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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "It's medically proven!": Assessing the dissemination of religion and health research. 
  • "Symptom-specific or holistic": menopausal symptom management. 
  • A Computational Study of Nasal Spray Deposition Pattern in Four Ethnic Groups. 
  • A Cumulative Deficit Laboratory Test-based Frailty Index: Personal and Neighborhood Associations. 
  • A conceptual model of work and health disparities in the United States. 
  • A cross-cultural comparison of depressive symptom manifestation: China and the United States. 
  • A dimensional approach to understanding severity estimates and risk correlates of marijuana abuse and dependence in adults. 
  • A functional prodynorphin promoter polymorphism and opioid dependence. 
  • A genome-wide linkage analysis of dementia in the Amish. 
  • A locus for cerebral cavernous malformations maps to chromosome 7q in two families. 
  • A longitudinal study of the relationship between health behavior risk factors and dependence in activities of daily living. 
  • A missense variant in FGD6 confers increased risk of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy. 
  • A multistate model of fecundability and sterility. 
  • A national internet survey on midlife women's attitudes toward physical activity. 
  • A novel functional variant (-842G>C) in the PIN1 promoter contributes to decreased risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck by diminishing the promoter activity. 
  • A pooled multisite analysis of the effects of atopic medical conditions in glioma risk in different ethnic groups. 
  • A prospective study of the epidemiology of adverse drug reactions in pediatric hematology and oncology patients. 
  • A study assessing the association of glycated hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) associated variants with HbA1C, chronic kidney disease and diabetic retinopathy in populations of Asian ancestry. 
  • APOE2 allele increased in tardive dyskinesia. 
  • Acanthosis nigricans: a practical approach to evaluation and management. 
  • Access and outcomes among minority transplant patients, 1999-2008, with a focus on determinants of kidney graft survival. 
  • Adolescent girls with high body satisfaction: who are they and what can they teach us? 
  • Age-related macular degeneration and incident cardiovascular disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Air pollution effects on ventilatory function of US schoolchildren. Results of studies in Cincinnati, Chattanooga, and New York. 
  • Alcohol dependence and use of treatment services among women in the community. 
  • Alcohol withdrawal and blood pressure. 
  • Alcohol, drug, and mental health specialty treatment services and race/ethnicity: a national study of children and families involved with child welfare. 
  • Alzheimer's disease and apolipoprotein E-4 allele in an Amish population. 
  • Amoxicillin-Clavulanate-Induced Liver Injury. 
  • An analysis of contact-service in the Migrant Health Service Referral System (MHSRS). 
  • An autosomal genomic screen for dementia in an extended Amish family. 
  • An intronic poly (AT) polymorphism of the DNA repair gene XPC and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a case-control study. 
  • An item response theory analysis of DSM-IV criteria for hallucinogen abuse and dependence in adolescents. 
  • Ancestry, Socioeconomic Status, and Age-Related Cataract in Asians: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study. 
  • Anterior segment optical coherence tomography study of the cornea and anterior segment in adult ethnic South Asian Indian eyes. 
  • Archaic and modern human distal humeral morphology. 
  • Assessing risk of breast cancer in an ethnically South-East Asia population (results of a multiple ethnic groups study). 
  • Assessing the Causality between Blood Pressure and Retinal Vascular Caliber through Mendelian Randomisation. 
  • Assessment of visual status of the Aeta, a hunter-gatherer population of the Philippines (an AOS thesis). 
  • Association between endometriosis and risk of histological subtypes of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of case-control studies. 
  • Association between food opportunities during the school day and selected dietary behaviors of alternative high school students, Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2006. 
  • Association of Epstein-Barr virus with systemic lupus erythematosus: effect modification by race, age, and cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 genotype. 
  • Association of Helicobacter pylori infection and diet on the risk of gastric cancer: a case-control study in Hawaii. 
  • Association of Systemic Medication Use With Intraocular Pressure in a Multiethnic Asian Population: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study. 
  • Association of cytochrome P450 2C19 genotype with the antiplatelet effect and clinical efficacy of clopidogrel therapy. 
  • Association of plasma micronutrient levels and urinary isoprostane with risk of lung cancer: the multiethnic cohort study. 
  • Associations of candidate genes to age-related macular degeneration among racial/ethnic groups in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Associations of edge-detected and manual-traced common carotid intima-media thickness measurements with Framingham risk factors: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Associations of neighborhood concentrated poverty, neighborhood racial/ethnic composition, and indoor allergen exposures: a cross-sectional analysis of los angeles households, 2006-2008. 
  • Associations of physical activity and television viewing time with retinal vascular caliber in a multiethnic Asian population. 
  • Attitudes of women in midlife to web-based interventions for promoting physical activity. 
