United States and worldwide. Changes in demographics and treatments may affect the prevalence and clinical manifestations of diabetic kidney disease.
Objective:
To characterize the clinical manifestations of kidney disease among US adults with...
