african americans

Summary

Summary: Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the black groups of Africa.

Top Publications

  1. ncbi Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among US adults: findings from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
    Earl S Ford
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop E 17, Atlanta, GA 30333
    JAMA 287:356-9. 2002
  2. ncbi The structure of haplotype blocks in the human genome
    Stacey B Gabriel
    Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Science 296:2225-9. 2002
  3. ncbi Race, breast cancer subtypes, and survival in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study
    Lisa A Carey
    Division of Hematology Oncology, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7305, USA
    JAMA 295:2492-502. 2006
  4. ncbi Sensitive detection of chromosomal segments of distinct ancestry in admixed populations
    Alkes L Price
    Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    PLoS Genet 5:e1000519. 2009
  5. ncbi A genome-wide association study of hypertension and blood pressure in African Americans
    Adebowale Adeyemo
    Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
    PLoS Genet 5:e1000564. 2009
  6. ncbi Genome-wide association of anthropometric traits in African- and African-derived populations
    Sun J Kang
    Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Hum Mol Genet 19:2725-38. 2010
  7. ncbi Association of trypanolytic ApoL1 variants with kidney disease in African Americans
    Giulio Genovese
    Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Science 329:841-5. 2010
  8. ncbi Sociocultural correlates of menthol cigarette smoking among adult African Americans in Los Angeles
    Bruce Allen
    Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 9:447-51. 2007
  9. ncbi Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African Americans
    Fouad Zakharia
    Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    Genome Biol 10:R141. 2009
  10. ncbi Genome-wide association study of coronary heart disease and its risk factors in 8,090 African Americans: the NHLBI CARe Project
    Guillaume Lettre
    Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada
    PLoS Genet 7:e1001300. 2011

Research Grants

  1. Genetic analysis fo metabolic syndrome by admixture mapping in African Americans
    Ludmila Pawlikowska; Fiscal Year: 2009
  2. AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDY OF KIDNEY DISEASE AND HYPERTENSION (AASK)
    Otelio Randall; Fiscal Year: 2000
  3. HCV TREATMENT IN AFRICAN AMERICANS VS NON HISPANIC WHIT*
    Lennox Jeffers; Fiscal Year: 2004
  4. Genetic contributors to diabetes and dyslipidemia in African Americans
    Michele Sale; Fiscal Year: 2009
  5. Genetic contributors to diabetes and dyslipidemia in African Americans
    Michele M Sale; Fiscal Year: 2010
  6. Genetic contributors to diabetes and dyslipidemia in African Americans
    Michele M Sale; Fiscal Year: 2010
  7. Self-Management in African Americans with Diabetes and Hypertension
    Cheryl Rucker Whitaker; Fiscal Year: 2007
  8. Genome Wide Admixture Scan for Multiple Myeloma in African Americans
    CHRISTOPHER ALAN HAIMAN; Fiscal Year: 2010
  9. Ethnic Differences in Responses to Painful Stimuli
    Roger Fillingim; Fiscal Year: 2009
  10. VIRAHEP-C Clinical Center
    Anna Lok; Fiscal Year: 2005

Detail Information

Publications262 found, 100 shown here

  1. ncbi Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among US adults: findings from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
    Earl S Ford
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop E 17, Atlanta, GA 30333
    JAMA 287:356-9. 2002
    ..Limited information is available about the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in the United States, however...
  2. ncbi The structure of haplotype blocks in the human genome
    Stacey B Gabriel
    Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Science 296:2225-9. 2002
    ..Our results provide a foundation for the construction of a haplotype map of the human genome, facilitating comprehensive genetic association studies of human disease...
  3. ncbi Race, breast cancer subtypes, and survival in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study
    Lisa A Carey
    Division of Hematology Oncology, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7305, USA
    JAMA 295:2492-502. 2006
    ..Gene expression analysis has identified several breast cancer subtypes, including basal-like, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 positive/estrogen receptor negative (HER2+/ER-), luminal A, and luminal B...
  4. ncbi Sensitive detection of chromosomal segments of distinct ancestry in admixed populations
    Alkes L Price
    Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
    PLoS Genet 5:e1000519. 2009
    ..the method empirically by applying it to populations that have experienced recent and ancient admixture: 935 African Americans from the United States and 29 Mozabites from North Africa...
  5. ncbi A genome-wide association study of hypertension and blood pressure in African Americans
    Adebowale Adeyemo
    Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
    PLoS Genet 5:e1000564. 2009
    ..genetic variants underlying blood pressure (BP) by conducting a genome-wide association study (GWAS) among African Americans, a population group in the United States that is disproportionately affected by hypertension and associated ..
  6. ncbi Genome-wide association of anthropometric traits in African- and African-derived populations
    Sun J Kang
    Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
    Hum Mol Genet 19:2725-38. 2010
    ..Meta-analysis of this data set with additional studies in African-ancestry populations will be helpful to improve power to detect novel associations...
  7. ncbi Association of trypanolytic ApoL1 variants with kidney disease in African Americans
    Giulio Genovese
    Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Science 329:841-5. 2010
    b>African Americans have higher rates of kidney disease than European Americans...
  8. ncbi Sociocultural correlates of menthol cigarette smoking among adult African Americans in Los Angeles
    Bruce Allen
    Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 9:447-51. 2007
    ..Results indicate that menthol smoking among adult African Americans is at least partly a consequence of a complex set of social and cultural norms...
