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Morrill KE, Wightman P, Cruz A, Batai K, Block GD, Hsu CH, Garcia DO. Disparities in hepatocellular carcinoma incidence among Hispanic and non-Hispanic adults in Arizona: Trends between 2009-2017. Ann Epidemiol. 2024 Aug;96:48-52. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2024.05.012. Epub 2024 Jun 14. PubMed PMID: 38880361; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11283343.
Anwar MY, Graff M, Highland HM, Smit R, Wang Z, Buchanan VL, Young KL, Kenny EE, Fernandez-Rhodes L, Liu S, Assimes T, Garcia DO, Daeeun K, Gignoux CR, Justice AE, Haiman CA, Buyske S, Peters U, Loos RJF, Kooperberg C, North KE. Assessing efficiency of fine-mapping obesity-associated variants through leveraging ancestry architecture and functional annotation using PAGE and UKBB cohorts. Hum Genet. 2023 Oct;142(10):1477-1489. doi: 10.1007/s00439-023-02593-7. Epub 2023 Sep 1. PubMed PMID: 37658231.
Trejo MJ, Morrill KE, Klimentidis YC, Garcia DO. Examining genetic associations with hepatic steatosis in Mexican-origin adults. Ann Hepatol. 2023 Sep-Oct;28(5):101120. doi: 10.1016/j.aohep.2023.101120. Epub 2023 Jun 2. PubMed PMID: 37271481; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10486257.
Valdez LA, Jaeger EC, Garcia DO, Griffith DM. Breaking Down Machismo: Shifting Definitions and Embodiments of Latino Manhood in Middle-Aged Latino Men. Am J Mens Health. 2023 Sep-Oct;17(5):15579883231195118. doi: 10.1177/15579883231195118. PubMed PMID: 37694827; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10496479.
Zhang X, Zhao L, Christopher CN, Tabung FK, Bao W, Garcia DO, Shadyab AH, Saquib N, Neuhouser ML, Tinker LF, Zhang X. Association of dietary insulinemic and inflammatory potential with risk of liver cancer and chronic liver disease mortality in postmenopausal women: a prospective cohort study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2023 Sep;118(3):530-537. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2023.07.009. Epub 2023 Jul 17. PubMed PMID: 37460062; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10517210.
Zhao L, Zhang X, Coday M, Garcia DO, Li X, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Naughton MJ, Lopez-Pentecost M, Saquib N, Shadyab AH, Simon MS, Snetselaar LG, Tabung FK, Tobias DK, VoPham T, McGlynn KA, Sesso HD, Giovannucci E, Manson JE, Hu FB, Tinker LF, Zhang X. Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Liver Cancer and Chronic Liver Disease Mortality. JAMA. 2023 Aug 8;330(6):537-546. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.12618. PubMed PMID: 37552302; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10410478.
Kung CP, Skiba MB, Crosby EJ, Gorzelitz J, Kennedy MA, Kerr BA, Li YR, Nash S, Potiaumpai M, Kleckner AS, James DL, Coleman MF, Fairman CM, Galván GC, Garcia DO, Gordon MJ, His M, Hornbuckle LM, Kim SY, Kim TH, Kumar A, Mahé M, McDonnell KK, Moore J, Oh S, Sun X, Irwin ML. Key takeaways for knowledge expansion of early-career scientists conducting Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer (TREC): a report from the TREC Training Workshop 2022. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr. 2023 May 4;2023(61):149-157. doi: 10.1093/jncimonographs/lgad005. PubMed PMID: 37139978; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10157760.
Maldonado A, Villavicencio EA, Vogel RM, Pace TW, Ruiz JM, Alkhouri N, Garcia DO. The association between perceived stress, acculturation, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in Mexican-origin adults in Southern Arizona. Prev Med Rep. 2023 Apr;32:102147. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102147. eCollection 2023 Apr. PubMed PMID: 36865397; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9972566.
Villavicencio EA, Maldonado A, Crocker RM, Guan Y, Stallman C, Garcia DO. Communicating PNPLA3 genetic risk status for NAFLD among Mexican-origin men. Front Public Health. 2022;10:1090101. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1090101. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 36684893; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9846364.
