2018
Findings of CT-Derived Bone Strength Assessment in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Undergoing CT Enterography in Clinical Practice
Maldonado FJ, Al Bawardy BF, Nehra AK, Lee YS, Bruining DH, Adkins MC, Keaveny TM, Johnson MP, Fidler JL, McCollough CH, Fletcher JG. Findings of CT-Derived Bone Strength Assessment in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Undergoing CT Enterography in Clinical Practice. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 2018, 25: 1072-1079. PMID: 30476314, DOI: 10.1093/ibd/izy341.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBiomechanical CT analysisBone mineral densityHigh fracture riskHigh-risk groupFracture riskCT enterographyIBD patientsFemoral neck bone mineral densityInflammatory bowel disease patientsNeck bone mineral densityWorld Health Organization classificationConsecutive IBD patientsFracture risk classificationBowel disease patientsFindings of CTMetabolic bone diseaseRetrospective reviewClinical featuresExact prevalenceDisease patientsOrganization classificationMineral densityBone diseasePatientsClinical practice
2015
Lack of Health Insurance Limits the Benefits of Hepatitis C Virus Screening: Insights from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Hepatitis C Follow-Up Study
Ditah I, Al Bawardy B, Gonzalez H, Saberi B, Ditah C, Kamath P, Charlton M. Lack of Health Insurance Limits the Benefits of Hepatitis C Virus Screening: Insights from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Hepatitis C Follow-Up Study. The American Journal Of Gastroenterology 2015, 110: 1126. PMID: 25756239, DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2015.31.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLack of health insuranceHealth insuranceHepatitis C virusHepatitis C virus screeningPublic health strategiesFollow-up interviewsHealth strategiesHCV careDownstream careScreening programGeneral populationHepatitis C virus infectionHepatitis C virus transmissionControl HCV infectionHCV-infected individualsPositive participantsCareInjected drugsParticipantsInsuranceHCV infectionC virusPotential complicationsPositive individualsScreening