  • Awareness of racial/ethnic disparities in surgical outcomes and care: factors affecting acknowledgment and action. 
  • Banking or Bankrupting: Strategies for Sustaining the Economic Future of Public Cord Blood Banks. 
  • Behavioral determinants of mental illness concerns: a comparison of community subcultures. 
  • Beyond autonomy: diversifying end-of-life decision-making approaches to serve patients and families. 
  • Blood pressure is associated with retinal vessel signs in preadolescent children. 
  • Bridging studies in clinical development. 
  • Building capacity and competency in conducting health disparities research. 
  • C-reactive protein and retinal microvascular caliber in a multiethnic asian population. 
  • C-reactive protein and substance use disorders in adolescence and early adulthood: a prospective analysis. 
  • CCL3L1 and HIV/AIDS susceptibility. 
  • Cardio-metabolic risk factors and prehypertension in persons without diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. 
  • Challenges in the neuropsychological assessment of ethnic minorities: summit proceedings. 
  • Changing fruit and vegetable consumption among children: the 5-a-Day Power Plus program in St. Paul, Minnesota. 
  • Characteristics of baseline PSA and PSA velocity in young men without prostate cancer: Racial differences. 
  • Characteristics of cancer patients in internet cancer support groups. 
  • Characteristics of vegetarian adolescents in a multiethnic urban population. 
  • Characterization of banked umbilical cord blood hematopoietic progenitor cells and lymphocyte subsets and correlation with ethnicity, birth weight, sex, and type of delivery: a Cord Blood Transplantation (COBLT) Study report. 
  • Characterization of clinical study populations by race and ethnicity in biomedical literature. 
  • Characterization of the poly-T variant in the TOMM40 gene in diverse populations. 
  • Chasing Perfection and Catching Excellence in Graduate Medical Education. 
  • Chronic kidney disease in HIV infection: an urban epidemic. 
  • Clinical aspects of ALS in Gulf War veterans. 
  • Clinical needs assessment of middle and high school students following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. 
  • Cluster analysis of midlife women's sleep-related symptoms: racial/ethnic differences. 
  • Clusters of problem behaviors in adolescents. 
  • Comment on: Validity of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) scores as a function of gender, ethnicity, and age of bariatric surgery candidates. 
  • Common carotid artery intima-media thickness progression as a predictor of stroke in multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Comorbid substance use disorders with other Axis I and II mental disorders among treatment-seeking Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race people. 
  • Comorbidity moderates response to methylphenidate in the Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS). 
  • Comparing methods for performing trans-ethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. 
  • Compliance with referral for hepatitis C evaluation among veterans. 
  • Concerns regarding the financial aspects of kidney transplantation: perspectives of pre-transplant patients and their family members. 
  • Concordance between self-reported race/ethnicity and that recorded in a Veteran Affairs electronic medical record. 
  • Conducting research with racial/ethnic minorities: methodological lessons from the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. 
  • Constructive use of race and ethnicity variables. 
  • Continuous performance test performance in a normative epidemiological sample. 
  • Contribution of the Veterans Health Administration in understanding racial disparities in access and utilization of health care: a spirit of inquiry. 
  • Corneal biomechanical properties and retinal vascular caliber in children. 
  • Correlates of inadequate fruit and vegetable consumption among adolescents. 
  • Correlation between maternal and infant cortisol varies by breastfeeding status. 
  • Correlations between family meals and psychosocial well-being among adolescents. 
  • Cultural aspects in the treatment of patients with skin disease. 
  • Cultural considerations in adolescent suicide prevention and psychosocial treatment. 
  • Culture and social distance: a case study of methodological cautions. 
  • Cumulative duration of "triple low" state of low blood pressure, low bispectral index, and low minimum alveolar concentration of volatile anesthesia is not associated with increased mortality. 
  • DNA typing for HLA-A and HLA-B identifies disparities between patients and unrelated donors matched by HLA-A and HLA-B serology and HLA-DRB1. 
  • Decision strategies to reduce teenage and young adult deaths in the United States. 
  • Depression treatment in a sample of 1,801 depressed older adults in primary care. 
  • Depressive symptoms and adolescent eating and health behaviors: a multifaceted view in a population-based sample. 
  • Detecting association in a case-control study while correcting for population stratification. 
  • Diabetic kidney disease: a report from an ADA Consensus Conference. 
  • Diagnosis of diabetes mellitus using HbA1c in Asians: relationship between HbA1c and retinopathy in a multiethnic Asian population. 
  • Diagnostic efficiency of the AUDIT-C in U.S. veterans with military service since September 11, 2001. 
  • Dietary and weight-related behaviors and body mass index among Hispanic, Hmong, Somali, and white adolescents. 
  • Differences by race, sex and age in the clinical and immunologic features of recently diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus patients in the southeastern United States. 
  • Differences in self-reported oral health among community-dwelling black, Hispanic, and white elders. 
  • Direct Engagement With Communities and Interprofessional Learning to Factor Culture Into End-of-Life Health Care Delivery. 
  • Disparities in Cervical Cancer Incidence and Mortality: Can Epigenetics Contribute to Eliminating Disparities? 
  • Disparities in Depressive Symptoms and Antidepressant Treatment by Gender and Race/Ethnicity among People Living with HIV in the United States. 
  • Disparities in the burden, outcomes, and care of chronic kidney disease. 
  • Distorted perceptions in dyadic interactions of aggressive and nonaggressive boys: effects of prior expectations, context, and boys' age. 
  • Distribution and associations of retinal vascular caliber with ethnicity, gender, and birth parameters in young children. 
  • Distribution of Haemophilus influenzae type b outer membrane protein subtypes in different ethnic groups in Australia. 
  • Distribution of ankle--brachial index and the risk factors of peripheral artery disease in a multi-ethnic Asian population. 
  • Divergent pathways? Racial/ethnic differences in older women's labor force withdrawal. 
  • Diversity Summit 2008: challenges in the recruitment and retention of ethnic minorities in neuropsychology. 
  • Do incentives matter? Providing benefits to families of organ donors. 
  • Does the market value racial and ethnic concordance in physician-patient relationships? 
  • Donor designation: racial and ethnic differences in US nondesignators' preferred methods for disclosing intent to donate organs. 
  • Dopamine genes and ADHD. 
  • Drug-use patterns among black and nonblack community-dwelling elderly. 
  • Eating breakfast and dinner together as a family: associations with sociodemographic characteristics and implications for diet quality and weight status. 
  • Eating disturbances in white and minority female dieters. 
  • Edentulism trends among middle-aged and older adults in the United States: comparison of five racial/ethnic groups. 
  • Educational status and active life expectancy among older blacks and whites. 
  • Effect of blood pressure on the retinal vasculature in a multi-ethnic Asian population. 
  • Effect of group racial composition on weight loss in African Americans. 
  • Effect of race and ethnicity on outcomes with drug-eluting and bare metal stents: results in 423 965 patients in the linked National Cardiovascular Data Registry and centers for Medicare & Medicaid services payer databases. 
  • Effects of diet and sodium intake on blood pressure: subgroup analysis of the DASH-sodium trial. 
  • Effects of education and race on cognitive decline: An integrative study of generalizability versus study-specific results. 
  • Effects of simplifying choice tasks on estimates of taste heterogeneity in stated-choice surveys. 
  • Emergency department patterns in psychiatric visits during the holiday season. 
  • Emergency medical services system utilization over the last 10 years: what predicts transport of children? 
  • Emotional consequences of victimization and discrimination in "special populations" of women. 
  • Emphysema, airflow limitation, and early age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Empirical Bayes procedures for stabilizing maps of U.S. cancer mortality rates. 
  • Employment discrimination, segregation, and health. 
  • Enhancing the Value of Statewide Hospital Discharge Data: Improving Clinical Content and Race-Ethnicity Data. 
  • Enrollment and Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment Clinical Trials in North Carolina. 
  • Enrollment in clinical trials according to patients race: experience from the VA Cooperative Studies Program (1975-2000). 
  • Epidemiologic and genetic aspects of spina bifida and other neural tube defects. 
  • Epigenetic regulation of Newborns' imprinted genes related to gestational growth: patterning by parental race/ethnicity and maternal socioeconomic status. 
  • Erythrocyte folate concentrations, CpG methylation at genomically imprinted domains, and birth weight in a multiethnic newborn cohort. 
  • Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Vision-Specific Functioning. 
  • Ethnic and sex differences in serum levels of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Ethnic background has minimal impact on the etiology of nephrolithiasis. 
  • Ethnic differences among adolescents beginning treatment for depression. 
  • Ethnic differences in cardiovascular-somatosensory interactions and in the central processing of noxious stimuli. 
  • Ethnic differences in coronary artery calcium in a healthy cohort aged 60 to 69 years. 
  • Ethnic differences in resting heart rate variability: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Ethnic differences in the association between blood pressure components and chronic kidney disease in middle aged and older Asian adults. 
  • Ethnic differences in the clusters of menopausal symptoms. 
  • Ethnic differences in the link between physical discipline and later adolescent externalizing behaviors. 
  • Ethnic differences in undercorrected refractive error in Asians. 
  • Ethnic disparities in stroke: epidemiology, acute care, and postacute outcomes. 
