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Allison E. Aiello

Professor of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North …
Verified email at email.unc.edu
Cited by 23088

Effect of hand hygiene on infectious disease risk in the community setting: a meta-analysis

AE Aiello, RM Coulborn, V Perez… - American journal of …, 2008 - ajph.aphapublications.org
To quantify the effect of hand-hygiene interventions on rates of gastrointestinal and respiratory
illnesses and to identify interventions that provide the greatest efficacy, we searched 4 …

Epigenetic and immune function profiles associated with posttraumatic stress disorder

M Uddin, AE Aiello, DE Wildman… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The biologic underpinnings of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have not been fully
elucidated. Previous work suggests that alterations in the immune system are characteristic of …

[HTML][HTML] Largest GWAS of PTSD (N= 20 070) yields genetic overlap with schizophrenia and sex differences in heritability

LE Duncan, A Ratanatharathorn, AE Aiello… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium-Posttraumatic Stress Disorder group (PGC-PTSD)
combined genome-wide case–control molecular genetic data across 11 multiethnic studies to …

[HTML][HTML] International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex-and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

…, MB Stein, K Torres, AE Aiello… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following trauma is heritable, but robust
common variants have yet to be identified. In a multi-ethnic cohort including over 30,000 PTSD …

Mask use, hand hygiene, and seasonal influenza-like illness among young adults: a randomized intervention trial

AE Aiello, GF Murray, V Perez… - The Journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background . During the influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, antiviral prescribing was limited,
vaccines were not available early, and the effectiveness of nonpharmaceutical interventions (…

[HTML][HTML] Seropositivity to cytomegalovirus, inflammation, all-cause and cardiovascular disease-related mortality in the United States

…, JB Dowd, G Pawelec, D Melzer, A Dutta, AE Aiello - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Studies have suggested that CMV infection may influence cardiovascular disease
(CVD) risk and mortality. However, there have been no large-scale examinations of these …

Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals

…, FA Campos, A Bartolomucci, YC Yang, AE Aiello… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND The social environment shapes human health, producing strong relationships
between social factors, disease risk, and survival. The strength of these links has drawn …

The effectiveness of hand hygiene procedures in reducing the risks of infections in home and community settings including handwashing and alcohol-based hand …

SF Bloomfield, AE Aiello, B Cookson, C O'Boyle… - American journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases (ID) circulating in the home and community remain a significant concern.
Several demographic, environmental, and health care trends, as reviewed in this report, are …

Socio-economic status, cortisol and allostatic load: a review of the literature

JB Dowd, AM Simanek, AE Aiello - International journal of …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Background The notion that chronic stress contributes to health inequalities by socio-economic
status (SES) through physiological wear and tear has received widespread attention. …

The impact of bisphenol A and triclosan on immune parameters in the US population, NHANES 2003–2006

…, M Todd, JB Dowd, AE Aiello - Environmental health …, 2011 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background Exposure to environmental toxicants is associated with numerous disease
outcomes, many of which involve underlying immune and inflammatory dysfunction. Objectives …