Marc S Micozzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc S Micozzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc S |
| FAMILY NAME | Micozzi |
| SIGNATURE | MICOZZI M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Cancer Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 172 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Decoding Motor Skills: Video Analysis Unveils Age-Specific Patterns in Childhood and Adolescent Movement
Motor skill development is crucial in human growth, evolving with the maturation of the nervous and musculoskeletal systems. Quantifying these skills, especially coordinative abilities, remains challenging. This study aimed to assess the performance of five motor tasks in children and adolescents using high-speed video analysis, providing data for movement and health professionals. Seventy-two volunteers were divided into three age groups: 27 fir…
Energy medicine East and West: A Natural History of Qi
Themes of qi and a dozen definitions
"Culture, Anthropology, and the Return of "Complementary Medicine
Diseases in Wax: The History of the Medical Moulage (review)
Reviewed by: Diseases in Wax: The History of the Medical Moulage Marc Micozzi Thomas Schnalke. Diseases in Wax: The History of the Medical Moulage. Translated by Kathy Spatschek. Carol Stream, Ill.: Quintessence Books, 1995. 226 pp. Ill. $180.00. This book traces the development of moulage as a technique of medical illustration that has advantages over various two-dimensional techniques. The author, a physician who specializes in the history of m…
Applications of anthropometry to epidemiologic studies of nutrition and cancer
Epidemiologic research on cancer has recently expanded into new areas of investigation directly related to aspects of human biology, such as human diet and nutrition. The overall pattern of scientific evidence has suggested that dietary patterns in early life, as well as in adulthood, may be related to the long‐term risk of certain cancers. Anthropometry has considerable potential in cancer research as an indirect means of both childhood and adul…
Age variations in the relation of body mass indices to estimates of body fat and muscle mass
In some chronic disease studies, distinctions have been made regarding the importance of body mass index (BMI) as a risk factor in younger versus older men and women. In order to determine the significance of these differences in BMI‐disease associations, we determined the extent of age‐dependent variations in the relation of BMIs to body composition in large probablity samples of U.S. men and women from the First and Second U.S. National Health …
Bowel function and breast cancer in US women
We studied bowel function in relation to 123 breast cancer cases among 7,702 women from the US NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study. Results suggest a slight increased risk of breast cancer for both decreased frequency of bowel movements (relative risk = 1.5, 95% confidence interval = 0.8, 2.7) and firm stool consistency (RR = 1.8, 95% CI = 1.0, 3.2.) These observations are consistent with an hypothesized association between constipation and in…
Acculturation and Health in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea: Dissent on Diversity, Diets, and Development [and Comments and Reply]
Associations between smoking and body weight in the US population: Analysis of NHANES II
Recent recommendations for increases in desirable body weights are based upon studies which did not consider the potential confounding effect of cigarette consumption on body weight. We investigated the relation between tobacco use and several anthropometric measurements in 12,103 men and women 19-74 years of age in the United States examined between 1976 and 1980 during the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II). Cig…
Response from Albanes, et al
Response from Albanes, et al Demetrius Albanes, D. Yvonne Jones, Marc S. Micozzi, and Margaret E. Mattson CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.9.1230 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Cross‐cultural correlations of childhood growth and adult breast cancer
International differences in breast cancer incidence and mortality, and studies on Japanese migrants to the United States, point to the importance of environmental factors, including diet and nutrition, in the etiology of breast cancer. Some studies have suggested that dietary patterns in early life are important to the long‐term risk of breast cancer. Given that human growth is partially a function of early dietary intake, cross‐cultural correla…
The Evolution of Mycobacterial Disease in Human Populations: A Reevaluation [and Comments and Reply]
Wellness, Illness and Disease: Prevention and Intervention
Genetic factors in human breast cancer
The apparent environmental risk factors for breast cancer in human populations have been previously reviewed in an anthropological context. Most epidemiologic studies have been concerned with breast cancer at the population level rather than at the level of high-risk families. Thus, the genetic factors in human breast cancer have not yet been clearly defined, and the genetic form(s) of breast cancer have not been clearly distinguished from breast…
Introduction to Medical Anthropology and the Anthropology of Medicine: Patient Care and Public Health
Nutrition, body size, and breast cancer
Human epidemiologic and animal experimental evidence has suggested that excess intake of macronutrients (total calories, protein, fat) and deficient intake of micronutrients (β carotene, selenium) may be associated with increased incidence and decreased survival of breast cancer in women. The overall pattern of evidence, including migrant studies, has further suggested that dietary patterns in early life may be important to the long-term risk of …