  • Ethnic variability in retinal vessel caliber: a potential source of measurement error from ocular pigmentation?--the Sydney Childhood Eye Study. 
  • Ethnic/racial and socioeconomic differences in dieting behaviors and body image perceptions in adolescents. 
  • Ethnicity, gender, and age effects on adrenoceptors and physiological responses to emotional stress. 
  • Evidence for a black-white crossover in all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality in an older population: the North Carolina EPESE. 
  • Factors influencing the participation of gastroenterologists and hepatologists in clinical research. 
  • Factors influencing uptake of pharmacogenetic testing in a diverse patient population. 
  • Family meal patterns: associations with sociodemographic characteristics and improved dietary intake among adolescents. 
  • Features associated with successful recruitment of diverse patients onto cancer clinical trials: report from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. 
  • Food preparation by young adults is associated with better diet quality. 
  • Frequency and predictors of de novo hepatocellular carcinoma in patients awaiting orthotopic liver transplantation during the model for end-stage liver disease era. 
  • Frequency of Disparities in Laboratory Testing After Statin Initiation in Subjects ≥65 Years. 
  • Friends Like Me: Associations in Overweight/Obese Status among Adolescent Friends by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Friendship Type. 
  • Functional polymorphisms of JWA gene are associated with risk of bladder cancer. 
  • Gender and ethnic differences in cancer pain experience: a multiethnic survey in the United States. 
  • Gender, educational and ethnic differences in active life expectancy among older Singaporeans. 
  • Gender, ethnicity, and the interactions of prematurely born children and their mothers. 
  • Gender, racial, and ethnic disclosure in NIH K-Award funded diabetes and obesity clinical trials. 
  • Genetic analysis workshop IV: Huntington disease linkage analysis, data description. 
  • Genetic and mutational analyses of a large multiethnic Bardet-Biedl cohort reveal a minor involvement of BBS6 and delineate the critical intervals of other loci. 
  • Genetic basis of glycogen storage disease type 1a: prevalent mutations at the glucose-6-phosphatase locus. 
  • Genetic determinants of age-related macular degeneration in diverse populations from the PAGE study. 
  • Genetic variants associated with severe retinopathy of prematurity in extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Genetic variation in heat shock protein 60 gene and coronary heart disease in China: tagging-SNP haplotype analysis in a case-control study. 
  • Genetic variations of the ADIPOQgene and risk of prostate cancer in Chinese Han men. 
  • Genome-wide association study of Parkinson's disease in East Asians. 
  • Genomewide search for type 2 diabetes susceptibility genes in four American populations. 
  • Glaucoma. 
  • Glutaric acidemia type 1 in patients of Lumbee heritage from North Carolina. 
  • HIV/AIDS-related institutional mistrust among multiethnic men who have sex with men: effects on HIV testing and risk behaviors. 
  • Half-life analysis of pancreas and kidney transplants. 
  • Hallucinogen-related disorders in a national sample of adolescents: the influence of ecstasy/MDMA use. 
  • Health disparities in endocrine disorders: biological, clinical, and nonclinical factors--an Endocrine Society scientific statement. 
  • Health literacy and vision-related quality of life. 
  • Heart Failure in Non-Caucasians, Women, and Older Adults: A White Paper on Special Populations From the Heart Failure Society of America Guideline Committee. 
  • Hepatitis C treatment among racial and ethnic groups in the IDEAL trial. 
  • How we eat what we eat: identifying meal routines and practices most strongly associated with healthy and unhealthy dietary factors among young adults. 
  • Human leukocyte antigen matching and fetal loss: results of a 10 year prospective study. 
  • Hutterite fecundability by age and parity: strategies for frailty modeling of event histories. 
  • Identification of four novel variants that influence central corneal thickness in multi-ethnic Asian populations. 
  • Idiosyncratic Drug Induced Liver Injury in African-Americans Is Associated With Greater Morbidity and Mortality Compared to Caucasians. 
  • Illicit and nonmedical drug use among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race individuals. 
  • Immigrants in the one percent: The national origin of top wealth owners. 
  • Immigration transition and depressive symptoms: four major ethnic groups of midlife women in the United States. 
  • Immigration transition and sleep-related symptoms experienced during menopausal transition. 
  • Impact of Race on 30-Day Complication Rates After Elective Complex Spinal Fusion (≥5 Levels): A Single Institutional Study of 446 Patients. 
  • Impact of late-life depression on the social network. 
  • Incidence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in a Multi-Ethnic United States Population: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Increasing utilization of human T-cell lymphotropic virus (+) donors in liver transplantation: is it safe? 
  • Individual- and community-level correlates of cigarette-smoking trajectories from age 13 to 32 in a U.S. population-based sample. 
  • Inflammation, complement factor h, and age-related macular degeneration: the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Influence of ethnicity on the efficacy and utilization of bariatric surgery in the USA. 
  • Initial results, reliability, and validity of a mental health survey of Mount Pinatubo disaster victims. 
  • Institutional futility policies are inherently unfair. 
  • Intentional and unintentional nonadherence to antihypertensive medication. 
  • Interest in BRCA1/2 testing in a primary care population. 
  • Internet communities for recruitment of cancer patients into an Internet survey: a discussion paper. 
  • Introduction to the Special Issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity: Gender, Ethnicity and Immunity: the new frontier. 
  • Investigating patient characteristics on pain assessment using virtual human technology. 
  • Iridogoniodysgenesis with cataract. 
  • Is diabetic retinopathy related to subclinical cardiovascular disease? 
  • Is nuclear magnetic resonance lipoprotein subclass related to diabetic retinopathy? The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • Item banks for substance use from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS(®)): Severity of use and positive appeal of use. 
  • Job status and high-effort coping influence work blood pressure in women and blacks. 
  • Joint Bayesian analysis of birthweight and censored gestational age using finite mixture models. 
  • Kaposi's sarcoma in homosexual men-a report of eight cases. 
  • Large prospective study of ovarian cancer screening in high-risk women: CA125 cut-point defined by menopausal status. 
  • Liver dysfunction in paediatric obesity: a randomized, controlled trial of metformin. 
  • Longitudinal and secular trends in adolescent whole-grain consumption, 1999-2004. 
  • Longitudinal effects of coping on outcome in a randomized controlled trial of a group intervention for HIV-positive adults with AIDS-related bereavement. 
  • Mammographic density: intersection of science, the law, and clinical practice. 
  • Management of allergic rhinitis in the working-age population. 
  • Matched-pair analysis of race or ethnicity in outcomes of head and neck cancer patients receiving similar multidisciplinary care. 
  • Maternal lineages and Alzheimer disease risk in the Old Order Amish. 
  • Measuring trust in medical researchers. 
  • Menopausal symptoms among four major ethnic groups in the United States. 
  • Menopausal symptoms and physical activity in multiethnic groups of midlife women: a secondary analysis. 
  • Mental health and substance abuse services to parents of children involved with child welfare: a study of racial and ethnic differences for American Indian parents. 
  • Methodological issues in the recruitment of ethnic minority subjects to research via the Internet: a discussion paper. 
  • Methodology of the Singapore Indian Chinese Cohort (SICC) eye study: quantifying ethnic variations in the epidemiology of eye diseases in Asians. 
  • Midlife women's attitudes toward physical activity. 
  • Minority adult survivors of childhood cancer: a comparison of long-term outcomes, health care utilization, and health-related behaviors from the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Misuse of methamphetamine and prescription stimulants among youths and young adults in the community. 
  • Molecular analysis of Bardet-Biedl syndrome families: report of 21 novel mutations in 10 genes. 
  • Mortality model based on delays in progression of chronic diseases: alternative to cause elimination model. 
  • Multinational and multiethnic variations in health-related quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure. 
  • Mutations in the gene encoding KRIT1, a Krev-1/rap1a binding protein, cause cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM1). 
  • National trends in spinal fusion for cervical spondylotic myelopathy. 
  • Natural positive selection and north-south genetic diversity in East Asia. 
  • No association of 9p21 with arterial elasticity and retinal microvascular findings. 
  • Number of children and risk of metabolic syndrome in women. 
  • Obesity prevalence among veterans at Veterans Affairs medical facilities. 
  • Obesity: overview of an epidemic. 
  • Off-hour admission and in-hospital stroke case fatality in the get with the guidelines-stroke program. 
  • One-month prevalence of mental disorders in the United States and sociodemographic characteristics: the Epidemiologic Catchment Area study. 
  • Optical coherence tomography in the eyes of normal children. 
  • Optimizing donor selection for public cord blood banking: influence of maternal, infant, and collection characteristics on cord blood unit quality. 
  • Panic attacks and suicide attempts in mid-adolescence. 
  • Parent academic involvement as related to school behavior, achievement, and aspirations: demographic variations across adolescence. 
  • Parental correlates of physical activity in a racially/ethnically diverse adolescent sample. 
  • Participants and nonparticipants of a mass media self-help smoking cessation program. 
  • Participation in surgical oncology clinical trials: gender-, race/ethnicity-, and age-based disparities. 
  • Patients' attitudes toward internet cancer support groups. 
  • Patterns of emergency medical services use and its association with timely stroke treatment: findings from Get With the Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Perceived cannabis use norms and cannabis use among adolescents in the United States. 