  9. ncbi Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African Americans
    Fouad Zakharia
    Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    Genome Biol 10:R141. 2009
    ..applied recently developed statistical and computational techniques to the question of African ancestry in African Americans by using data on more than 450,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) genotyped in 94 Africans of ..
  10. ncbi Genome-wide association study of coronary heart disease and its risk factors in 8,090 African Americans: the NHLBI CARe Project
    Guillaume Lettre
    Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada
    PLoS Genet 7:e1001300. 2011
    Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality in African Americans. To identify common genetic polymorphisms associated with CHD and its risk factors (LDL- and HDL-cholesterol (LDL-C and HDL-C), hypertension, smoking, ..
  11. ncbi FTO genetic variation and association with obesity in West Africans and African Americans
    Adebowale Adeyemo
    Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Diabetes 59:1549-54. 2010
    ..However, data from populations of African ancestry are limited. We evaluated genetic variation in the FTO gene and investigated associations with obesity in West Africans and African Americans.
  12. ncbi Candidate gene association resource (CARe): design, methods, and proof of concept
    Kiran Musunuru
    Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
    Circ Cardiovasc Genet 3:267-75. 2010
    ..The goals of CARe include the discovery of new variants associated with traits using a candidate gene approach and the discovery of new variants using the genome-wide association mapping approach specifically in African Americans.
  13. ncbi Host determinants of HIV-1 control in African Americans
    Kimberly Pelak
    Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina, USA
    J Infect Dis 201:1141-9. 2010
    ..a whole-genome association study of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) set point among a cohort of African Americans (n = 515), and an intronic single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the HLA-B gene showed one of the ..
  14. ncbi Genetic differences between the determinants of lipid profile phenotypes in African and European Americans: the Jackson Heart Study
    Rahul C Deo
    Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    PLoS Genet 5:e1000342. 2009
    ..To address this problem for cardiovascular phenotypes, we studied a cohort of 4,464 African Americans from the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), in whom we genotyped both a panel of 12 recently discovered genetic ..
  15. ncbi Evidence supports a faster growth rate and/or earlier transformation to clinically significant prostate cancer in black than in white American men, and influences racial progression and mortality disparity
    Isaac J Powell
    Wayne State University School of Medicine and Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan, USA
    J Urol 183:1792-6. 2010
    ..We propose that a more rapid prostate cancer growth rate and/or earlier transformation from latent to aggressive prostate cancer in black than in white men contribute to this disparity...
  16. ncbi Blood pressure and hypertension in relation to levels of serum polychlorinated biphenyls in residents of Anniston, Alabama
    Alexey Goncharov
    Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York 12144, USA
    J Hypertens 28:2053-60. 2010
    ..To determine risk factors for elevated blood pressure and hypertension in residents of Anniston, Alabama who live near a plant that manufactured polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)...
  17. ncbi Prehypertensive African-American women have preserved nitric oxide and renal function but high cardiovascular risk
    Deborah L Feairheller
    Hypertension, Molecular and Applied Physiology Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
    Kidney Blood Press Res 33:282-90. 2010
    ..The relationship between prehypertension, renal function, inflammation, and oxidative stress was examined...
  18. ncbi Enhanced statistical tests for GWAS in admixed populations: assessment using African Americans from CARe and a Breast Cancer Consortium
    Bogdan Pasaniuc
    Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    PLoS Genet 7:e1001371. 2011
    ..ancestry, more recent studies often involve additional populations, including admixed populations such as African Americans and Latinos...
  19. ncbi Relationship of alcohol consumption and type of alcoholic beverage consumed with plasma lipid levels: differences between Whites and African Americans of the ARIC study
    Kelly A Volcik
    Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Ann Epidemiol 18:101-7. 2008
    ..The influence of different types of alcoholic beverages on plasma lipid levels has been investigated to a lesser extent and in limited populations...
  20. ncbi MYH9 is associated with nondiabetic end-stage renal disease in African Americans
    W H Linda Kao
    Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    Nat Genet 40:1185-92. 2008
    As end-stage renal disease (ESRD) has a four times higher incidence in African Americans compared to European Americans, we hypothesized that susceptibility alleles for ESRD have a higher frequency in the West African than the European ..
  21. ncbi State of disparities in cardiovascular health in the United States
    George A Mensah
    Office of the Director, Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control, Mail Stop K 40, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30341 3717, USA
    Circulation 111:1233-41. 2005
    ..Having timely access to current data on disparities is important for policy and program development. Accordingly, we assessed the current magnitude of disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors in the United States...
  22. ncbi Coping and distress among women under treatment for early stage breast cancer: comparing African Americans, Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites
    Jenifer L Culver
    Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124-2070, USA
    Psychooncology 11:495-504. 2002
    ..Hispanics reported the highest levels of venting, African Americans reported the lowest levels...
  23. ncbi Influence of socioeconomic and cultural factors on racial differences in late-stage presentation of breast cancer
    D R Lannin
    Department of Surgery, Leo W Jenkins Cancer Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
    JAMA 279:1801-7. 1998
    ..Breast cancer mortality is higher among African American women than among white women in the United States, but the reasons for the racial difference are not known...
  24. ncbi Correlates of using dual methods for sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy prevention among high-risk African-American female teens
    R A Crosby
    Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
    J Adolesc Health 28:410-4. 2001
    ..To identify correlates of consistent dual-method use among African-American female adolescents at risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and pregnancy...
  25. ncbi Disparities in the availability of fruits and vegetables between racially segregated urban neighbourhoods
    Kimberly Morland
    Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1057, New York, NY 10029, USA
    Public Health Nutr 10:1481-9. 2007
    ..Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the availability and variety of produce located in two racially and economically diverse urban neighbourhoods...
  26. ncbi The genetic structure and history of Africans and African Americans
    Sarah A Tishkoff
    Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
    Science 324:1035-44. 2009
    ..The ancestry of African Americans is predominantly from Niger-Kordofanian (approximately 71%), European (approximately 13%), and other African ..
  27. ncbi Race-specific differences in endothelial function: predisposition of African Americans to vascular diseases
    Leszek Kalinowski
    Department of Biochemistry, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA
    Circulation 109:2511-7. 2004
    ..This may explain the differences in racial predisposition to the endothelium dysfunction during ongoing vascular disturbances with the hallmark of enhanced NO inactivation within the endothelium by oxidative stress...
  28. ncbi Issues in minority health: atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease in African Americans
    Luther T Clark
    Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA
    Med Clin North Am 89:977-1001, 994. 2005
    ..b>African Americans have the highest overall CHD mortality rate and the highest out-of-hospital coronary death rate of any ..
  29. ncbi Evaluation of group genetic ancestry of populations from Philadelphia and Dakar in the context of sex-biased admixture in the Americas
    Klara Stefflova
    Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 4:e7842. 2009
    ..Genetic ancestry may influence genetic association studies due to differences in individual admixture within recently admixed populations like African Americans.
  30. ncbi Genetic association analysis highlights new loci that modulate hematological trait variation in Caucasians and African Americans
    Ken Sin Lo
    Montreal Heart Institute, 5000 Belanger Street, Montreal, QC, H1T 1C8, Canada
    Hum Genet 129:307-17. 2011
    ..polymorphisms (SNPs) that capture variation in ~2,100 candidate genes in DNA of 23,439 Caucasians and 7,112 African Americans from five population-based cohorts...
  31. ncbi Regional differences in African Americans' high risk for stroke: the remarkable burden of stroke for Southern African Americans
    George Howard
    University of Alabama School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
    Ann Epidemiol 17:689-96. 2007
    The stroke mortality rate for African Americans aged 45 to 64 years is 3 to 4 times higher than for whites of the same age, with a decreasing black-to-white mortality ratio with increasing age...
  32. ncbi The influence of spiritual beliefs and practices on the treatment preferences of African Americans: a review of the literature
    Kimberly S Johnson
    Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3003, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 53:711-9. 2005
    ..culture and is often cited as an explanation for the more-aggressive treatment preferences of some African Americans at the end of life...
  33. ncbi FGFR2 variants and breast cancer risk: fine-scale mapping using African American studies and analysis of chromatin conformation
    Miriam S Udler
    Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, UK
    Hum Mol Genet 18:1692-703. 2009
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  34. ncbi Clinicopathological features of colon polyps from African-Americans
    Mehdi Nouraie
    Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, Howard University College of Medicine, 2041 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20060, USA
    Dig Dis Sci 55:1442-9. 2010
    ..It is shown that 30% of the US adult population has adenomas. The potential risk of malignant transformation in adenomas differs by specific pathologic and clinical characteristics that we aimed to study in AAs...
  35. ncbi A trial of 3 interventions to promote colorectal cancer screening in African Americans
    Daniel S Blumenthal
    Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
    Cancer 116:922-9. 2010
    ..For the current study, the authors tested 3 interventions that were intended to increase the rate of CRC screening among African Americans.
  36. ncbi The relation between body size perception and change in body mass index over 13 years: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study
    Elizabeth Lynch
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University, 1700 West Van Buren, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 169:857-66. 2009
    ..12 vs. 0.27 BMI units; P = 0.04). Results for men showed fewer and weaker associations. When obese women perceive themselves as obese and feel that their body size is too large, they gain less weight over time...
  37. ncbi Candidate genes for non-diabetic ESRD in African Americans: a genome-wide association study using pooled DNA
    Meredith A Bostrom
    Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1053, USA
    Hum Genet 128:195-204. 2010
    b>African Americans have increased susceptibility to non-diabetic (non-DM) forms of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and extensive evidence supports a genetic contribution...
  38. ncbi Self-reported weight status and dieting in a cross-sectional sample of young adolescents: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III
    R S Strauss
    Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, New Brunswick 08903, USA
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 153:741-7. 1999
    ..To explore the relationship of self-reported weight status and dieting to actual weight and height in a cross-sectional nationally representative sample of young adolescents...
  39. ncbi Sequencing the IL4 locus in African Americans implicates rare noncoding variants in asthma susceptibility
    Gabe Haller
    Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    J Allergy Clin Immunol 124:1204-9.e9. 2009
    Common genetic variations in the IL4 gene have been associated with asthma and atopy in European and Asian populations, but not in African Americans.
  40. ncbi Heroin addiction in African Americans: a hypothesis-driven association study
    O Levran
    The Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
    Genes Brain Behav 8:531-40. 2009
    ..This study was designed to identify gene variants associated with heroin addiction in African Americans. The emphasis was on genes involved in reward modulation, behavioral control, cognitive function, signal ..
