Sharon B Wyatt

..The Jackson Heart Study data indicate that better control rates can be achieved in this high-risk population...

..The findings, though suggestive of a positive association, are neither consistent nor clear. The research agenda of the Jackson Heart Study in addressing the role of racism in CVD is presented...

..Findings generated an emerging Community-Driven Model, which has potential to enlighten researchers about effective strategies for recruiting and retaining African Americans for research participation...

..We examined the social patterning of cumulative dysregulation of multiple systems, or allostatic load, among African Americans adults...

..Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is an increasingly recognized risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Limited data are available from large African American cohorts...

..Using Jackson Heart Study data, we examined whether perceived discrimination was associated with prevalent hypertension in African Americans...

..We examined the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of diabetes among African Americans...

..The design, overall methods, and major phenotypes for the all-African-American Jackson Heart Study (JHS) are detailed...

..Physical activity measures used in exam 1 of the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), including the diet and physical activity substudy (DPASS), are described...

..We examined the associations of fast food restaurant (FFR) availability with dietary intake and weight among African Americans in the southeastern United States...

..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...

..Questions of medication efficacy also have been raised. Together, these factors may have affected awareness, diagnosis, and treatment rates...

..We report the development and psychometric testing of the multidimensional Jackson Heart Study Discrimination (JHSDIS) Instrument...

..This paper describes the rationale and overall approach for sociocultural assessment in the JHS, both generally and for each content area...

..Family Study participants completed the same questionnaires, measures, and procedures as all other JHS participants and provided blood samples for lymphocyte cryopreservation and transformation...

..The association between religion and spirituality and weight gain deserves further investigation in studies with a longitudinal study design...

..These methods were employed to validate culturally explicit data collection instruments developed by Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative (NIRI) for assessing dietary intake in an all African-American cohort...

..Chronic kidney disease (CKD) leads to end-stage renal disease and is a growing epidemic throughout the world. In the United States, African Americans have an incidence of end-stage renal disease 4 times that of whites...

..This paper describes some of the challenges in retrospectively creating a GIS and provides practical tips that enhanced the success...

..Unprovoked hypokalemia may lead to hypertension and is associated with several forms of recognized secondary hypertension...

..094, P < 0.01). Moderate significant correlations were noted among DSES items. Our findings confirm that the 6-item DSES had excellent psychometric properties in this sample...

..Novel multidisciplinary, preventive, and therapeutic approaches, and social changes are needed that address the complex interplay of biologic, genetic, and social factors that have created the current obesity epidemic...

..This review highlights socioeconomic status in the prevalence and incidence of hypertension and identifies contributing factors associated with blood pressure control...

..More broadly, this work supports that notion that blood pressure among AAs is a trait with genetic underpinnings but also with significant complexity...

..This is of critical importance as the authors continue to explore novel approaches to investigate the geographic variation in disease etiology...

..To determine the effects of health insurance and race on prescription medication use and expense...

..Both versions were stable over time, internally consistent, and the forms were equivalent and valid in an all-African American sample...

..Additional information among individuals with a high risk of cardiovascular disease complications may help to focus current and future efforts...

..The process of identifying, abstracting, and classifying cardiovascular disease (CVD) endpoints in the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) is described...

..Co-participation of researchers and researched in study design and realistic evidence of community benefit were crucial to recruitment success...

..As women's labor force participation in the United States has increased over the past decades, there has been an interest in the potential health effects of employment. To date, however, research findings have been contradictory...

..The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between individual-level and neighborhood-level socioeconomic status (SES) across the life course and subclinical atherosclerosis...