  • Perceptions of racial and ethnic differences in access to healthcare. 
  • Perinatal, neonatal, and family social factors predicting poor school outcome of low-birth-weight survivors: an integrative review. 
  • Physical activities and sleep-related symptoms in 4 major racial/ethnic groups of midlife women. 
  • Physical activity and depressive symptoms in four ethnic groups of midlife women. 
  • Physician decision making and trends in the use of cardiac stress testing in the United States: an analysis of repeated cross-sectional data. 
  • Physician-diagnosed depression as a correlate of hospitalizations in patients receiving long-term hemodialysis. 
  • Physicians' beliefs about conscience in medicine: a national survey. 
  • Place of birth and dietary intake in Ontario. I. Energy, fat, cholesterol, carbohydrate, fiber, and alcohol. 
  • Place of birth and dietary intake in Ontario. II. Protein and selected micronutrients. 
  • Placental/umbilical cord blood for unrelated-donor bone marrow reconstitution: relevance of nucleated red blood cells. 
  • Plasma carotenoids, retinol, and tocopherols and postmenopausal breast cancer risk in the Multiethnic Cohort Study: a nested case-control study. 
  • Polymorphic hCHK2/hCds1 codon 84 allele and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck--a case-control analysis. 
  • Polymorphisms in BRCA1 and BRCA2 and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. 
  • Population frequencies of the Triallelic 5HTTLPR in six Ethnicially diverse samples from North America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. 
  • Practical issues in multi-lingual research. 
  • Preclinical episodes of orofacial pain symptoms and their association with health care behaviors in the OPPERA prospective cohort study. 
  • Prediabetes and the association with unrecognized myocardial infarction in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Predicting cross-reactive immunological material (CRIM) status in Pompe disease using GAA mutations: lessons learned from 10 years of clinical laboratory testing experience. 
  • Prediction of bronchopulmonary dysplasia by postnatal age in extremely premature infants. 
  • Predictors of loss of residual renal function among new dialysis patients. 
  • Predictors of pregnant quitters' intention to return to smoking postpartum. 
  • Pregnancy outcomes among adolescent and older women receiving comprehensive prenatal care. 
  • Prevalence and Determinants of Suboptimal Vitamin D Levels in a Multiethnic Asian Population. 
  • Prevalence and characteristics of choroidal nevi: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of clinically significant depressive symptoms among elderly people in Sri Lanka: findings from a national survey. 
  • Prevalence and determinants of undiagnosed diabetic retinopathy and vision-threatening retinopathy in a multiethnic Asian cohort: the Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases (SEED) study. 
  • Prevalence and distribution of corrective lenses among school-age children. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors for epiretinal membranes in a multi-ethnic United States population. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors for visual impairment in preschool children the sydney paediatric eye disease study. 
  • Prevalence of and racial differences in pterygium: a multiethnic population study in Asians. 
  • Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Impact of Undiagnosed Visually Significant Cataract: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases Study. 
  • Prevalence, comorbidity, and correlates of DSM-5 proposed disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. 
  • Prevalence, racial variations, and risk factors of age-related macular degeneration in Singaporean Chinese, Indians, and Malays. 
  • Prevalences of type 2 diabetes, the insulin resistance syndrome, and coronary heart disease in an elderly, biethnic population. 
  • Primary care physicians' evaluation and treatment of depression: Results of an experimental study using video vignettes. 
  • Primary care residents' characteristics and motives for providing differential medical treatment of cervical cancer screening. 
  • Primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in older racial and ethnic minority patients. 
  • Provider use of collaborative goal setting with glaucoma patients. 
  • Psychiatric disorders. A rural/urban comparison. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of the Midlife Women's Symptom Index in multiethnic groups. 
  • Psychometric properties of the KPAS in diverse ethnic groups of midlife women. 
  • Psychosocial characteristics of pregnant and nulliparous adolescents. 
  • Public attitudes toward incentives for organ donation: a national study of different racial/ethnic and income groups. 
  • Putting the brakes on prejudice: on the development and operation of cues for control. 
  • Quality of life and obesity. 
  • Quota sampling in internet research: practical issues. 
  • Race and ethnicity and rural mental health treatment. 
  • Race, ethnicity, and the physician assistant profession. 
  • Race-ethnicity and health trajectories: tests of three hypotheses across multiple groups and health outcomes. 
  • Race/Ethnic differences in the risk of hemorrhagic complications among patients with ischemic stroke receiving thrombolytic therapy. 
  • Race/ethnicity: who is counting what? 
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Pregnancies of Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities Among Women in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System: A Systematic Review. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in osteoarthritis: prevalence, outcomes, and medical care. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in outcomes in older patients with acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in physical activity and bone density: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2008. 
