Suzanne G Leveille
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5534082 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Suzanne G Leveille |
| PRENOMES | Suzanne G |
| SOBRENOME | Leveille |
| ASSINATURA | LEVEILLE S G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0427-1580 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 163 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Impact of Living in an Environmental Justice Community on Infant Outcomes
Background: Exposure to environmental toxicants and climate change disproportionately affects communities of color and contributes to worse maternal and infant health outcomes. The aim of this article is to determine the effect of environmental justice (EJ) community status on preterm birth and low birthweight in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Methods: A retrospective secondary data analysis was conducted linking the Massachusetts Registry of Vit…
Racial disparity in mortality from tuberculosis in the US between states with and without a history of Jim-Crow laws
Even though the 1964 Civil Rights Act dismantled Jim-Crow statutes, racial inequities in TB burden experienced by past generations may still be felt in subsequent generations. Understanding the role of structural racism at the intersection of science and medicine shows the complex ways historical laws, such as Jim-Crow laws, continue to negatively impact health outcomes and warn of future dangers, such as COVID-19, to avoid
Health Disparities in the Use of Primary Cesarean Delivery among Asian American Women
This study examined the health disparities in primary cesarean delivery (PCD) use among Asian American (AA) women and within AA subgroups. We examined 22 years of birth registry data from one diverse northeastern state in the United States, including singleton vertex live births between 24 and 44 weeks of gestation without congenital abnormalities. Multivariate logistic regression was used to test the association between PCD and race and ethnicit…
Sharing Psychotherapy Notes with Patients
Evidence suggests that the practice of sharing clinicians' notes with patients via online patient portals may increase patient engagement and improve patient-clinician relationships while requiring little change in providers' workflow. Authors examined clinical social workers' experiences and attitudes related to open psychotherapy notes using focus groups and telephone interviews. Twenty-four of 29 eligible therapists agreed to open their notes …
Task-Specific Fatigue Among Older Primary Care Patients
Pain is strongly associated with fatigue while rising from a chair, walking indoors, and climbing stairs. This study supports the validity of self-reported chair rise fatigue and walking fatigue as individual test items
Mobility limitations and fear of falling in non-English speaking older Mexican-Americans
Older Mexican-Americans who do not speak or understand spoken English have a higher rate of mobility limitations and fear of falling than their English-speaking counterparts
Do Patients Who Access Clinical Information on Patient Internet Portals Have More Primary Care Visits
BACKGROUND: As health care costs alarm the nation and the debate increases about the impact of health information technologies, patients are reviewing their medical records increasingly through secure Internet portals. Important questions remain about the impact of portal use on office visits. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether use of patient Internet portals to access records is associated with increased primary care utilization. RESEARCH DESIGN: A …
Utilitarian Walking, Neighborhood Environment, and Risk of Outdoor Falls Among Older Adults
Objectives. We examined the roles of utilitarian and recreational walking in relation to occurrence of outdoor falls in older adults. Methods. We analyzed data on walking habits, falls, and fall injuries among participants of MOBILIZE Boston, a prospective cohort study of 765 community-dwelling women and men, mainly aged 70 years or older, in Boston, Massachusetts. Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) indicators were assessed at census block g…
Health Coaching via an Internet Portal for Primary Care Patients With Chronic Conditions
BACKGROUND: Efforts to enhance patient-physician communication may improve management of underdiagnosed chronic conditions. Patient internet portals offer an efficient venue for coaching patients to discuss chronic conditions with their primary care physicians (PCP). OBJECTIVES: We sought to test the effectiveness of an internet portal-based coaching intervention to promote patient-PCP discussion about chronic conditions. RESEARCH DESIGN: We cond…
Leveille Et Al. Respond
We thank Flegal and her colleagues for their suggestions. As noted in the articles they cite, a number of methods have been proposed for estimating relative risk. There is ongoing debate in the literature about the choice of models and methods to address potential bias in estimates of attributable fractions.1 Measures of attributable risk using the standard formulas must be considered within the limitations of the data and potential biases, as we…
Trends in Obesity and Arthritis Among Baby Boomers and Their Predecessors, 1971–2002
