OBJECTIVE This study estimated the potential loss of life and the lifetime cumulative risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) from live kidney donation. DESIGN Markov medical decision analysis. SETTING USA. PARTICIPANTS 40-year-old live kidney donors of both sexes and black/white race. INTERVENTION Live donor nephrectomy. MAIN OUTCOME AND MEASURES Potential remaining life years lost, q...

BACKGROUND Whether fetal neurodevelopment is disrupted by traffic-related air pollution is uncertain. Animal studies suggest that chemical and non-chemical stressors interact to impact neurodevelopment, and that this association is further modified by sex. OBJECTIVES To examine associations between prenatal traffic-related black carbon exposure, prenatal stress, and sex with children's memory...

The use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf components in the development of software systems is supposed to result in a reduction of development costs and time by promoting reusability. On the contrary, due to the Black-Box nature they exhibit, the use of COTS products may result in a burden for developers as continuous re-adaptation may be required along the software life-cycle or even at runtime if ...

The plant maca, grown at 4000 m altitude in the Peruvian Central Andes, contains hypocotyls that have been used as food and in traditional medicine for centuries. The aim of this research was to provide results on some health effects of oral administration of spray-dried extracts of black or red maca (Lepidium meyenii) in adult human subjects living at low (LA) and high altitude (HA). A total o...

W I got my doctorate in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993, the furthest thing imaginable to me was that, ten years later, I would be in the midst of a second career as a pundit on race issues, let alone find myself classed as a black conservative. True, in college and graduate school, I had felt frustrated and dismayed whenever a successful black of my acquaintance would go out of hi...

Adolescence is a developmental period marked by increased stress, especially among Black youth. In addition to stress related to their developmental transition, social factors such as a perceived unsafe neighborhood impose additional risks. We examined gender and ethnic differences in the association between perceived neighborhood safety and major depressive disorder (MDD) among a national samp...