African Continental Ancestry Group

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Skin Deep Resilience" Among Disadvantaged Blacks: Critical Questions, Elusive Answers. 
  • A Bedside Risk Calculator to Preoperatively Distinguish Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma from Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. 
  • A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption. 
  • A common variant associated with prostate cancer in European and African populations. 
  • A decision aid for teaching limitations of prostate cancer screening. 
  • A genetic association study of the mu opioid receptor and severe opioid dependence. 
  • A model of psychosocial and cultural antecedents of blood pressure control. 
  • A pilot study of PTSD symptoms among Kalahari Bushmen. 
  • A polymorphism of the 5 alpha-reductase gene and its association with prostate cancer: a case-control analysis. 
  • A proportional hazards model for incidence and induced remission of disease. 
  • A prospective study of dietary patterns and cancer mortality among Blacks and Whites in the REGARDS cohort. 
  • A review of our roots: blacks in gerontology. 
  • ACCF/AHA 2011 expert consensus document on hypertension in the elderly: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus documents developed in collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology, American Geriatrics Society, American Society for Preventive Cardiology, American Society of Hypertension, American Society of Nephrology, Association of Black Cardiologists, and European Society of Hypertension. 
  • APOE epsilon4 as a predictor of subjective quality of life in a biracial older person community sample. 
  • APOE ε4-TOMM40 '523 haplotypes and the risk of Alzheimer's disease in older Caucasian and African Americans. 
  • APOE2 allele increased in tardive dyskinesia. 
  • APOL1 kidney disease risk variants cause cytotoxicity by depleting cellular potassium and inducing stress-activated protein kinases. 
  • Activities, function, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of older adults with cancer. 
  • Acute aortic dissection in blacks: insights from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection. 
  • Acute service delivery in a police-mental health program for children exposed to violence and trauma. 
  • Adenoma Prevalence in Blacks and Whites Having Equal Adherence To Screening Colonoscopy: The National Colonoscopy Study. 
  • Adherence to guideline-recommended adjunctive heart failure therapies among outpatient cardiology practices (findings from IMPROVE HF). 
  • Adoption of gene expression profile testing and association with use of chemotherapy among women with breast cancer. 
  • African Ancestry Gradient Is Associated with Lower Systemic F2-Isoprostane Levels. 
  • African Descent and Glaucoma Evaluation Study (ADAGES): Racial Differences in Optic Disc Hemorrhage and Beta-Zone Parapapillary Atrophy. 
  • African descent and glaucoma evaluation study: asymmetry of structural measures in normal participants. 
  • African-American HLA class II allele and haplotype diversity. 
  • African-American HLA class II allele and haplotype diversity. 
  • African-American TOMM40'523-APOE haplotypes are admixture of West African and Caucasian alleles. 
  • African-American heredity prostate cancer study: a model for genetic research. 
  • Africans in the American Labor Market. 
  • Age and functional correlations of markers of coagulation and inflammation in the elderly: functional implications of elevated crosslinked fibrin degradation products (D-dimers). 
  • Age, functional status, and racial differences in plasma D-dimer levels in community-dwelling elderly persons. 
  • Age-related macular degeneration and cancer mortality in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. 
  • Age-specific distribution of serum prostate-specific antigen in a community-based study of African-American men. 
  • Age-specific reference ranges for serum prostate-specific antigen in black men. 
  • Alcohol consumption and changes in blood pressure among African Americans. The Pitt County Study. 
  • Alternative splicing: a mechanism for phenotypic rescue of a common inherited defect. 
  • An fMRI investigation of race-related amygdala activity in African-American and Caucasian-American individuals. 
  • Analysis of the impact of race on blood transfusion in pediatric scoliosis surgery. 
  • Analysis of the prostate cancer-susceptibility locus HPC20 in 172 families affected by prostate cancer. 
  • Androgen and androgen receptor antagonist responsive primary African-American benign prostate epithelial cell line. 
  • Anger proneness predicts coronary heart disease risk: prospective analysis from the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study. 
  • Antecedent renal disease and the outcome of pregnancy. 
  • Antidepressant use by race. 
  • Apolipoprotein E gene polymorphisms and retinal vascular signs: the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study. 
  • Apolipoprotein E gene polymorphisms are not associated with diabetic retinopathy: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. 
  • Archaic and modern human distal humeral morphology. 
  • Assessing risk factors for mortality in elderly White and African American people: implications of alternative analyses. 
  • Assessment of cardiovascular reactivity: a methodological overview. 
  • Association between breast cancer and allostatic load by race: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2008. 
  • Association between chromosome 2p16.3 variants and glaucoma in populations of African descent. 
  • Association of Hospital and Physician Characteristics and Care Processes With Racial Disparities in Procedural Outcomes Among Contemporary Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery. 
  • Association of Race With Mortality and Cardiovascular Events in a Large Cohort of US Veterans. 
  • Association of bleeding and in-hospital mortality in black and white patients with st-segment-elevation myocardial infarction receiving reperfusion. 
  • Association of genetic variations in HLA-B region with hypersensitivity to abacavir in some, but not all, populations. 
  • Association of hypertension with beta2- and alpha2c10-adrenergic receptor genotype. 
  • Association of low-frequency and rare coding-sequence variants with blood lipids and coronary heart disease in 56,000 whites and blacks. 
  • Association of the HLA-DQA1*0501 allele in multiple racial groups with juvenile dermatomyositis. 
  • Associations among personal care product use patterns and exogenous hormone use in the NIEHS Sister Study. 
  • Associations between HLA class I alleles and the prevalence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) among Tunisians. 
  • Attitudes Regarding Overweight, Exercise, and Health among Blacks (United States). 
  • Autonomy, Equality, and Teaching among Aka Foragers and Ngandu Farmers of the Congo Basin. 
  • BRCA1 maps proximal to D17S579 on chromosome 17q21 by genetic analysis. 
  • Barriers and strategies for sustained participation of African-American men in cohort studies. 
  • Barriers to cardiac transplantation in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: the Washington, DC, Dilated Cardiomyopathy Study. 
  • Barriers to employment for people with schizophrenia. 
  • Bayesian modeling of incidence and progression of disease from cross-sectional data. 
  • Benefits of the uncertainty management intervention for African American and White older breast cancer survivors: 20-month outcomes. 
  • Black race is an adverse prognostic factor for prostate cancer recurrence following radical prostatectomy in an equal access health care setting. 
  • Black/white differences in hypertension in the elderly: an epidemiologic analysis in central North Carolina. 
  • Bladder cancer: race differences in extent of disease at diagnosis. 
  • Blood pressure and mortality risk in older people: comparison between African Americans and whites. 
  • Blunted nighttime blood pressure dipping in postmenopausal women. 
  • Body image assessment for obesity (BIA-O): development of a new procedure. 
  • Body mass index and depressive symptoms in older adults: the moderating roles of race, sex, and socioeconomic status. 
  • Body size and breast cancer risk in black women and white women: the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. 
  • Breast cancer aggressiveness and racial disparity. 
  • Brief report: differences in multijoint symptomatic osteoarthritis phenotypes by race and sex: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • CCR5del32 in perinatal HIV-1 infection. 
  • CD34 immunohistochemical assessment of angiogenesis as a prognostic marker for prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy. 
  • CUBN is a gene locus for albuminuria. 
  • Carbohydrate intake, glycemic index and prostate cancer risk. 
  • Cardiotoxicities of paclitaxel in African Americans. 
  • Cell-autonomous adiposity through increased cell surface GLUT4 due to ankyrin-B deficiency. 
  • Central corneal thickness and its relationship to intraocular pressure in children. 
  • Central corneal thickness as a risk factor for advanced glaucoma damage. 
  • Central corneal thickness in children: Racial differences (black vs. white) and correlation with measured intraocular pressure. 
  • Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in HIV-infected women in a southeastern US population. 
  • Changing face and different countenances of prostate cancer: racial and geographic differences in prostate-specific antigen (PSA), stage, and grade trends in the PSA era. 
  • Characteristics of Age-Discordant Partnerships Associated With HIV Risk Among Young South African Women (HPTN 068). 
  • Clear and independent associations of several HLA-DRB1 alleles with differential antibody responses to hepatitis B vaccination in youth. 
  • Clinical and angiographic findings in black patients with suspected coronary artery disease. 
  • Clinical trial experience with prophylactic human papillomavirus 6/11/16/18 vaccine in young black women. 
  • Co-occurring psychosocial problems and HIV risk among women attending drinking venues in a South African township: a syndemic approach. 
  • Coagulation and activation of inflammatory pathways in the development of functional decline and mortality in the elderly. 
  • Coccidioidomycosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected persons in Arizona, 1994-1997: incidence, risk factors, and prevention. 
  • Color blindness and interracial interaction: playing the political correctness game. 
  • Common human ANK2 variant confers in vivo arrhythmia phenotypes. 
  • Common human genetic variants and HIV-1 susceptibility: a genome-wide survey in a homogeneous African population. 
  • Comorbidity of five chronic health conditions in elderly community residents: determinants and impact on mortality. 
  • Comparison of corneal biomechanical properties between healthy blacks and whites using the Ocular Response Analyzer. 
  • Comparison of cross-sectional renal function measurements in African Americans with hypertensive nephrosclerosis and of primary formulas to estimate glomerular filtration rate. 
  • Comparison of risk prediction using the CKD-EPI equation and the MDRD study equation for estimated glomerular filtration rate. 
  • Consistent long-range linkage disequilibrium generated by admixture in a Bantu-Semitic hybrid population. 
  • Contemporary homicide risks among women of reproductive age. 
  • Contribution of sickle cell disease to the occurrence of developmental disabilities: a population-based study. 
  • Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease: Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of patients and families with sickle cell disease. 
  • Coping as a mediator in the relationships of spiritual well-being to mental health in black women with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of electrocardiography vs. electrocardiography plus limited echocardiography to diagnose LVH in young, newly identified, hypertensives. 
  • Couples' immigration status and ethnicity as determinants of breastfeeding. 
  • Cyclooxygenase 2 polymorphism (Val511Ala), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use and breast cancer in African American women. 
  • Cystic fibrosis in a black woman. 
  • Cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1) gene polymorphisms and ovarian cancer risk: a meta-analysis. 
  • Cytokine polymorphic analyses indicate ethnic differences in the allelic distribution of interleukin-2 and interleukin-6. 
  • DNA Methylation of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Repressor Associations With Cigarette Smoking and Subclinical Atherosclerosis. 
  • Declining influence of race on the outcome of living-donor renal transplantation. 
  • Deep coverage whole genome sequences and plasma lipoprotein(a) in individuals of European and African ancestries. 
  • Demographic differences in health preferences in the United States. 
  • Demographic-related variations in posterior segment ocular sarcoidosis. 
  • Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy and Haw River syndrome. 
  • Depression, suicidal ideation, and attempts in black patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Depressive symptoms, race, and glucose concentrations: the role of cortisol as mediator. 
  • Dermatitis herpetiformis in two American blacks: HLA type and clinical characteristics. 
  • Determinants of usual source of care disparities among African American and Caribbean Black men: findings from the National Survey of American Life. 
  • Development and Validation of Risk Prediction Models for Cardiovascular Events in Black Adults: The Jackson Heart Study Cohort. 
  • Diabetes status and racial differences in post-myocardial infarction mortality. 
  • Diabetic retinopathy in a multi-ethnic cohort in the United States. 
  • Dietary factors and fibroblast growth factor-23 levels in young adults with African ancestry. 
  • Dietary patterns, food groups, and rectal cancer risk in Whites and African-Americans. 
  • Differences between African American and White research volunteers in their attitudes, beliefs and knowledge regarding genetic testing for Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Differences between black and white patients with cancer of the uterine corpus in interval from symptom recognition to initial medical consultation (United States). 
  • Differences in cardiovascular disease mortality associated with body mass between Black and White persons. 
  • Differences in osteoarthritis self-management support intervention outcomes according to race and health literacy. 
  • Differences in short-term versus long-term outcomes of older black versus white patients with myocardial infarction: findings from the Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines (CRUSADE). 
  • Differences in visual function and optic nerve structure between healthy eyes of blacks and whites. 
  • Disability trends in gender and race groups of early retirement ages in the USA. 
  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels. 
  • Discrimination: a new cardiovascular risk factor? 
  • Distribution of optineurin sequence variations in an ethnically diverse population of low-tension glaucoma patients from the United States. 
  • Distribution of transferrin saturations in the African-American population. 
  • Divergent pathways? Racial/ethnic differences in older women's labor force withdrawal. 
  • Doctors or medical aids--the debate over the training of black medical personnel for the rural black population in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. 
  • Does larger tumor volume explain the higher prostate specific antigen levels in black men with prostate cancer--Results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Does race modify the association between CYP1B1 Val432Leu polymorphism and breast cancer risk? A critical appraisal of a recent meta-analysis. 
  • Early results of prostate cancer radiation therapy: an analysis with emphasis on research strategies to improve treatment delivery and outcomes. 
  • 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 a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet program compared to a low-fat diet on fasting lipoprotein subclasses. 
  • Effect of cyclosporin pharmacokinetics on renal allograft outcome in African-Americans. 
  • Effect of race and socioeconomic status on surgical margins and biochemical outcomes in an equal-access health care setting: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) database. 
  • Effect of race on biochemical disease-free outcome in patients with prostate cancer treated with definitive radiation therapy in an equal-access health care system: radiation oncology report of the Department of Defense Center for Prostate Disease Research. 
  • Effect of race on the glycaemic response to sitagliptin: Insights from the Trial Evaluating Cardiovascular Outcomes with Sitagliptin (TECOS). 
  • Effect of recipient race on waiting time for renal transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh. 
  • Effectiveness of high rate and delayed detection ICD programming by race: A MADIT-RIT substudy. 
  • 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 environmental stress and gender on associations among symptoms of depression and the serotonin transporter gene linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR). 
  • Effects of gender and ethnic group on blood pressure control in the elderly. 
  • Effects of race and clinical factors on short-term outcomes of abdominal myomectomy. 
  • Endometrial cancer: stage at diagnosis and associated factors in black and white patients. 
  • Enhanced cue-elicited brain activation in African American compared with Caucasian smokers: an fMRI study. 
  • Environmental contaminants and body fat distribution. 
  • Environmental contingencies and genetic propensities: social capital, educational continuation, and dopamine receptor gene DRD2. 
  • Epidemiology of asthma. 
  • Epidemiology of basal-like breast cancer. 
  • Epidemiology of radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer in the era of prostate-specific antigen: an overview of the Department of Defense Center for Prostate Disease Research national database. 
  • Equally inequitable? A cross-national comparative study of racial health inequalities in the United States and Canada. 
  • Erythrocyte CR1 expression level does not correlate with a HindIII restriction fragment length polymorphism in Africans; implications for studies on malaria susceptibility. 
  • Ethical dilemma in continuing a zidovudine-placebo trial in symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection. 
  • Ethnic differences in forearm vasodilator capacity. 
  • Ethnic differences in hemodynamic responses to stress in hypertensive men and women. 
  • Ethnic differences in left ventricular structure: relations to hemodynamics and diurnal blood pressure variation. 
  • Ethnic differences in mental illness and mental health service use among Black fathers. 
  • Ethnic differences in the effects of the DASH diet on nocturnal blood pressure dipping in individuals with high blood pressure. 
  • Ethnicity, education, and the cortisol response to awakening: a preliminary investigation. 
  • Ethnicity, gender, and age effects on adrenoceptors and physiological responses to emotional stress. 
  • Evaluation of the beta2-adrenergic receptor gene as a candidate glaucoma gene in 2 ancestral populations. 
  • Everyday discrimination and mood and substance use disorders: a latent profile analysis with African Americans and Caribbean Blacks. 
  • Evidence of genetic variation for alpha-N-acetyl-D-glucosaminidase in black and white populations: a new polymorphism. 
  • Examining behavioral processes through which lifestyle interventions promote weight loss: results from PREMIER. 
  • Examining racial variation in antiemetic use and post-chemotherapy health care utilization for nausea and vomiting among breast cancer patients. 
  • Excess body mass index- and waist circumference-years and incident cardiovascular disease: the CARDIA study. 
  • Exploring the HIV continuum of care among young black MSM. 
  • Exposure to Agent Orange is a significant predictor of prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based recurrence and a rapid PSA doubling time after radical prostatectomy. 
  • Extent of and reasons for nonuse of implantable cardioverter defibrillator devices in clinical practice among eligible patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. 
  • Factor Structure for Chronic Stress Before and During Pregnancy by Racial/Ethnic Group. 
  • Factors associated with failure to list HIV-positive kidney transplant candidates. 
  • Factors determining the rate of referral, transplantation, and survival on dialysis in women with ESRD. 
  • Factors related to obesity and overweight among Black adolescent girls in the United States. 
  • Falls in African American and white community-dwelling elderly residents. 
  • Family history of prostate cancer and relapse after definitive external beam radiation therapy. 
  • Family planning, race consciousness and the fear of race genocide. 
  • Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Cause-Specific Mortality in the General Population: The Northern Manhattan Study. 
  • Food Insecurity and Eating Behavior Relationships Among Congregate Meal Participants in Georgia. 
  • Forty-Year Trends in Tooth Loss Among American Adults With and Without Diabetes Mellitus: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis. 
  • Four new adenosine deaminase mutations, altering a zinc-binding histidine, two conserved alanines, and a 5' splice site. 
  • Four polymorphisms in cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1) gene and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis. 
  • Frequency of breast cancer attributable to BRCA1 in a population-based series of American women. 
  • Functional mechanisms underlying pleiotropic risk alleles at the 19p13.1 breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility locus. 
  • Gender and ethnic differences in cancer pain experience: a multiethnic survey in the United States. 
  • Gender and race/ethnicity differences for initiation of alcohol-related service use among persons with alcohol dependence. 
  • Gender and racial differences in lipoprotein subclass distributions: the STRRIDE study. 
  • Gender, race, and obesity-related quality of life at extreme levels of obesity. 
  • Gene-centric meta-analysis of lipid traits in African, East Asian and Hispanic populations. 
  • Genetic African Ancestry and Markers of Mineral Metabolism in CKD. 
  • Genetic Influences on Plasma Homocysteine Levels in African Americans and Yoruba Nigerians. 
  • Genetic Investigation Into the Differential Risk of Atrial Fibrillation Among Black and White Individuals. 
  • Genetic Variants Associated with Circulating Fibroblast Growth Factor 23. 
  • Genetic association for renal traits among participants of African ancestry reveals new loci for renal function. 
  • Genetic risk factors for perinatally acquired HIV-1 infection. 
  • Genetic variation in the dectin-1/CARD9 recognition pathway and susceptibility to candidemia. 
  • Genome-wide association analysis of blood-pressure traits in African-ancestry individuals reveals common associated genes in African and non-African populations. 
  • Genome-wide association of body fat distribution in African ancestry populations suggests new loci. 
  • Genome-wide association of pericardial fat identifies a unique locus for ectopic fat. 
  • Genome-wide association studies in Africans and African Americans: expanding the framework of the genomics of human traits and disease. 
  • Genome-wide association study identifies seven novel susceptibility loci for primary open-angle glaucoma. 
  • Genome-wide association study of primary open-angle glaucoma in continental and admixed African populations. 
  • Genome-wide linkage scan for primary open angle glaucoma: influences of ancestry and age at diagnosis. 
  • Genome-wide linkage scan for prostate cancer aggressiveness loci using families from the University of Michigan Prostate Cancer Genetics Project. 
  • Genome-wide scan for prostate cancer susceptibility genes using families from the University of Michigan prostate cancer genetics project finds evidence for linkage on chromosome 17 near BRCA1. 
  • Genotype-phenotype correlation in two frequent mutations and mutation update in type III glycogen storage disease. 
  • Germ-line mutations of the macrophage scavenger receptor 1 gene: association with prostate cancer risk in African-American men. 
  • Germline Mutations in ATM and BRCA1/2 Distinguish Risk for Lethal and Indolent Prostate Cancer and are Associated with Early Age at Death. 
  • Glucose challenge test screening for prediabetes and undiagnosed diabetes. 
  • Graft loss due to recurrent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in renal transplant recipients in the United States. 
  • Grassroots marketing in a global era: more lessons from BiDil. 
  • HER2 codon 655 polymorphism and risk of breast cancer in African Americans and whites. 
  • HIV testing behaviors and attitudes among community recruited methamphetamine users in a South African township. 
  • HIV-associated nephropathy: a case study in race and genetics. 
  • HIV/AIDS and the African-American community: a state of emergency. 
  • HPV genotypes and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in a multiethnic cohort in the southeastern USA. 
  • Hadza sleep biology: Evidence for flexible sleep-wake patterns in hunter-gatherers. 
  • Having health insurance does not eliminate race/ethnicity-associated delays in breast cancer diagnosis in the District of Columbia. 
  • Health-related quality of life predictors of survival and hospital utilization. 
  • Health-related quality of life varies among obese subgroups. 
  • Healthcare access and mammography screening in Michigan: a multilevel cross-sectional study. 
  • Heavy drinking in early adulthood and outcomes at mid life. 
  • Hereditary prostate cancer in African-American families. 
  • Heritability of salt sensitivity in black Americans. 
  • Heritable individual-specific and allele-specific chromatin signatures in humans. 
  • High cumulative incidence of uterine leiomyoma in black and white women: ultrasound evidence. 
  • Highly active antiretroviral therapy and the epidemic of HIV+ end-stage renal disease. 
  • Homozygous sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis in an adolescent. 
  • Hormonal and personal effects on estrogen receptors in breast cancer. 
  • Hostility predicts magnitude and duration of blood pressure response to anger. 
  • Hostility, race, and glucose metabolism in nondiabetic individuals. 
  • Hypertension control in a rural southern community: medical care process and dropping out. 
  • IGF1 (CA)19 repeat and IGFBP3 -202 A/C genotypes and the risk of prostate cancer in Black and White men. 
  • Identification of the Kna/Knb polymorphism and a method for Knops genotyping. 
  • Images of illness: how causal claims and racial associations influence public preferences toward diabetes research spending. 
  • Immigration and obesity among lower income blacks. 
  • Immigration transition and depressive symptoms: four major ethnic groups of midlife women in the United States. 
  • Immunoglobulin GM and KM allotypes in systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Impact of Sexual Trauma on HIV Care Engagement: Perspectives of Female Patients with Trauma Histories in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Impact of age at diagnosis on racial disparities in endometrial cancer 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 obesity on biochemical control after radical prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancer: a report by the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital database study group. 
  • Impact of race on survival in men with metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer. 
  • Impact of socioeconomic status and race on clinical parameters of patients undergoing radical prostatectomy in an equal access health care system. 
  • Impact of westernization on fibroblast growth factor 23 levels among individuals of African ancestry. 
  • Importance of race on breast cancer survival. 
  • Improvements in pathologic staging for African-American men undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomy during the prostate specific antigen era: implications for screening a high-risk group for prostate carcinoma. 
  • Incidence and predictors of bleeding after contemporary thrombolytic therapy for myocardial infarction. The Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen activator for Occluded coronary arteries (GUSTO) I Investigators. 
  • Increased expression of Fc gamma RI on isolated PMN from individuals of African descent. 
  • Increased incidence of sepsis and altered monocyte functions in severely injured type A- glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient African American trauma patients. 
  • Increased periocular pigmentation with ocular hypotensive lipid use in African Americans. 
  • Inflammatory infiltrate (prostatitis) in whole mounted radical prostatectomy specimens from black and white patients is not an etiology for racial difference in prostate specific antigen. 
  • Influence of Dietary Salt Knowledge, Perceptions, and Beliefs on Consumption Choices after Stroke in Uganda. 
  • Influence of gender, race, and ethnicity on suspected fatty liver in obese adolescents. 
  • Inherited human complement C5 deficiency. Nonsense mutations in exons 1 (Gln1 to Stop) and 36 (Arg1458 to Stop) and compound heterozygosity in three African-American families. 
  • Insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3, and body mass index: clinical correlates of prostate volume among Black men. 
  • Interest in genetic prostate cancer susceptibility testing among african American men. 
  • Interleukin 12B (IL12B) genetic variation and pulmonary tuberculosis: a study of cohorts from The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, United States and Argentina. 
  • Intertask consistency of hemodynamic responses to laboratory stressors in a biracial sample of men and women. 
  • Intracranial hemorrhage among patients with atrial fibrillation anticoagulated with warfarin or rivaroxaban: the rivaroxaban once daily, oral, direct factor Xa inhibition compared with vitamin K antagonism for prevention of stroke and embolism trial in atrial fibrillation. 
  • Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy with marked elevation of transaminases in a black American. 
  • Investigating racial disparities in use of NK1 receptor antagonists to prevent chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among women with breast cancer. 
  • Investigation of Racial Disparities in Early Supportive Medication Use and End-of-Life Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Stage IV Breast Cancer. 
  • Investigation of known genetic risk factors for primary open angle glaucoma in two populations of African ancestry. 
  • Iron overload due to X-linked sideroblastic anemia in an African American man. 
  • Is PSA related to serum cholesterol and does the relationship differ between black and white men? 
  • Is silent myocardial infarction more common in women with type 2 diabetes than in men? 
  • Job strain and blood pressure in African Americans: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Job stress and preeclampsia. 
  • John Henryism and Perceived Health among Hemodialysis Patients in a Multiracial Brazilian Population: the PROHEMO. 
  • KIR genotypic diversity can track ancestries in heterogeneous populations: a potential confounder for disease association studies. 
  • Keratoconus in the Medicare population. 
  • Late middle-aged and older men living with HIV/AIDS: race differences in coping, social support, and psychological distress. 
  • Letter by Ferdinand et al regarding article, "Does black ethnicity influence the development of stent thrombosis in the drug-eluting stent era?". 
  • Leukopenia, neutropenia, and reduced hemoglobin levels in healthy American blacks. 
  • Life satisfaction and preterm birth among urban black women: findings from the Baltimore preterm birth study. 
  • Life-course socioeconomic position and incidence of diabetes mellitus among blacks and whites: the Alameda County Study, 1965-1999. 
  • Limits of the Health Plan Employer Data Information Set (HEDIS) criteria in determining asthma severity for children, applied to an impoverished, urban population. 
  • Linking short tandem repeat polymorphisms with cytosine modifications in human lymphoblastoid cell lines. 
  • Lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 variants and dietary fatty acids: meta-analysis of European origin and African American studies. 
  • Liver and renal safety of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate in combination with emtricitabine among African women in a pre-exposure prophylaxis trial. 
  • Long-term outdoor air pollution and DNA methylation in circulating monocytes: results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • Longitudinal analysis of cardiovascular disease risk profile in neighbourhood poverty subgroups: 5-year results from an afterschool fitness programme in the USA. 
  • Longitudinal changes in lower urinary tract symptoms among a cohort of black American men: the Flint Men's Health Study. 
  • Longitudinal differences in alcohol use in early adulthood. 
  • Longitudinal links between spanking and children's externalizing behaviors in a national sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families. 
  • Longitudinal rates of cataract surgery. 
  • Low educational attainment, John Henryism, and cardiovascular reactivity to and recovery from personally relevant stress. 
  • Low hemoglobin levels and recurrent falls in U.S. men and women: prospective findings from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort. 
  • Low socioeconomic status associates with higher serum phosphate irrespective of race. 
  • Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility. 
  • MCP1 SNPs and pulmonary tuberculosis in cohorts from West Africa, the USA and Argentina: lack of association or epistasis with IL12B polymorphisms. 
  • Macular pigment optical density in the elderly: findings in a large biracial Midsouth population sample. 
  • Major LOXL1 risk allele is reversed in exfoliation glaucoma in a black South African population. 
  • Malignant melanoma in black American and white American populations. A comparative review. 
