Ethnic Groups

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A dimensional approach to understanding severity estimates and risk correlates of marijuana abuse and dependence in adults. 
  • 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. 
  • Age-related macular degeneration and incident cardiovascular disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Ancestry and pharmacogenomics of relapse in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Assessing risk of breast cancer in an ethnically South-East Asia population (results of a multiple ethnic groups study). 
  • Association between endometriosis and risk of histological subtypes of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of case-control studies. 
  • Association of single nucleotide polymorphisms on chromosome 9p21.3 with platelet reactivity: a potential mechanism for increased vascular disease. 
  • Associations of aortic distensibility and arterial elasticity with long-term visit-to-visit blood pressure variability: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • Associations of candidate genes to age-related macular degeneration among racial/ethnic groups in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Associations of cardiovascular risk factors, carotid intima-media thickness and left ventricular mass with inter-adventitial diameters of the common carotid artery: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • 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. 
  • Biological Aspects of Cancer Health Disparities. 
  • C-reactive protein and substance use disorders in adolescence and early adulthood: a prospective analysis. 
  • Call to action: how can the US Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative succeed? 
  • Cannabis use disorders are comparatively prevalent among nonwhite racial/ethnic groups and adolescents: a national study. 
  • Cardio-metabolic risk factors and prehypertension in persons without diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. 
  • 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. 
  • Characterizing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption for US Children and Adolescents by Race/Ethnicity. 
  • 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. 
  • Concerns regarding the financial aspects of kidney transplantation: perspectives of pre-transplant patients and their family members. 
  • Conducting research with racial/ethnic minorities: methodological lessons from the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. 
  • Deconstructing bias in social preferences reveals groupy and not-groupy behavior. 
  • Development of a prognostic model for six-month mortality in older adults with declining health. 
  • Dietary and weight-related behaviors and body mass index among Hispanic, Hmong, Somali, and white adolescents. 
  • Differences in self-reported oral health among community-dwelling black, Hispanic, and white elders. 
  • Disparities in the burden, outcomes, and care of chronic kidney disease. 
  • Donor designation: racial and ethnic differences in US nondesignators' preferred methods for disclosing intent to donate organs. 
  • Eating breakfast and dinner together as a family: associations with sociodemographic characteristics and implications for diet quality and weight status. 
  • Edentulism trends among middle-aged and older adults in the United States: comparison of five racial/ethnic groups. 
  • Epitope mapping of the U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and mixed connective tissue disease. 
  • Erythrocyte folate concentrations, CpG methylation at genomically imprinted domains, and birth weight in a multiethnic newborn cohort. 
  • Ethnic differences among adolescents beginning treatment for depression. 
  • Ethnic differences in the association between blood pressure components and chronic kidney disease in middle aged and older Asian adults. 
  • Evidence of Levy walk foraging patterns in human hunter-gatherers. 
  • Features associated with successful recruitment of diverse patients onto cancer clinical trials: report from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. 
  • Genetic and hormonal sensitivity to threat: testing a serotonin transporter genotype × testosterone interaction. 
  • Genetic determinants of age-related macular degeneration in diverse populations from the PAGE study. 
  • Genetic variations of the ADIPOQgene and risk of prostate cancer in Chinese Han men. 
  • Having health insurance does not eliminate race/ethnicity-associated delays in breast cancer diagnosis in the District of Columbia. 
  • Illicit and nonmedical drug use among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race individuals. 
  • Incidence of herpes zoster ophthalmicus: results from the Pacific Ocular Inflammation Study. 
  • Incidence of scleritis and episcleritis: results from the Pacific Ocular Inflammation Study. 
  • Individual- and community-level correlates of cigarette-smoking trajectories from age 13 to 32 in a U.S. population-based sample. 
  • Influence of ethnicity on the efficacy and utilization of bariatric surgery in the USA. 