Pichardo MS, Esserman D, Ferrucci LM, Molina Y, Chlebowski RT, Pan K, Garcia DO, Lane DS, Shadyab AH, Lopez-Pentecost M, Luo J, Kato I, Springfield S, Rosal MC, Bea JW, Cespedes Feliciano EM, Qi L, Nassir R, Snetselaar L, Manson J, Bird C, Irwin ML. Adherence to the American Cancer Society Guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention and obesity-related cancer risk and mortality in Black and Latina Women's Health Initiative participants. Cancer. 2022 Oct;128(20):3630-3640. doi: 10.1002/cncr.34428. Epub 2022 Aug 23. PubMed PMID: 35996861.
Garcia DO, Valdez LA, Aceves B, Bell ML, Rabe BA, Villavicencio EA, Marrero DG, Melton F, Hooker SP. mHealth-Supported Gender- and Culturally Sensitive Weight Loss Intervention for Hispanic Men With Overweight and Obesity: Single-Arm Pilot Study. JMIR Form Res. 2022 Sep 21;6(9):e37637. doi: 10.2196/37637. PubMed PMID: 36129735; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9536522.
Crocker RM, Morrill KE, Villavicencio EA, Garcia DO. How Mexicans' Emotional Responses to Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Can Help Inform Culturally Congruent Health Care. J Transcult Nurs. 2022 Sep;33(5):615-623. doi: 10.1177/10436596221101923. Epub 2022 Jun 9. PubMed PMID: 35684997.
Ramadan FA, Bea JW, Garcia DO, Ellingson KD, Canales RA, Raichlen DA, Klimentidis YC. Association of sedentary and physical activity behaviours with body composition: a genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation study. BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med. 2022;8(3):e001291. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001291. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 35990758; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9351346.
Pan K, Aragaki AK, Michael Y, Thomson CA, Snetselaar LG, Wactawski-Wende J, Garcia DO, Dieli-Conwright CM, Shadyab AH, Saquib N, Chlebowski RT. Long-term dietary intervention influence on physical activity in the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification randomized trial. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2022 Aug;195(1):43-54. doi: 10.1007/s10549-022-06655-8. Epub 2022 Jul 12. PubMed PMID: 35821536.
Garcia DO, Morrill KE, Lopez-Pentecost M, Villavicencio EA, Vogel RM, Bell ML, Klimentidis YC, Marrero DG, Thomson CA. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Associated Risk Factors in a Community-Based Sample of Mexican-Origin Adults. Hepatol Commun. 2022 Jun;6(6):1322-1335. doi: 10.1002/hep4.1896. Epub 2022 Jan 25. PubMed PMID: 35076162; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9134817.
Rock CL, Thomson CA, Sullivan KR, Howe CL, Kushi LH, Caan BJ, Neuhouser ML, Bandera EV, Wang Y, Robien K, Basen-Engquist KM, Brown JC, Courneya KS, Crane TE, Garcia DO, Grant BL, Hamilton KK, Hartman SJ, Kenfield SA, Martinez ME, Meyerhardt JA, Nekhlyudov L, Overholser L, Patel AV, Pinto BM, Platek ME, Rees-Punia E, Spees CK, Gapstur SM, McCullough ML. American Cancer Society nutrition and physical activity guideline for cancer survivors. CA Cancer J Clin. 2022 May;72(3):230-262. doi: 10.3322/caac.21719. Epub 2022 Mar 16. Review. PubMed PMID: 35294043.
Anderson EJ, Ernst K, Garcia DO, Lopez E, Pogreba Brown K, Austhof E, Carr McCuin D, Hayden MH, Koss MP. Knowledge of Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus Among Women Who Are Pregnant or Intend to Become Pregnant, Arizona, 2017. Public Health Rep. 2022 May-Jun;137(3):488-497. doi: 10.1177/00333549211006986. Epub 2021 Apr 2. PubMed PMID: 33798396; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9109529.