The Health of Traditional Societies and the Effects of Acculturation [and Comments and Replies]
This paper argues that isolated traditional societies are well adapted to their environments and that their members are healthy and well nourished. After prolonged contact with the industrialized world, their adaptation becomes disrupted and their health jeopardized. Unacculturated traditional societies maintain good health because of their geographic isolation, small and constant group size, nomadic or seminomadic life-style, preservative attitu…
Implementation of health screening programs using Ethnomedical resources
This analysis demonstrates that a technologically appropriate low-cost pregnancy screening strategy using medical auxiliary personnel can be effective in screening high-risk pregnancy and may be appropriate as a public health program. The screening program revealed that women were classified as low risk or high risk as a dichotomous variable with essentially the same frequency by physicians and by medical auxiliary personnel. The accuracy of the …
Rib lesions in chronic pulmonary tuberculosis
The diagnosis of skeletal tuberculosis in human remains has traditionally been based upon the detection of secondary skeletal lesions which result from hemotogenous dissemination of tubercle bacilli (e.g., Pott's disease). Since such lesions develop in less than 7% of cases of human tuberculosis, the paleodemography and paleoepidemiology of this disease have been difficult to assess from skeletal remains. This study presents a new diagnostic appr…
Health Outcomes as Dependent Variables: Blood Pressure and the Community
Anthropological Study of Health Beliefs, Behaviors, and Outcomes: Traditional Folk Medicine and Ethnopharmacology
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Marc Micozzi; Anthropological Study of Health Beliefs, Behaviors, and Outcomes: Traditional Folk Medicine and Ethnopharmacology. Human Organization 1 December 1983; 42 (4): 351–353. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.42.4.k032764835325002…
Skeletal tuberculosis, pelvic contraction, and parturition
Obliquely contracted pelvis was observed in association with tuberculosis and dystocia (difficult parturition) in four out of 762 childbearing women in a Southeast Asian population. It is hypothesized that the pelvic contracture results from tuberculosis of the sacro‐iliac joint with destruction of the sacral ala. This gross morphologic deformity, as observed in living populations, may be a useful marker for skeletal tuberculosis in prehistoric a…
Childhood hypertension and academic standing in the Philippines
A blood pressure study on 1,078 school children, grades one through six, conducted in Mindanao, Philippines, showed an inverse association between the prevalence of systolic hypertension and the level of academic achievement, significant at p less than 0.05 in grades 4--6, and p = 0.06 in grades 1--3
On definition of anemia in pregnancy
On definition of anemia in pregnancy. M MicozziCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.68.9.907-b Published Online: November 15, 2011
Associations between smoking and body weight in the US population: Analysis of NHANES II
Recent recommendations for increases in desirable body weights are based upon studies which did not consider the potential confounding effect of cigarette consumption on body weight. We investigated the relation between tobacco use and several anthropometric measurements in 12,103 men and women 19-74 years of age in the United States examined between 1976 and 1980 during the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II). Cig…
Rib lesions in chronic pulmonary tuberculosis
The diagnosis of skeletal tuberculosis in human remains has traditionally been based upon the detection of secondary skeletal lesions which result from hemotogenous dissemination of tubercle bacilli (e.g., Pott's disease). Since such lesions develop in less than 7% of cases of human tuberculosis, the paleodemography and paleoepidemiology of this disease have been difficult to assess from skeletal remains. This study presents a new diagnostic appr…
The Health of Traditional Societies and the Effects of Acculturation [and Comments and Replies]
This paper argues that isolated traditional societies are well adapted to their environments and that their members are healthy and well nourished. After prolonged contact with the industrialized world, their adaptation becomes disrupted and their health jeopardized. Unacculturated traditional societies maintain good health because of their geographic isolation, small and constant group size, nomadic or seminomadic life-style, preservative attitu…
Acculturation and Health in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea: Dissent on Diversity, Diets, and Development [and Comments and Reply]
Nutrition, body size, and breast cancer
Human epidemiologic and animal experimental evidence has suggested that excess intake of macronutrients (total calories, protein, fat) and deficient intake of micronutrients (β carotene, selenium) may be associated with increased incidence and decreased survival of breast cancer in women. The overall pattern of evidence, including migrant studies, has further suggested that dietary patterns in early life may be important to the long-term risk of …
The Evolution of Mycobacterial Disease in Human Populations: A Reevaluation [and Comments and Reply]
"Culture, Anthropology, and the Return of "Complementary Medicine
Cross‐cultural correlations of childhood growth and adult breast cancer
