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| DeMarc A HicksonSummaryAffiliation: Jackson State University Country: USA Publications
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Social patterning of cumulative biological risk by education and income among African AmericansDeMarc A Hickson
Jackson Heart Study, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
Am J Public Health 102:1362-9. 2012..We examined the social patterning of cumulative dysregulation of multiple systems, or allostatic load, among African Americans adults...- The associations of multiple dimensions of discrimination and abdominal fat in African American adults: the Jackson Heart StudyDeMarc A Hickson
Jackson Heart Study, Jackson State University, 350 West Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
Ann Behav Med 43:4-14. 2012..Discrimination may be adversely associated with abdominal obesity, but few studies have examined associations with abdominal fat... - Diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance, and metabolic biomarkers in individuals with normal glucose tolerance are inversely associated with lung function: the Jackson Heart StudyDeMarc A Hickson
Jackson Heart Study, Jackson State University, 350 West Woodrow Wilson Avenue, Suite 701, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
Lung 189:311-21. 2011..Overall, our findings generally support the hypothesis that diabetes, IGT, and increased levels of metabolic biomarkers in individuals with NGT are inversely associated with lung function in African Americans, independent of adiposity... 
Leptin is inversely associated with lung function in African Americans, independent of adiposity: the Jackson Heart StudyDeMarc A Hickson
Jackson State University, Jackson Heart Study, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 19:1054-61. 2011..Serum leptin concentration was strongly, inversely, and independently associated with lung function in African Americans, especially African-American men and obese women...- Geographic representation of the jackson heart study cohort to the African-American population in Jackson, MississippiDeMarc A Hickson
Jackson Heart Study, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Am J Epidemiol 173:110-7. 2011..This is of critical importance as the authors continue to explore novel approaches to investigate the geographic variation in disease etiology... - Associations of fast food restaurant availability with dietary intake and weight among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study, 2000-2004DeMarc A Hickson
Jackson Heart Study, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
Am J Public Health 101:S301-9. 2011..We examined the associations of fast food restaurant (FFR) availability with dietary intake and weight among African Americans in the southeastern United States... - Pericardial fat is associated with impaired lung function and a restrictive lung pattern in adults: the Jackson Heart StudyDeMarc A Hickson
Jackson State University, Jackson Heart Study, 350 W Woodrow Wilson Dr, Ste 701, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
Chest 140:1567-73. 2011..Pericardial fat has been shown to be associated with anomalies in cardiac structure, function, and atherosclerosis. We hypothesized that pericardial fat may have a similar role in the impairment of lung function... - Socioeconomic position is positively associated with blood pressure dipping among African-American adults: the Jackson Heart StudyDeMarc A Hickson
Jackson State University, Jackson Heart Study, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Am J Hypertens 24:1015-21. 2011..Lower socioeconomic position (SEP) may be an important predictor of NBP dipping, especially in African Americans (AA). However, the determinants of NBP dipping are not fully understood... - Asthma and asthma severity among African American adults in the Jackson Heart StudyDeMarc A Hickson
Jackson State University, Jackson Heart Study, Coordinating Center, USA
J Asthma 46:421-8. 2009..The prevalence of asthma in the JHS is lower than state and national estimates, although the estimates are not directly comparable. Furthermore, asthma is drastically underdiagnosed in this population... - Pericardial fat and echocardiographic measures of cardiac abnormalities: the Jackson Heart StudyJiankang Liu
Jackson Heart Study, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Diabetes Care 34:341-6. 2011..We sought to evaluate the association of PAT with echocardiographic measures of LV abnormalities in the Jackson Heart Study (JHS)... - Impact of abdominal visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue on cardiometabolic risk factors: the Jackson Heart StudyJiankang Liu
Jackson Heart Study, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 350 West Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, Mississippi 39213 4505, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95:5419-26. 2010..Abdominal visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and sc adipose tissue (SAT) may confer differential metabolic risk profiles. We investigated the relations of VAT and SAT with cardiometabolic risk factors in the Jackson Heart Study cohort... - Are religiosity and spirituality associated with obesity among African Americans in the southeastern United States (the Jackson Heart Study)?Roy R Reeves
G V Sonny Montgomery VA Medical Center, Mental Health Service, 1500 E Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
J Relig Health 51:32-48. 2012..The association between religion and spirituality and weight gain deserves further investigation in studies with a longitudinal study design... - Dietary patterns, abdominal visceral adipose tissue, and cardiometabolic risk factors in African Americans: The Jackson heart studyJiankang Liu
Jackson Heart Study, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 21:644-51. 2013..To examine the relative association of abdominal visceral adipose tissue (VAT) with cardiometabolic risk factors between African and European Americans...