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By providing a strong scientific foundation, the Health Sciences Department at BU Sargent College prepares students for a wide range of careers in the health professions – from the public sector to private industry, from clinical practice to research and academia.
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Feasibility and acceptability of dietary intake assessment via 24-hour recall and food frequency questionnaire among women with low socioeconomic status
(Elsevier, 2018-02-01)BACKGROUND: Comprehensive evaluation of dietary interventions depends on effective and efficient measurement to quantify behavior change. To date, little is known regarding which self-reported measure of dietary intake ... -
Functional status in ICU survivors and out of hospital outcomes: a cohort study.
(2016-05)OBJECTIVES: Functional status at hospital discharge may be a risk factor for adverse events among survivors of critical illness. We sought to examine the association between functional status at hospital discharge in ... -
Metabolome alterations in severe critical illness and vitamin D status
BACKGROUND: Metabolic homeostasis is substantially disrupted in critical illness. Given the pleiotropic effects of vitamin D, we hypothesized that metabolic profiles differ between critically ill patients relative to their ... -
Vascular smooth muscle Sirtuin-1 protects against aortic dissection during Angiotensin II-induced hypertension
(2015-09-16)BACKGROUND: Sirtuin-1 (SirT1), a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent deacetylase, is a key enzyme in the cellular response to metabolic, inflammatory, and oxidative stresses; however, the role of endogenous SirT1 ... -
Parallel trends in cortical gray and white matter architecture and connections in primates allow fine study of pathways in humans and reveal network disruptions in autism
(2018-02)Noninvasive imaging and tractography methods have yielded information on broad communication networks but lack resolution to delineate intralaminar cortical and subcortical pathways in humans. An important unanswered ... -
Home birth midwifery in the United States: evolutionary origins and modern challenges
(2016-12)Human childbirth is distinct in requiring-or at least strongly profiting from-the assistance of a knowledgeable attendant to support the mother during birth. With economic modernization, the role of that attendant is ... -
Dopamine innervation in the thalamus: monkey versus rat
(2009-02)We recently identified the thalamic dopaminergic system in the human and macaque monkey brains, and, based on earlier reports on the paucity of dopamine in the rat thalamus, hypothesized that this dopaminergic system was ...
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