Objectives. We examined trends in obesity and arthritis prevalence among the “baby boom” (born 1946–1965) and “silent” (born 1926–1945) generations. Methods. We conducted birth cohort analyses using successive waves of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1971–2002). Results. Obesity rates increased markedly, beginning earlier in life with each successive birth cohort. When the members of the silent generation were aged 35–44 yea…
The Public Health Perspective in Health Promotion and Disability Prevention for Older Adults
As the United States federal public health agency, the role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in health promotion and disability prevention with older adults encompasses research, surveillance and program activities in aging. This article characterizes the objectives and context of prevention in later life and summarizes CDC's functions, collaborative partnerships with public health agencies and other organizations, and rang…
Educational Differences in the Prevalence of Mobility Disability in Old Age
Higher incidence of disability is the main contributor to the substantially higher prevalence of disability in older people of lower socioeconomic status. Efforts to reduce the disparity in disability rates by socioeconomic status in old age should focus mainly on preventing disability, because differences in the course of mobility disability after onset appear to play a limited role in the observed prevalence disparities
Severity of Upper and Lower Extremity Functional Limitation
These scales, constructed from commonly used self-report measures of function, provide discrete measures of upper and lower functional limitation. Because these scales are distinct from measures of disability and impairment, their use should facilitate increased understanding of the disablement process
Lower Extremity Function and Subsequent Disability
BACKGROUND: Although it has been demonstrated that physical performance measures predict incident disability in previously nondisabled older persons, the available data have not been fully developed to create usable methods for determining risk profiles in community-dwelling populations. Using several populations and different follow-up periods, this study replicates previous findings by using the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Stu…
Sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability in old age
Disability incidence, recovery from disability, and mortality dynamically influence the sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability. However, incidence has the greatest impact overall on the higher prevalence of disability in women compared with men
Evidence for a black-white crossover in all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality in an older population
OBJECTIVES: This cohort study evaluated racial differences in mortality among Blacks and Whites 65 years and older. METHODS: A total of 4136 men and women (1875 Whites and 2261 Blacks) living in North Carolina were interviewed in 1986 and followed up for mortality until 1994. Hazard ratios (HRs) for all-cause and cause-specific mortality were calculated, with adjustment for sociodemographic and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors. RESULTS: …
Exploring the effect of depression on physical disability
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the effect of depression on the incidence of physical disability and the role of confounding and explanatory variables in this relationship. METHODS: A cohort of 6247 subjects 65 years and older who were initially free of disability was followed up for 6 years. Baseline depression was assessed by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Disability in mobility and disability in activities of daily li…
Black/White Differences in the Relationship between MMSE Scores and Disability
The purpose of this article is to examine Black/White differences among older women in the relationship between physical functional difficulties and variations in cognitive status, measured within the low to high normal range of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). We studied 3,585 women with MMSE scores of 18 and above from a population-based random sample of 3,841 community-dwelling women aged 65 and older living in East Baltimore, Marylan…
Dietary vitamin C and bone mineral density in postmenopausal women in Washington State, USA
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between dietary vitamin C and hip bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women. DESIGN: This was a cross sectional study using retrospective diet and vitamin supplement data. SETTING: The Seattle area of Washington State. PARTICIPANTS: Screenees for a clinical trial of a drug to prevent osteoporotic fractures; 1892 women aged 55-80 years who had hip bone densitometry and osteoporosis risk factor …
Preventing disability and falls in older adults
OBJECTIVES. Because preventing disability and falls in older adults is a national priority, a randomized controlled trial was conducted to test a multicomponent intervention program. METHODS. From a random sample of health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollees 65 years and older, 1559 ambulatory seniors were randomized to one of three groups: a nurse assessment visit and follow-up interventions targeting risk factors for disability and falls (…