  • Racial and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric and young adult liver transplant outcomes. 
  • Racial difference in the incidence of retinal detachment in Singapore. 
  • Racial differences in hospice use and patterns of care after enrollment in hospice among Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. 
  • Racial differences in the prevalence of diabetes but not diabetic retinopathy in a multi-ethnic Asian population. 
  • Racial disparities in clinical and economic outcomes from thyroidectomy. 
  • Racial disparity in breast cancer survival: the impact of pre-treatment hematologic variables. 
  • Racial disparity in the utilization of implantable-cardioverter defibrillators among patients with prior myocardial infarction and an ejection fraction of  
  • Racial, ethnic, and affluence differences in elderly patients' use of teaching hospitals. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cardiovascular Symptoms in Four Major Racial/Ethnic Groups of Midlife Women: A Secondary Analysis. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Men's Health: Examining Psychosocial Mechanisms. 
  • Racial/Ethnic differences in process of care and outcomes among patients hospitalized with intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in atrial fibrillation symptoms, treatment patterns, and outcomes: Insights from Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation Registry. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in hypertension and depression among US adult women. 
  • Ranibizumab in Myopic Choroidal Neovascularization: A Subgroup Analysis by Ethnicity, Age, and Ocular Characteristics in RADIANCE. 
  • Rationing HIV medications: what do patients and the public think about allocation policies? 
  • Reconsideration of the training of psychiatrists and mental health professionals: helping to make soup. 
  • Reduced DNA repair capacity in lung cancer patients. 
  • Reduced employment in caregivers of frail elders: impact of ethnicity, patient clinical characteristics, and caregiver characteristics. 
  • Regional differences in awareness and attitudes regarding genetic testing for disease risk and ancestry. 
  • Relationship of axial length and retinal vascular caliber in children. 
  • Relationship of ethnicity, gender, and ambulatory blood pressure to pain sensitivity: effects of individualized pain rating scales. 
  • Relationship of genetic variability and depressive symptoms to adverse events after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Religion, spirituality, and acute care hospitalization and long-term care use by older patients. 
  • Religious involvement and mental disorders in mainland china. 
  • Reporting and representation of race/ethnicity in published randomized trials. 
  • Resting pulmonary haemodynamics and shunting: a comparison of sea-level inhabitants to high altitude Sherpas. 
  • Retinal Vein Occlusion in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Population: The Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Disease Study. 
  • Retinal arteriolar caliber and urine albumin excretion: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Retinal detachment in Chinese, Malay and Indian residents in Singapore: a comparative study on risk factors, clinical presentation and surgical outcomes. 
  • Retinal vascular caliber and brachial flow-mediated dilation: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Retinal vascular caliber and diabetes in a multiethnic Asian population. 
  • Retinal vascular caliber, cardiovascular risk factors, and inflammation: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • Retinal vascular fractal and blood pressure in a multiethnic population. 
  • Retinopathy signs in people without diabetes: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Retrospective, propensity score-matched cohort study examining timing of fracture fixation for traumatic thoracolumbar fractures. 
  • Review of race/ethnicity in non vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants clinical trials. 
  • Review of venous thromboembolism and race: the generalizability of treatment guidelines for high-risk populations. 
  • Risk score for intracranial hemorrhage in patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator. 
  • Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of screening tests for eye conditions in a clinic-based population. 
  • Serotonin-related gene polymorphisms and central nervous system serotonin function. 
  • Serum immunogbulin cocentrations during normal pregnancy. 
  • Sex and Race/Ethnicity Differences in Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Counseling and Use Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: Findings from the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Program. 
  • Sex and age differences in lipid response to chronic infection with the hepatitis C virus in the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. 
  • Sex differences in incidence, pathophysiology, and outcome of primary intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Sex hormone changes during weight loss and maintenance in overweight and obese postmenopausal African-American and non-African-American women. 
  • Sex, drugs, and race: how behaviors differentially contribute to the sexually transmitted infection risk network structure. 
  • SgD-CNV, a database for common and rare copy number variants in three Asian populations. 
  • Sleep apnea and retinal signs in cardiovascular disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Sociodemographic and personal characteristics of adolescents engaged in weight loss and weight/muscle gain behaviors: who is doing what? 
  • Sociodemographic differences in selected eating practices among alternative high school students. 
  • State policies targeting junk food in schools: racial/ethnic differences in the effect of policy change on soda consumption. 
  • Studies of viral antibody responses among Amish families. 
  • Subclinical atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and early age-related macular degeneration in a multiracial cohort: the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Subethnic differences in the menopausal symptom experience of Asian American midlife women. 
