Biostatistics Publications: 2017

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Publications of 2017

Harling G, Wang R, Onnela JP, De Gruttola V. Leveraging contact network structure in the design of cluster randomized trials. Clinical Trials 2017; 14(1): 37-47. 

Zhao YY, Weng J, Mobley DR, Wang R, Kwon Y, Zee PC, Lutsey PL, Redline S. Effect of manual editing of total recording time – implications for home sleep testing. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine 2017 13(1): 121-126.

Wang R, Dong Y, Weng J, Kontos EZ, Chervin RD, Rosen CL, Marcus CL, Redline S. Associations among neighborhood, race and sleep apnea severity in children: a six city analysis. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2017; 14(1):76-84.

Dudley KA, Weng J, Sotres-Alvarez D, Simoneli G, Cespedes E, Ramirez M, Ramos AR, Loredo JS, Reid KJ, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Zee PC, Chirinos DA, Gallo LC, Wang R, Patel SR.Actigraphic sleep patterns ofU.S. Hispanics: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos ancillary Sueño study. Sleep 2017; 40(2).

Kassanjee R, De Angelis D, Farah M, Hanson D, Labuschagne P, Laeyendecker O, Le Vu S, Tom B, Wang R, Welte A. Cross-sectional HIV incidence surveillance: A benchmarking of approaches for estimating the ‘Mean Duration of Recent Infection’. Statistics Communications in Infectious Diseases; published online March 14, 2017.

Moyo S, Wilkinson E, Vandormael A, Wang R, Weng J, Kotokwe KP, Gaseitsiwe S, Mudonda R, Essex M, Engelbrecht S, de Oliveira T, Novitsky V. Pairwise diversity and tMRCA as potential markers for HIV infection recency. Medicine 2017; 96(6):e6041. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000006041.

Yasmin M, Weng J, Wang R, Shaw PA, Jung M, Sotres-Alvarez D, Castaneda SF, Gallo LC, Gellman MD, Qi Q, Ramos AR, Reid KJ, Horn LV, Patel SR. Actigraphic sleep measures and diet quality in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sueno ancillary study. Journal of Sleep Research 2017; March 27, Epub ahead of print.

Zhao YY, Wang R, Lewis EF, Gleason KJ, Quan SF, Toth CM, Morrical M, Rueschman M, Weng J, Ware JH, Mittleman MA, Redline S, for the BestAIR Investigators. Effect of continuous positive airway pressure treatment on health-related quality of life and sleepiness in high cardiovascular risk individuals with sleep apnea: Best Apnea Interventions for Research (BestAIR) Trial. Sleep 2017; 40(4), p.zsx040.

Huvane J, Komarow L, Hill C, Tran TT, Pereira C, Rosenkranz SL, Finnemeyer M, Earley M, Jiang H, Wang R, Lok J, Evans SR, for the Statistical and Data Management Center of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG); Fundamentals and Catalytic Innovation: The Statistical and Data Management Center of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group. Clin Infect Dis 2017; 64 (suppl_1): S18-S doi: 10.1093/cid/ciw827

Wang R, DeGruttola V. The use of permutation tests for the analysis of parallel and stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trials. Statistics in Medicine 2017, Epub ahead of print May 2, 2017. doi: 1002/sim.7329.

Waksman R, Torguson R, Spad M, Garcia-Garcia H, Ware J, Wang R, Madden S, Shah P, Muller J. The lipid-rich plaque study of vulnerable plaques and vulnerable patients: study design and rationale. American Heart Journal 2017, 192: 98-104.

Lewis EF, Wang R, Punjabi N, Gottlieb DJ, Quan SF, Bhatt DL, Patel SR, Mehra R, Blumenthal RS, Weng J, Rueschman M, Redline S. Impact of continuous positive airway pressure and oxygen on health status in patients with coronary heart disease, cardiovascular risk factors, and obstructive sleep apnea: a HEARTBEAT analysis. American Heart Journal2017, 189: 59-67.

Yang KS, Im H, Hong S, Pergolini I, del Castillio AF, Wang R, Clardy S, Huang C, Pille C, Ferrone S, Yang R, Castro C, Lee H, del Castillo CF, Weissleder R. Multi-parametric plasma EV profiling facilitates diagnosis of pancreatic malignancy. Science Translational Medicine2017; May 24: 9(391), eaal3226.

Tung P, Levitzky YS, Wang R, Weng J, Quan SF, Gottlieb DJ, Rueschman M, Punjabi NM, Mehra R, Bertisch S, Benjamin EJ, Redline S. Obstructive and central sleep apnea and the risk of incident atrial fibrillation in a community cohort of men and women. Journal of the American Heart Association 2017, 6(7), pii:e004500.  

Mitchell JA, Quante M, Godbole S, James P, Hipp JA, Marinac CR, Mariani S, Cespedes Feliciano EM, Glanz K, Laden F, Wang R, Weng J, Redline S, Kerr J. Variation in actigraphy-estimated rest-activity patterns by demographic factors. Chronobiology International 2017, 34(8): 1042-1056.

Johnson DA, Lane J, Wang R, Reid M, Djonlagic I, Fitzpatrick AL, Rapp SR, Charles LE, O’Hara R, Saxena R, Redline S. Greater cognitive deficits with sleep-disordered breathing among individuals with genetic susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease: the multi-ethnic study of Atherosclerosis. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2017; 14(11):1697-1705.

Prague M, Wang R, De Gruttola V. CRTgeeDR: an R package for doubly robust generalized estimating equations estimations in cluster-randomized trials with missing data. The R Journal 2017; accepted for publication.

Quante M, Wang R, Weng J, Kaplan ER, Rueschman M, Taveras EL, Rifas-Shiman SL, Gillman MW, Redline S. Seasonal and weather variation of sleep and physical activity in 12-14-year old children. Behavioral Sleep Medicine 2017; accepted for publication.

Rhee C, Dantes R, Epstein L, Murphy DJ, Seymour CW, Iwashyna TJ, Kadri SS, Angus DC, Danner RL, Fiore A, Jernigan JA, Magill SS, Marin GS, Septimus E, Warren DK, Karcz A, Chan C, Menchaca JT, Wang R, Gruber S, Klompas M, for the CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Estimating the burden of sepsis in the United States using clinical data. JAMA2017; 318(13): 1241-1249.

Donovan L, Rueschman M, Weng J, Basu N, Dudley K, Bakker J, Wang R, Bertisch S, Patel S. The effectiveness of an obstructive sleep apnea screening and treatment program in patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2017; 134: 145-152. 

Colla CH., Morden NE., Sequist TD, Mainor AJ., Li Z., Rosenthal MB. Payer Type and Low-Value Care: Comparing Choosing Wisely Services Across Commerical and Medicare Populations.  Health Serv Res. 2017 Feb.

Wachterman M., ,Lipsitz S., Lorenz K., Marcantonio E., Li Z., Keating N.  End-of-Life Experience of Older Adults Dying of End-Stage Renal Disease: A Comparison With Cancer. J Pain Sympton Manage. 2017 Aug 24.

Plough A., Galvin G., Li Z., Lipsitz S., Alidina S., Henrich N., Hirschhorn L., Berry W., Gawande A., Peter D., McDonald R., Caldwell D., Muri J., Bingham D., Caughey A., Declercq E., and Shah N.  Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes. Obstetrics and Gynecology. Aug 2017.

Bleich SN., Vercammen KA., and Li Z. Trends in Beverage Consumption Among Children and Adults, 1999-2014.  Obesity (Silver Spring). 2017 Nov 14.

Molina G, Berry WR, Lipsitz S, Edmondson L, Li Z., N BA, Moonan AT, Gibbons L, Singer SJ, Haynes AB. Perception of Safety of Surgical Practice among Operating Room Personnel from Survey Data is Asscoiated with All-cause 30-day Postoperative Death Rate in South Carolina.  Annals of Surgery: June 2017.

Lin S, Young J, Logan R, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Vanderweele TJ. Parametric mediational g-formula approach to mediation analysis with time-varying exposures, mediators and confounders.  Epidemiology. 2017;28(2):266-274.

Zhang Y, Young JG, Thamer M, Hernán MA. Comparing the effectiveness of dynamic treatment strategies using electronic health records: an application of the parametric g-formula to anemia management strategies. Health Services Research.  2017 (In press). 

Lin S, Young J, Logan R, Vanderweele TJ. Mediation analysis for a survival outcome with time-varying exposures, mediators, and confounders. Statistics in Medicine. 2017;36(26):4153-4166.

Cocoros NM, Priebe G, Gray JE, Toltzis P, Larsen GY, Logan LK, Coffin S, Sammons JS, Deakins K, Horan K, Lakoma M, Young J, Burton M, Klompas M, Lee GM. Factors Associated With Pediatric Ventilator-Associated Conditions in Six U.S. Hospitals: A Nested Case-Control Study. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2017; 18(11):e536-e545.

Li LJ, Rifas-Shiman S, Aris I, Young J, Mantzoros C, Hivert MF, Oken E. Associations of Maternal and Cord Blood Adipokines with Offspring Adiposity in Project Viva: Is There An Interaction with Child Age? International Journal of Obesity. 2017 (In press)

Li X, Young JG, Toh S.  Estimating effects of dynamic treatment strategies in pharmacoepidemiologic studies with time-varying confounding: a primer. Current Epidemiology Reports. 2017;4(4): 288-297. McDonald MLN, Diaz AA, Rutten E, Lutz SM, Harmouche R, San Jose Estepar R, Kinney G, Hokanson J, Gower BA, Wouters EFM, Rennard SI, Hersh CP, Casaburi R, Dransfield M, Silverman EK, Washko GR. (2017) Chest CT Derived Low Fat-Free Mass Index and Mortality in COPD. European Respiratory Journal. 50(6).

Lutz SM, Thwing A, Schmiege S, Kroehl M, Baker C, Starling A, Hokanon JE, Ghosh D. (2017) Examining the Role of Unmeasured Confounding in Mediation Analysis with Genetic and Genomic Applications. BMC Bioinformatics. 18(1):344.

Melroy-Greif WE, Simonson MA, Corley RP, Lutz SM, Hokanson JE, Ehringer MA. (2017) Examination of the Involvement of Cholinergic-Associated Genes in Nicotine Behaviors in European and African Americans. Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 19(4):417-425.

Boueiz A, Lutz S, Cho MH, Hersh C, Bowler R, Washko G, Halper-Stromberg E, Bakke P;Gulsvik A, Laird N, Beaty T, Coxson H, Crapo J, Silverman EK, Castaldi P, DeMeo DL. (2017) Genome-Wide Association Study of the Genetic Determinants of Emphysema Distribution. Amer J Resp Crit Care Med. 195(6):757-771.

Hartz SM, Caporaso NE, Chen LS, Hancock D, Horton A, Lutz SM, Hokanson JE, Johnson EO, Pato C, Pato M, Bierut LJ. (2017) Genetic Correlation Between Smoking Behaviors and Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. S0920-9964 (17) 30111-1.

Qiao D, Lange C, Laird NM, Won S, Hersh CP, Morrow J, Hobbs B, Lutz SM, Ruczinski I, Crapo JD, Beaty TH, Silverman EK, Cho MH. (2017) Gene-based Segregation Method for Identifying Rare Variants in Family-based Sequencing Studies. Genetic Epidemiology. . 41(4): 309-319