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Jessica Beard

Research Assistant, University of Sheffield
Verified email at sheffield.ac.uk
Cited by 61

Reproductive considerations and pregnancy after bariatric surgery: current evidence and recommendations

JH Beard, RL Bell, AJ Duffy - Obesity surgery, 2008 - Springer
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the USA. Bariatric surgery is an important and
increasingly utilized treatment option for morbid obesity refractory to medical therapy …

Early response to psychological therapy as a predictor of depression and anxiety treatment outcomes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

JIL Beard, J Delgadillo - Depression and Anxiety, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Previous studies indicate that early symptomatic improvement, typically
observed during the first 4 weeks of psychological therapy, is associated with positive …

The enduring impact of historical and structural racism on urban violence in Philadelphia

SF Jacoby, B Dong, JH Beard, DJ Wiebe… - Social Science & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Public health approaches to crime and injury prevention are increasingly focused on the
physical places and environments where violence is concentrated. In this study, our aim is to …

[HTML][HTML] Body image concerns across different sports and sporting levels: A systematic review and meta-analysis

RH Burgon, J Beard, G Waller - Body Image, 2023 - Elsevier
Mixed findings exist regarding whether athletes have different levels of body image
concerns to non-athletes. Such body image concerns have not been reviewed recently …

An Organic Chemist's Guide to N-Nitrosamines: Their Structure, Reactivity, and Role as Contaminants

JC Beard, TM Swager - The Journal of organic chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
N-Nitrosamines are a class of compounds notorious both for the potent carcinogenicity of
many of its members and for their widespread occurrence throughout the human …

Quantifying disparities in urban firearm violence by race and place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: a cartographic study

JH Beard, CN Morrison, SF Jacoby… - … journal of public …, 2017 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To describe variability in the burden of firearm violence by race, income, and
place in an urban context. Methods. We used Philadelphia Police Department data from …

Depression among women with obstetric fistula in Kenya

K Weston, S Mutiso, JW Mwangi… - … of Gynecology & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To establish the prevalence of depression and describe associated factors among
fistula patients attending an obstetric fistula surgical camp in Kenya. Methods A cross …

Characterizing the global burden of surgical disease: a method to estimate inguinal hernia epidemiology in Ghana

JH Beard, LB Oresanya, M Ohene-Yeboah… - World journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Background Surgical conditions represent an immense yet underrecognized source of
disease burden globally. Characterizing the burden of surgical disease has been defined as …

Firearm deaths in America: can we learn from 462,000 lives lost?

S Resnick, RN Smith, JH Beard, D Holena… - Annals of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: We sought to determine whether state firearm legislation correlated with firearm-
related fatality rates (FFR) during a 15-year period. Background: The politicized and …

Surgical task‐shifting in a low‐resource setting: outcomes after major surgery performed by nonphysician clinicians in Tanzania

JH Beard, LB Oresanya, L Akoko… - World journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Little is known about the breadth and quality of nonobstetric surgical care
delivered by nonphysician clinicians (NPCs) in low‐resource settings. We aimed to …