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Chen Schechter

Bar-Ilan University
Verified email at biu.ac.il
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Making sense of school leaders' sense-making

S Ganon-Shilon, C Schechter - … Administration & Leadership, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Effective education reform depends on its successful realization by the school leadership
carrying out the reform. School principals and middle leaders in the 21st century re-examine …

Environmental pollutants and disease in American children: estimates of morbidity, mortality, and costs for lead poisoning, asthma, cancer, and developmental …

PJ Landrigan, CB Schechter, JM Lipton… - Environmental …, 2002 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
In this study, we aimed to estimate the contribution of environmental pollutants to the incidence,
prevalence, mortality, and costs of pediatric disease in American children. We examined …

Effects of mammography screening under different screening schedules: model estimates of potential benefits and harms

…, SK Plevritis, P Ravdin, CB Schechter… - Annals of internal …, 2009 - acpjournals.org
… Miller AB , To T , Baines CJ , Wall C . The Canadian National Breast Screening Study-1:
breast cancer mortality after 11 to 16 years of follow-up. A randomized screening trial of …

Interpretation of the tuberculin skin test

DN Rose, CB Schechter, JJ Adler - Journal of general internal medicine, 1995 - Springer
OBJECTIVE: To reinterpret epidemiologic information about the tuberculin test (purified
protein derivative) in terms of modern approaches to test characteristics; to clarify why different …

Unique lipoprotein phenotype and genotype associated with exceptional longevity

N Barzilai, G Atzmon, C Schechter, EJ Schaefer… - Jama, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
ContextIndividuals with exceptional longevity have a lower incidence and/or significant delay
in the onset of age-related disease, and their family members may inherit biological factors …

Public health and economic consequences of methyl mercury toxicity to the developing brain

…, PJ Landrigan, C Schechter - Environmental health …, 2005 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Methyl mercury is a developmental neurotoxicant. Exposure results principally from
consumption by pregnant women of seafood contaminated by mercury from anthropogenic (70%) …

A randomized clinical trial of a brief hypnosis intervention to control side effects in breast surgery patients

…, A Goldfarb, CR Weltz, C Schechter… - Journal of the …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Background Breast cancer surgery is associated with side effects, including postsurgical pain,
nausea, and fatigue. We carried out a randomized clinical trial to test the hypotheses that …

Comparative study of the effects of a 1-year dietary intervention of a low-carbohydrate diet versus a low-fat diet on weight and glycemic control in type 2 diabetes

NJ Davis, N Tomuta, C Schechter, CR Isasi… - Diabetes …, 2009 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of a 1-year intervention with a low-carbohydrate and a
low-fat diet on weight loss and glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH …

Trajectories of PTSD risk and resilience in World Trade Center responders: an 8-year prospective cohort study

RH Pietrzak, A Feder, R Singh, CB Schechter… - Psychological …, 2014 - cambridge.org
BackgroundLongitudinal symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are often
characterized by heterogeneous trajectories, which may have unique pre-, peri- and post-trauma …

Association of screening and treatment with breast cancer mortality by molecular subtype in US women, 2000-2012

…, SJ Lee, JJ Van Den Broek, X Huang, CB Schechter… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Given recent advances in screening mammography and adjuvant therapy (treatment),
quantifying their separate and combined effects on US breast cancer mortality …