Lopez-Pentecost M, Crane TE, Garcia DO, Kohler LN, Wertheim BC, Hebert JR, Steck SE, Shivappa N, Santiago-Torres M, Neuhouser ML, Hatsu IE, Snetselaar L, Datta M, Kroenke CH, Sarto GE, Thomson CA. Role of dietary patterns and acculturation in cancer risk and mortality among postmenopausal Hispanic women: results from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). Z Gesundh Wiss. 2022 Apr;30(4):811-822. doi: 10.1007/s10389-020-01342-8. Epub 2020 Jul 14. PubMed PMID: 35602929; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9119584.
Bradley CJ, Anderson-Mellies A, Borrayo EA, Doherty JA, Escontrías OA, Garcia DO, Mishra SI, Sussman AL, Thomson CA, Wetter DW, Cook LS. Ethnicity, socioeconomic status, income inequality, and colorectal cancer outcomes: evidence from the 4C2 collaboration. Cancer Causes Control. 2022 Apr;33(4):533-546. doi: 10.1007/s10552-021-01547-6. Epub 2022 Jan 4. PubMed PMID: 34982317.
Godfrey TM, Villavicencio EA, Barra K, Sanderson PR, Shea K, Sun X, Garcia DO. Advancing Liver Cancer Prevention for American Indian Populations in Arizona: An Integrative Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 10;19(6). doi: 10.3390/ijerph19063268. Review. PubMed PMID: 35328956; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8948724.
Palmer KN, Okechukwu A, Mantina N, Melton F, Kram N, Hatcher J, Marrero DG, Thomson CA, Garcia DO. Stylists’ and Clients’ Perspectives of the Black Salon- a qualitative study guided by the settings approach theory. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health. 2022 January.
Palmer KNB, Okechukwu A, Mantina NM, Melton FL, Kram NA, Hatcher J, Marrero DG, Thomson CA, Garcia DO. Hair Stylists as Lay Health Workers: Perspectives of Black Women on Salon-Based Health Promotion. Inquiry. 2022 Jan-Dec;59:469580221093183. doi: 10.1177/00469580221093183. PubMed PMID: 35418251; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9016565.
Follis S, Klimentidis YC, Bea J, Hu C, Garcia D, Wactawski-Wende J, Kohler L, Shadyab AH, Flores M, Tindle HA, Chen Z. The intersectional role of social stress in fracture risk: results from the Women's Health Initiative. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2021 Dec;75(12):1208-1214. doi: 10.1136/jech-2020-216354. Epub 2021 May 26. PubMed PMID: 34039659.
Jennings N, Garcia DO, Eng H, Calhoun E. Utilization and cost sharing for preventive cancer screenings. Health Policy Open. 2021 Dec;2:100044. doi: 10.1016/j.hpopen.2021.100044. eCollection 2021 Dec. PubMed PMID: 37383509; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10297775.
Villavicencio EA, Crocker RM, Garcia DO. A Qualitative Analysis of Mexican-Origin Men's Knowledge and Cultural Attitudes Toward Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Interest in Risk Reduction. Am J Mens Health. 2021 Nov-Dec;15(6):15579883211063335. doi: 10.1177/15579883211063335. PubMed PMID: 34872379; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8655456.
Valdez ES, Valdez L, Garcia DO. Using Participatory Methods to Enhance Youth Engagement in Substance Use Research. Health Promot Pract. 2021 Nov;22(6):747-749. doi: 10.1177/1524839921990005. Epub 2021 Feb 20. PubMed PMID: 33611963; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8377079.
Anderson E, Koss M, Castro Luque AL, Garcia D, Lopez E, Ernst K. WhatsApp-Based Focus Groups Among Mexican-Origin Women in Zika Risk Area: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Data Quality. JMIR Form Res. 2021 Oct 28;5(10):e20970. doi: 10.2196/20970. PubMed PMID: 34709185; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8587330.
Anderson EJ, Krause KC, Meyer Krause C, Welter A, McClelland DJ, Garcia DO, Ernst K, Lopez EC, Koss MP. Web-Based and mHealth Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Prevention: A Systematic Review. Trauma Violence Abuse. 2021 Oct;22(4):870-884. doi: 10.1177/1524838019888889. Epub 2019 Nov 19. PubMed PMID: 31742475.
