Hispanic Americans

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "A waste of time": Hispanic women's attitudes toward physical activity. 
  • "Una mujer trabaja doble aqui": Vignette-based focus groups on stress and work for Latina blue-collar women in eastern North Carolina. 
  • A Community-Engaged Research Approach to Improve Mental Health Among Latina Immigrants: ALMA Photovoice. 
  • A Computational Study of Nasal Spray Deposition Pattern in Four Ethnic Groups. 
  • A Low-Frequency Inactivating AKT2 Variant Enriched in the Finnish Population Is Associated With Fasting Insulin Levels and Type 2 Diabetes Risk. 
  • A Missense Variant in PTPN22 is a Risk Factor for Drug-induced Liver Injury. 
  • A Review of Teen Dating Violence Prevention Research: What About Hispanic Youth? 
  • A caravanning cardiomyopathy. 
  • A common mutation site in the beta-galactosidase gene originates in Puerto Rico. 
  • A genome-wide association study of central corneal thickness in Latinos. 
  • A locus for cerebral cavernous malformations maps to chromosome 7q in two families. 
  • A model of psychosocial and cultural antecedents of blood pressure control. 
  • A national internet survey on midlife women's attitudes toward physical activity. 
  • A national multiethnic online forum study on menopausal symptom experience. 
  • A national online forum on ethnic differences in cancer pain experience. 
  • ARID5B genetic polymorphisms contribute to racial disparities in the incidence and treatment outcome of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Access and outcomes among minority transplant patients, 1999-2008, with a focus on determinants of kidney graft survival. 
  • Acculturation and the cancer pain experience. 
  • Acculturation, depression, self-esteem, and substance abuse among Hispanic men. 
  • Acculturation, risk behaviors and physical dating violence victimization among Cuban-American adolescents. 
  • Acute service delivery in a police-mental health program for children exposed to violence and trauma. 
  • Adherence to physician recommendation to colorectal cancer screening colonoscopy among Hispanics. 
  • Adjuvant hormonal therapy use among women with ductal carcinoma in situ. 
  • Advances in Hispanic Health Disparities Science: The Importance of Addressing Multiple Health Outcomes Through Family-Based Approaches. 
  • Alcohol consumption is negatively associated with the prevalence of coronary heart disease in the New Mexico Elder Health Survey. 
  • Amoxicillin-Clavulanate-Induced Liver Injury. 
  • Analysis of Genetic and Non-Genetic Factors Influencing Timing and Time Perception. 
  • Ancestry and pharmacogenomics of relapse in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Anthropometric differences between HIV-infected individuals prior to antiretroviral treatment and the general population from 1998-2007: the AIDS Clinical Trials Group Longitudinal Linked Randomized Trials (ALLRT) cohort and NHANES. 
  • Aortic distensibility and retinal arteriolar narrowing: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Assessment of health literacy and numeracy among Spanish-Speaking parents of young children: validation of the Spanish Parental Health Literacy Activities Test (PHLAT Spanish). 
  • Association of Race and Ethnicity With Live Donor Kidney Transplantation in the United States From 1995 to 2014. 
  • Association of genetic variation in IKZF1, ARID5B, and CEBPE and surrogates for early-life infections with the risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Hispanic children. 
  • Association of race and gender with use of antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected individuals in the Southeastern United States. 
  • Association of race and socioeconomic status with automatic external defibrillator training prevalence in the United States. 
  • Association of race/ethnicity with clinical risk factors, quality of care, and acute outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Association of the HLA-DQA1*0501 allele in multiple racial groups with juvenile dermatomyositis. 
  • Attitudes of women in midlife to web-based interventions for promoting physical activity. 
  • Automated pain intervention for underserved minority women with breast cancer. 
  • Barriers to medical care of Mexican-Americans: the role of social class, acculturation, and social isolation. 
  • Barriers to urinary incontinence care seeking in White, Black, and Latina women. 
  • Benefits, Facilitators, Barriers, and Strategies to Improve Pesticide Protective Behaviors: Insights from Farmworkers in North Carolina Tobacco Fields. 
  • Biospecimen Sharing Among Hispanic Women in a Safety-Net Clinic: Implications for the Precision Medicine Initiative. 
  • Birthplace, culture, self-esteem, and intimate partner violence among community-dwelling Hispanic women. 
  • Blood banks, biobanks, and the ethics of donation. 
  • Blood pressure and chronic kidney disease progression in a multi-racial cohort: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Body mass index and severe postpartum hemorrhage. 
  • Body mass index in multiethnic midlife women: influence of demographic characteristics and physical activity. 
  • Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Insulin Metabolism: The Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study (IRAS). 
  • Breast cancer screening behaviors and attitudes in three racial/ethnic groups. 
  • Calcified Pipes: You Better Call the Electrician Too. 
