Diane W Wara
Biographic Data
| ID | 8870865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane W Wara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wara |
| SIGNATURE | WARA D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Family Adversity and Autonomic Reactivity Association With Immune Changes in HIV-Affected School Children
OBJECTIVE: To explore whether primary school entry is associated with changes in immune system parameters in HIV-affected children. HIV-affected children are vulnerable to psychosocial stressors, regardless of their own HIV serological status. METHODS: Data from 38 HIV-positive and 29 HIV-negative children born to seropositive women were obtained. Measures included family adversity questionnaires, autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity, and en…
The effect of prophylaxis on pediatric HIV costs
The objective of this study was to determine and compare the cost to treat HIV(+) and HIV(-) pediatric patients both before and after HIV prophylaxis became the standard of care. Retrospective chart review of a pediatric HIV/AIDS specialty clinic's medical charts was conducted for clinical and healthcare utilization data on 125 children diagnosed from 1986 to 2007. Mean HIV-related costs were compared using bootstrapped t-tests for children born …
Increasing Womenʼs Leadership in Academic Medicine
The AAMC's Increasing Women's Leadership Project Implementation Committee examined four years of data on the advancement of women in academic medicine. With women comprising only 14% of tenured faculty and 12% of full professors, the committee concludes that the progress achieved is inadequate. Because academic medicine needs all the leaders it can develop to address accelerating institutional and societal needs, the waste of most women's potenti…
Life Events, Frontal Electroencephalogram Laterality, and Functional Immune Status after Acute Psychological Stressors in Adolescents
OBJECTIVE: Past studies have found that environmental stress affects cellular immune function and that extensive variability exists in the magnitude and direction of stress-induced immune changes. Past research also suggests that individuals with greater right, relative to left, resting frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) activation perceive environmental stress as more aversive and have lower baseline cellular immune function. In this study, we e…
Psychobiologic Reactivity to Stress and Childhood Respiratory Illnesses
Psychological stress is thought to undermine host resistance to infection through neuroendocrine-mediated changes in immune competence. Associations between stress and infection have been modest in magnitude, however, suggesting individual variability in stress response. We therefore studied environmental stressors, psychobiologic reactivity to stress, and respiratory illness incidence in two studies of 236 preschool children. In Study 1, 137 3- …
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Psychobiologic Reactivity to Stress and Childhood Respiratory Illnesses
Psychological stress is thought to undermine host resistance to infection through neuroendocrine-mediated changes in immune competence. Associations between stress and infection have been modest in magnitude, however, suggesting individual variability in stress response. We therefore studied environmental stressors, psychobiologic reactivity to stress, and respiratory illness incidence in two studies of 236 preschool children. In Study 1, 137 3- …
Life Events, Frontal Electroencephalogram Laterality, and Functional Immune Status after Acute Psychological Stressors in Adolescents
OBJECTIVE: Past studies have found that environmental stress affects cellular immune function and that extensive variability exists in the magnitude and direction of stress-induced immune changes. Past research also suggests that individuals with greater right, relative to left, resting frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) activation perceive environmental stress as more aversive and have lower baseline cellular immune function. In this study, we e…
Increasing Womenʼs Leadership in Academic Medicine
The AAMC's Increasing Women's Leadership Project Implementation Committee examined four years of data on the advancement of women in academic medicine. With women comprising only 14% of tenured faculty and 12% of full professors, the committee concludes that the progress achieved is inadequate. Because academic medicine needs all the leaders it can develop to address accelerating institutional and societal needs, the waste of most women's potenti…
The effect of prophylaxis on pediatric HIV costs
The objective of this study was to determine and compare the cost to treat HIV(+) and HIV(-) pediatric patients both before and after HIV prophylaxis became the standard of care. Retrospective chart review of a pediatric HIV/AIDS specialty clinic's medical charts was conducted for clinical and healthcare utilization data on 125 children diagnosed from 1986 to 2007. Mean HIV-related costs were compared using bootstrapped t-tests for children born …
Family Adversity and Autonomic Reactivity Association With Immune Changes in HIV-Affected School Children
OBJECTIVE: To explore whether primary school entry is associated with changes in immune system parameters in HIV-affected children. HIV-affected children are vulnerable to psychosocial stressors, regardless of their own HIV serological status. METHODS: Data from 38 HIV-positive and 29 HIV-negative children born to seropositive women were obtained. Measures included family adversity questionnaires, autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity, and en…
Medicine (5 works) · Immune system (3 works) · Immunology (3 works) · Immunology (3 works) · Stressor (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (2 works) · Internal Medicine (2 works) · Internal Medicine (2 works) · Physiology (2 works)