Educational Differences in the Prevalence of Mobility Disability in Old Age
Higher incidence of disability is the main contributor to the substantially higher prevalence of disability in older people of lower socioeconomic status. Efforts to reduce the disparity in disability rates by socioeconomic status in old age should focus mainly on preventing disability, because differences in the course of mobility disability after onset appear to play a limited role in the observed prevalence disparities
Sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability in old age
Disability incidence, recovery from disability, and mortality dynamically influence the sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability. However, incidence has the greatest impact overall on the higher prevalence of disability in women compared with men
Exploring the effect of depression on physical disability
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the effect of depression on the incidence of physical disability and the role of confounding and explanatory variables in this relationship. METHODS: A cohort of 6247 subjects 65 years and older who were initially free of disability was followed up for 6 years. Baseline depression was assessed by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Disability in mobility and disability in activities of daily li…
Severity of Upper and Lower Extremity Functional Limitation
These scales, constructed from commonly used self-report measures of function, provide discrete measures of upper and lower functional limitation. Because these scales are distinct from measures of disability and impairment, their use should facilitate increased understanding of the disablement process
Preventing disability and falls in older adults
OBJECTIVES. Because preventing disability and falls in older adults is a national priority, a randomized controlled trial was conducted to test a multicomponent intervention program. METHODS. From a random sample of health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollees 65 years and older, 1559 ambulatory seniors were randomized to one of three groups: a nurse assessment visit and follow-up interventions targeting risk factors for disability and falls (…
Evidence for a black-white crossover in all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality in an older population
OBJECTIVES: This cohort study evaluated racial differences in mortality among Blacks and Whites 65 years and older. METHODS: A total of 4136 men and women (1875 Whites and 2261 Blacks) living in North Carolina were interviewed in 1986 and followed up for mortality until 1994. Hazard ratios (HRs) for all-cause and cause-specific mortality were calculated, with adjustment for sociodemographic and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors. RESULTS: …
Dietary vitamin C and bone mineral density in postmenopausal women in Washington State, USA
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between dietary vitamin C and hip bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women. DESIGN: This was a cross sectional study using retrospective diet and vitamin supplement data. SETTING: The Seattle area of Washington State. PARTICIPANTS: Screenees for a clinical trial of a drug to prevent osteoporotic fractures; 1892 women aged 55-80 years who had hip bone densitometry and osteoporosis risk factor …
Black/White Differences in the Relationship between MMSE Scores and Disability
The purpose of this article is to examine Black/White differences among older women in the relationship between physical functional difficulties and variations in cognitive status, measured within the low to high normal range of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). We studied 3,585 women with MMSE scores of 18 and above from a population-based random sample of 3,841 community-dwelling women aged 65 and older living in East Baltimore, Marylan…
Utilitarian Walking, Neighborhood Environment, and Risk of Outdoor Falls Among Older Adults
Objectives. We examined the roles of utilitarian and recreational walking in relation to occurrence of outdoor falls in older adults. Methods. We analyzed data on walking habits, falls, and fall injuries among participants of MOBILIZE Boston, a prospective cohort study of 765 community-dwelling women and men, mainly aged 70 years or older, in Boston, Massachusetts. Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) indicators were assessed at census block g…
Trends in Obesity and Arthritis Among Baby Boomers and Their Predecessors, 1971–2002
Objectives. We examined trends in obesity and arthritis prevalence among the “baby boom” (born 1946–1965) and “silent” (born 1926–1945) generations. Methods. We conducted birth cohort analyses using successive waves of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1971–2002). Results. Obesity rates increased markedly, beginning earlier in life with each successive birth cohort. When the members of the silent generation were aged 35–44 yea…
Preventing disability and falls in older adults