  • Cannabis use disorders are comparatively prevalent among nonwhite racial/ethnic groups and adolescents: a national study. 
  • Care and outcomes of Hispanic patients admitted with heart failure with preserved or reduced ejection fraction: findings from get with the guidelines-heart failure. 
  • Childhood obesity prevention: fathers' reflections with healthcare providers. 
  • Circulating levels of the antiangiogenic marker sFLT-1 are increased in first versus second pregnancies. 
  • Clear and independent associations of several HLA-DRB1 alleles with differential antibody responses to hepatitis B vaccination in youth. 
  • Clinical characteristics, process of care, and outcomes of Hispanic patients presenting with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from Can Rapid risk stratification of Unstable angina patients Suppress ADverse outcomes with Early implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines (CRUSADE). 
  • Cluster analysis of midlife women's sleep-related symptoms: racial/ethnic differences. 
  • Clusters of midlife women by physical activity and their racial/ethnic differences. 
  • Cognitive Processing Therapy for Spanish-speaking Latinos: A Formative Study of a Model-Driven Cultural Adaptation of the Manual to Enhance Implementation in a Usual Care Setting. 
  • Colon cancer with microsatellite instability in a 13-year-old Hispanic male. 
  • Comparative phenotypic and CARD15 mutational analysis among African American, Hispanic, and White children with Crohn's disease. 
  • Comparison of native light daily smokers and light daily smokers who were former heavy smokers. 
  • Comparison of outcomes for African Americans, Hispanics, and Non-Hispanic Whites in the CATIE study. 
  • Confirmatory factor analysis of the Infant Feeding Styles Questionnaire in Latino families. 
  • Contemporary homicide risks among women of reproductive age. 
  • Correlates of intake of folic acid-containing supplements among pregnant women. 
  • Counseling Spanish-speaking patients: Atlanta pharmacists' cultural sensitivity, use of language-assistance services, and attitudes. 
  • Couples' immigration status and ethnicity as determinants of breastfeeding. 
  • Cultural considerations for intimate partner violence and HIV risk in Hispanics. 
  • Datapoints: Use of medications and counseling for depression by Asian and multiple-race adolescents aged 12-17 years. 
  • Demographic differences in health preferences in the United States. 
  • Depressive symptoms, physical activity, and weight gain in premenopausal Latina and White women. 
  • Development of an interinstitutional collaboration to support community-partnered research addressing the health of emerging Latino populations. 
  • Diabetes-specific emotional distress among African Americans and Hispanics with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Dietary and weight-related behaviors and body mass index among Hispanic, Hmong, Somali, and white adolescents. 
  • Differences in access to kidney transplantation between Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites by geographic location in the United States. 
  • Differences in self-reported oral health among community-dwelling black, Hispanic, and white elders. 
  • Differences in treatment patterns and outcomes between Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites treated for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: results from the NCDR ACTION Registry-GWTG. 
  • Differential risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy among Hispanic women. 
  • Discrimination: a new cardiovascular risk factor? 
  • Disease management status: a typology of Latino and Euro-American patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Disentangling the effects of disability status and gender on the labor supply of Anglo, black, and Latino older workers. 
  • Disparities among older adults in measures of cognitive function by race or ethnicity. 
  • Disparities in maternal hypertension and pregnancy outcomes: evidence from North Carolina, 1994-2003. 
  • Divergent pathways? Racial/ethnic differences in older women's labor force withdrawal. 
  • Does perception equal reality? Weight misperception in relation to weight-related attitudes and behaviors among overweight and obese US adults. 
  • Does the market value racial and ethnic concordance in physician-patient relationships? 
  • Drinking and Schooling 
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS): posttreatment follow-up care among Latina and non-Latina White women. 
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ: knowledge of associated risks and prognosis among Latina and non-Latina white women. 
  • Early childhood family structure and mother-child interactions: variation by race and ethnicity. 
  • Early prenatal vitamin D concentrations and social-emotional development in infants. 
  • Early-life ozone exposure associated with asthma without sensitization in Latino children. 
  • Edentulism trends among middle-aged and older adults in the United States: comparison of five racial/ethnic groups. 
  • Effect of Genetic African Ancestry on eGFR and Kidney Disease. 
  • Effect of race on the glycaemic response to sitagliptin: Insights from the Trial Evaluating Cardiovascular Outcomes with Sitagliptin (TECOS). 
  • Effective promotion of breastfeeding among Latin American women newly immigrated to the United States. 
  • Effectiveness-based guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women--2011 update: a guideline from the American Heart Association. 
  • Effects of age, sex, and ethnicity on the association between apolipoprotein E genotype and Alzheimer disease. A meta-analysis. APOE and Alzheimer Disease Meta Analysis Consortium. 
  • Effects of dietary patterns on blood pressure: subgroup analysis of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effects of education and race on cognitive decline: An integrative study of generalizability versus study-specific results. 
  • Efficacy of a couple-based randomized controlled trial to help Latino fathers quit smoking during pregnancy and postpartum: the Parejas trial. 
  • Epstein-Barr virus DNA is abundant and monoclonal in the Reed-Sternberg cells of Hodgkin's disease: association with mixed cellularity subtype and Hispanic American ethnicity. 
  • Epstein-Barr virus in gastric adenocarcinomas: association with ethnicity and CDKN2A promoter methylation. 
  • Equally inequitable? A cross-national comparative study of racial health inequalities in the United States and Canada. 
  • Ethnic differences among adolescents beginning treatment for depression. 
  • Ethnic differences in exercise and leisure time physical activity among midlife women. 
  • Ethnic differences in symptoms experienced during the menopausal transition. 
  • Ethnic differences in the place of death of elderly hospice enrollees. 
  • Ethnic differences in the prevalence and treatment of cardiovascular risk factors in US outpatients with peripheral arterial disease: insights from the reduction of atherothrombosis for continued health (REACH) registry. 
  • Ethnic differences in the prognostic value of stress technetium-99m tetrofosmin gated single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging. 
  • Ethnic differences in use of inpatient mental health services by blacks, whites, and Hispanics in a national insured population. 
  • Ethnic issues in the epidemiology of childhood obesity. 
  • Ethnic/racial differences in weight-related concerns and behaviors among adolescent girls and boys: findings from Project EAT. 
  • Ethnicity and physician-older patient communication about alternative therapies. 
  • Ethnicity and the distance to the epidural space in parturients. 
  • Ethnicity and the use of outpatient mental health services in a national insured population. 
  • Etiology of azoospermia in a large nonreferral inner-city population. 
  • Evaluating a stage model in predicting monolingual spanish-speaking Latinas' cervical cancer screening practices: the role of psychosocial and cultural predictors. 
  • Evaluating disparities in door-to-EKG time for patients with noncardiac chest pain. 
  • Evaluation of Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma (ALMA): a pilot promotora intervention focused on stress and coping among immigrant Latinas. 
  • Examining potential gaps in supportive medication use for US and foreign-born Hispanic women with breast cancer. 
  • Examining the Preliminary Efficacy of a Dating Violence Prevention Program for Hispanic Adolescents. 
  • Experiences with Dating Violence and Help Seeking Among Hispanic Females in Their Late Adolescence. 
  • Exploring social contextual correlates of computer ownership and frequency of use among urban, low-income, public housing adult residents. 
  • Exploring the "legacy" of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: a follow-up study from the Tuskegee Legacy Project. 
  • Factors Affecting Care in Non-English-Speaking Patients and Families. 
  • Factors Associated With Perceived Health Status of Multiracial/Ethnic Midlife Women in the United States. 
  • Failure to identify human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive newborns: epidemiology and enrollment patterns in a predominantly white, nonurban setting. 
  • Family predictors of disease management over one year in Latino and European American patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Family protection and prevention of alcohol use among Hispanic youth at high risk. 
  • Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Cause-Specific Mortality in the General Population: The Northern Manhattan Study. 
  • Folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy in the Newborn Epigenetics STudy (NEST). 
  • Food choices of young African-American and Latino adolescents: where do parents fit in? 
  • 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 repeats (TGYCC)n in the p53-inducible gene 3 (PIG3) promoter and susceptibility to squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. 
  • Fundus albipunctatus in a 6-year old girl due to compound heterozygous mutations in the RDH5 gene. 
  • GSNO reductase and beta2-adrenergic receptor gene-gene interaction: bronchodilator responsiveness to albuterol. 
  • GWAS Identifies New Loci for Painful Temporomandibular Disorder: Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. 
  • GWAS in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia reveals novel genetic associations at chromosomes 17q12 and 8q24.21. 
  • Gender and ethnic differences in cancer pain experience: a multiethnic survey in the United States. 
  • Gender and ethnic differences in cancer patients' needs for help: an Internet survey. 
  • Gender and race/ethnicity differences for initiation of alcohol-related service use among persons with alcohol dependence. 
  • Genes implicated in serotonergic and dopaminergic functioning predict BMI categories. 
  • Genetic variation in IL28B predicts hepatitis C treatment-induced viral clearance. 
  • Genome-wide association study identifies WNT7B as a novel locus for central corneal thickness in Latinos. 
  • Genome-wide association study in NSAID-induced acute urticaria/angioedema in Spanish and Han Chinese populations. 
  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility. 
  • Genomic ancestry and somatic alterations correlate with age at diagnosis in Hispanic children with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Geographic variation in one-year recurrent ischemic stroke rates for elderly Medicare beneficiaries in the USA. 
  • Glycemic control among U.S. Hispanics/Latinos with diabetes from the HCHS/SOL Sociocultural Ancillary Study: do structural and functional social support play a role? 
  • HEMOGLOBIN A1C, BLOOD PRESSURE, AND LDL-CHOLESTEROL CONTROL AMONG HISPANIC/LATINO ADULTS WITH DIABETES: RESULTS FROM THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDY/STUDY OF LATINOS (HCHS/SOL). 
  • HIV Infection and AIDS in the Deep South. 
  • HIV susceptibility among Hispanic women in south Florida. 
  • Having health insurance does not eliminate race/ethnicity-associated delays in breast cancer diagnosis in the District of Columbia. 
  • Health Care Disparities in Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation: Changes in Insurance Status After Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Hispanic ethnicity and vascular access use in patients initiating hemodialysis in the United States. 
  • Hispanic ethnicity, language, and depression: physician-patient communication and patient use of alternative treatments. 
  • Hispanic women's experiences with substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and risk for HIV. 
  • Homozygous sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis in an adolescent. 
  • Hypertension Improvement Project (HIP) Latino: results of a pilot study of lifestyle intervention for lowering blood pressure in Latino adults. 
  • Hypertensive disease in pregnancy: an examination of ethnic differences and the Hispanic paradox. 
  • 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 Medicare coverage on disparities in access to simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation. 
  • Impact of activated vitamin D and race on survival among hemodialysis patients. 
  • Impact of ethnicity and gender differences on angiographic coronary artery disease prevalence and in-hospital mortality in the American College of Cardiology-National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Impact of patient navigation on timely cancer care: the Patient Navigation Research Program. 
  • In utero cytomegalovirus infection and development of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Increasing Stroke Knowledge and Decreasing Stroke Risk in a Latino Immigrant Population. 
  • Infant Sleep and Parent Health Literacy. 
  • Influence of ethnicity on advance directives and end-of-life decisions. 
  • Influence of ethnicity on the efficacy and utilization of bariatric surgery in the USA. 
  • Influence of gender, race, and ethnicity on suspected fatty liver in obese adolescents. 
  • Influence of stereotyping in smoking cessation counseling by primary care residents. 
  • Information exchange and decision making in the treatment of Latina and white women with ductal carcinoma in situ. 
  • Initiation and persistence of alcohol use in United States Black, Hispanic, and White male and female youth. 
  • Injuries from the 2002 North Carolina ice storm, and strategies for prevention. 
  • Insurance coverage among women diagnosed with a gynecologic malignancy before and after implementation of the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Intensity, location, and quality of pain in Spanish-speaking children with cancer. 
  • Intergenerational fertility among Hispanic women: new evidence of immigrant assimilation. 
  • Internal languages of retrieval: the bilingual encoding of memories for the personal past. 
  • Intimate partner violence, depression, and resource availability among a community sample of Hispanic women. 
  • Is hospital procedure volume associated with hospitalization charges and complication rates for cleft lip repairs? 
  • Is pregnancy a teachable moment for smoking cessation among US Latino expectant fathers? A pilot study. 
  • Is silent myocardial infarction more common in women with type 2 diabetes than in men? 
  • Issues affecting minority participation in research studies of Alzheimer disease. 
  • La mancha negra: substance abuse, violence, and sexual risks among Hispanic males. 
  • Linguistic and Cultural Adaptation of a Computer-Based Counseling Program (CARE+ Spanish) to Support HIV Treatment Adherence and Risk Reduction for People Living With HIV/AIDS: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Living with sickle cell disease: traversing 'race' and identity. 
  • Longitudinal links between spanking and children's externalizing behaviors in a national sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families. 
  • Low incidence of familial breast cancer among Hispanic women. 
  • Low-income mothers as "othermothers" to their romantic partners' children: women's coparenting in multiple partner fertility relationships. 
  • Lower extremity function and subsequent disability: consistency across studies, predictive models, and value of gait speed alone compared with the short physical performance battery. 
  • Macular findings in healthy full-term Hispanic newborns observed by hand-held spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Mapping hot spots of breast cancer mortality in the United States: place matters for Blacks and Hispanics. 
  • Matched-pair analysis of race or ethnicity in outcomes of head and neck cancer patients receiving similar multidisciplinary care. 
  • Maternal ethnic ancestry and adverse perinatal outcomes in New York City. 
  • Measuring and explaining racial and ethnic differences in willingness to donate live kidneys in the United States. 
  • Mechanisms of Partner Violence Reduction in a Group HIV-Risk Intervention for Hispanic Women. 
  • Media content and externalizing behaviors in Latino toddlers. 
  • Menopausal symptom experience of Hispanic midlife women in the United States. 
  • Metabolomic profile associated with insulin resistance and conversion to diabetes in the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study. 
  • Methods and baseline characteristics of two group-randomized trials with multiracial and multiethnic working-class samples. 
  • Midlife women's cardiovascular symptoms: A cluster analysis. 
  • Migration and household/family structure: Puerto Ricans in the United States. 
  • 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. 
  • Minority cancer patients and their providers: pain management attitudes and practice. 
  • Moderate-intensity aerobic training program improves insulin sensitivity and inflammatory markers in a pilot study of morbidly obese minority teens. 
  • Myocilin and optineurin coding variants in Hispanics of Mexican descent with POAG. 
  • Near miss maternal mortality in a multiethnic population. 
  • Near-miss maternal mortality: cardiac dysfunction as the principal cause of obstetric intensive care unit admissions. 
  • Needs and preferences for the prevention of intimate partner violence among Hispanics: a community's perspective. 
  • Neighborhood deprivation and adverse birth outcomes among diverse ethnic groups. 
  • Neurocysticercosis. 
  • New destinations, new trajectories? The educational progress of Hispanic youth in North Carolina. 
  • New polymorphic short tandem repeats for PCR-based Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A duplication diagnosis. 
  • Non-utilization of the Pap Test Among Women with Frequent Health System Contact. 
  • Nonblack patients with sickle cell disease have African beta S gene cluster haplotypes. 
  • Novel childhood ALL susceptibility locus BMI1-PIP4K2A is specifically associated with the hyperdiploid subtype. 
  • Novel susceptibility variants at 10p12.31-12.2 for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in ethnically diverse populations. 
  • Observed and self-reported pesticide protective behaviors of Latino migrant and seasonal farmworkers. 
  • Occupational health outcomes for workers in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector: implications for immigrant workers in the southeastern US. 
  • Outcome of Hispanic patients treated with thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: results from the GUSTO-I and III trials. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and TPA for Occluded Coronary Arteries. 
  • Outcome of recruitment and report on participation rate in the New Mexico Elder Health Survey. 
  • Pain coping in Latino populations. 
  • Pain education for underserved minority cancer patients: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Palliative care in the inner city. Patient religious affiliation, underinsurance, and symptom attitude. 
  • Parental Perceptions of Weight During the First Year of Life. 
  • Parenting styles and body mass index trajectories from adolescence to adulthood. 
  • Participation in SEPA, a sexual and relational health intervention for Hispanic women. 
  • Patient weighting of osteoporosis medication attributes across racial and ethnic groups: a study of osteoporosis medication preferences using conjoint analysis. 
  • Pediatric obesity: the unique issues in Latino-American male youth. 
  • Perceived discrimination and reported delay of pharmacy prescriptions and medical tests. 
  • Perceived functioning has ethnic-specific associations in systemic sclerosis: another dimension of personalized medicine. 
  • Perceived racial/ethnic bias in healthcare in Durham County, North Carolina: a comparison of community and national samples. 
  • Perception of Obesity in the Latino Population: Implications for Weight Loss Clinical Trials. 
  • Perceptions of adolescents, parents, and school personnel from a predominantly Cuban American community regarding dating and teen dating violence prevention. 
  • Persistence with secondary prevention medications after acute myocardial infarction: Insights from the TRANSLATE-ACS study. 
  • Pesticides: Perceived Threat and Protective Behaviors Among Latino Farmworkers. 
  • Physical activities and sleep-related symptoms in 4 major racial/ethnic groups of midlife women. 
  • Physical activity and acculturation among adult Hispanics in the United States. 
  • Physical activity and depressive symptoms in four ethnic groups of midlife women. 
  • Physical activity, television viewing time, and retinal microvascular caliber: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Possible socioeconomic and ethnic disparities in quality of life in a cohort of breast cancer survivors. 
  • Postoperative Pain Management in Children of Hispanic Origin: A Descriptive Cohort Study. 
  • Predictors of attrition from a clinical pediatric obesity treatment program. 
  • Predictors of depressive symptoms among Hispanic women in South Florida. 
  • Predictors of hypertension control in a diverse general cardiology practice. 
  • Predictors of long-term weight loss in adults with modest initial weight loss, by sex and race. 
  • Predictors of self-efficacy for HIV prevention among Hispanic women in South Florida. 
  • Predictors of treatment engagement in ethnically diverse, urban children receiving treatment for trauma exposure. 
  • Predictors of use and consumption of public drinking water among pregnant women. 
  • Preferences for psychiatric advance directives among Latinos: views on advance care planning for mental health. 
  • Presence of gingivitis and periodontitis significantly increases hospital charges in patients undergoing heart valve surgery. 
  • Prevalence and characteristics of choroidal nevi: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in US Children, 1999-2016. 
  • Prevalence of age-related macular degeneration in 4 racial/ethnic groups in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Prevalence of depression among older Americans: the Aging, Demographics and Memory Study. 
  • Prevalence of heterozygotes for hemochromatosis in the white population of the United States. 