Miranda A, Garcia DO, Sánchez C, Warren C. Health and Type 2 Diabetes Perspectives of At-Risk, Mexican-Origin Males (HD-MxOM): a Qualitative Study. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2021 Oct;8(5):1101-1111. doi: 10.1007/s40615-020-00866-9. Epub 2020 Sep 17. PubMed PMID: 32940895.
Valdez LA, Garcia DO. Hispanic Male Recruitment into Obesity-Related Research: Evaluating Content Messaging Strategies, Experimental Findings, and Practical Implications. Int Q Community Health Educ. 2021 Oct;42(1):85-93. doi: 10.1177/0272684X20982598. Epub 2020 Dec 25. PubMed PMID: 33356864.
Morrill KE, Lopez-Pentecost M, Molina L, Pfander JL, Hingle MD, Klimentidis YC, Thomson CA, Garcia DO. Weight Loss Interventions for Hispanic Women in the United States: A Systematic Review. J Environ Public Health. 2021;2021:8714873. doi: 10.1155/2021/8714873. eCollection 2021. Review. PubMed PMID: 34457010; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8397533.
Aceves B, Denman CA, Ingram M, Torres JF, Nuño T, Garcia DO, Madhivanan P, Rosales CB. Testing Scalability of a Diabetes Self-Management Intervention in Northern Mexico: An Ecological Approach. Front Public Health. 2021;9:617468. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.617468. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 34490173; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8416481.
Palmer KNB, Rivers PS, Melton FL, McClelland DJ, Hatcher J, Marrero DG, Thomson CA, Garcia DO. Health promotion interventions for African Americans delivered in U.S. barbershops and hair salons- a systematic review. BMC Public Health. 2021 Aug 16;21(1):1553. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11584-0. PubMed PMID: 34399723; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8365990.
Morrill KE, Crocker RM, Hingle MD, Thomson CA, Garcia DO. Awareness, Knowledge, and Misperceptions Related to Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in a Community Sample of Mexican-Origin Women: A Mixed Methods Study. Front Public Health. 2021;9:626428. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.626428. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 34485209; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8415027.
Morrill KE, Bland VL, Klimentidis YC, Hingle MD, Thomson CA, Garcia DO. Assessing Interactions between PNPLA3 and Dietary Intake on Liver Steatosis in Mexican-Origin Adults. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 1;18(13). doi: 10.3390/ijerph18137055. PubMed PMID: 34280991; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8296936.
Flores M, Ruiz JM, Butler EA, Sbarra DA, Garcia DO, Kohler L, Crane TE, Corbie-Smith G, Benavente V, Kroenke CH, Saquib N, Thomson CA. Does the Hispanic Mortality Advantage Vary by Marital Status Among Postmenopausal Women in the Women's Health Initiative?. Ann Behav Med. 2021 Jun 28;55(7):612-620. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaaa113. PubMed PMID: 33449073; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8240130.
Miranda A, Sanchez C, Garcia DO, Warren C. Dichos & Diabetes: Literary Devices Used by Mexican-Origin Males to Share Their Perspectives on Type 2 Diabetes and Health. Journal of Latinos and Education. 2021 April; :1-11.
Ford CN, Chang S, Wood AC, Manson JE, Garcia DO, Laroche H, Bird CE, Vitolins MZ. On the joint role of non-Hispanic Black race/ethnicity and weight status in predicting postmenopausal weight gain. PLoS One. 2021;16(3):e0247821. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0247821. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 33647066; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7920337.
Aceves B, Ruiz M, Ingram M, Denman C, Garcia DO, Madhivanan P, Rosales C. Mental health and diabetes self-management: assessing stakeholder perspectives from health centers in Northern Mexico. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 Feb 25;21(1):177. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06168-y. PubMed PMID: 33632205; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7905926.
Valdez ES, Valdez L, Korchmaros J, Garcia DO, Stevens S, Sabo S, Carvajal S. Socioenvironmental Risk Factors for Adolescent Marijuana Use in a United States-Mexico Border Community. Am J Health Promot. 2021 Jan;35(1):20-27. doi: 10.1177/0890117120927527. Epub 2020 May 27. PubMed PMID: 32458691; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8034828.
