Sapna Shah

Toll-like receptor 4 variant D299G is associated with susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration (2005)

Zareparsi, Sepideh, Buraczynska, Monika, Branham, Kari E.H., Shah, Sapna, Eng, Donna, Li, Mingyao, ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a genetically heterogeneous disease that leads to progressive and irreversible vision loss among the elderly. Inflammation, oxidative damage, cholesterol...

Toll-like receptor 4 variant D299G is associated with susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration (2005)

Zareparsi, Sepideh, Buraczynska, Monika, Branham, Kari E.H., Shah, Sapna, Eng, Donna, Li, Mingyao, ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a genetically heterogeneous disease that leads to progressive and irreversible vision loss among the elderly. Inflammation, oxidative damage, cholesterol...

Strong Association of the Y402H Variant in Complement Factor H at 1q32 with Susceptibility to Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Zareparsi, Sepideh, Branham, Kari E. H., Li, Mingyao, Shah, Sapna, Klein, Robert J., Ott, Jurg, ...

Using a large sample of cases and controls from a single center, we show that a T→C substitution in exon 9 (Y402H) of the complement factor H gene is strongly associated with susceptibility to...

A Framework and Approach for Assessing the Value of Personal Health Records (PHRs)

Johnston, Douglas, Kaelber, David, Pan, Eric C, Bu, Davis, Shah, Sapna, Hook, Julie M., ...

Personal Health Records (PHRs) are a rapidly expanding area of medical informatics due to the belief that they may improve health care delivery and control costs of care. The PHRs in use or in...

A Cost Model for Personal Health Records (PHRs)

Shah, Sapna, Kaelber, David C, Vincent, Adam, Pan, Eric C, Johnston, Douglas, Middleton, Blackford

Personal health records (PHRs) are a rapidly expanding area in medical informatics due to the belief that they may improve healthcare delivery and control costs of care. To truly understand the full...

A Patient-Centric Taxonomy for Personal Health Records (PHRs)

Vincent, Adam, Kaelber, David C., Pan, Eric, Shah, Sapna, Johnston, Douglas, Middleton, Blackford

Today, the nascent field of personal health records (PHRs) lacks a comprehensive taxonomy that encompasses the full range of PHRs currently in existence and what may be possible. The Center for...

Potentials and limitations of microorganisms as renal failure biotherapeutics

Jain, Poonam, Shah, Sapna, Coussa, Razek, Prakash, Satya

Renal insufficiency leads to uremia, a complicated syndrome. It thus becomes vital to reduce waste metabolites and regulate water and electrolytes in kidney failure. The most common treatment of this...