  • Prevalence of kidney stones in the United States. 
  • Prevalence of type 2 diabetes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea in a multi-ethnic sample. 
  • Prevalences of type 2 diabetes, the insulin resistance syndrome, and coronary heart disease in an elderly, biethnic population. 
  • Primary care cancer control interventions including Latinos: a review. 
  • Problem alcohol use and healthcare utilization among persons with cannabis use disorder in the United States. 
  • Protocol of the KTFT-TALK study to reduce racial disparities in kidney transplant evaluation and living donor kidney transplantation. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of the Midlife Women's Symptom Index in multiethnic groups. 
  • Psychometric validation and reliability analysis of a Spanish version of the patient satisfaction with cancer-related care measure: a patient navigation research program study. 
  • Psychosocial and cultural correlates of depression among Hispanic men with HIV infection: a pilot study. 
  • Psychosocial risk factors and retinal microvascular signs: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Pulmonary involvement in systemic sclerosis: associations with genetic, serologic, sociodemographic, and behavioral factors. 
  • Race/Ethnic Differences in Outcomes Among Hospitalized Medicare Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction. 
  • Race/ethnicity and the intensity of medical monitoring under 'watchful waiting' for prostate cancer. 
  • Race/ethnicity and the receipt of watchful waiting for the initial management of prostate cancer. 
  • Race/ethnicity differences between alcohol, marijuana, and co-occurring alcohol and marijuana use disorders and their association with public health and social problems using a national sample. 
  • Race/ethnicity, physical activity, and quality of life in breast cancer survivors. 
  • Race/ethnicity, quality of care, and outcomes in ischemic stroke. 
  • Race/ethnicity, smoking status, and self-generated expected outcomes from smoking among adolescents. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Detroit partnership: improving diabetes-related outcomes among African American and Latino adults. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Lung Cancer Surgical Stage: An STS Database Study. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Parental Refusal of Consent in a Large, Multisite Pediatric Critical Care Clinical Trial. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Pregnancies of Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences associated with feeding- and activity-related behaviors in infants. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in outcomes in older patients with acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction: findings from the Get With the Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease program. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in time to acute reperfusion therapy for patients hospitalized with myocardial infarction. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in medication use among older adults. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in pediatric tuberculosis in North Carolina. 
  • Racial differences among high-risk patients presenting with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (results from the SYNERGY trial). 
  • Racial differences among patients undergoing laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery: a population-based trend analysis from 2002 to 2008. 
  • Racial differences in health concern. 
  • Racial differences in the built environment--body mass index relationship? A geospatial analysis of adolescents in urban neighborhoods. 
  • Racial differences in the interaction between family history and risk factors associated with diabetes in the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey, 1999-2004. 
  • Racial differences in urinary F2-isoprostane levels and the cross-sectional association with BMI. 
  • Racial disparities in individual breast cancer outcomes by hormone-receptor subtype, area-level socio-economic status and healthcare resources. 
  • Racial disparities in outcomes after spinal cord injury. 
  • Racial variation in optic nerve head parameters quantified in healthy newborns by handheld spectral domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Racial variation in timing of pyeloplasty: prenatal versus postnatal diagnosis. 
  • Racial variations in postoperative outcomes of carotid endarterectomy: evidence from the Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. 
  • Racial, ethnic, and insurance status disparities in use of posthospitalization care after trauma. 
  • Racial-ethnic disparities in acute blood pressure after intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • Racial-ethnic disparities in stroke care: the American experience: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cardiovascular Symptoms in Four Major Racial/Ethnic Groups of Midlife Women: A Secondary Analysis. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Symptoms During the Menopausal Transition. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Disparity in NICU Quality of Care Delivery. 
  • Racial/Ethnic and Sex Differences in Emergency Medical Services Transport Among Hospitalized US Stroke Patients: Analysis of the National Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Registry. 
  • Racial/Ethnic differences in B-type natriuretic peptide levels and their association with care and outcomes among patients hospitalized with heart failure: findings from Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in influenza vaccination in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in midlife women's attitudes toward physical activity. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in the rates and correlates of HIV risk behaviors among drug abusers. 
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in coronary heart disease risk factors among WISEWOMAN enrollees. 
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in mortality related to congenital heart defects among children and adults in the United States. 
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in the treatment of localized/regional prostate cancer. 
  • Racial/ethnic variations in non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use among patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • Reconcilable differences? Human diversity, cultural relativity, and sense of community. 
  • Recruitment and retention of healthy minority women into community-based longitudinal research. 
  • Recruitment and retention of participants in a pragmatic randomized intervention trial at three community health clinics: results and lessons learned. 
  • Reducing Bias in Academic Search Committees. 
  • Refined localization of the cerebral cavernous malformation gene (CCM1) to a 4-cM interval of chromosome 7q contained in a well-defined YAC contig. 