  • Malignant melanoma in black Americans. A trend toward improved survival. 
  • Mapping multiple sclerosis susceptibility to the HLA-DR locus in African Americans. 
  • Maternal ethnic ancestry and adverse perinatal outcomes in New York City. 
  • Measuring Socioeconomic Inequality in Obesity: Looking Beyond the Obesity Threshold. 
  • Menopausal hormones and breast cancer in a biracial population. 
  • Metabolomic profile associated with insulin resistance and conversion to diabetes in the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study. 
  • Methacholine-induced cutaneous flare response: bivariate analysis of responsiveness and sensitivity. 
  • Methamphetamine use is associated with childhood sexual abuse and HIV sexual risk behaviors among patrons of alcohol-serving venues in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Methods for evaluating the heterogeneity of aging processes in human populations using vital statistics data: explaining the black/white mortality crossover by a model of mortality selection. 
  • Minding the gap between efforts to reduce readmissions and disparities. 
  • 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. 
  • Mitochondrial genetic background in Ghanaian patients with primary open-angle glaucoma. 
  • Modified-Symbol Digit Modalities Test for African Americans, Caribbean Black Americans, and non-Latino Whites: nationally representative normative data from the National Survey of American Life. 
  • Molecular analysis of Bardet-Biedl syndrome families: report of 21 novel mutations in 10 genes. 
  • Mortality patterns among female and male chrysotile asbestos textile workers. 
  • Motivation to control prejudice predicts categorization of multiracials. 
  • Multi-ancestry study of blood lipid levels identifies four loci interacting with physical activity. 
  • Multidetector CT of nasolacrimal canal morphology: normal variation by age, gender, and race. 
  • Multiethnic meta-analysis identifies ancestry-specific and cross-ancestry loci for pulmonary function. 
  • Multifactorial/threshold models and their application to cleft lip and cleft palate. 
  • Multiple risk factors in the development of externalizing behavior problems: group and individual differences. 
  • Mutation analysis of the TSC2 gene in an African-American family. 
  • Mycophenolate mofetil reduces the risk of acute rejection less in African-American than in Caucasian kidney recipients. 
  • Myocilin mutations in black South Africans with POAG. 
  • NOS2A, TLR4, and IFNGR1 interactions influence pulmonary tuberculosis susceptibility in African-Americans. 
  • Neighborhood socio-economic characteristics, African ancestry, and Helicobacter pylori sero-prevalence. 
  • Neighborhood socioeconomic status, race, and mortality in young adult dialysis patients. 
  • Neighbourhood deprivation and small-for-gestational-age term births in the United States. 
  • New polymorphic short tandem repeats for PCR-based Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A duplication diagnosis. 
  • Nighttime blood pressure dipping: the role of the sympathetic nervous system. 
  • Nitric oxide synthase 2 promoter polymorphisms and systemic lupus erythematosus in african-americans. 
  • Nitric oxide synthase type 2 promoter polymorphisms, nitric oxide production, and disease severity in Tanzanian children with malaria. 
  • No association between OPA1 polymorphisms and primary open-angle glaucoma in three different populations. 
  • No association between polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene and susceptibility to cocaine dependence among African-American individuals. 
  • Norms for CERAD constructional praxis recall. 
  • Obesity affects nursing-care facility admission among whites but not blacks. 
  • Obesity and diabetes genetic variants associated with gestational weight gain. 
  • Obesity as a predictor of adverse outcome across black and white race: results from the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) Database. 
  • Observational study in ten beauty salons: results informing development of the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Project. 
  • Ocular rosacea in blacks. 
  • Older adults in North Carolina. A demographic and health status profile. 
  • Optic disk size variability between African, Asian, white, Hispanic, and Filipino Americans using Heidelberg retinal tomography. 
  • Optical coherence tomography (OCT) measurements in black and white children with large cup-to-disc ratios. 
  • Optimizing linkage and retention to hypertension care in rural Kenya (LARK hypertension study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Optineurin coding variants in Ghanaian patients with primary open-angle glaucoma. 
  • Outcome of kidney transplantation in African-Americans using tacrolimus. 
  • Outcomes among African-American/non-African-American patients with advanced non-small-cell lung carcinoma: report from the Cancer and Leukemia Group B. 
  • Outcomes by race and etiology of patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. 
  • PCSK9 Loss-of-Function Variants, Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke: Data From 9 Studies of Blacks and Whites. 
  • PSA thresholds for prostate cancer detection. 
  • Pancreatic cancer mortality in Egypt: comparison to the United States pancreatic cancer mortality rates. 
  • Parental history of hypertension and cardiovascular responses to behavioral stress in young black women. 
  • Partnerships Between a University-Affiliated Clinic and Community-Based Organizations to Reach Black Men Who Have Sex With Men for PrEP Care. 
  • Pathologic variables and recurrence rates as related to obesity and race in men with prostate cancer undergoing radical prostatectomy. 
  • Patient and hospital characteristics associated with inappropriate percutaneous coronary interventions. 
  • Patient perspectives on research recruitment through cancer registries. 
  • Patterns of cardiovascular responses to stress as a function of race and parental hypertension in men. 
  • Pediatric melanoma: risk factor and survival analysis of the surveillance, epidemiology and end results database. 
  • Performance of elderly White and African American community residents on the abbreviated CERAD Boston Naming Test. 
  • Perspectives of older African-American women on a community-based weight loss program: qualitative findings from the Senior Wellness Initiative and Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Collaboration for Health. 
  • Physical activity and NIDDM in African-Americans. The Pitt County Study. 
  • Physical activity and hypertension in black adults: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Polygenic risk predicts obesity in both white and black young adults. 
  • Posttransplant hypertension in blacks versus nonblacks. 
  • Potassium intake and risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. 
  • Potential selection bias in a community-based study of PSA levels in African-American men. 
  • Predicting prostate biopsy results: The importance of PSA, age, and race. 
  • Predicting treatment-outcome in cocaine dependence from admission urine drug screen and peripheral serotonergic measures. 
  • Predictors of extracapsular extension and positive margins in African American and white men. 
  • Predictors of parent-adolescent communication in post-apartheid South Africa: a protective factor in adolescent sexual and reproductive health. 
  • Prehypertension: to treat or not to treat should no longer be the question. 
  • Preliminary evidence of linkage of salt sensitivity in black Americans at the beta 2-adrenergic receptor locus. 
  • Prescribing BiDil: is it black and white? 
  • Prevalence and causes of vision loss in North Africa and the Middle East: 1990-2010. 
  • Prevalence and causes of vision loss in sub-Saharan Africa: 1990-2010. 
  • Prevalence of BRCA mutations among women with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in a genetic counseling cohort. 
  • Prevalence of age-related macular degeneration in 4 racial/ethnic groups in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Prevalence of apparent treatment-resistant hypertension among individuals with CKD. 
  • Prevalence of depression among older Americans: the Aging, Demographics and Memory Study. 
  • Prevalence of glaucoma in an urban West African population: the Tema Eye Survey. 
  • Prevalence of hypertension by duration and age at exposure to the stroke belt. 
  • Prevalence of kidney stones in the United States. 
  • Prevalence of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. 
  • Probability samples of area births versus clinic populations for reproductive epidemiology studies. 
  • Progression of Alzheimer's disease in black and white patients: the CERAD experience, part XVI. Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease. 
  • Propensity score weighting with multilevel data. 
  • Prostate cancer early detection practices among men with a family history of disease. 
  • Prostate specific antigen kinetics at tumor recurrence after radical prostatectomy do not suggest a worse disease prognosis in black men. 
  • Prostate-specific antigen in black men. 
  • Prostate-specific antigen levels in young white and black men 20 to 45 years old. 
  • Prostate-specific antigen response in black and white patients treated with abiraterone acetate for metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. 
  • Prostate-specific antigen values at the time of prostate cancer diagnosis in African-American men. 
  • Prostate-specific antigen-enhanced testing and risk stratification for chemoprevention trials. 
  • Psychological responses to acute exercise in sedentary black and white individuals. 
  • Public preferences for efficiency and racial equity in kidney transplant allocation decisions. 
  • Pushing the syndemic research agenda forward: a comment on Pitpitan et al. 
  • Putting prevention in their pockets: developing mobile phone-based HIV interventions for black men who have sex with men. 
  • Quantitation of the five forms of plasma high molecular weight angiotensinogen in women with pregnancy-induced hypertension. 
  • Race Differences in ADL Disability Decline 1984-2004: Evidence From the National Long-Term Care Survey. 
  • Race and colorectal cancer screening: a population-based study in North Carolina. 
  • Race and gender variation in the QT interval and its association with mortality in patients with coronary artery disease: results from the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease (DDCD). 
  • Race and glomerulonephritis in patients with and without hepatosplenic Schistosomiasis mansoni. 
  • Race and sex differences in the management of coronary artery disease. 
  • Race and the linkage between serum prostate-specific antigen and prostate cancer: a study of American veterans. 
  • Race and time from diagnosis to radical prostatectomy: does equal access mean equal timely access to the operating room?--Results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Race differences in access to health care and disparities in incident chronic kidney disease in the US. 
  • Race is associated with differences in airway inflammation in patients with asthma. 
  • Race is associated with discontinuation of active surveillance of low-risk prostate cancer: results from the Duke Prostate Center. 
  • Race, African ancestry, and Helicobacter pylori infection in a low-income United States population. 
  • Race, anthropometric factors, and stage at diagnosis of breast cancer. 
  • Race, biochemical disease recurrence, and prostate-specific antigen doubling time after radical prostatectomy: results from the SEARCH database. 
  • Race, borderline hypertension, and hemodynamic responses to behavioral stress before and after beta-adrenergic blockade. 
  • Race, gender, and risk perceptions of the legal consequences of drinking and driving. 
  • Race, parental history of hypertension, and patterns of cardiovascular reactivity in women. 
  • Race-related differences in antibody responses to the inactivated influenza vaccine are linked to distinct pre-vaccination gene expression profiles in blood. 
  • Race/ethnicity, physical activity, and quality of life in breast cancer survivors. 
  • Race/ethnicity, quality of care, and outcomes in ischemic stroke. 
  • Racial Differences in the Association Between Preoperative Serum Cholesterol and Prostate Cancer Recurrence: Results from the SEARCH Database. 
  • Racial Disparities in 30-Day Readmission Rates After Elective Spine Surgery: A Single Institutional Experience. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in infant mortality and low birth weight. A psychosocial critique. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in physical activity and bone density: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2008. 
  • 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 pediatric tuberculosis in North Carolina. 
  • Racial and psychosocial risk factors for herpes zoster in the elderly. 
  • Racial differences in analgesic/anti-inflammatory medication adherence among patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • Racial differences in blood pressure and forearm vascular responses to the cold face stimulus. 
  • Racial differences in blood pressure response to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in children: a meta-analysis. 
  • Racial differences in cardiovascular reactivity to mental arithmetic. 
  • Racial differences in cognitive decline in a sample of community-dwelling older adults: the mediating role of education and literacy. 
  • Racial differences in gait mechanics associated with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Racial differences in glaucoma care: the longitudinal pattern of care. 
  • Racial differences in hepatitis C treatment eligibility. 
  • Racial differences in influenza vaccination among older Americans 1996-2000: longitudinal analysis of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) survey. 
  • Racial differences in knee osteoarthritis pain: potential contribution of occupational and household tasks. 
  • Racial differences in nocturnal dipping status in diabetic kidney disease: Results from the STOP-DKD (Simultaneous Risk Factor Control Using Telehealth to Slow Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease) study. 
  • Racial differences in outcome in the Multicenter UnSustained Tachycardia Trial (MUSTT): a comparison of whites versus blacks. 
  • Racial differences in pelvic floor muscle thickness in asymptomatic nulliparas as seen on magnetic resonance imaging-based three-dimensional color thickness mapping. 
  • Racial differences in postprandial mineral ion handling in health and in chronic kidney disease. 
  • Racial differences in prognostic value of adult height for biochemical progression following radical prostatectomy. 
  • Racial differences in responses to thrombolytic therapy with recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator. Increased fibrin(ogen)olysis in blacks. The Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction Study Group. 
  • Racial differences in survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Racial differences in survival post cerebral infarction among the elderly. 
  • Racial differences in the built environment--body mass index relationship? A geospatial analysis of adolescents in urban neighborhoods. 
  • Racial differences in the incidence and progression of renal diseases. 
  • Racial differences in the occurrence of herpes zoster. 
  • Racial differences in the prevalence of hypertensive retinopathy. 
  • Racial differences in the prevalence of monoclonal gammopathy in a community-based sample of the elderly. 
  • Racial differences in the relationship between alcohol consumption in early adulthood and occupational attainment at midlife. 
  • Racial differences in the use of invasive cardiac procedures: A continuous quality improvement approach. 
  • Racial differences in the utilization of inpatient rehabilitation services among elderly stroke patients. 
  • Racial differences in tumor volume and prostate specific antigen among radical prostatectomy patients. 
  • Racial discrimination & cardiovascular disease risk: my body my story study of 1005 US-born black and white community health center participants (US). 
  • Racial disparities and the use of technology for self-management in blacks with heart failure: a literature review. 
  • Racial disparities in elevated prenatal depressive symptoms among black and white women in eastern north Carolina. 
  • Racial disparities in the rate of cardiotoxicity of HER2-targeted therapies among women with early breast cancer. 
  • Racial disparities in trajectories of dental caries experience. 
  • Racial disparity in overexpression of the p53 tumor suppressor gene in stage I endometrial cancer. 
  • Racial disparity in the frequency of PTEN mutations, but not microsatellite instability, in advanced endometrial cancers. 
  • Racial impact of diurnal variations in blood pressure on cardiovascular events in chronic kidney disease. 
  • Racial inequity of access to carotid imaging. 
  • Racial injustice in health care. 
  • Racial variation in initial stroke severity. 
  • Racial variation in optic nerve head parameters quantified in healthy newborns by handheld spectral domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Racial variation in the use of coronary-revascularization procedures. Are the differences real? Do they matter? 
  • Racial variations in ischemic stroke-related physical and functional impairments. 
  • 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 Cognitive Symptoms During the Menopausal Transition. 
  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in Left Ventricular Structure and Function in Chronic Kidney Disease: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort. 
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in coronary heart disease risk factors among WISEWOMAN enrollees. 
  • 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. 
  • Rapid clinical progression to diagnosis among African-American men with systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Rate and Pattern of Rim Area Loss in Healthy and Progressing Glaucoma Eyes. 
  • Rationale and design of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial (DASH). A multicenter controlled-feeding study of dietary patterns to lower blood pressure. 
  • Reducing Bias in Academic Search Committees. 
  • Reduction of Peripartum Racial and Ethnic Disparities: A Conceptual Framework and Maternal Safety Consensus Bundle. 
  • Reference ranges for serum prostate-specific antigen in black and white men without cancer. 
  • Region of origin diversity in immigrant health: Moving beyond the Mexican case. 
  • Relationship between obesity and race in predicting adverse pathologic variables in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy. 
  • Relationship between oxidative burst activity and CD11b expression in neutrophils and monocytes from healthy individuals: effects of race and gender. 
  • Relationship between platelet serotonin uptake sites and measures of impulsivity, aggression, and craving among African-American cocaine abusers. 
  • Relationship between platelet serotonin uptake sites and treatment outcome among African-American cocaine dependent individuals. 
  • Relationship between race and interval to treatment in endometrial cancer. 
  • Relationship between transferrin saturation and iron stores in the African American and US Caucasian populations: analysis of data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. 
  • Relationship of body mass index and GAD65 antibody status on β-cell secretion at diabetes onset in African-American children. 
  • Relationship of plasma lipoprotein Lp(a) levels to race and to apolipoprotein B. 
  • Relationship of race/ethnicity and blood pressure to change in cognitive function. 
  • Relationship of race/ethnicity and survival after single umbilical cord blood transplantation for adults and children with leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. 
  • Relationship of serum sex-steroid hormones and prostate volume in African American men. 
  • Relationships among breast cancer concern, risk perceptions, and interest in genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility among African-American women with and without a family history of breast cancer. 
  • Relationships among health factors and everyday problem solving in african americans. 
  • Relationships between metabolic syndrome and other baseline factors and the efficacy of ezetimibe/simvastatin and atorvastatin in patients with type 2 diabetes and hypercholesterolemia. 
  • Relative importance of systemic determinants of retinal arteriolar and venular caliber: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. 
  • Relative risks of chronic kidney disease for mortality and end-stage renal disease across races are similar. 
  • Renal transplantation in the American black. 
  • Renal transplantation under FK 506 in African-Americans: early experience. 
  • Renovascular hypertension in blacks. 
  • Report from the 94th Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting, October 11, 2001. 
  • Representation of black patients in randomized clinical trials of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. 
  • Responsiveness to alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptor agonists. Effects of race in borderline hypertensive compared to normotensive men. 
  • Restriction fragment length polymorphism of the apoprotein A-I-C-III gene cluster in control and stroke-prone white and black subjects: racial differences. 
  • Results from a human renal allograft tolerance trial evaluating the humanized CD52-specific monoclonal antibody alemtuzumab (CAMPATH-1H). 
  • Retinal microvascular signs and risk of stroke: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • Rhabdomyolysis and hemolysis associated with sickle cell trait and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. 
  • Risk factors for breast cancer characterized by the estrogen receptor alpha A908G (K303R) mutation. 
  • Risk factors for group B streptococcal disease in neonates of mothers with negative antenatal testing. 
  • Risk of hypercalcemia in blacks taking hydrochlorothiazide and vitamin D. 
  • Role of weight history on functional limitations and disability in late adulthood: the ARIC study. 
  • Screening for prostate cancer in African Americans. 
  • Screening for prostate cancer in high risk populations. 
  • Seasonal variations in the binding of [3H]paroxetine to the platelet serotonin transporter sites in African-American cocaine-dependent patients and healthy volunteers. 
  • Secondary sexual characteristics in children with cerebral palsy and moderate to severe motor impairment: a cross-sectional survey. 
  • Segregation and linkage analysis of alpha-N-acetyl-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) levels in a black family. 
  • Self-rated health and mortality in the high-functioning elderly--a closer look at healthy individuals: MacArthur field study of successful aging. 
  • Self-report versus ultrasound measurement of uterine fibroid status. 
  • Self-reported family history of leiomyoma: not a reliable marker of high risk. 
  • Sensitivity and specificity of standardized screens of cognitive impairment and dementia among elderly black and white community residents. 
  • Serogrouping of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: correlation of serogroup with disseminated gonococcal infection. 
  • Serum immunoglobulin levels in systemic lupus erythematosus: the effects of age, sex, race and disease duration. 
  • Serum immunoglobulins. I. Levels in normal children and in uncomplicated childhood allergy. 
  • Serum transforming growth factor-beta 1 is not a robust biomarker of incident and progressive radiographic osteoarthritis at the hip and knee: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Sex and racial differences in the use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators among patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Sex determination by discriminant function analysis of lumbar vertebrae. 
  • Should hepatic resections be performed at high-volume referral centers? 
  • Similar prevalence of renovascular hypertension in selected blacks and whites. 
  • Single nucleotide polymorphisms in nucleotide excision repair genes, cancer treatment, and head and neck cancer survival. 
  • Skin manifestations in individuals of African or Asian descent. 
  • Social and physical environments and disparities in risk for cardiovascular disease: the healthy environments partnership conceptual model. 
  • Social support and hypertension among blacks and whites in a rural, southern community. 
  • Social support, stress, and blood pressure in black adults. 
  • Socioeconomic status and adolescent mental disorders. 
  • Socioeconomic status and the Black-White mortality crossover. 
  • Socioeconomic status, John Henryism, and hypertension in blacks and whites. 
  • Spirituality and depressive symptoms in a racially diverse US sample of community-dwelling adults. 
  • Stability of self-reported family history of prostate cancer among African American men. 
  • Stability of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Epworth Sleepiness Questionnaires over 1 year in early middle-aged adults: the CARDIA study. 
  • Stress, coping, and psychological adjustment of adults with sickle cell disease. 
  • Stroke in young black patients. Risk factors, subtypes, and prognosis. 
  • Strong Selection at MHC in Mexicans since Admixture. 
  • Structure-function relationship in glaucoma using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Study design for genetic analysis in the Jackson Heart Study. 
  • Study of a US cohort supports the role of ZNF644 and high-grade myopia susceptibility. 
  • Subclinical atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and early age-related macular degeneration in a multiracial cohort: the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. 
  • Successful use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the treatment of acute chest syndrome in a child with severe sickle cell anemia. 
  • Surgical control of clinically localized prostate carcinoma is equivalent in African-American and white males. 
  • Survey of the fragile X syndrome and the fragile X E syndrome in a special education needs population. 
  • Symptom-focused management for African American women with Type 2 diabetes: a pilot study. 
  • Systolic blood pressure and adiposity: examination by race and gender in a nationally representative sample of young adults. 
  • Taurodontism: a biometric study. 
  • Testicular cancer in blacks. A multicenter experience. 
  • Texting Motivational Interviewing: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Motivational Interviewing Text Messages Designed to Augment Childhood Obesity Treatment. 
  • The "invisible caregiver": multicaregiving among diabetic African-American grandmothers. 
  • The 8.5-kb PstI allele of the stress protein gene, Hsp70-2: an independent risk factor for systemic lupus erythematosus in African Americans? 
  • The APOE-E4 allele and the risk of functional decline in a community sample of African American and white older adults. 
  • The Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program: the process of medical care and blood pressure control. 
  • The Haw River syndrome: dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) in an African-American family. 
  • The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study: topical medication delays or prevents primary open-angle glaucoma in African American individuals. 
  • The White standard: racial bias in leader categorization. 
  • The androgen receptor CAG and GGN repeat polymorphisms and prostate cancer susceptibility in African-American men: results from the Flint Men's Health Study. 
  • The association between hypertension and depression and anxiety disorders: results from a nationally-representative sample of South African adults. 
  • The association between race and prostate cancer risk on initial biopsy in an equal access, multiethnic cohort. 
  • The black/white mortality crossover: investigation from the perspective of the components of aging. 
  • The chromosome 3q25 genomic region is associated with measures of adiposity in newborns in a multi-ethnic genome-wide association study. 
  • The contribution of baseline weight and weight gain to blood pressure change in African Americans: the Pitt County Study. 
  • The development, implementation, and process evaluation of the REACH Detroit Partnership's Diabetes Lifestyle Intervention. 
  • The effect of a diabetes education, coping skills training, and care intervention on physiological and psychosocial outcomes in black women with type 2 diabetes. 
  • The effect of race and sex on physicians' recommendations for cardiac catheterization. 
  • The effect of race on coronary bypass operative mortality. 
  • The effects of patient sex and race on medical students' ratings of quality of life. 
  • The effects of perceived discrimination on ambulatory blood pressure and affective responses to interpersonal stress modeled over 24 hours. 
  • The effects of race and criminal justice involvement on access to atypical antipsychotic medications among persons with schizophrenia. 
  • The effects of race, optic disc area, age, and disease severity on the diagnostic performance of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • The epidemiology of observed temperament: Factor structure and demographic group differences. 
  • The estrogen receptor-alpha A908G (K303R) mutation occurs at a low frequency in invasive breast tumors: results from a population-based study. 
  • The ethical and social implications of exploring African American genealogies. 
  • The excess risk of treated end-stage renal disease in blacks in the United States. 
  • The finer points of race and hypertension. 
  • The genetics of POAG in black South Africans: a candidate gene association study. 
  • The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals. 
  • The glioblastoma multiforme in Georgia, 1977-1981. 
  • The impact of classroom aggression on the development of aggressive behavior problems in children. 
  • The impact of hepatitis C virus coinfection on HIV-related kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • The impact of methamphetamine ("tik") on a peri-urban community in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • The impact of the Women, Infants and Children Food Supplement Program on birth outcome. 
  • The independent effects of obesity and body fat distribution on blood pressure in black adults: the Pitt County study. 
  • The influence of race on health status outcomes one year after an acute coronary syndrome. 
  • The joint effects of race and age on the risk of end-stage renal disease attributed to hypertension. 
  • The lifetime medical cost burden of overweight and obesity: implications for obesity prevention. 
  • The loss of a polymorphic glycosylation site caused by Thr-927-->Ile is linked to a second polymorphic Val-816-->Ile substitution in lysosomal alpha-glucosidase of American blacks. 
  • The neighborhood contribution to black-white perinatal disparities: an example from two north Carolina counties, 1999-2001. 
  • The oral conditions and pregnancy study: periodontal status of a cohort of pregnant women. 
  • The participant effect: mortality in a community-based study compared to vital statistics. 
  • The prognostic importance of comorbidity for mortality in patients with stable coronary artery disease. 
  • The relationship of APOE genotype to cognitive functioning in older African-American and Caucasian community residents. 
  • The role of N-acetylation polymorphisms in smoking-associated bladder cancer: evidence of a gene-gene-exposure three-way interaction. 
  • The role of lysyl oxidase-like 1 DNA copy number variants in exfoliation glaucoma. 
  • The role of radical prostatectomy in patients with pretreatment prostate-specific antigen > or = 40 ng/mL. 
  • Tissue microarray assessment of prostate cancer tumor proliferation in African- American and white men. 
  • Toxocara canis infection: clinical and epidemiological associations with seropositivity in kindergarten children. 
  • Trajectory classes of body mass index in a representative elderly community sample. 
  • Trans-ethnic Meta-analysis and Functional Annotation Illuminates the Genetic Architecture of Fasting Glucose and Insulin. 
  • Transancestral mapping and genetic load in systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Transcript expression in endometrial cancers from Black and White patients. 
  • Treatment options, selection, and satisfaction among African American and white men with prostate carcinoma in North Carolina. 
  • Trends in quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006. 
  • Trends in the utilization of high-volume hospitals by minority and underinsured surgical patients. 
  • Trends in use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy among patients hospitalized for heart failure: have the previously observed sex and racial disparities changed over time? 
  • Tumor characteristics in African American and white women. 
  • Typical and atypical presentation of malignant hyperpyrexia in nonwhite patients. 
  • Understanding racial differences in cardiovascular care and outcomes: issues for the new millennium. 
  • Unintended pregnancy and preterm birth. 
  • Use of cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Use of combination antihypertensive therapy initiation in older Americans without prevalent cardiovascular disease. 
  • Use of prostate-specific antigen in black men: age-adjusted reference ranges for maximal cancer detection. 
  • Uveitis in the southeastern United States. 
  • Vaginal fetal fibronectin measurements from 8 to 22 weeks' gestation and subsequent spontaneous preterm birth. 
  • Validation of an atrial fibrillation risk algorithm in whites and African Americans. 
  • Validation of genome-wide prostate cancer associations in men of African descent. 
  • Validation of the 2015 prostate cancer grade groups for predicting long-term oncologic outcomes in a shared equal-access health system. 
  • Variants in toll-like receptors 2 and 9 influence susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in Caucasians, African-Americans, and West Africans. 
  • Variation by race in presenting clinical and biologic features of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: implications for treatment outcome. 
  • Venous thromboembolism during pregnancy and the postpartum period: incidence, risk factors, and mortality. 
  • Vigilance to a persisting personal threat: unmasking cardiovascular consequences in adolescents with the Social Competence Interview. 
  • Violent crime exposure classification and adverse birth outcomes: a geographically-defined cohort study. 
  • Vitamin D and prostate cancer: a prediagnostic study with stored sera. 
  • Whole blood lead levels are associated with biomarkers of joint tissue metabolism in African American and white men and women: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Y chromosomes traveling south: the cohen modal haplotype and the origins of the Lemba--the "Black Jews of Southern Africa". 
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  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Liu, Yutao, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Genetics
  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine