47th Annual Meeting Final Program (as of 6/9/2014) June 24

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The “-S” designation indicates that the work was completed while the presenter was a student

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Annual Meeting Final Program (as of 6/9/2014)

June 24 – 27, 2014 T

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24, 2014

7:00 - 8:30 pm Welcome Reception and Poster Session 1 Grand Ballroom 3

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GING

001 Birth Weight as a Predictor of Grip Strength in the Seventh Decade of Life Mark Pearce

002 Bladder Antimuscarinics and Cognitive Decline in Elderly Patients Enrolled in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center Cohort

Daniela Moga

003-S From Forgetful to Disabled: Does Physical Inactivity Accelerate Onset of IADL Limitations among Memory Impaired Adults?

Pamela Rist

004 Leukocyte Telomere Length and Mortality in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002 Belinda Needham

005-S Polypharmacy among Adults Aged 65 and Older in the United States: 1988-2010 Christina Charlesworth

006-S The Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE): Depression and Body Composition among Aging Populations William Olson

007-S Use of Electronic Medical Records and Health Risk Assessments to Understand Sedentary Time in Older Adults Dori Rosenberg

008 Is Spousal Caregiving Associated with Physical Activity Prevalence?: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Benjamin Capistrant

009 Objectively Measured Physical Activity among Older Adults in an Urban Setting in India: Results of a Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) Sub-Study

Josh Snodgrass

010-S Physical Activity, Functional Abilities, and Health: Results of a WHO SAGE Sub-Study among Older Adults in an Urban Setting in India

Tyler Barrett

011-S A Prospective Assessment of Cardiac Biomarkers for Hemodynamic Stress and Necrosis and the Risk of Falls among Older People

Dhayana Dallmeier

012-S Validation of Self-Reported Hypercholesterolemia Accounting for Lipid-Controlling Drug Use Michael Passarelli

013 Walking Speed Modifies the Association between Diastolic Blood Pressure and Outcomes: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study

Michelle Odden

014-S Association between Exposure to Secondhand Smoke and Telomere Length: Cross-Sectional Study of 1,433 Non-Smokers

Liya Lu

015-S Cadmium and Lead Exposure and Risk of Age-Related Cataract in US Adults: The National Health and Nutrition Exam Survey

Weiye Wang

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017 A Comprehensive Model of Colorectal Cancer by Risk Factor Status and Sub-Site Using Data from the Nurses’

Health Study Esther Wei

018-S Alcohol, Smoking and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Twins Amie Hwang

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The “-S” designation indicates that the work was completed while the presenter was a student 337 Environmental Phenols and Reproductive Hormones in Premenopausal Women

Anna Pollack

338-S Hair Mercury and Clinical Outcomes among Women Undergoing In Vitro Fertilization Myriam Afeiche

339-S Phthalate Exposure and Age at Menarche in US Girls Taara Bhat

340-S Residential Proximity to Agricultural Pesticides and Risk of Cardiac Birth Defects Kristen M Rappazzo

341 Trimester Specific PM2.5 Exposure and Fetal Growth in Ohio, 2007-2010 Aimin Chen

342-S Risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Due to Biomass Fuels among Women in Kurram Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA): A Case-Control Study

Mehreen Mujtaba

343-S Olfactory Perception and Fragranced Product Use in a Sample of Twins Matthew O Gribble

344-S Objective Measurement of Erythemal Ultraviolet B Radiation (UVB) from 1979-2009 and Implications for Exposure Assessment

Marvin Langston

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345 A Systematic Appraisal of Field Synopses in Genetic Epidemiology Orestis Panagiotou

346-S Clinical and Genetic Associations with Cognitive Impairment Assessed Using TICS-M in Multiple Sclerosis Michaela George

347-S Race Versus Ancestry: Does Socially or Genetically Defined Race Predict Dementia Risk in Older Americans?

Jessica R Marden

348-S Using an Alzheimer’s Disease Polygenic Risk Score to Predict Memory Decline Jessica R Marden

349-S A Trans-Ethnic, Genome-Wide Association Study of Ventricular and Supraventricular Ectopy Melanie D Napier

350 Admixture Mapping of Type 2 Diabetes in African American Women Edward A Ruiz-Narvaez

351 Epigenome-Wide Study Identifies Novel Methylation Loci Associated with Plasma Adiponectin Stella Aslibekyan

352 Genetically Predicted 17?-Estradiol and Systemic Inflammation in Women: A Separate-Sample Mendelian Randomization Analysis in the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study

C Mary Schooling

353 An Epidemiologic Insight from the Twin and Family Studies: Health Effects of Kimchi Eating Trial and Salt Intake and Habits as an Example

Joohon Sung

354-S Body Size and Obesity Gene Variation Contribute to Multiple Sclerosis Susceptibility Milena Gianfrancesco

355-S Modification of Genetic Susceptibility to Increased Body Mass by Measures of Acculturation among United States Hispanic/Latinos: The Population Architecture Using Genomics and Epidemiology Consortium

Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes

356-S Obesity-Related Genetic Variants are Associated with Age at Menarche in the Multiethnic National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

Angela Liu

357 Genome Wide Association Study of Urgency Urinary Incontinence Nedra Whitehead

HIV/STI

358-S Impact of Prosecution for Non-Disclosure of HIV Status on Attitudes and Behaviour among HIV-Positive Men who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Toronto, Canada

Maya A Kesler

359 The Consequences of Methodology Changes to National Surveys on Monitoring HIV Testing Trends in the United States Michelle Van Handel

360 Use of P-Technique to Examine the Dynamic Relationship among STD-Associated Feelings and Perceptions in a Cohort of Adolescent Females

Pamela Matson

361-S Survival by Race/Ethnicity and Sex among Treated, HIV-Infected Adults Catherine Lesko

362-S The Effect of Providing Combination Antiretroviral Therapy to HIV-Infected Mothers on Loss to Follow-Up among their HIV-Exposed Infants in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Lydia Feinstein

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