OBJECTIVES. Because preventing disability and falls in older adults is a national priority, a randomized controlled trial was conducted to test a multicomponent intervention program. METHODS. From a random sample of health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollees 65 years and older, 1559 ambulatory seniors were randomized to one of three groups: a nurse assessment visit and follow-up interventions targeting risk factors for disability and falls (…
Dietary vitamin C and bone mineral density in postmenopausal women in Washington State, USA
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between dietary vitamin C and hip bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women. DESIGN: This was a cross sectional study using retrospective diet and vitamin supplement data. SETTING: The Seattle area of Washington State. PARTICIPANTS: Screenees for a clinical trial of a drug to prevent osteoporotic fractures; 1892 women aged 55-80 years who had hip bone densitometry and osteoporosis risk factor …
Black/White Differences in the Relationship between MMSE Scores and Disability
The purpose of this article is to examine Black/White differences among older women in the relationship between physical functional difficulties and variations in cognitive status, measured within the low to high normal range of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). We studied 3,585 women with MMSE scores of 18 and above from a population-based random sample of 3,841 community-dwelling women aged 65 and older living in East Baltimore, Marylan…
Evidence for a black-white crossover in all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality in an older population
OBJECTIVES: This cohort study evaluated racial differences in mortality among Blacks and Whites 65 years and older. METHODS: A total of 4136 men and women (1875 Whites and 2261 Blacks) living in North Carolina were interviewed in 1986 and followed up for mortality until 1994. Hazard ratios (HRs) for all-cause and cause-specific mortality were calculated, with adjustment for sociodemographic and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors. RESULTS: …
Exploring the effect of depression on physical disability
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the effect of depression on the incidence of physical disability and the role of confounding and explanatory variables in this relationship. METHODS: A cohort of 6247 subjects 65 years and older who were initially free of disability was followed up for 6 years. Baseline depression was assessed by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Disability in mobility and disability in activities of daily li…
Lower Extremity Function and Subsequent Disability
BACKGROUND: Although it has been demonstrated that physical performance measures predict incident disability in previously nondisabled older persons, the available data have not been fully developed to create usable methods for determining risk profiles in community-dwelling populations. Using several populations and different follow-up periods, this study replicates previous findings by using the Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Stu…
Sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability in old age
Disability incidence, recovery from disability, and mortality dynamically influence the sex differences in the prevalence of mobility disability. However, incidence has the greatest impact overall on the higher prevalence of disability in women compared with men
The Public Health Perspective in Health Promotion and Disability Prevention for Older Adults
As the United States federal public health agency, the role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in health promotion and disability prevention with older adults encompasses research, surveillance and program activities in aging. This article characterizes the objectives and context of prevention in later life and summarizes CDC's functions, collaborative partnerships with public health agencies and other organizations, and rang…
Educational Differences in the Prevalence of Mobility Disability in Old Age
Higher incidence of disability is the main contributor to the substantially higher prevalence of disability in older people of lower socioeconomic status. Efforts to reduce the disparity in disability rates by socioeconomic status in old age should focus mainly on preventing disability, because differences in the course of mobility disability after onset appear to play a limited role in the observed prevalence disparities
Severity of Upper and Lower Extremity Functional Limitation
These scales, constructed from commonly used self-report measures of function, provide discrete measures of upper and lower functional limitation. Because these scales are distinct from measures of disability and impairment, their use should facilitate increased understanding of the disablement process
Trends in Obesity and Arthritis Among Baby Boomers and Their Predecessors, 1971–2002
Objectives. We examined trends in obesity and arthritis prevalence among the “baby boom” (born 1946–1965) and “silent” (born 1926–1945) generations. Methods. We conducted birth cohort analyses using successive waves of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1971–2002). Results. Obesity rates increased markedly, beginning earlier in life with each successive birth cohort. When the members of the silent generation were aged 35–44 yea…
