Disease risk and healthcare utilization among ancestrally diverse groups in the Los Angeles region

C Caggiano, A Boudaie, R Shemirani, J Mefford… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
An individual's disease risk is affected by the populations that they belong to, due to shared
genetics and environmental factors. The study of fine-scale populations in clinical care is …

A large meta-analysis identifies genes associated with anterior uveitis

S Gelfman, A Moscati, SM Huergo, R Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Anterior Uveitis (AU) is the inflammation of the anterior part of the eye, the iris and ciliary
body and is strongly associated with HLA-B* 27. We report AU exome sequencing results …

Phenome-wide association study of polygenic risk score for Alzheimer's disease in electronic health records

M Fu… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and a growing public health
burden in the United States. Significant progress has been made in identifying genetic risk …

Patient care in rapid-expansion intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis

JI Basem, AF Roth, RS White, VE Tangel, SY Jiang… - BMC …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background The coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted the
unfortunate reality that many hospitals have insufficient intensive care unit (ICU) capacity to …

Health care utilization of fine-scale identity by descent clusters in a Los Angeles biobank

C Caggiano, A Boudaie, R Shemirani, E Petter, A Chiu… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
An individual's disease risk is affected by the populations that they belong to, due to shared
genetics and shared environment. The study of fine-scale populations in clinical care will be …

Exploring differences in perceived barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake and testing intention by vaccination status and testing hesitancy among rural …

L Redwine, AW Buro, D Rancourt, K Conner… - Ethnicity & …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Background Identifying factors impacting vaccination and testing for COVID-19 is crucial to
reduce health disparities, especially for rural/agricultural, low access and high poverty …

Polygenic scores for tobacco use provide insights into systemic health risks in a diverse EHR-linked biobank in Los Angeles

V Venkateswaran, K Boulier, Y Ding, R Johnson… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
Tobacco use is a major risk factor for many diseases and is heavily influenced by
environmental factors with significant underlying genetic contributions. Here, we evaluated …

“My Hands Are Tied”: Social Services With Latinx Immigrants in Houston During the COVID-19 Pandemic

F Avellaneda, JL Siegel, NJ Negi… - Families in …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Latinx immigrant communities experienced disproportionate economic and health
consequences from COVID-19. Although social service organizations have been on the …

Community health worker outreach to farmworkers in rural North Carolina: Learning from adaptations to the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic

CE LePrevost, LE Cofie, J Nieuwsma… - Health …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Community health workers represent a critical part of the health outreach and
services for migrant and seasonal farmworkers ('farmworkers') in rural areas of the United …

Sustainable social development promotes COVID-19 pandemic control

S Feng, Y Zhai, W Wei, Y Tan, Y Geng, W Nie - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
The rapid spread of COVID-19 had a negative impact on public health and economic
recovery worldwide. There is a large and growing literature on pandemic prevention and …