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Recent mammography use among African-American womenY Cozier
Slone Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Brookline, Massachusetts 02446, USA
Ethn Dis 11:188-91. 2001..We assessed recent mammography use in a large national study, the Black Women's Health Study...
Perceived racism in relation to weight change in the Black Women's Health StudyYvette C Cozier
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
Ann Epidemiol 19:379-87. 2009..Obesity is more common in black women than in white women. Racial discrimination is a form of chronic stress that may influence weight...
Relation between neighborhood median housing value and hypertension risk among black women in the United StatesYvette C Cozier
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Public Health 97:718-24. 2007..We examined the relation between median housing value and hypertension risk among US Black women...
Racial discrimination and the incidence of hypertension in US black womenYvette Cozier
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Ann Epidemiol 16:681-7. 2006..Unique experiences associated with "race," such as racism, may adversely affect health. Our goal is to assess whether racism is associated with the occurrence of hypertension in African-American women...
Comparison of methods for collection of DNA samples by mail in the Black Women's Health StudyYvette C Cozier
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Ann Epidemiol 14:117-22. 2004..Outcomes of interest were within group participation rates, yield of DNA, and PCR success...
Perceived racial discrimination and risk of uterine leiomyomataLauren A Wise
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Epidemiology 18:747-57. 2007..Black women also report higher levels of racial discrimination. We evaluated the hypothesis that greater exposure to racism increases myoma risk in black women...
Genetic variants on chromosome 5p12 are associated with risk of breast cancer in African American women: the Black Women's Health StudyEdward A Ruiz-Narváez
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 123:525-30. 2010..We successfully used the shorter range of LD in our AA sample to refine the localization of the putative causal variant...
Neighborhood socioeconomic status in relation to 10-year weight gain in the Black Women's Health StudyPatricia F Coogan
Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:2064-5. 2010..The associations were most evident among BWHS participants who had graduated from college. These prospective data suggest that lower neighborhood SES contributes to overweight and obesity in African-American women...
Polymorphisms in the TOX3/LOC643714 locus and risk of breast cancer in African-American womenEdward A Ruiz-Narváez
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:1320-7. 2010..Because linkage disequilibrium blocks are smaller in populations of African ancestry, fine-mapping in African ancestry samples might be an effective approach to narrowing the position of the causal variant(s) in the TOX3/LOC643714 locus...
Sarcoidosis in black women in the United States: data from the Black Women's Health StudyYvette C Cozier
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Chest 139:144-50. 2011..In the United States, black women are most frequently and most severely affected. There have been few epidemiologic studies of sarcoidosis focusing on black women...
Socioeconomic status and incidence of type 2 diabetes: results from the Black Women's Health StudySupriya Krishnan
Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Am J Epidemiol 171:564-70. 2010..Efforts to reduce the alarming rate of diabetes in African-American women must focus on both individual lifestyle changes and structural changes in disadvantaged neighborhoods...