Leveille Et Al. Respond
We thank Flegal and her colleagues for their suggestions. As noted in the articles they cite, a number of methods have been proposed for estimating relative risk. There is ongoing debate in the literature about the choice of models and methods to address potential bias in estimates of attributable fractions.1 Measures of attributable risk using the standard formulas must be considered within the limitations of the data and potential biases, as we…
Health Coaching via an Internet Portal for Primary Care Patients With Chronic Conditions
BACKGROUND: Efforts to enhance patient-physician communication may improve management of underdiagnosed chronic conditions. Patient internet portals offer an efficient venue for coaching patients to discuss chronic conditions with their primary care physicians (PCP). OBJECTIVES: We sought to test the effectiveness of an internet portal-based coaching intervention to promote patient-PCP discussion about chronic conditions. RESEARCH DESIGN: We cond…
Utilitarian Walking, Neighborhood Environment, and Risk of Outdoor Falls Among Older Adults
Objectives. We examined the roles of utilitarian and recreational walking in relation to occurrence of outdoor falls in older adults. Methods. We analyzed data on walking habits, falls, and fall injuries among participants of MOBILIZE Boston, a prospective cohort study of 765 community-dwelling women and men, mainly aged 70 years or older, in Boston, Massachusetts. Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) indicators were assessed at census block g…
Task-Specific Fatigue Among Older Primary Care Patients
Pain is strongly associated with fatigue while rising from a chair, walking indoors, and climbing stairs. This study supports the validity of self-reported chair rise fatigue and walking fatigue as individual test items
Mobility limitations and fear of falling in non-English speaking older Mexican-Americans
Older Mexican-Americans who do not speak or understand spoken English have a higher rate of mobility limitations and fear of falling than their English-speaking counterparts
Do Patients Who Access Clinical Information on Patient Internet Portals Have More Primary Care Visits
BACKGROUND: As health care costs alarm the nation and the debate increases about the impact of health information technologies, patients are reviewing their medical records increasingly through secure Internet portals. Important questions remain about the impact of portal use on office visits. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether use of patient Internet portals to access records is associated with increased primary care utilization. RESEARCH DESIGN: A …
Sharing Psychotherapy Notes with Patients
Evidence suggests that the practice of sharing clinicians' notes with patients via online patient portals may increase patient engagement and improve patient-clinician relationships while requiring little change in providers' workflow. Authors examined clinical social workers' experiences and attitudes related to open psychotherapy notes using focus groups and telephone interviews. Twenty-four of 29 eligible therapists agreed to open their notes …
Health Disparities in the Use of Primary Cesarean Delivery among Asian American Women
This study examined the health disparities in primary cesarean delivery (PCD) use among Asian American (AA) women and within AA subgroups. We examined 22 years of birth registry data from one diverse northeastern state in the United States, including singleton vertex live births between 24 and 44 weeks of gestation without congenital abnormalities. Multivariate logistic regression was used to test the association between PCD and race and ethnicit…
The Impact of Living in an Environmental Justice Community on Infant Outcomes
Background: Exposure to environmental toxicants and climate change disproportionately affects communities of color and contributes to worse maternal and infant health outcomes. The aim of this article is to determine the effect of environmental justice (EJ) community status on preterm birth and low birthweight in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Methods: A retrospective secondary data analysis was conducted linking the Massachusetts Registry of Vit…
Racial disparity in mortality from tuberculosis in the US between states with and without a history of Jim-Crow laws
Even though the 1964 Civil Rights Act dismantled Jim-Crow statutes, racial inequities in TB burden experienced by past generations may still be felt in subsequent generations. Understanding the role of structural racism at the intersection of science and medicine shows the complex ways historical laws, such as Jim-Crow laws, continue to negatively impact health outcomes and warn of future dangers, such as COVID-19, to avoid
Medicine (21 obras) · Environmental health (11 obras) · Gerontology (11 obras) · Population (10 obras) · Internal Medicine (9 obras) · Demography (8 obras) · Internal Medicine (8 obras) · Demography (6 obras) · Gerontology (6 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 obras)