“…Methods A retrospective record review was conducted of patients treated at West Virginia University between 2017 and 2018 for peptic ulcer related bleeding who underwent endoscopy and had high-risk stigmata. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: Caring for the growing dementia population with complex health care needs in West Virginia has been challenging due to its large, sizably rural-dwelling geriatric population and limited resource availability. …”
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“…The highest rate of opioid overdose-related death occurred in West Virginia (40.03 per 100,000). In our secondary analysis, we explored the change in the rate of opioid-related deaths from 2015 to 2016. …”
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“…At the regional scale, our model predicted areas of suitable habitat far outside areas where WLBG has been reported, including large portions of Virginia and West Virginia, suggests serious potential for spread. …”
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“…Proxy variables for exposure risk to HCV were generated for each state and compared. RESULTS: West Virginia plastic surgeons were found to have a significantly elevated risk of exposure (60.0 versus 18.7, P < 0.0001). …”
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“…A large cluster of counties with increased B. burgdorferi seroprevalence centered around West Virginia, while a similar cluster of counties with increased Anaplasma spp. seroprevalence centered around Pennsylvania and extended well into Maine. …”
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“…In January 2014, over 10,000 gallons of methyl-cyclohexane methanol (MCHM) leaked into the Elk River in West Virginia, in a chemical spill incident that contaminated a large portion of the state’s water supply and left over 300,000 residents without clean water for many days and weeks. …”
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“…In this study, there were 1,178 children, ages 1 through 10 years, from selected representative counties in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, along with a parent/caregiver, who were part of the Center for Oral Health Research in Appalachia (COHRA1) cohort. …”
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“…Lower extremity amputation due to peripheral artery disease (PAD) and diabetes (DM) is a life-altering event that identifies disparities in access to healthcare and management of disease. West Virginia (WV), a highly rural state, is an ideal location to study these disparities. …”
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“…Compared to Whites, minority older adults have higher rates of economic insecurity in nearly every state, but racial/ethnic disparities are higher in some locations (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Louisiana) and lower in others (Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, West Virginia). Disparities in economic insecurity reflect the precarious financial situations experienced by many older adults, rooted not only in risks and disadvantages accumulated over time, but also in the variable and uncertain social and economic contexts that accompany the aging experience. …”
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“…Depression is higher in rural areas and military veterans (Kimron et al., 2019; Bedard-Gilligan et al., 2018). West Virginia, the only state contained entirely within Appalachia, has a higher percentage of military service among its citizenry than other states. …”
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“…Extracts from fermentations of four fungal strains from wild and domestic animal dung from Arkansas and West Virginia, USA were identified as Preussia typharum. …”
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“…This new hair snare was deployed in 1500 10‐km(2) cells across West Virginia (USA) between two sampling seasons (2015–2016). …”
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“…Data were obtained from a newly developed registry comprising all adult patients with first IE admission at the four major tertiary cardiovascular centers in West Virginia, USA during 2014–2018. Patient characteristics were compared between males and females using Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, and Wilcoxon rank-sum test. …”
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“…In 2010, the newly diagnosed ESRD cases (420) and total number of ESRD cases due to diabetes (642) in the district were twice that of neighboring states (Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia) and the entire US. In this review, the importance of implementing an evidence-based public health program in solving the epidemic of diabetes among the black community living in Ward 8 is emphasized. …”
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“…CASE PRESENTATION: This report examines these factors in two geriatric patients with multiple comorbid conditions who were residents of the long-term care facility in West Virginia that was the epicenter of COVID-19 in the state. …”
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“…We employ a newly collected dataset of 216 water samples from domestic wells in Ohio and West Virginia and an integrated contaminant-source attribution method to describe water quality in the western NAB and characterize key agents influencing contaminant distributions. …”
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“…Using the inpatient medical note to assess the complexity of care, we wanted to quantify the visit coding distribution at the largest tertiary care center in West Virginia and to improve the documentation and coding if found to be below national benchmarks. …”
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“…DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING: We used 2015–2018 West Virginia Medicaid and SNAP data. STUDY DESIGN: Nine counties were exposed to SNAP work requirements. …”
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“…Aerial surveys with drones were conducted to obtain 6174 aerial images including ash decline in the deciduous forests in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, USA. The ash trees in each image were manually annotated for training and validating deep learning models. …”
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