University of Alabama at Birmingham

Psychological Stress and the Diurnal Patterns of Sodium Excretion and Blood Pressure: Results From the SABRE Study

BACKGROUND: Psychological stress is associated with reduced blood pressure (BP) dipping, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. This study examined the associations among stress-induced sodium excretion, diurnal sodium excretion, and BP dipping. METHODS: Apparently healthy ad...

Implementing gender-focused DEI initiatives in B2B sales: Navigating cultural forces and organizational resistance

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has emerged as a strategic imperative in business-to-business markets. Yet, existing DEI implementation frameworks underplay the roles of frontline translation and organizational resistance. This omission is consequential in global sales con...

Quantitative CT in the real-world evaluation of progressive pulmonary fibrosis; the REVISE PPF multicentre observational study

Abstract Rationale and Objective We assessed whether an FDA-cleared quantitative CT (qCT) tool (Brainomix, e-Lung) identifies progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF) earlier than routine clinical diagnosis and evaluated the prognostic value of baseline and serial imaging biomarkers....

A Prospective Randomized Trial to Assess Early versus Delayed Weight Bearing Following Operatively Treated Ankle Fractures in the United States

OBJECTIVES: To determine the safety of early versus delayed weight bearing and effectiveness for improving return-to-work following ankle fracture repair. METHODS: Design : Prospective randomized study. Setting: 19 United States Trauma Centers Patient Selection Criteria: Adult pa...

Redefining Kidney Stone Incidence: Emerging Age-Related Patterns

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between age and incident kidney stone disease using contemporary, age- and sex-stratified population-based data from the UK Biobank. METHODS: We undertook a cohort study of 494,745 UK Biobank participants after excluding 7406 individuals wit...

Exploration of the genetic architecture of ANCA-associated vasculitis

Background Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a complex autoimmune disease with distinct clinical and serological subtypes. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several susceptibility loci, particularly within the major h...

Accompanying the Dying: End-of-Life Doulas and the Relational Practice of Good Death in the United States

As death in the United States is increasingly managed within biomedical institutions, end-of-life doulas (EOLDs) have emerged as non-medical practitioners who support dying people and their families through education, advocacy, companionship, ritual, and vigil care. Drawing on 18...

The effect of virtual reality treatment on functional mobility, gait speed, and balance for Parkinson’s patients: A systematic review

Date presented: April 24, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Takhia Mims, takhiam@uab.edu

“My Existence is Queer”: Understanding Trans and Nonbinary College Students’ Sexual Identities

Scientific practices surrounding sexual identity are largely based upon cisheteronormative assumptions, using terms that may not resonate with − or may exclude − trans and nonbinary (TNB) individuals and their experiences. This exploratory study examined how TNB college students...

Psychometric Evaluation of Self-Report Measures Assessing Upper-Limb Function After Stroke: A Systematic Review

Date presented: April 25, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Sadegh Mojaradinloo, mmojarad@uab.edu

Effects of Pharmacologically Induced Hyper-Protein O-GlcNAcylation on the Heart Transcriptome

Background/Objectives: O-GlcNAcylation is a post-translational modification affecting diverse cell functions, including transcriptional regulation. Aberrant levels of protein O-GlcNAcylation have been observed in neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases. We have previously d...

Nature Connectedness Among OTD Students: Descriptive Findings and Implications for Occupational Therapy Education

Date presented: April 24, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Talal Alshammari, i6alal.a@gmail.com

Microstructure‑Dependent Phase Transformations Under High‑Pressure Laser Heating in Additively Manufactured AlCrFe 2 Ni 2

Additive manufacturing (AM) produces microstructures the behavior of which under extreme conditions remains largely unexplored in chemically complex alloys. Here, we investigate the high‐pressure and high‐temperature response of an AM AlCrFe 2 Ni 2 alloy fabricated at two scan sp...

HIV transmission behaviors, detectable HIV-RNA and curable STI prevalence among Ugandan men with HIV with reproductive goals, with and without infertility experiences

Many men with HIV (MWH) want children. MWH with unmet reproductive goals may prioritize conception over preventing HIV/STI transmission. Therefore, we evaluated whether MWH with unmet versus met reproductive goals were more likely to have detectable HIV-RNA or STIs, and explored...

Assessing the Mucosal Inflammatory Endotype of Obesity in Chronic Rhinosinusitis

ABSTRACT Background Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a heterogeneous inflammatory syndrome of the paranasal sinuses that is defined phenotypically as either with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) or without nasal polyps (CRSsNP). More recently, inflammatory markers have been used to cluster p...

Neurometabolite abnormalities and associations with epilepsy duration and cognition in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsies

Abstract Objective This study investigated whether idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGEs) are associated with neuroinflammation by measuring neurometabolite levels and brain temperature using whole‐brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging (MRSI). We compared patients with...

Message in a bottleneck: Nested founder effects from French Polynesia to Rapa Nui and Hawaiʻi

Founder effects can lead to strong, population-specific allele frequency differentiation, including autosomal recessive conditions. Their characterization in European-descent groups, such as the Finnish and Amish, has resulted in actionable genetic tests for each. We show that Po...

Associations Between Physical Activity Measurement Modality and Gut Microbiome in Breast Cancer Survivors

Background/Objectives: Physical activity (PA), physiological fitness, and the gut microbiome have each been linked to health outcomes among breast cancer survivors (BCS); however, these associations have been inconsistent. Few studies have directly compared the associations of se...

Still building the foundation: Why reliability and validity studies in AI remain essential for anatomical sciences education

Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from speculative novelty to an everyday presence among both learners and educators in medical education, with applications spanning tutoring, assessment, feedback, and support for clinical reasoning.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Within the anatomica...

Comparison of prenatal self-report of tobacco use to direct measurement of umbilical cord cotinine

Abstract Objective This study compared maternal self-reports of prenatal tobacco product use with biochemically confirmed cotinine in umbilical cord tissue in newborns exposed to opioids in utero and unexposed controls. Study design Secondary data analysis on 179 pregnant women a...