  • Substance use and mental diagnoses among adults with and without type 2 diabetes: Results from electronic health records data. 
  • Subtypes of mania determined by grade of membership analysis. 
  • Suicide in late life. Review and commentary. 
  • Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need (SOSAS) Uganda: Update for Household Survey. 
  • Survey of US public attitudes toward pharmacogenetic testing. 
  • Susceptibility locus for clinical and subclinical coronary artery disease at chromosome 9p21 in the multi-ethnic ADVANCE study. 
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus in three ethnic groups: II. Features predictive of disease activity early in its course. LUMINA Study Group. Lupus in minority populations, nature versus nurture. 
  • Temporal and age variation of United States black/white cause-specific mortality differentials: a study of the recent changes in the relative health status of the United States black population. 
  • The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study: overview of the first 40 years, with an eye to the future. 
  • The Mini-Mult: a cautionary note. 
  • The School Enrollment-Based Health Insurance program: socioeconomic factors in enrollees' use of health services. 
  • The White standard: racial bias in leader categorization. 
  • The adolescent obesity epidemic: why, how long, and what to do about it. 
  • The effect of ethnicity on ICU use and DNR orders in hospitalized AIDS patients. 
  • The effect of insurance benefit changes on use of child and adolescent outpatient mental health services. 
  • The effects of nutrition-related factors on four-year mortality among a biracial sample of community-dwelling elders in the North Carolina piedmont. 
  • The effects of race-related stress on cortisol reactivity in the laboratory: implications of the Duke lacrosse scandal. 
  • The functional promoter polymorphism (-842G>C) in the PIN1 gene is associated with decreased risk of breast cancer in non-Hispanic white women 55 years and younger. 
  • The impact of race and insurance type on the outcome of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. 
  • The impact of race/ethnicity on mother-to-child HIV transmission in the United States in Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 316. 
  • The prevalence of retinal vein occlusion: pooled data from population studies from the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. 
  • The relationships between psychological symptoms and cardiovascular symptoms experienced during the menopausal transition: racial/ethnic differences. 
  • The role of genetics in susceptibility to diabetic retinopathy. 
  • The roles of race and socioeconomic factors in health services research. 
  • The tendency to IUGR in preterm infants born to young women enrolled in a comprehensive prenatal program. 
  • The use of Internet cancer support groups by ethnic minorities. 
  • Tobacco smoking and other suspected antecedents of nonmedical psychostimulant use in the United States, 1995. 
  • Tobacco use among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race individuals: 2002-2010. 
  • Traditional and novel cardiovascular risk factors for retinal vein occlusion: the multiethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Traumatic hyphema in children: risk factors for complications. 
  • Treatment patterns of aging Americans with differentiated thyroid cancer. 
  • Trends in cannabis use disorders among racial/ethnic population groups in the United States. 
  • Tumor characteristics in African American and white women. 
  • Twelve-year follow-up of American women's awareness of cardiovascular disease risk and barriers to heart health. 
  • Understanding and overcoming barriers to living kidney donation among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. 
  • Using a latent variable approach to inform gender and racial/ethnic differences in cocaine dependence: a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network study. 
  • Utilization and costs of medical services and prescription medications for rheumatoid arthritis among recipients covered by a state Medicaid program: a retrospective, cross-sectional, descriptive, database analysis. 
  • Variation in and correlates of body mass status of older singaporean men and women: results from a national survey. 
  • Variations in use of PET among Medicare beneficiaries with non-small cell lung cancer, 1998-2007. 
  • Ventral striatum reactivity to reward and recent life stress interact to predict positive affect. 
  • Visual Impairment in White, Chinese, Black, and Hispanic Participants from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Cohort. 
  • Visual impairment and its impact on health-related quality of life in adolescents. 
  • Voices of Women Facing HIV-Related Stigma in the Deep South. 
  • We need further studies for the development of "optimized antiplatelet therapy" based on ethnicity. 
  • Weight-related teasing in a racially diverse sample of sixth-grade children. 
  • Who refuses enrollment in cardiac clinical trials? 
  • Whole body donation for medical science: a population-based study. 
  • Widow cleansing and inheritance among the Luo in Kenya: the need for additional women-centred HIV prevention options. 
  • XPA polymorphism associated with reduced lung cancer risk and a modulating effect on nucleotide excision repair capacity. 
  • XRCC1 polymorphisms and cancer risk: a meta-analysis of 38 case-control studies. 
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  • Allen, Kelli Dominick, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Clements III, Dennis Alfred, Professor of Pediatrics, School of Nursing
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Moody, James, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Science Research Institute
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Professor of Radiology, Pathology
  • Svetkey, Laura Pat, Professor of Medicine, Medicine
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine