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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A novel variant marking HLA-DP expression levels predicts recovery from hepatitis B virus infection. 
  • Adolescent girls' weight-related family environments, Minnesota. 
  • Alcohol and drug use disorders among adults in emergency department settings in the United States. 
  • An examination of racial differences in process and outcome of colorectal cancer care quality among users of the veterans affairs health care system. 
  • Association of LEP G2548A and LEPR Q223R polymorphisms with cancer susceptibility: evidence from a meta-analysis. 
  • Associations of candidate genes to age-related macular degeneration among racial/ethnic groups in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Associations of neighborhood concentrated poverty, neighborhood racial/ethnic composition, and indoor allergen exposures: a cross-sectional analysis of los angeles households, 2006-2008. 
  • Best practices and joint calling of the HumanExome BeadChip: the CHARGE Consortium. 
  • Biracial and monoracial infant own-race face perception: an eye tracking study. 
  • Call to action: how can the US Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative succeed? 
  • Cannabis use disorders are comparatively prevalent among nonwhite racial/ethnic groups and adolescents: a national study. 
  • Characteristics and current practice of parenteral nutrition in hospitalized patients. 
  • Characterization of clinical study populations by race and ethnicity in biomedical literature. 
  • Characterizing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption for US Children and Adolescents by Race/Ethnicity. 
  • Clinical and computed tomographic predictors of chronic bronchitis in COPD: a cross sectional analysis of the COPDGene study. 
  • Clinical risk factors for age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Conducting research with racial/ethnic minorities: methodological lessons from the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. 
  • Daily text messaging for weight control among racial and ethnic minority women: randomized controlled pilot study. 
  • Differences in level of care at the end of life according to race. 
  • Disappearing and reappearing differences in drug-eluting stent use by race. 
  • Disparities in the burden, outcomes, and care of chronic kidney disease. 
  • Do adolescents who live or go to school near fast-food restaurants eat more frequently from fast-food restaurants? 
  • Edentulism trends among middle-aged and older adults in the United States: comparison of five racial/ethnic groups. 
  • Erythrocyte folate concentrations, CpG methylation at genomically imprinted domains, and birth weight in a multiethnic newborn cohort. 
  • Essentialist thinking predicts decrements in children's memory for racially ambiguous faces. 
  • Factors associated with persistent poorly controlled diabetes mellitus: clues to improving management in patients with resistant poor control. 
  • Glycated hemoglobin and the risk of kidney disease and retinopathy in adults with and without diabetes. 
  • Impact of participant and interventionist race concordance on weight loss outcomes. 
  • Incident ESRD and treatment-resistant hypertension: the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke (REGARDS) study. 
  • Influence of race and sex on thrombogenicity in a large cohort of coronary artery disease patients. 
  • Inpatient Rehabilitation Outcomes in a National Sample of Medicare Beneficiaries With Hip Fracture. 
  • Intrinsic breast tumor subtypes, race, and long-term survival in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. 
  • Iron deficiency in patients with nonalcoholic Fatty liver disease is associated with obesity, female gender, and low serum hepcidin. 
  • Joint Bayesian analysis of birthweight and censored gestational age using finite mixture models. 
  • Landfall After the Perfect Storm: Cohort Differences in the Relationship Between Debt and Risk of Heart Attack. 
  • Longitudinal links between spanking and children's externalizing behaviors in a national sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families. 
  • Making the Environmental Justice Grade: The Relative Burden of Air Pollution Exposure in the United States 
  • Maternal age, birth order, and race: differential effects on birthweight. 
  • Measuring and explaining racial and ethnic differences in willingness to donate live kidneys in the United States. 
  • Monoracial and biracial children: effects of racial identity saliency on social learning and social preferences. 
  • Occupational outcomes of adult childhood cancer survivors: A report from the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • On the causal interpretation of race in regressions adjusting for confounding and mediating variables. 
  • Physician characteristics as predictors of blood pressure control in patients enrolled in the hypertension improvement project (HIP). 
  • Physician race and treatment preferences for depression, anxiety, and medically unexplained symptoms. 
  • Physicians' knowledge and attitudes regarding implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Positive, negative, or null? The effects of maternal incarceration on children's behavioral problems. 
  • Predialysis health, dialysis timing, and outcomes among older United States adults. 
  • Prediction of bronchopulmonary dysplasia by postnatal age in extremely premature infants. 
  • Prediction of incident heart failure in general practice: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. 
  • Predictors of consent to pharmacogenomics testing in the IDEAL study. 
  • Predictors of long-term adherence to evidence-based cardiovascular disease medications in outpatients with stable atherothrombotic disease: findings from the REACH Registry. 
  • Race affects outcome among infants with intestinal failure. 
  • Race differences in the relation of vitamins A, C, E, and β-carotene to metabolic and inflammatory biomarkers. 
  • Race, exercise training, and outcomes in chronic heart failure: findings from Heart Failure - a Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes in Exercise TraiNing (HF-ACTION). 
  • Race-ethnicity and health trajectories: tests of three hypotheses across multiple groups and health outcomes. 
  • Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic characteristics, coethnic social ties, and health: evidence from the national Jewish population survey. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in palliative care. 
  • Racial and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric and young adult liver transplant outcomes. 
  • Racial differences in the built environment--body mass index relationship? A geospatial analysis of adolescents in urban neighborhoods. 
  • Racial disparities in trajectories of dental caries experience. 
  • Racial variations in the prevalence of refractive errors in the United States: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 
  • Retinal arteriolar narrowing and subsequent development of CKD Stage 3: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • State policies targeting junk food in schools: racial/ethnic differences in the effect of policy change on soda consumption. 
  • Tailored Case Management for Diabetes and Hypertension (TEACH-DM) in a community population: study design and baseline sample characteristics. 
  • Telomere length is associated with sleep duration but not sleep quality in adults with human immunodeficiency virus 
  • The association between social factors and physical activity among low-income adults living in public housing. 
  • The chromosome 3q25 genomic region is associated with measures of adiposity in newborns in a multi-ethnic genome-wide association study. 
  • The relationship of mental and behavioral disorders to all-cause mortality in a 27-year follow-up of 4 epidemiologic catchment area samples. 
  • Towards prenatal biomonitoring in North Carolina: assessing arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead levels in pregnant women. 
  • Trends in breast cancer stage and mortality in Michigan (1992-2009) by race, socioeconomic status, and area healthcare resources. 
  • Trends in the incidence of atrial fibrillation in older patients initiating dialysis in the United States. 
  • Understanding dementia prevalence among centenarians. 
  • Validation study of medicare claims to identify older US adults with CKD using the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Laskowitz, Daniel Todd, Professor of Neurology, Duke Science & Society
  • Mentz, Robert John, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Moody, James, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Shaw, Ryan, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke Science & Society