  • Influence of individual and social contextual factors on changes in leisure-time physical activity in working-class populations: results of the Healthy Directions-Small Businesses Study. 
  • Institutional futility policies are inherently unfair. 
  • Investigating patient characteristics on pain assessment using virtual human technology. 
  • Is diabetic retinopathy related to subclinical cardiovascular disease? 
  • Joint Bayesian analysis of birthweight and censored gestational age using finite mixture models. 
  • Large prospective study of ovarian cancer screening in high-risk women: CA125 cut-point defined by menopausal status. 
  • MCP1 SNPs and pulmonary tuberculosis in cohorts from West Africa, the USA and Argentina: lack of association or epistasis with IL12B polymorphisms. 
  • Natural positive selection and north-south genetic diversity in East Asia. 
  • Neighborhood deprivation and adverse birth outcomes among diverse ethnic groups. 
  • No association of 9p21 with arterial elasticity and retinal microvascular findings. 
  • Obesity: overview of an epidemic. 
  • On the causal interpretation of race in regressions adjusting for confounding and mediating variables. 
  • Optimizing donor selection for public cord blood banking: influence of maternal, infant, and collection characteristics on cord blood unit quality. 
  • Physician decision making and trends in the use of cardiac stress testing in the United States: an analysis of repeated cross-sectional data. 
  • Pre-Pregnancy Hypertension Among Women in Rural and Urban Areas of the United States. 
  • Preclinical episodes of orofacial pain symptoms and their association with health care behaviors in the OPPERA prospective cohort study. 
  • 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. 
  • Prevalence and characteristics of choroidal nevi: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors for epiretinal membranes in a multi-ethnic United States population. 
  • Prevalence, comorbidity, and correlates of DSM-5 proposed disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. 
  • Race-ethnicity and health trajectories: tests of three hypotheses across multiple groups and health outcomes. 
  • Race/Ethnicity, Parental Support, and Youth Depressive Symptoms: A Moderated Longitudinal Mediation Analysis. 
  • Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic characteristics, coethnic social ties, and health: evidence from the national Jewish population survey. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Local Anesthesia for Inguinal Hernia Repair. 
  • 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. 
  • Regional differences in awareness and attitudes regarding genetic testing for disease risk and ancestry. 
  • Resting pulmonary haemodynamics and shunting: a comparison of sea-level inhabitants to high altitude Sherpas. 
  • Retinal arteriolar caliber and urine albumin excretion: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Retinal vascular caliber and brachial flow-mediated dilation: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Retinopathy signs in people without diabetes: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Review of race/ethnicity in non vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants clinical trials. 
  • Screening of blood donors for sickle cell trait using a DNA-based approach: Frequency in a multiethnic donor population. 
  • 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. 
  • Social factors and leukocyte DNA methylation of repetitive sequences: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • State policies targeting junk food in schools: racial/ethnic differences in the effect of policy change on soda consumption. 
  • Survey of US public attitudes toward pharmacogenetic testing. 
  • The YMCA Healthy, Fit, and Strong Program: a community-based, family-centered, low-cost obesity prevention/treatment pilot study. 
  • The chromosome 3q25 genomic region is associated with measures of adiposity in newborns in a multi-ethnic genome-wide association study. 
  • The molecular basis for ethnic variation and histological subtype differences in prostate cancer. 
  • Tobacco use among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and mixed-race individuals: 2002-2010. 
  • Transcriptome changes affecting Hedgehog and cytokine signalling in the umbilical cord: implications for disease risk. 
  • Understanding and overcoming barriers to living kidney donation among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. 
  • Weathering in Detroit: Place, Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty as Conceptually Fluctuating Social Constructs Shaping Variation in Allostatic Load. 
  • Widow cleansing and inheritance among the Luo in Kenya: the need for additional women-centred HIV prevention options. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Allen, Kelli Dominick, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Clements III, Dennis Alfred, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Moody, James, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke
  • 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 Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Pathology
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine