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  1. Article: Editorial: The Impact of Dietary Changes on Non-communicable Diseases in Latin America.

    Singh, Pramil N

    Frontiers in nutrition

    2022  Volume 9, Page(s) 890873

    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-13
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 2776676-7
    ISSN 2296-861X
    ISSN 2296-861X
    DOI 10.3389/fnut.2022.890873
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  2. Article ; Online: Asthma and COVID-19.

    Singh, Pramil N

    The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice

    2021  Volume 9, Issue 7, Page(s) 2939

    MeSH term(s) Asthma/diagnosis ; COVID-19 ; Humans ; SARS-CoV-2
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-05-04
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Letter ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 2843237-X
    ISSN 2213-2201 ; 2213-2198
    ISSN (online) 2213-2201
    ISSN 2213-2198
    DOI 10.1016/j.jaip.2021.04.012
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  3. Article ; Online: Cohort profile for the Loma Linda University Health BREATHE programme

    Pramil N Singh / Olivia Moses / Wendy Shih / Mark Hubbard

    BMJ Open, Vol 12, Iss

    a model to study continuously incentivised employee smoking cessation

    2022  Volume 4

    Keywords Medicine ; R
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher BMJ Publishing Group
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  4. Article ; Online: Racial/Ethnic Disparities Impact the Real-World Effectiveness of a Multicomponent Maternal Smoking Cessation Program: Findings from the CTTP Cohort.

    Wiles, Stacey D / Lee, Jerry W / Nelson, Anna / Petersen, Anne Berit / Singh, Pramil N

    Maternal and child health journal

    2023  Volume 27, Issue 11, Page(s) 2038–2047

    Abstract: Introduction: Smoking during pregnancy adversely affects perinatal outcomes for both women and infants. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of the state-funded Comprehensive Tobacco Treatment Program (CTTP) - the largest maternal tobacco cessation ...

    Abstract Introduction: Smoking during pregnancy adversely affects perinatal outcomes for both women and infants. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of the state-funded Comprehensive Tobacco Treatment Program (CTTP) - the largest maternal tobacco cessation program in San Bernardino County, California - to determine the real-world program effectiveness and to identify variables that can potentially improve effectiveness.
    Methods: During 2012-2019, women who smoked during pregnancy were enrolled in CTTP's multicomponent behavioral smoking cessation program that implemented components of known efficacy (i.e., incentives, biomarker testing, feedback, and motivational interviewing).
    Results: We found that 40.1% achieved prolonged abstinence by achieving weekly, cotinine-verified, 7-day abstinence during 6 to 8 weeks of enrollment. Using intention-to-treat analyses, we computed that the self-reported point prevalence abstinence rate (PPA) at the six-month telephone follow-up was 36.7%. Cohort members achieving prolonged abstinence during the CTTP were five times more likely to achieve PPA six months after CTTP. Several non-Hispanic ethnicities (Black, Native American, White, or More than one ethnicity) in the cohort were two-fold less likely (relative to Hispanics) to achieve prolonged abstinence during CTTP or PPA at six months after CTTP. This disparity was further investigated in mediation analysis. Variables such as quitting during the first trimester and smoking fewer cigarettes at enrollment were also associated with achieving PPA at six months.
    Discussion: Racial/ethnic health disparities that have long been linked to a higher rate of maternal smoking persist even when the pregnant smoker enrolls in a smoking cessation program.
    MeSH term(s) Pregnancy ; Infant ; Humans ; Female ; Smoking Cessation ; Retrospective Studies ; Smoking/adverse effects ; Smoking/epidemiology ; Health Behavior
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-17
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1339905-6
    ISSN 1573-6628 ; 1092-7875
    ISSN (online) 1573-6628
    ISSN 1092-7875
    DOI 10.1007/s10995-023-03753-x
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  5. Article ; Online: Cohort profile for the Loma Linda University Health BREATHE programme: a model to study continuously incentivised employee smoking cessation.

    Singh, Pramil N / Moses, Olivia / Shih, Wendy / Hubbard, Mark

    BMJ open

    2022  Volume 12, Issue 4, Page(s) e053303

    Abstract: ... an open, dynamic LLUH BREATHE cohort of current and former smokers (n=1092).: Findings to date ...

    Abstract Purpose: The purpose of the Loma Linda University Health (LLUH) BREATHE cohort is to test the efficacy of a novel method of continuously incentivising participation in workplace smoking cessation on participation, long-term abstinence, health outcomes, healthcare costs and healthcare utilisation.
    Participants: In 2014, LLUH-a US academic medical centre and university-incentivised participation in a workplace smoking cessation programme (LLUH BREATHE) by lowering health plan costs. Specifically, LLUH introduced a Wholeness Health Plan (WHP) option that, for the smokers, continuously incentivises participation in nicotine screening and the LLUH BREATHE smoking cessation programme by offering an 'opt-in wellness discount' that consisted of 50%-53% lower out of pocket health plan costs (ie, monthly employee premiums, copayments). This novel 'continuously incentivised' model lowers annual health plan costs for smokers who, on an annual basis, attempt or maintain cessation from tobacco use. The annual WHP cost savings for smokers far exceed the value of short-term incentives that have been tested in workplace cessation trials to date. This ongoing health plan option offered to over 16 000 employees has created an open, dynamic LLUH BREATHE cohort of current and former smokers (n=1092).
    Findings to date: Our profile of the LLUH BREATHE cohort indicates that after 5 years of follow-up in a prospective cohort study (2014-2019), continuously incentivised smoking cessation produced a 74% participation (95% CI (71% to 77%)) in employer-sponsored smoking cessation attempts that were occurring less than a year after the incentive was offered. The cohort can be purposed to examine the effect of continuously incentivised cessation on cessation outcomes, health plan utilisation/costs, use of electronic nicotine delivery systems, and COVID-19 outcomes.
    MeSH term(s) COVID-19 ; Cohort Studies ; Humans ; Loma ; Prospective Studies ; Smoking Cessation/methods ; Universities
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-21
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2599832-8
    ISSN 2044-6055 ; 2044-6055
    ISSN (online) 2044-6055
    ISSN 2044-6055
    DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053303
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  6. Article: Validation of estimated glycaemic index and glycaemic load, stratified by race, in the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2)

    Wright, Carmen N / Jaceldo-Siegl, Karen / Mashchak, Andrew / Singh, Pramil N / Fraser, Gary E

    Public health nutrition. 2021 Oct., v. 24, no. 14

    2021  

    Abstract: Few studies have validated FFQ estimates of dietary glycaemic index (GI) and load (GL). We investigated how well our estimates of overall GI and GL from FFQs correlate with estimates from repeated 24 h recall data to validate overall GI and GL in the ... ...

    Abstract Few studies have validated FFQ estimates of dietary glycaemic index (GI) and load (GL). We investigated how well our estimates of overall GI and GL from FFQs correlate with estimates from repeated 24 h recall data to validate overall GI and GL in the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2). The AHS-2 is a prospective population-based cohort of 95 873 Seventh-day Adventist adult church members enrolled from 2002 to 2007 to investigate diet, cancer and mortality. A 204-item FFQ was used to assess race- and gender-specific validity of GI and GL and 24 h recall data, from the calibration sub-study, were used as the reference. The 734 calibration study participants were randomly selected by church and included approximately equal numbers of blacks and whites but were otherwise similar to the whole cohort with respect to gender, age, education and vegetarian status. The deattenuated correlation coefficients for overall GI ranged from 0·19 (95 % CI −0·06, 0·53) in black men to 0·46 (95 % CI 0·40, 0·60) in black women, with both non-black men and women falling between those values (0·45 (95 % CI 0·35, 0·65) and 0·38 (95 % CI 0·27, 0·57), respectively). GL correlations were somewhat higher for all study participants. When looking at the entire cohort, the deattenuated validity correlation value for overall GI was (r 0·38, 95 % CI 0·36, 0·47) and GL was (r 0·39, 95 % CI 0·34, 0·49). Our findings support the cautious use of our FFQ in epidemiological studies when assessing associations of overall GI and GL with disease risk. However, observed differences by race should be considered when interpreting results.
    Keywords adults ; calibration ; education ; gender ; glycemic index ; glycemic load ; mortality ; public health ; risk ; vegetarian diet
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2021-10
    Size p. 4530-4536.
    Publishing place Cambridge University Press
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 1436024-x
    ISSN 1475-2727 ; 1368-9800
    ISSN (online) 1475-2727
    ISSN 1368-9800
    DOI 10.1017/S1368980020003778
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  7. Article ; Online: Implementation and Outcomes of a Maternal Smoking Cessation Program for a Multi-ethnic Cohort in California, USA, 2012-2019.

    Petersen, Anne Berit / Ogunrinu, Temidayo / Wallace, Shane / Yun, Jane / Belliard, Juan Carlos / Singh, Pramil N

    Journal of community health

    2021  Volume 47, Issue 2, Page(s) 257–265

    Abstract: ... prolonged abstinence (8-week PA) and relapse findings from the first year of follow-up (n = 233). We found ...

    Abstract Smoking during pregnancy remains one of the most significant risk factors for poor birth outcomes. During 2012-2019, the Loma Linda University Health Comprehensive Tobacco Treatment Program (CTTP) used a multicomponent behavioral intervention for tobacco cessation for 1402 pregnant smokers with components of known efficacy (i.e., incentives, biomarker testing, feedback, and motivational interviewing). The CTTP cohort includes a multi-ethnic sample of pregnant women with a mean age of 27 years referred by collaborating community-based healthcare providers in San Bernardino county. Evaluation of program outcomes from 7 years of follow-up (2012-2019) creates a rich cohort dataset for implementation science research to examine the real-world effectiveness of the program. In this report, we provide a cohort profile, and 8-week prolonged abstinence (8-week PA) and relapse findings from the first year of follow-up (n = 233). We found: (1) 28.4% achieved 8-week PA, (2) At a median of 6.2 months of follow-up after achieving 8-week PA, 23.2% of enrolled subjects reported tobacco cessation, and (3) a high rate of loss to follow-up (44%). In addition, our modeling indicated that the odds of relapse/smoking after enrollment was significantly higher in young mothers, non-Hispanic mothers (White, Black/African-American), mothers in the first and third trimester, and rural mothers. Formative quantitative and qualitative research on the CTTP cohort will consider the effects of a range of implementation science (number of intervention sessions, addition of a mHealth component, distance to care) and individual (partner/household smoking, birth outcomes, NICU) outcome measures for the purpose of scaling up the CTTP model.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; California/epidemiology ; Female ; Humans ; Motivation ; Pregnancy ; Recurrence ; Smoking Cessation ; Tobacco Use Cessation
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-11-05
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 426631-6
    ISSN 1573-3610 ; 0094-5145
    ISSN (online) 1573-3610
    ISSN 0094-5145
    DOI 10.1007/s10900-021-01042-8
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  8. Article ; Online: Validation of estimated glycaemic index and glycaemic load, stratified by race, in the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2).

    Wright, Carmen N / Jaceldo-Siegl, Karen / Mashchak, Andrew / Singh, Pramil N / Fraser, Gary E

    Public health nutrition

    2021  Volume 24, Issue 14, Page(s) 4530–4536

    Abstract: Objective: Few studies have validated FFQ estimates of dietary glycaemic index (GI) and load (GL). We investigated how well our estimates of overall GI and GL from FFQs correlate with estimates from repeated 24 h recall data to validate overall GI and ... ...

    Abstract Objective: Few studies have validated FFQ estimates of dietary glycaemic index (GI) and load (GL). We investigated how well our estimates of overall GI and GL from FFQs correlate with estimates from repeated 24 h recall data to validate overall GI and GL in the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2).
    Design: The AHS-2 is a prospective population-based cohort of 95 873 Seventh-day Adventist adult church members enrolled from 2002 to 2007 to investigate diet, cancer and mortality.
    Setting: A 204-item FFQ was used to assess race- and gender-specific validity of GI and GL and 24 h recall data, from the calibration sub-study, were used as the reference.
    Participants: The 734 calibration study participants were randomly selected by church and included approximately equal numbers of blacks and whites but were otherwise similar to the whole cohort with respect to gender, age, education and vegetarian status.
    Results: The deattenuated correlation coefficients for overall GI ranged from 0·19 (95 % CI -0·06, 0·53) in black men to 0·46 (95 % CI 0·40, 0·60) in black women, with both non-black men and women falling between those values (0·45 (95 % CI 0·35, 0·65) and 0·38 (95 % CI 0·27, 0·57), respectively). GL correlations were somewhat higher for all study participants. When looking at the entire cohort, the deattenuated validity correlation value for overall GI was (r 0·38, 95 % CI 0·36, 0·47) and GL was (r 0·39, 95 % CI 0·34, 0·49).
    Conclusions: Our findings support the cautious use of our FFQ in epidemiological studies when assessing associations of overall GI and GL with disease risk. However, observed differences by race should be considered when interpreting results.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Diet ; Diet Surveys ; Dietary Carbohydrates ; Female ; Glycemic Index ; Glycemic Load ; Humans ; Male ; Prospective Studies ; Surveys and Questionnaires
    Chemical Substances Dietary Carbohydrates
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-01-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1436024-x
    ISSN 1475-2727 ; 1368-9800
    ISSN (online) 1475-2727
    ISSN 1368-9800
    DOI 10.1017/S1368980020003778
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  9. Article ; Online: Cumulative summation analysis of learning curve for robotic-assisted hiatal hernia repairs.