  41. ncbi Prostate cancer risk associated loci in African Americans
    Jianfeng Xu
    Center for Cancer Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:2145-9. 2009
    ..However, studies with larger numbers of AA subjects are needed, and this will likely require a major collaborative effort to combine multiple AA study populations...
  42. ncbi Association of nicotine metabolite ratio and CYP2A6 genotype with smoking cessation treatment in African-American light smokers
    M K Ho
    Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Clin Pharmacol Ther 85:635-43. 2009
    ..61, 95% CI 0.95-2.72, P = 0.08). The determination of the 3HC/COT ratio, and possibly CYP2A6 genotype, may be useful in the future for personalizing the choice of smoking cessation treatment in African-American light smokers...
  43. ncbi Sustained-release bupropion for smoking cessation in African Americans: a randomized controlled trial
    Jasjit S Ahluwalia
    Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine and Kansas Cancer Institute, Kansas City, KS 66160 7313, USA
    JAMA 288:468-74. 2002
    b>African Americans disproportionately experience greater smoking attributable morbidity and mortality...
  44. ncbi A genome-wide association study for diabetic nephropathy genes in African Americans
    Caitrin W McDonough
    Program in Molecular Medicine and Translational Science, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
    Kidney Int 79:563-72. 2011
    ..0 chip to identify genes associated with diabetic nephropathy in African Americans. Association analysis was performed adjusting for admixture in 965 type 2 diabetic African American patients ..
  45. ncbi Does a six-month pedometer intervention improve physical activity and health among vulnerable African Americans? A feasibility study
    Jamie Zoellner
    Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
    J Phys Act Health 7:224-31. 2010
    ..Race/ethnic-specific physical activity patterns and biological responses to physical activity is one of the most understudied, yet critical aspects related to the development and adoption of physical activity recommendations...
  46. ncbi Waist circumference percentiles in nationally representative samples of African-American, European-American, and Mexican-American children and adolescents
    Jose R Fernandez
    Section on Statistical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, Clinical Nutrition Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294 3360, USA
    J Pediatr 145:439-44. 2004
    ..To describe and provide estimates of the distribution of waist circumference (WC) according to percentiles in African-, European-, and Mexican-American children, and to test for group differences at different percentiles...
  47. ncbi Susceptibility genes in common complex kidney disease
    Jasmin Divers
    Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1053, USA
    Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 19:79-84. 2010
    ..A brief overview of methods for identifying gene variants is provided, along with genetic associations and new avenues under exploration...
  48. ncbi Ethnic differences in pain, itch and thermal detection in response to topical capsaicin: African Americans display a notably limited hyperalgesia and neurogenic inflammation
    H Wang
    Department of Dermatology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
    Br J Dermatol 162:1023-9. 2010
    ..Topical application of capsaicin commonly produces burning, stinging and itching as well as hyperalgesia to heat stimuli via activation of transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype 1...
  49. ncbi Demographic differences and trends of vitamin D insufficiency in the US population, 1988-2004
    Adit A Ginde
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, 80045, USA
    Arch Intern Med 169:626-32. 2009
    ..Vitamin D insufficiency is associated with suboptimal health. The prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency may be rising, but population-based trends are uncertain. We sought to evaluate US population trends in vitamin D insufficiency...
  50. ncbi The diet quality of rural older adults in the South as measured by healthy eating index-2005 varies by ethnicity
    Margaret R Savoca
    Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina Greensboro, 309 Stone Bldg, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA
    J Am Diet Assoc 109:2063-7. 2009
    ..After controlling for age, sex, marital status, poverty status, and education, African Americans (n=136) had higher total HEI-2005 scores compared to American Indians (n=195) and non-Hispanic whites (n=304)..
  51. ncbi A risk allele for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in African Americans is located within a region containing APOL1 and MYH9
    Giulio Genovese
    Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Kidney Int 78:698-704. 2010
    ..high incidence of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and non-diabetic end-stage renal disease among African Americans. To further define risk alleles with FSGS we performed a genome-wide association analysis using more than ..
  52. ncbi Differences between dual-method and non-dual-method protection use in a sample of young African American women residing in the Southeastern United States
    Jessica M Sales
    Department of Behavioral Science and Health Education, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:1125-31. 2010
    ..To characterize dual-method protection users and report the prevalence of dual-method use among young adult African American women residing in the Southeastern United States...
  53. ncbi Accuracy of genome-wide imputation of untyped markers and impacts on statistical power for association studies
    Ke Hao
    Genetics Department, Rosetta Inpharmatics, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Merck and Co Inc, Seattle, Washington, USA
    BMC Genet 10:27. 2009
    ..Genome-wide imputation of untyped markers allows us to address these issues in a direct fashion...
  54. ncbi Racial and ethnic disparities in the emergency department: a public health perspective
    Sheryl L Heron
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
    Emerg Med Clin North Am 24:905-23. 2006
    ....
  55. ncbi The causes of racial and ethnic differences in influenza vaccination rates among elderly Medicare beneficiaries
    Paul L Hebert
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Health Policy, New York, NY, USA
    Health Serv Res 40:517-37. 2005
    ..6 percent) were more likely to self-report having received vaccination than were African Americans (43.3 percent) or Hispanics (52.5 percent)...
  56. ncbi Prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia among African Americans with early rheumatoid arthritis: the impact of ethnic-specific normative data
    Ted R Mikuls
    Department of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medica Center and Omaha VA Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198 3025, USA
    J Natl Med Assoc 97:1155-60. 2005
    To examine the prevalence of osteopenia and/or osteoporosis among African Americans with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to assess the effect of using race/ethnicity-specific normative data.
  57. ncbi Exploring social contextual correlates of computer ownership and frequency of use among urban, low-income, public housing adult residents
    Lorna H McNeill
    Department of Health Disparities Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1100 Holcombe Blvd, Unit 125, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    J Med Internet Res 9:e35. 2007
    ..Larger social contextual factors, such as social networks and neighborhood factors, may influence computer ownership and the number of places where individuals have access to computers...
  58. ncbi Relationship between menthol cigarettes and smoking cessation among African American light smokers
    Kolawole S Okuyemi
    Program in Health Disparities Research, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
    Addiction 102:1979-86. 2007
    ..To determine whether African American light smokers who smoked menthol cigarettes had lower cessation when treated with nicotine replacement therapy and counseling...
  59. ncbi Race and differences in breast cancer survival in a managed care population
    M U Yood
    Josephine Ford Cancer Center and Center for Clinical Effectiveness, Henry Ford Health Sciences Center, Detroit, MI, USA
    J Natl Cancer Inst 91:1487-91. 1999
    ..This study compared breast cancer survival in African-American and European-American women with similar health care access...
  60. ncbi Understanding physical activity participation in members of an African American church: a qualitative study
    Melissa Bopp
    Department of Kinesiology, Community Health Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
    Health Educ Res 22:815-26. 2007
    ..the link between spirituality and health behaviors and the role of the church in promoting PA in African Americans. Participants (n = 44) were adult members of African American churches in South Carolina...
  61. ncbi A novel SNP in a vitamin D response element of the CYP24A1 promoter reduces protein binding, transactivation, and gene expression
    Alanna Roff
    Department of Public Health Sciences and Penn State Cancer Institute, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
    J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 112:47-54. 2008
    ..These cancers occur more frequently among African Americans than Caucasians, and individuals with African ancestry are known to have approximately twofold lower levels ..
  62. ncbi Dietary intake and risk of coronary heart disease differ among ethnic subgroups of black Americans
    Kristie J Lancaster
    Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA
    J Nutr 136:446-51. 2006
    ..Future studies of diet and health should consider cultural differences within the Black population to better understand and reduce overall health disparities in the United States...
  63. ncbi Systemic lupus erythematosus in a multiethnic US cohort (LUMINA) XL II: factors predictive of new or worsening proteinuria
    H M Bastian
    Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
    Rheumatology (Oxford) 46:683-9. 2007
    ..To determine the factors predictive of new or worsening proteinuria in a large multiethnic cohort of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)...
  64. ncbi Reducing racial/ethnic disparities in female breast cancer: screening rates and stage at diagnosis
    Franco Sassi
    Department of Social Policy, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
    Am J Public Health 96:2165-72. 2006
    ..We assessed whether population rates of mammography screening, and their changes over time, were associated with improvements in breast cancer stage at diagnosis and whether the strength of this association varied by race/ethnicity...
  65. ncbi Racial and ethnic disparities in pain management in the United States
    Miriam O Ezenwa
    University of Wisconsin Madison School of Nursing, Clinical Science Center, Madison, WI 53792, USA
    J Nurs Scholarsh 38:225-33. 2006
    ..To critically examine research on racial and ethnic disparities in pain management with a focus on who has been studied, the magnitude of disparities, and potential explanations for those disparities...
  66. ncbi Women's reasons for complementary and alternative medicine use: racial/ethnic differences
    Maria T Chao
    The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, College Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
    J Altern Complement Med 12:719-20. 2006
    ..The current study examines reasons for CAM use among women in four racial/ethnic groups...
  67. ncbi Cross-sectional correlates of fasting hyperinsulinaemia in post-menopausal women of different ethnic origin
    A D Pradhan
    Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Diabet Med 23:77-85. 2006
    ..In a large ethnically diverse nationwide sample of post-menopausal women we explored the relationship between fasting insulin levels, ethnicity, and a wide range of anthropometric, socio-economic, and lifestyle factors...
  68. ncbi Adverse maternal outcomes in women with asthma: differences by race
    Nancy J MacMullen
    Governors State University, University Park, IL, USA
    MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs 31:263-8. 2006
    ..To examine the relationship between race and adverse maternal outcomes in women with asthma...
  69. ncbi Overweight and obese prevalence rates in African American and Hispanic children: an analysis of data from the 2003-2004 National Survey of Children's Health
    May Nawal Lutfiyya
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, Rockford, Illinois 61107, USA
    J Am Board Fam Med 21:191-9. 2008
    ..The prevalence of overweight and obesity was examined in African-American and Hispanic children compared with white children...
  70. ncbi Racial disparity and socioeconomic status in association with survival in older men with local/regional stage prostate carcinoma: findings from a large community-based cohort
    Xianglin L Du
    School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, 1200 Herman Pressler Drive, RAS E631, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Cancer 106:1276-85. 2006
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  71. ncbi Racial and ethnic disparities in the control of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Southwest American veterans with type 2 diabetes: the Diabetes Outcomes in Veterans Study
    Christopher S Wendel
    Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, Tucson, AZ 85723, USA
    BMC Health Serv Res 6:58. 2006
    ..We examined the association between race/ethnicity and cardiovascular disease risk factor control in a large cohort of insulin-treated veterans with type 2 diabetes...
  72. ncbi Interactions between race/ethnicity and psychosocial correlates of preteen alcohol use initiation among seventh grade students in an urban setting
    Robert M Bossarte
    Department of Community Medicine and Injury Control Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:660-5. 2008
    ..The purpose of this study was to test differences in the associations between race and ethnicity and early alcohol use initiation among adolescents from an urban school district in a high-risk area...
  73. ncbi Longitudinal analysis of the association between vasomotor symptoms and race/ethnicity across the menopausal transition: study of women's health across the nation
    Ellen B Gold
    Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
    Am J Public Health 96:1226-35. 2006
    ..We also sought to determine whether racial/ethnic differences were explained by sociodemographic, health, or lifestyle factors...
  74. ncbi Mental health care preferences among low-income and minority women
    Erum Nadeem
    Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 6505, USA
    Arch Womens Ment Health 11:93-102. 2008
    ..58, p < 0.001). Finally, being in mental health treatment was related to increased odds of endorsing medication (OR = 3.88, p < 0.001) and individual counseling (OR = 2.29, p = 0.001)...
  75. ncbi Immigrant residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas, 1990-2000
    John Iceland
    Sociology Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 1315, USA
    Demography 45:79-94. 2008
    ..In addition, because black immigrants are, on average, of higher socioeconomic status than native-born blacks, such characteristics do not help explain their very high levels of segregation...
  76. ncbi Measuring the condom use self-efficacy of deployed, enlisted male U.S. Naval personnel
    Anne E Norris
    Cornell School of Nursing, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
    J Nurs Meas 15:46-61. 2007
    ..05). Study findings support the reliability and validity of the condom self-efficacy measure in this population and indicate its usefulness and the need for investigating its psychometric properties in other populations...
  77. ncbi Urban poverty and infant mortality rate disparities
    Mario Sims
    Department of Medicine, The Jackson Heart Study, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
    J Natl Med Assoc 99:349-56. 2007
    ..Findings from this study provide a glimpse into the complexity associated with infant mortality in metropolitan areas because they suggest that the factors associated with infant mortality in urban areas vary by race and ethnicity...
  78. ncbi Passive smoke exposure trends and workplace policy in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study (1985-2001)
    Rachel Widome
    The Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 2002, USA
    Prev Med 44:490-5. 2007
    ..There has been reduced active smoking, decreased societal acceptance for smoking indoors, and changing smoking policy since the mid-1980s. We quantified passive smoke exposure trends and their relationship with workplace policy...
  79. ncbi Racial disparities in mental health service use by adolescents who thought about or attempted suicide
    Stacey Freedenthal
    Graduate School of Social work at the University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
    Suicide Life Threat Behav 37:22-34. 2007
    ..Results indicate that racial disparities characterize adolescents' mental health service use even when suicide risk increases...
  80. ncbi Effects of residence and race on burden of travel for care: cross sectional analysis of the 2001 US National Household Travel Survey
    Janice C Probst
    South Carolina Rural Health Research Center, Department of Health Services Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
    BMC Health Serv Res 7:40. 2007
    ..The purpose of our study was to quantify geographic and race-based differences in distance traveled and time spent in travel for medical/dental care using representative national data...
  81. ncbi Willingness to use microbicides is affected by the importance of product characteristics, use parameters, and protective properties
    Kathleen M Morrow
    Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02903, USA
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 45:93-101. 2007
    ..Understanding Product Characteristics that users find most acceptable and determining who will use which type of product are key to optimizing use effectiveness...
  82. ncbi Gender and ethnic differences in cancer patients' needs for help: an Internet survey
    Eun Ok Im
    School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78701, USA
    Int J Nurs Stud 45:1192-204. 2008
    ..Gender differences have been implicitly assumed in most studies, and specific ethnic groups have been focused on rather than comparing several ethnic groups...
  83. ncbi Injection drug users in the United States, 1979-2002: an aging population
    Gregory L Armstrong
    Division of Viral Hepatitis, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    Arch Intern Med 167:166-73. 2007
    ..Injection drug use (IDU) is important in the epidemiology of blood-borne pathogens. Herein, trends in IDU from 1979 to 2002 are analyzed...
  84. ncbi Utilization of mental health and substance abuse care for people living with HIV/AIDS, chronic mental illness, and substance abuse disorders
    Marcia R Weaver
    Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 47:449-58. 2008
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  85. ncbi Racial differences in the prevalence of atrial fibrillation among males
    Ann M Borzecki
    Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VAMC, Bedford, MA, USA
    J Natl Med Assoc 100:237-45. 2008
    ..Despite being the most common cardiac arrhythmia, little is known about racial differences in atrial fibrillation (AF) prevalence and whether differences persist after accounting for known risk factors...
  86. ncbi Predictors of mammography screening among ethnically diverse low-income women
    Terry A Cronan
    San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
    J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:527-37. 2008
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  87. ncbi Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and lifetime morbidity burden in the women's health initiative: a cross-sectional analysis
    Rachel Gold
    Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, Oregon 97227, USA
    J Womens Health (Larchmt) 15:1161-73. 2006
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  88. ncbi Young teenagers and older sexual partners: correlates and consequences for males and females
    Jennifer Manlove
    Child Trends, Washington, DC, USA
    Perspect Sex Reprod Health 38:197-207. 2006
    ..Limited nationally representative information exists on the characteristics of teenagers who had first sex at an early age with an older partner...
  89. ncbi Characteristics of persons with heterosexually acquired HIV infection, United States 1999-2004
    Lorena Espinoza
    Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, and the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    Am J Public Health 97:144-9. 2007
    ..We analyzed the association between race/ethnicity, whether diagnoses of HIV infection and AIDS were made concurrently, and the survival after diagnosis of heterosexually acquired AIDS...
  90. ncbi An overview of methods for monitoring social disparities in cancer with an example using trends in lung cancer incidence by area-socioeconomic position and race-ethnicity, 1992-2004
    Sam Harper
    Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Am J Epidemiol 167:889-99. 2008
    ..A suite of indicators is needed to provide a clear picture of health disparity change...
  91. ncbi Rurality and ethnicity in adolescent physical illness: are children of the growing rural Latino population at excess health risk?
    K A S Wickrama
    Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, USA
    J Rural Health 23:228-37. 2007
    ..Finally, we examine whether these associations and the levels of chronic illness differ across Latino subgroups...
  92. ncbi Heterogeneity of childhood asthma among Hispanic children: Puerto Rican children bear a disproportionate burden
    Marielena Lara
    University of California, Los Angeles RAND Program on Latino Children with Asthma, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Pediatrics 117:43-53. 2006
    ..To estimate differences in asthma prevalence among Hispanic subgroups and non-Hispanic children living in the United States and to explore the association between these differences and risk factors...
  93. ncbi Child and adolescent sexual abuse history in a sample of 1,490 women sexual partners of injection drug-using men
    R C Freeman
    NOVA Research Company, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
    Women Health 34:31-49. 2001
    ..Recommendations are offered for those who function as caregivers to this population, including drug treatment personnel...
  94. ncbi Characteristics of adolescents who provide neither parental consent nor refusal for participation in school-based survey research
    Jennifer B Unger
    University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, USA
    Eval Rev 28:52-63. 2004
    ..The implied consent procedure recruited more boys, African Americans, students with poor grades, and smokers...
  95. ncbi Correlates of weight loss behaviors among low-income African-American, Caucasian, and Latina women
    Carmen Radecki Breitkopf
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555 0587, USA
    Obstet Gynecol 103:231-9. 2004
    ..To examine the prevalence and correlates of weight reduction behaviors among low-income women...
  96. ncbi Race/ethnic disparities in HIV testing and knowledge about treatment for HIV/AIDS: United States, 2001
    Shahul H Ebrahim
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
    AIDS Patient Care STDS 18:27-33. 2004
    ..We conclude that knowledge about the availability of antiretroviral treatment was high overall. Compared to whites, blacks, and latinos had significantly higher HIV testing rates but significantly lower knowledge about antiretrovirals...
  97. ncbi Associations of race/ethnicity with HIV prevalence and HIV-related behaviors among young men who have sex with men in 7 urban centers in the United States
    Nina T Harawa
    County of Los Angeles, Department of Health Services, Los Angeles, CA 90005, USA
    J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 35:526-36. 2004
    ..Prevention programs should address risks in steady partnerships, target young men before sexual initiation with male partners, and tailor interventions to men of color and of lower socioeconomic status...
  98. ncbi Meeting the challenges of contemporary foster care
    Sandra Stukes Chipungu
    School of Social Work, Howard University, USA
    Future Child 14:74-93. 2004
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  99. ncbi Racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of depressive symptoms among middle-aged women: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)
    Joyce T Bromberger
    University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    Am J Public Health 94:1378-85. 2004
    ..We examined racial/ethnic differences in significant depressive symptoms among middle-aged women before and after adjustment for socioeconomic, health-related, and psychosocial characteristics...
  100. ncbi Weight and weight concerns: are they associated with reported depressive symptoms in adolescents?
    Judi Daniels
    University of Kentucky College of Nursing, Lexington, 40506, USA
    J Pediatr Health Care 19:33-41. 2005
    ..Further, the relationship between these variables and the adolescents' self-reported depressive symptoms was also explored...
  101. ncbi Health and sociodemographic factors associated with body weight and weight objectives for women: 2000 behavioral risk factor surveillance system
    Karin A Mack
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Unintentional Injury, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
    J Womens Health (Larchmt) 13:1019-32. 2004
    ..Also of concern are underweight women, especially as the result of an eating disorder or undernutrition...

Research Grants98

  1. Genetic analysis fo metabolic syndrome by admixture mapping in African Americans
    Ludmila Pawlikowska; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..We will identify genes related to metabolic syndrome by genetic mapping in African Americans, who have inherited different genetic variants from their African and European ancestors; these inheritance ..
  2. AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDY OF KIDNEY DISEASE AND HYPERTENSION (AASK)
    Otelio Randall; Fiscal Year: 2000
    ..These two diseases are the major cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States, especially among African Americans. There is some preliminary evidence suggesting that some antihypertensive drugs may retard the progression ..
  3. HCV TREATMENT IN AFRICAN AMERICANS VS NON HISPANIC WHIT*
    Lennox Jeffers; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..sustained virologic response to a 48-week course of Peginterferon alfa-2a in combination with ribavirin in African Americans as compared to non-Hispanic whites with chronic HCV genotype 1 as assessed at the end of 48-week post-..
  4. Genetic contributors to diabetes and dyslipidemia in African Americans
    Michele Sale; Fiscal Year: 2009
    DESCRIPTION (provided by principal investigator): It is estimated that 3.2 million African Americans aged 20 years or older have T2DM...
  5. Genetic contributors to diabetes and dyslipidemia in African Americans
    Michele M Sale; Fiscal Year: 2010
    DESCRIPTION (provided by principal investigator): It is estimated that 3.2 million African Americans aged 20 years or older have T2DM...
  6. Genetic contributors to diabetes and dyslipidemia in African Americans
    Michele M Sale; Fiscal Year: 2010
    DESCRIPTION (provided by principal investigator): It is estimated that 3.2 million African Americans aged 20 years or older have T2DM...
  7. Self-Management in African Americans with Diabetes and Hypertension
    Cheryl Rucker Whitaker; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  8. Genome Wide Admixture Scan for Multiple Myeloma in African Americans
    CHRISTOPHER ALAN HAIMAN; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Despite recent advances in treatment, the 5-year survival rate remains under 40%. African Americans experience incidence rates over 2-fold higher than those of Whites;the reasons for the racial differences in ..
  9. Ethnic Differences in Responses to Painful Stimuli
    Roger Fillingim; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..pain sensitivity, endogenous pain inhibition, clinical pain and pain-related disability among older African Americans and non-Hispanic whites with knee osteoarthritis (OA); 2) to determine ethnic group differences in ..
  10. VIRAHEP-C Clinical Center
    Anna Lok; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..7 million Americans have evidence of chronic infection. The prevalence of antibody to HCV is higher among African Americans (3.2%) than among the non-Hispanic whites (1.8%)...
  11. Disparities in CHD in the Jackson Heart Study
    Mario Sims; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..key psychosocial factors (discrimination, stress, and social support) impact coronary heart disease (CHD) in African Americans in Mississippi...
  12. PHARMACOKINETICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS OF NICOTINE
    Neal Benowitz; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..An ultimate objective is to use this knowledge to aid in the development of more effective smoking cessation interventions for African-Americans. ..
  13. Resistance to Antiviral Therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C
    Norah Terrault; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..virological response (viral clearance) to pegylated interferon plus ribavirin will be compared in 200 African Americans and 200 non-Hispanic whites...
  14. PHARMACOKINETICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS OF NICOTINE
    Neal L Benowitz; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..An ultimate objective is to use this knowledge to aid in the development of more effective smoking cessation interventions for African-Americans. ..
  15. Disparities in Progression to Renal Replacement Therapy
    Stephen F Derose; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..It has long been recognized that African Americans are much more likely to experience end-stage renal disease (ESRD)...
  16. Genetic analysis fo metabolic syndrome by admixture mapping in African Americans
    Ludmila Pawlikowska; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..We will identify genes related to metabolic syndrome by genetic mapping in African Americans, who have inherited different genetic variants from their African and European ancestors;these inheritance ..
  17. Admixture Mapping of Sarcoidosis Genes in African American
    Benjamin A Rybicki; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..As a research group that has extensively studied the genetic susceptibility of sarcoidosis in African Americans, we have accumulated DMA samples for 1,302 African-American sarcoidosis cases...
  18. Racial Differences in IFN Transcriptional Response
    Daryl Lau; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Approximately 2.4 million Americans have chronic hepatitis C infection and the rate is higher among the African Americans (3.2%) than among the Caucasian population (1.5%)...
  19. Racial Differences in IFN Transcriptional Response
    Daryl Lau; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..Approximately 2.4 million Americans have chronic hepatitis C infection and the rate is higher among the African Americans (3.2%) than among the Caucasian population (1.5%)...
  20. Information and Financial Interventions for Kidney Donation in African Americans
    LEIGH BOULWARE; Fiscal Year: 2009
    b>African Americans are less likely than Whites to receive kidney transplants, despite their being more than two-fold as likely as Whites to develop end stage renal disease (ESRD)...
  21. Information and Financial Interventions for Kidney Donation in African Americans
    LEIGH BOULWARE; Fiscal Year: 2009
    b>African Americans are less likely than Whites to receive kidney transplants, despite their being more than two-fold as likely as Whites to develop end stage renal disease (ESRD)...
  22. Information and Financial Interventions for Kidney Donation in African Americans
    LEIGH BOULWARE; Fiscal Year: 2007
    b>African Americans are less likely than Whites to receive kidney transplants, despite their being more than two-fold as likely as Whites to develop end stage renal disease (ESRD)...
  23. Admixture Mapping of Glaucoma Genes in African Americans
    Michael Hauser; Fiscal Year: 2009
    Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of blindness. This disease disproportionately affects African Americans, who have a four- to five-fold higher risk of disease than age-matched Caucasians...
  24. Admixture Mapping of Glaucoma Genes in African Americans
    Michael A Hauser; Fiscal Year: 2010
    Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of blindness. This disease disproportionately affects African Americans, who have a four- to five-fold higher risk of disease than age-matched Caucasians...
  25. A Program to Increase Living Donations in African Americans
    Prabhakar Baliga; Fiscal Year: 2007
    South Carolina (SC) has one of the highest rates of end stage renal disease among African Americans (AA)...