Santiago-Torres M, Shi Z, Tinker LF, Lampe JW, Allison MA, Barrington W, Crane TE, Garcia DO, Hayden KM, Isasi CR, Valdiviezo-Schlomp CI, Martin LW, Neuhouser ML. Diet quality indices and risk of metabolic syndrome among postmenopausal women of Mexican ethnic descent in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study. Nutr Healthy Aging. 2020 Nov 3;5(4):261-272. doi: 10.3233/NHA-190076. PubMed PMID: 33367152; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7745721.
Crane TE, Skiba MB, Miller A, Garcia DO, Thomson CA. Development and Evaluation of an Accelerometer-Based Protocol for Measuring Physical Activity Levels in Cancer Survivors: Development and Usability Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2020 Sep 24;8(9):e18491. doi: 10.2196/18491. PubMed PMID: 32969828; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7545325.
Michael YL, Wu C, Pan K, Seguin-Fowler RA, Garcia DO, Zaslavsky O, Chlebowski RT. Postmenopausal Breast Cancer and Physical Function Change: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 May;68(5):1029-1036. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16323. Epub 2020 Jan 24. PubMed PMID: 31977067.
Palmer K, Rivers P, Melton F, McClelland J, Hatcher J, Marrero DG, Thomson C, Garcia DO. Protocol for a systematic review of health promotion interventions for African Americans delivered in US barbershops and hair salons. BMJ Open. 2020 Apr 26;10(4):e035940. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035940. PubMed PMID: 32341046; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7204845.
Griffith DM, Jaeger EC, Valdez LA, Schaefer Solle N, Garcia DO, Alexander LR. Developing a "Tailor-Made" Precision Lifestyle Medicine Intervention for Weight Control among Middle-aged Latino Men. Ethn Dis. 2020;30(Suppl 1):203-210. doi: 10.18865/ed.30.S1.203. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 32269462; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7138438.
Thornton PL, Kumanyika SK, Gregg EW, Araneta MR, Baskin ML, Chin MH, Crespo CJ, de Groot M, Garcia DO, Haire-Joshu D, Heisler M, Hill-Briggs F, Ladapo JA, Lindberg NM, Manson SM, Marrero DG, Peek ME, Shields AE, Tate DF, Mangione CM. New research directions on disparities in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2020 Feb;1461(1):5-24. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14270. Epub 2019 Dec 3. PubMed PMID: 31793006; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7159314.
Valdez ES, Skobic I, Valdez L, O Garcia D, Korchmaros J, Stevens S, Sabo S, Carvajal S. Youth Participatory Action Research for Youth Substance Use Prevention: A Systematic Review. Subst Use Misuse. 2020;55(2):314-328. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2019.1668014. Epub 2019 Oct 9. PubMed PMID: 31596160; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8034545.
Morrill KE, Lopez-Pentecost M, Ballesteros G, Pfander JL, Hingle MD, Klimentidis YC, Thomson CA, Garcia DO. Weight loss interventions for Hispanic women in the USA: a protocol for a systematic review. Syst Rev. 2019 Dec 1;8(1):301. doi: 10.1186/s13643-019-1213-3. PubMed PMID: 31787110; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6886178.
Luo J, Hendryx M, Manson JE, Figueiredo JC, LeBlanc ES, Barrington W, Rohan TE, Howard BV, Reding K, Ho GY, Garcia DO, Chlebowski RT. Intentional Weight Loss and Obesity-Related Cancer Risk. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2019 Dec;3(4):pkz054. doi: 10.1093/jncics/pkz054. eCollection 2019 Dec. PubMed PMID: 31737862; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6795232.
Salerno Valdez E, Korchmaros J, Sabo S, Garcia DO, Carvajal S, Stevens S. How the U.S.-Mexico border influences adolescent substance use: Youth participatory action research using photovoice. Int J Drug Policy. 2019 Nov;73:146-155. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.07.011. Epub 2019 Jul 26. PubMed PMID: 31353247; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6899179.
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