    Lin, Emily L / Sibona, Agustin / Peng, Jiahao / Singh, Pramil N / Wu, Esther / Michelotti, Marcos J

    Surgical endoscopy

    2021  Volume 36, Issue 5, Page(s) 3442–3450

    Abstract: Background: Robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RALS) is evolving as an important surgical approach in the field of general surgery. We aimed to evaluate the learning curve for RALS procedures involving repair of hiatal hernias.: Methods: A series ...

    Abstract Background: Robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RALS) is evolving as an important surgical approach in the field of general surgery. We aimed to evaluate the learning curve for RALS procedures involving repair of hiatal hernias.
    Methods: A series of robotic-assisted hiatal hernia (HH) repairs were performed between 2013 and 2017 by a surgeon at a single institution. Data were entered into a retrospective database. Patient demographics and intraoperative parameters including console time (CT), surgery time (ST), and total operative time (OT) were examined and abstracted for learning curve analysis using the cumulative sum (CUSUM) method. Assessment of perioperative and post-operative outcomes were calculated using descriptive statistics.
    Results: The average age of the patients was 57.4 years, average BMI was 29.9 kg/m
    Conclusions: The three phases identified with CUSUM analysis represented characteristic stages of the learning curve for robotic hiatal hernia procedures. Our data suggest the training phase is achieved after 40 cases and a high level of mastery is achieved after approximately 85 cases. Thus, the CUSUM method serves as a useful tool for objectively evaluating practical skills for surgeons and can ultimately help establish milestones that assess surgical competency during robotic surgery training.
    MeSH term(s) Hernia, Hiatal/surgery ; Herniorrhaphy ; Humans ; Laparoscopy/methods ; Learning Curve ; Middle Aged ; Operative Time ; Retrospective Studies ; Robotic Surgical Procedures/methods
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-07-29
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 639039-0
    ISSN 1432-2218 ; 0930-2794
    ISSN (online) 1432-2218
    ISSN 0930-2794
    DOI 10.1007/s00464-021-08665-x
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  10. Article ; Online: Pilot Feasibility Study of Incorporating Whole Person Care Health Coaching Into an Employee Wellness Program.

    Nelson, Anna / Moses, Olivia / Rea, Brenda / Morton, Kelly / Shih, Wendy / Alramadhan, Fatimah / Singh, Pramil N

    Frontiers in public health

    2021  Volume 8, Page(s) 570458

    Abstract: Prior research supports positive health coaching outcomes, but there is limited literature on the integration of employer-sponsored health coaching into employee wellness strategy. The aim of our mixed methods study was to assess feasibility, ... ...

    Abstract Prior research supports positive health coaching outcomes, but there is limited literature on the integration of employer-sponsored health coaching into employee wellness strategy. The aim of our mixed methods study was to assess feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of incorporating a whole-person care model of health coaching into an employee wellness program (i.e., weight loss, smoking cessation) that is made available by an employer-sponsored health plan. For the quantitative study, eligible employees and covered spouses (
    MeSH term(s) Feasibility Studies ; Health Promotion ; Humans ; Mentoring ; Occupational Health ; Pilot Projects
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-26
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2711781-9
    ISSN 2296-2565 ; 2296-2565
    ISSN (online) 2296-2565
    ISSN 2296-2565
    DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2020.570458
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