  • Regional differences in clinical profile, quality of care, and outcomes among Hispanic patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction in the Get with Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) registry. 
  • Relationship between obesity and race in predicting adverse pathologic variables in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy. 
  • Relationship of Lipids and Lipid-Lowering Medications With Cognitive Function: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Relationship of race/ethnicity and survival after single umbilical cord blood transplantation for adults and children with leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. 
  • Relationship of race/ethnicity with door-to-balloon time and mortality in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction: findings from Get With the Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Relationship of retinal vascular caliber with diabetes and retinopathy: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • Relationships among spousal communication, self-efficacy, and motivation among expectant Latino fathers who smoke. 
  • Relationships between metabolic syndrome and other baseline factors and the efficacy of ezetimibe/simvastatin and atorvastatin in patients with type 2 diabetes and hypercholesterolemia. 
  • Religion/spirituality and health among elderly African Americans and Hispanics. 
  • Research with spanish-speaking populations in the United States: lost in the translation. A commentary and a plea. 
  • Resolving disease management problems in European-American and Latino couples with type 2 diabetes: the effects of ethnicity and patient gender. 
  • Response to Relationship of race/ethnicity with door-to-balloon time and mortality in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction: Findings from Get With the Guidelines-Coronary Artery Diseases. Authors' reply. 
  • Results from a pilot promotora program to reduce depression and stress among immigrant Latinas. 
  • Retinal microvascular abnormalities and cognitive function in Latino adults in Los Angeles. 
  • Retinal microvascular calibre and risk of incident diabetes: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Retinal microvascular signs and risk of stroke: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • Reversal of associations between Spanish language use and mammography and pap smear testing. 
  • Revisiting the Hispanic health paradox: the relative contributions of nativity, country of origin, and race/ethnicity to childhood asthma. 
  • Schema therapy, motivational interviewing, and collaborative-mapping as treatment for depression among low income, second generation Latinas. 
  • Screening parents during child evaluations: exploring parent and child psychopathology in the same clinic. 
  • Selection of treatment among Latina and non-Latina white women with ductal carcinoma in situ. 
  • Self-Reported Cognitive Impairment Across Racial/Ethnic Groups in the United States, National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2015. 
  • Sexual orientation and demographic, cultural, and psychological factors associated with the perpetration and victimization of intimate partner violence among Hispanic men. 
  • Short- and long-term rehospitalization and mortality for heart failure in 4 racial/ethnic populations. 
  • Short-term in-home intervention reduces depressive symptoms in Early Head Start Latina mothers of infants and toddlers. 
  • Sleep apnea and retinal signs in cardiovascular disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Social and physical environments and disparities in risk for cardiovascular disease: the healthy environments partnership conceptual model. 
  • Sociocultural and socioeconomic influences on type 2 diabetes risk in overweight/obese African-American and Latino-American children and adolescents. 
  • Socioeconomic status and adolescent mental disorders. 
  • Socioeconomics affecting quality outcomes in Asian trauma patients within the United States. 
  • Stress: a possible link between genetics, epigenetics, and childhood asthma. 
  • Stroke-related knowledge among uninsured Latino immigrants in Durham County, North Carolina. 
  • Subclinical atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and early age-related macular degeneration in a multiracial cohort: the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Substance abuse, violence, HIV, and depression: an underlying syndemic factor among Latinas. 
  • Symptom clusters among multiethnic groups of cancer patients with pain. 
  • 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. 
  • Television viewing and pedometer-determined physical activity among multiethnic residents of low-income housing. 
  • Texting Motivational Interviewing: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Motivational Interviewing Text Messages Designed to Augment Childhood Obesity Treatment. 
  • The "Hispanic paradox": an investigation of racial disparity in pregnancy outcomes at a tertiary care medical center. 
  • The Development and Psychometric Properties of the Immigration Law Concerns Scale (ILCS) for HIV Testing. 
  • The Effects of a Couples-Based Health Behavior Intervention During Pregnancy on Latino Couples' Dyadic Satisfaction Postpartum. 
  • The Ethnic/Racial Variations of Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ERICH) study protocol. 
  • The Influence of Relationship Power and Partner Communication on the Syndemic Factor among Hispanic Women. 
  • The Latino Health Project: pilot testing a culturally adapted behavioral weight loss intervention in obese and overweight Latino adults. 
  • The Latino mental health project: a local mental health needs assessment. 
  • The Loneliness Questionnaire: Establishing Measurement Invariance Across Ethnic Groups. 
  • The Methuselah Effect: The Pernicious Impact of Unreported Deaths on Old-Age Mortality Estimates. 
  • The Tangled Branches (Las Ramas Enredadas): sexual risk, substance abuse, and intimate partner violence among Hispanic men who have sex with men. 
  • The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits. 
  • The White standard: racial bias in leader categorization. 
  • The association between racial and gender discrimination and body mass index among residents living in lower-income housing. 
  • The association of acculturation and health literacy, numeracy and health-related skills in Spanish-speaking caregivers of young children. 
  • The complex triad of obesity, diabetes and race in Type I and II endometrial cancers: prevalence and prognostic significance. 
  • The development, implementation, and process evaluation of the REACH Detroit Partnership's Diabetes Lifestyle Intervention. 
  • The effect of system-level access factors on receipt of reconstruction among Latina and white women with DCIS. 
  • The effectiveness of two community-based weight loss strategies among obese, low-income US Latinos. 
  • The effects of perceived stress and attitudes toward menopause and aging on symptoms of menopause. 
  • The efficacy of an HIV risk reduction intervention for Hispanic women. 
  • The family and disease management in Hispanic and European-American patients with type 2 diabetes. 
  • The impact of acculturation on Latinos' perceived barriers to HIV primary care. 
  • The impact of ethnicity on outcomes following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • The impact of race and insurance type on the outcome of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. 
  • The impact of race on survival after heart transplantation: an analysis of more than 20,000 patients. 
  • The impact of race/ethnicity on mother-to-child HIV transmission in the United States in Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 316. 
  • The pain experience of Hispanic patients with cancer in the United States. 
  • The psychometric properties of Pen-and-Pencil and Internet versions of the Midlife Women's Symptom Index (MSI). 
  • The relationship between acculturation and infant feeding styles in a Latino population. 
  • The relationships between psychological symptoms and cardiovascular symptoms experienced during the menopausal transition: racial/ethnic differences. 
  • The reliability and validity of the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS-8) with young adult Latino workers: implications for tobacco and alcohol disparity research. 
  • The risk of Helicobacter pylori infection among U.S. military personnel deployed outside the United States. 
  • The strangest of all encounters: racial and ethnic discrimination in US health care. 
  • The syphilis elimination project: targeting the Hispanic community of Baltimore city. 
  • Track: A randomized controlled trial of a digital health obesity treatment intervention for medically vulnerable primary care patients. 
  • Trajectory of systolic blood pressure in a low-income, racial-ethnic minority cohort with diabetes and baseline uncontrolled hypertension. 
  • Transancestral mapping and genetic load in systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Transnational Motherhood: Health of Hispanic Mothers in the United States Who Are Separated From Children. 
  • Treatment of hepatitis C in special populations. 
  • Trends in relative mortality between Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites initiating dialysis: a retrospective study of the US Renal Data System. 
  • Trends in the utilization of high-volume hospitals by minority and underinsured surgical patients. 
  • 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. 
  • Understanding how race/ethnicity and gender define age-trajectories of disability: an intersectionality approach. 
  • Unfair treatment, racial/ethnic discrimination, ethnic identification, and smoking among Asian Americans in the National Latino and Asian American Study. 
  • Unintended Effects of a Smoking Cessation Intervention on Latino Fathers' Binge Drinking In Early Postpartum. 
  • Urinary F2-isoprostanes and the risk of hypertension. 
  • Urinary Incontinence and Health-Seeking Behavior Among White, Black, and Latina Women. 
  • Use of videotaped interactions during pediatric well-child care: impact at 33 months on parenting and on child development. 
  • Using syndemic theory to understand vulnerability to HIV infection among Black and Latino men in New York City. 
  • Utilization of mental health and substance abuse care for people living with HIV/AIDS, chronic mental illness, and substance abuse disorders. 
  • Validation of an item bank in a sample of community-dwelling survivors of a stroke. 
  • Veterans Administration Acute Stroke (VASt) Study: lack of race/ethnic-based differences in utilization of stroke-related procedures or services. 
  • Vida Calma: CBT for Anxiety with a Spanish-Speaking Hispanic Adult. 
  • Visual Impairment in White, Chinese, Black, and Hispanic Participants from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Cohort. 
  • Welfare reform and Latinas' use of perinatal health care. 
  • What can we learn from the age- and race/ethnicity- specific rates of inflammatory breast carcinoma? 
  • Women and outpatient mental health services: use by black, Hispanic, and white women in a national insured population. 
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  • Clotfelter, Charles T., Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies, Economics
  • Farsiu, Sina, Paul Ruffin Scarborough Associate Professor of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Fernandez, Bethzaida, Senior Lecturer of Romance Studies, Romance Studies
  • Gonzalez-Guarda, Rosa, Dorothy L. Powell Term Chair of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Halabi, Susan, Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Ladd, Helen F., Susan B. King Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Economics
  • Liu, Yutao, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Genetics
  • Svetkey, Laura Pat, Professor of Medicine, Medicine
  • Toth, Cynthia Ann, Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Vitreoretinal Diseases & Surgery
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine