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 decision aid for teaching limitations of prostate cancer screening. 
  • A descriptive analysis of asthma-related medical services and prescription utilization among recipients in a Medicaid program. 
  • A genetic association study of the mu opioid receptor and severe opioid dependence. 
  • A model of psychosocial and cultural antecedents of blood pressure control. 
  • 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. 
  • Acute service delivery in a police-mental health program for children exposed to violence and trauma. 
  • 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-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 reference ranges for serum prostate-specific antigen in black men. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 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 between HLA class I alleles and the prevalence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) among Tunisians. 
  • BRCA1 maps proximal to D17S579 on chromosome 17q21 by genetic analysis. 
  • Barriers to cardiac transplantation in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: the Washington, DC, Dilated Cardiomyopathy Study. 
  • 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. 
  • CCR5del32 in perinatal HIV-1 infection. 
  • CD34 immunohistochemical assessment of angiogenesis as a prognostic marker for prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy. 
  • Carbohydrate intake, glycemic index and prostate cancer risk. 
  • 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. 
  • Clear and independent associations of several HLA-DRB1 alleles with differential antibody responses to hepatitis B vaccination in youth. 
  • 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 risk prediction using the CKD-EPI equation and the MDRD study equation for estimated glomerular filtration rate. 
  • Contribution of sickle cell disease to the occurrence of developmental disabilities: a population-based study. 
  • 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. 
  • Declining influence of race on the outcome of living-donor renal transplantation. 
  • 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. 
  • Diabetic retinopathy in a multi-ethnic cohort in the United States. 
  • Dietary patterns, food groups, and rectal cancer risk in Whites and African-Americans. 
  • 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). 
  • Disability trends in gender and race groups of early retirement ages in the USA. 
  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Edentulism trends among middle-aged and older adults in the United States: comparison of five racial/ethnic groups. 
  • Effect of a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet program compared to a low-fat diet on fasting lipoprotein subclasses. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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, 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Exploring the HIV continuum of care among young black MSM. 
  • Extent of and reasons for nonuse of implantable cardioverter defibrillator devices in clinical practice among eligible patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. 
  • 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 planning, race consciousness and the fear of race genocide. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Genetic African Ancestry and Markers of Mineral Metabolism in CKD. 
  • Genetic Influences on Plasma Homocysteine Levels in African Americans and Yoruba Nigerians. 
  • 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 studies in Africans and African Americans: expanding the framework of the genomics of human traits and disease. 
  • Genome-wide linkage scan for primary open angle glaucoma: influences of ancestry and age at diagnosis. 
  • Genotype-phenotype correlation in two frequent mutations and mutation update in type III glycogen storage disease. 
  • Glucose challenge test screening for prediabetes and undiagnosed diabetes. 
  • 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/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. 
  • Health-related quality of life predictors of survival and hospital utilization. 
  • Health-related quality of life varies among obese subgroups. 
  • Heavy drinking in early adulthood and outcomes at mid life. 
  • Heritability of salt sensitivity in black Americans. 
  • Heritable individual-specific and allele-specific chromatin signatures in humans. 
  • Highly active antiretroviral therapy and the epidemic of HIV+ end-stage renal disease. 
  • Homozygous sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis in an adolescent. 
  • Hostility predicts magnitude and duration of blood pressure response to anger. 
  • Hostility, race, and glucose metabolism in nondiabetic individuals. 
  • 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 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 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 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. 
  • 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 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Interest in genetic prostate cancer susceptibility testing among african American men. 
  • 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. 
  • Investigating racial disparities in use of NK1 receptor antagonists to prevent chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among women with 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 stress and preeclampsia. 
  • Keratoconus in the Medicare population. 
  • Late middle-aged and older men living with HIV/AIDS: race differences in coping, social support, and psychological distress. 
  • Leukopenia, neutropenia, and reduced hemoglobin levels in healthy American blacks. 
  • Linking short tandem repeat polymorphisms with cytosine modifications in human lymphoblastoid cell lines. 
  • Liver and renal safety of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate in combination with emtricitabine among African women in a pre-exposure prophylaxis trial. 
  • Longitudinal differences in alcohol use in early adulthood. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Multidetector CT of nasolacrimal canal morphology: normal variation by age, gender, and race. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Observational study in ten beauty salons: results informing development of the North Carolina BEAUTY and Health Project. 
  • Older adults in North Carolina. A demographic and health status profile. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Polygenic risk predicts obesity in both white and black young adults. 
  • Potassium intake and risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. 
  • 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 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 hypertension by duration and age at exposure to the stroke belt. 
  • 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 specific antigen kinetics at tumor recurrence after radical prostatectomy do not suggest a worse disease prognosis 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. 
  • Public preferences for efficiency and racial equity in kidney transplant allocation decisions. 
  • Quantitation of the five forms of plasma high molecular weight angiotensinogen in women with pregnancy-induced hypertension. 
  • 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 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 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, 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/ethnicity, physical activity, and quality of life in breast cancer survivors. 
  • 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 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 pelvic floor muscle thickness in asymptomatic nulliparas as seen on magnetic resonance imaging-based three-dimensional color thickness mapping. 
  • Racial differences in survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Racial differences in survival post cerebral infarction among the elderly. 
  • 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 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 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 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 variations in non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use among patients with osteoarthritis. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Renovascular hypertension in blacks. 
  • Report from the 94th Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting, October 11, 2001. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Similar prevalence of renovascular hypertension in selected blacks and whites. 
  • Skin manifestations in individuals of African or Asian descent. 
  • Socioeconomic status and the Black-White mortality crossover. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Testicular cancer in blacks. A multicenter experience. 
  • 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 Haw River syndrome: dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) in an African-American family. 
  • The White standard: racial bias in leader categorization. 
  • 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 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 race and criminal justice involvement on access to atypical antipsychotic medications among persons with schizophrenia. 
  • 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 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 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 influence of race on health status outcomes one year after an acute coronary syndrome. 
  • 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 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. 
  • Toxocara canis infection: clinical and epidemiological associations with seropositivity in kindergarten children. 
  • Trajectory classes of body mass index in a representative elderly community sample. 
  • 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. 
  • Understanding racial differences in cardiovascular care and outcomes: issues for the new millennium. 
  • Use of cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • 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 the 2015 prostate cancer grade groups for predicting long-term oncologic outcomes in a shared equal-access health system. 
  • 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. 
  • Vitamin D and prostate cancer: a prediagnostic study with stored sera. 
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  Keywords of People

  • 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 Community and Family Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine