Association of plasma B-type natriuretic peptide concentrations with longitudinal blood pressure tracking in African Americans: findings from the Jackson Heart StudyErvin R Fox
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
Hypertension 61:48-54. 2013
..12). In our community-based sample of African Americans, higher BNP concentrations predicted a longitudinal increase in systolic and diastolic BPs and progression of BP stage...
- Association of genetic variation with systolic and diastolic blood pressure among African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource study
Ervin R Fox
Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
Hum Mol Genet 20:2273-84. 2011
..More broadly, this work supports that notion that blood pressure among AAs is a trait with genetic underpinnings but also with significant complexity...
- The relation of diabetes, impaired fasting blood glucose, and insulin resistance to left ventricular structure and function in African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study
Ervin R Fox
Department of Family Medicine, CHA Hospital Anti Aging Institute, Seoul, South Korea
Diabetes Care 34:507-9. 2011
..We assessed the relation of diabetes and insulin resistance (IR) on left ventricular (LV) structure and function in African Americans...
- Heritability and genetic linkage of left ventricular mass, systolic and diastolic function in hypertensive African Americans (From the GENOA Study)
Ervin R Fox
Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, USA
Am J Hypertens 23:870-5. 2010
..We used pedigree information from 454 tandem markers across the genome to estimate the heritability and linkage of various echocardiographic measures of LV structure and function in a cohort of African-American hypertensive siblings...
- Distribution and determinants of Doppler-derived diastolic flow indices in African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study (JHS)
Tandaw E Samdarshi
The University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Am Heart J 158:209-16. 2009
..The objective of this study is to investigate the distribution and determinants of diastolic function in a middle-aged cohort of African Americans (AA)...
- Echocardiographic left ventricular mass index predicts incident stroke in African Americans: Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
Ervin R Fox
Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500, N State St, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Stroke 38:2686-91. 2007
..Despite theories that link stroke to left ventricular mass, few large, population-based studies have examined the predictive value of echocardiographically derived left ventricular mass index (LVMI) to incident stroke in African Americans...
- The relation of C--reactive protein to chronic kidney disease in African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study
Ervin R Fox
Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, MS, USA
BMC Nephrol 11:1. 2010
..73 m2) than their counterparts of European-descent. Inflammation has been related to renal disease in non-Hispanic whites, but there are limited data on the role of inflammation in renal dysfunction in African Americans in the community...
- Association of adiponectin with left ventricular mass in blacks: the Jackson Heart Study
Aurelian Bidulescu
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Circ Heart Fail 4:747-53. 2011
..The Jackson Heart Study cohort provides an opportunity to test the hypothesis that the inverse association between adiponectin and LVM may be modified by risk factors common among blacks...
- Relation of obesity to circulating B-type natriuretic peptide concentrations in blacks: the Jackson Heart Study
Ervin R Fox
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, 2500 N State St, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Circulation 124:1021-7. 2011
..Whether this phenomenon may contribute to hypertension in blacks is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that body mass index is inversely related to BNP concentrations in blacks...
Epidemiology of pure valvular regurgitation in the large middle-aged African American cohort of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities studyErvin R Fox
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Am Heart J 154:1229-34. 2007
..There are limited data on the prevalence and the clinical and echocardiographic correlates of pure valvular regurgitation in African Americans despite the higher rates of cardiovascular disease in this group...
- The predictive value of left atrial size for incident ischemic stroke and all-cause mortality in African Americans: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
Harsha S Nagarajarao
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Stroke 39:2701-6. 2008
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- Left ventricular architecture and survival in African-Americans free of coronary heart disease (from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities [ARIC] study)
Herman A Taylor
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
Am J Cardiol 99:1413-20. 2007
..In men, an association between concentric LV hypertrophy and mortality risk remained...
- The prognostic value of the mitral diastolic filling velocity ratio for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular morbidity in African Americans: the Atherosclerotic Risks in Communities (ARIC) study
Ervin R Fox
NHLBI s Atherosclerotic Risk in Communities Study, Jackson, MS, USA
Am Heart J 152:749-55. 2006
..Although recent data suggest that the mitral diastolic early-to-late (E/A) ratio may be prognostic in selected population-based cohorts, its predictive value for morbidity and mortality in African Americans has not yet been well studied...
Epidemiology, heritability, and genetic linkage of C-reactive protein in African Americans (from the Jackson Heart Study)Ervin R Fox
University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Am J Cardiol 102:835-41. 2008
..72. In conclusion, in this large population-based cohort of African Americans, circulating CRP concentration was heritable and associated with several traditional cardiovascular risk factors, particularly body mass index...
- Left ventricular geometric patterns in the Jackson cohort of the Atherosclerotic Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study: clinical correlates and influences on systolic and diastolic dysfunction
Ervin R Fox
The NHLBI s Jackson Heart Study, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Am Heart J 153:238-44. 2007
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- Relation of aortic valve sclerosis to risk of coronary heart disease in African-Americans
Herman A Taylor
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Am J Cardiol 95:401-4. 2005
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- Genome-wide association study of cardiac structure and systolic function in African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) study
Ervin R Fox
Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State St, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Genet 6:37-46. 2013
..Using data from 4 community-based cohorts of African Americans, we tested the association between genome-wide markers (single-nucleotide polymorphisms) and cardiac phenotypes in the Candidate-gene Association Resource study...
