Michael Batech
Kaiser Permanente
50 Papers
80 Citations
Michael Batech is an academic researcher from Kaiser Permanente. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 47 publications. Previous affiliations of Michael Batech include Loma Linda University.
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Papers
Vegetarian diets and incidence of diabetes in the Adventist Health Study-2.
TL;DR: Vegan diets (vegan, lacto ovo, semi-) were associated with a substantial and independent reduction in diabetes incidence and in Blacks the dimension of the protection associated with vegetarian diets was as great as the excess risk associated with Black ethnicity.
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Myopia prevalence and risk factors in children.
Christos Theophanous,Bobeck S. Modjtahedi,Michael Batech,David S Marlin,Tiffany Q. Luong,Donald S. Fong +5 more
TL;DR: Exercise is associated with a lower rate of myopia and represents an important potentially modifiable risk factor that may be a target for future public health efforts.
Distribution of Biopsy-Proven Presumed Primary Glomerulonephropathies in 2000-2011 Among a Racially and Ethnically Diverse US Population
John J. Sim,Michael Batech,Aviv Hever,Teresa N. Harrison,Taurino Avelar,Michael H. Kanter,Steven J. Jacobsen +6 more
TL;DR: Among a racially and ethnically diverse cohort from a single geographical area and similar environment, FSGS was the most common glomerulonephropathy, but there was variability of otherglomerul onephropathies based on race and ethnicity.
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Dynamic Measurement of Disease Activity in Acute Pancreatitis: The Pancreatitis Activity Scoring System.
Bechien U. Wu,Michael Batech,Michael Quezada,Daniel Lew,Kelly Fujikawa,Jonathan Kung,Laith H. Jamil,Wansu Chen,Elham Afghani,Sonya Reicher,James Buxbaum,Stephen J. Pandol +11 more
TL;DR: A clinical activity index that incorporates routine clinical parameters to assist in the measurement, study, and management of acute pancreatitis is developed and initial validation of a clinical activity score for real-time assessment of disease activity in patients with acute pancreatitas is presented.
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Comparison of Predisposition, Insult/Infection, Response, and Organ dysfunction, Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation II, and Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis in patients meeting criteria for early goal-directed therapy and the severe sepsis resuscitation bundle☆
TL;DR: The PIRO has variable abilities to early discriminate and estimate in-hospital mortality of patients presenting to the ED meeting criteria for early goal-directed therapy and the severe sepsis resuscitation bundle and the PIRO may provide additional risk stratification in patients with APACHE II 25 or more.
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