2024
High Blood Pressure in Children Aged 3 to 12 Years Old With Overweight or Obesity
Nugent J, Maciejewski K, Finn E, Grout R, Wood C, Esserman D, Michel J, Lu Y, Sharifi M. High Blood Pressure in Children Aged 3 to 12 Years Old With Overweight or Obesity. Childhood Obesity 2024 PMID: 38700557, DOI: 10.1089/chi.2023.0143.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHypertensive BPHigh blood pressurePrevalence of high blood pressurePrimary care practicesAssociated with higher oddsUS health systemBlood pressureSustained hypertensionPre-intervention dataAged 3Multivariate logistic regressionStudy periodObesity practiceChildren aged 3Care practicesBMI classificationHealth systemBP percentilesHigher oddsDiagnosing sustained hypertensionObesity severityOverweight/obesityLogistic regressionHigh BPIII obesity
2018
Referral Strategies to a Tobacco Quitline and Racial and/or Ethnic Differences in Participation
Russo ET, Reid M, Taher R, Sharifi M, Shah SN. Referral Strategies to a Tobacco Quitline and Racial and/or Ethnic Differences in Participation. Pediatrics 2018, 141: s30-s39. PMID: 29292304, DOI: 10.1542/peds.2017-1026g.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCessation servicesReferral strategiesBehavioral Risk Factor Surveillance SurveyRisk Factor Surveillance SurveyQuitline participantsStudy periodCommunity health centersMedia campaignsSelf-referred participantsDental providersLarge-scale media campaignHispanic smokersTobacco quitlineDental clinicsSmoker characteristicsHealth centersTobacco useSurveillance SurveySmokersQuitlineDisproportionate burdenHispanic participantsDemographic characteristicsEthnic differencesDifferent subpopulations