International differences in breast cancer incidence and mortality, and studies on Japanese migrants to the United States, point to the importance of environmental factors, including diet and nutrition, in the etiology of breast cancer. Some studies have suggested that dietary patterns in early life are important to the long‐term risk of breast cancer. Given that human growth is partially a function of early dietary intake, cross‐cultural correla…
Age variations in the relation of body mass indices to estimates of body fat and muscle mass
In some chronic disease studies, distinctions have been made regarding the importance of body mass index (BMI) as a risk factor in younger versus older men and women. In order to determine the significance of these differences in BMI‐disease associations, we determined the extent of age‐dependent variations in the relation of BMIs to body composition in large probablity samples of U.S. men and women from the First and Second U.S. National Health …
On definition of anemia in pregnancy
On definition of anemia in pregnancy. M MicozziCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.68.9.907-b Published Online: November 15, 2011
Genetic factors in human breast cancer
The apparent environmental risk factors for breast cancer in human populations have been previously reviewed in an anthropological context. Most epidemiologic studies have been concerned with breast cancer at the population level rather than at the level of high-risk families. Thus, the genetic factors in human breast cancer have not yet been clearly defined, and the genetic form(s) of breast cancer have not been clearly distinguished from breast…
Skeletal tuberculosis, pelvic contraction, and parturition
Obliquely contracted pelvis was observed in association with tuberculosis and dystocia (difficult parturition) in four out of 762 childbearing women in a Southeast Asian population. It is hypothesized that the pelvic contracture results from tuberculosis of the sacro‐iliac joint with destruction of the sacral ala. This gross morphologic deformity, as observed in living populations, may be a useful marker for skeletal tuberculosis in prehistoric a…
Childhood hypertension and academic standing in the Philippines
A blood pressure study on 1,078 school children, grades one through six, conducted in Mindanao, Philippines, showed an inverse association between the prevalence of systolic hypertension and the level of academic achievement, significant at p less than 0.05 in grades 4--6, and p = 0.06 in grades 1--3
Bowel function and breast cancer in US women
We studied bowel function in relation to 123 breast cancer cases among 7,702 women from the US NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study. Results suggest a slight increased risk of breast cancer for both decreased frequency of bowel movements (relative risk = 1.5, 95% confidence interval = 0.8, 2.7) and firm stool consistency (RR = 1.8, 95% CI = 1.0, 3.2.) These observations are consistent with an hypothesized association between constipation and in…
Health Outcomes as Dependent Variables: Blood Pressure and the Community
On definition of anemia in pregnancy
On definition of anemia in pregnancy. M MicozziCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.68.9.907-b Published Online: November 15, 2011
Childhood hypertension and academic standing in the Philippines
A blood pressure study on 1,078 school children, grades one through six, conducted in Mindanao, Philippines, showed an inverse association between the prevalence of systolic hypertension and the level of academic achievement, significant at p less than 0.05 in grades 4--6, and p = 0.06 in grades 1--3
Skeletal tuberculosis, pelvic contraction, and parturition
Obliquely contracted pelvis was observed in association with tuberculosis and dystocia (difficult parturition) in four out of 762 childbearing women in a Southeast Asian population. It is hypothesized that the pelvic contracture results from tuberculosis of the sacro‐iliac joint with destruction of the sacral ala. This gross morphologic deformity, as observed in living populations, may be a useful marker for skeletal tuberculosis in prehistoric a…
Anthropological Study of Health Beliefs, Behaviors, and Outcomes: Traditional Folk Medicine and Ethnopharmacology
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Marc Micozzi; Anthropological Study of Health Beliefs, Behaviors, and Outcomes: Traditional Folk Medicine and Ethnopharmacology. Human Organization 1 December 1983; 42 (4): 351–353. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.42.4.k032764835325002…
Rib lesions in chronic pulmonary tuberculosis
The diagnosis of skeletal tuberculosis in human remains has traditionally been based upon the detection of secondary skeletal lesions which result from hemotogenous dissemination of tubercle bacilli (e.g., Pott's disease). Since such lesions develop in less than 7% of cases of human tuberculosis, the paleodemography and paleoepidemiology of this disease have been difficult to assess from skeletal remains. This study presents a new diagnostic appr…
Health Outcomes as Dependent Variables: Blood Pressure and the Community
Introduction to Medical Anthropology and the Anthropology of Medicine: Patient Care and Public Health
Nutrition, body size, and breast cancer
Human epidemiologic and animal experimental evidence has suggested that excess intake of macronutrients (total calories, protein, fat) and deficient intake of micronutrients (β carotene, selenium) may be associated with increased incidence and decreased survival of breast cancer in women. The overall pattern of evidence, including migrant studies, has further suggested that dietary patterns in early life may be important to the long-term risk of …
The Health of Traditional Societies and the Effects of Acculturation [and Comments and Replies]
This paper argues that isolated traditional societies are well adapted to their environments and that their members are healthy and well nourished. After prolonged contact with the industrialized world, their adaptation becomes disrupted and their health jeopardized. Unacculturated traditional societies maintain good health because of their geographic isolation, small and constant group size, nomadic or seminomadic life-style, preservative attitu…
Implementation of health screening programs using Ethnomedical resources
This analysis demonstrates that a technologically appropriate low-cost pregnancy screening strategy using medical auxiliary personnel can be effective in screening high-risk pregnancy and may be appropriate as a public health program. The screening program revealed that women were classified as low risk or high risk as a dichotomous variable with essentially the same frequency by physicians and by medical auxiliary personnel. The accuracy of the …
Wellness, Illness and Disease: Prevention and Intervention
Genetic factors in human breast cancer
The apparent environmental risk factors for breast cancer in human populations have been previously reviewed in an anthropological context. Most epidemiologic studies have been concerned with breast cancer at the population level rather than at the level of high-risk families. Thus, the genetic factors in human breast cancer have not yet been clearly defined, and the genetic form(s) of breast cancer have not been clearly distinguished from breast…
Associations between smoking and body weight in the US population: Analysis of NHANES II
Recent recommendations for increases in desirable body weights are based upon studies which did not consider the potential confounding effect of cigarette consumption on body weight. We investigated the relation between tobacco use and several anthropometric measurements in 12,103 men and women 19-74 years of age in the United States examined between 1976 and 1980 during the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II). Cig…
Response from Albanes, et al
Response from Albanes, et al Demetrius Albanes, D. Yvonne Jones, Marc S. Micozzi, and Margaret E. Mattson CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.9.1230 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Cross‐cultural correlations of childhood growth and adult breast cancer
International differences in breast cancer incidence and mortality, and studies on Japanese migrants to the United States, point to the importance of environmental factors, including diet and nutrition, in the etiology of breast cancer. Some studies have suggested that dietary patterns in early life are important to the long‐term risk of breast cancer. Given that human growth is partially a function of early dietary intake, cross‐cultural correla…
The Evolution of Mycobacterial Disease in Human Populations: A Reevaluation [and Comments and Reply]
Acculturation and Health in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea: Dissent on Diversity, Diets, and Development [and Comments and Reply]
Bowel function and breast cancer in US women
We studied bowel function in relation to 123 breast cancer cases among 7,702 women from the US NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study. Results suggest a slight increased risk of breast cancer for both decreased frequency of bowel movements (relative risk = 1.5, 95% confidence interval = 0.8, 2.7) and firm stool consistency (RR = 1.8, 95% CI = 1.0, 3.2.) These observations are consistent with an hypothesized association between constipation and in…
Applications of anthropometry to epidemiologic studies of nutrition and cancer
Epidemiologic research on cancer has recently expanded into new areas of investigation directly related to aspects of human biology, such as human diet and nutrition. The overall pattern of scientific evidence has suggested that dietary patterns in early life, as well as in adulthood, may be related to the long‐term risk of certain cancers. Anthropometry has considerable potential in cancer research as an indirect means of both childhood and adul…
Age variations in the relation of body mass indices to estimates of body fat and muscle mass
In some chronic disease studies, distinctions have been made regarding the importance of body mass index (BMI) as a risk factor in younger versus older men and women. In order to determine the significance of these differences in BMI‐disease associations, we determined the extent of age‐dependent variations in the relation of BMIs to body composition in large probablity samples of U.S. men and women from the First and Second U.S. National Health …
Diseases in Wax: The History of the Medical Moulage (review)
Reviewed by: Diseases in Wax: The History of the Medical Moulage Marc Micozzi Thomas Schnalke. Diseases in Wax: The History of the Medical Moulage. Translated by Kathy Spatschek. Carol Stream, Ill.: Quintessence Books, 1995. 226 pp. Ill. $180.00. This book traces the development of moulage as a technique of medical illustration that has advantages over various two-dimensional techniques. The author, a physician who specializes in the history of m…
"Culture, Anthropology, and the Return of "Complementary Medicine
Energy medicine East and West: A Natural History of Qi
Themes of qi and a dozen definitions
Decoding Motor Skills: Video Analysis Unveils Age-Specific Patterns in Childhood and Adolescent Movement
Motor skill development is crucial in human growth, evolving with the maturation of the nervous and musculoskeletal systems. Quantifying these skills, especially coordinative abilities, remains challenging. This study aimed to assess the performance of five motor tasks in children and adolescents using high-speed video analysis, providing data for movement and health professionals. Seventy-two volunteers were divided into three age groups: 27 fir…
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