2022
Depression, Anxiety, and Patterns of Mental Health Care Among Men With Prostate Cancer Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy
Tsao P, Ross R, Bohnert A, Mukherjee B, Caram M. Depression, Anxiety, and Patterns of Mental Health Care Among Men With Prostate Cancer Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy. The Oncologist 2022, 27: 314-322. PMID: 35298660, PMCID: PMC8982372, DOI: 10.1093/oncolo/oyab033.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAndrogen deprivation therapyMental health careProstate cancerMental health treatmentDiagnosis of depressionHealth careOptum's de-identified Clinformatics Data Mart DatabaseProstate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapyInitiation of androgen deprivation therapyHealth treatmentPatterns of mental health careClinformatics Data Mart DatabaseSerotonin reuptake inhibitorsAnxiety diagnosesPsychotropic medicationsSpecialty of providersData Mart DatabasePrimary care physiciansPrescribing of psychotropic medicationsIncidence of depressionProportion of menDeprivation therapyReuptake inhibitorsMedian timeProstate
2020
Associations of Perfluoroalkyl Substances with Incident Natural Menopause: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation
Ding N, Harlow S, Randolph J, Calafat A, Mukherjee B, Batterman S, Gold E, Park S. Associations of Perfluoroalkyl Substances with Incident Natural Menopause: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation. The Journal Of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2020, 105: dgaa303. PMID: 32491182, PMCID: PMC7418447, DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa303.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStudy of Women's HealthNatural menopauseHazard ratioSerum concentrationsWomen's HealthCohort of midlife womenConfidence intervalsCalculate hazard ratiosAdverse health outcomesPFAS serum concentrationsMonths of amenorrheaAssociation of perfluoroalkyl substancesEarly natural menopauseBaseline serum concentrationsCox proportional hazards modelsAssociated with earlier natural menopauseIsotope dilution tandem mass spectrometryHealth outcomesProportional hazards modelReverse causationBleeding episodesMidlife womenLowest tertileMedian timeHormone use
2019
High plasma concentrations of organic pollutants negatively impact survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Goutman S, Boss J, Patterson A, Mukherjee B, Batterman S, Feldman E. High plasma concentrations of organic pollutants negatively impact survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal Of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2019, 90: 907. PMID: 30760645, PMCID: PMC6625908, DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2018-319785.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPersistent organic pollutantsPolychlorinated biphenylsHigh concentrations of persistent organic pollutantsAmyotrophic lateral sclerosisConcentrations of persistent organic pollutantsEffects of persistent organic pollutantsMeasurement of persistent organic pollutantsHazard rate of mortalitySymptom onset to diagnosisMedian diagnostic ageNegatively impacts survivalLowest quartileIndependent of ageOrganic pollutantsSummary measuresMedian timeClinical featuresMedical recordsRate of mortalityDiagnostic ageEnvironmental exposuresBulbar onsetALS diseaseCervical onsetPlasma concentrations