Abstract：
OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of cardiovascular risks and identify early opportunities for prevention among Dominican adults residing in New York City. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:A cross-sectional survey was conducted among a convenience sample of Dominicans recruited through extensive outreach in the community. All participants were interviewed and received an anthropometeric and laboratory examination pertaining to cardiovascular risk. RESULTS:17% had diabetes; another 20% had impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance; 56% had high cholesterol levels; 41% had hypertension upon examination; 75% were either overweight or obese. The Dominican diagnosed diabetes prevalence significantly exceeded comparable rates among US Latinos dominated by Mexican Americans, while their hypertension prevalence exceeded both US Latino and African American rates. Dominicans were more obese than either US Latino or African Americans, but they had the lowest proportion with high cholesterol. While >80% had a clinical encounter in the last 12 months, 29% were unaware that they had diabetes; 39% did not know they had hypertension, and 50% were unaware of their high cholesterol levels. CONCLUSIONS:The prevalence of cardiovascular risk conditions among Dominicans in New York is higher than the rate for US Latinos for selected but not all conditions. In addition, many missed opportunities exist for prevention and early diagnosis. Future research and cardiovascular risk prevention programs need to pay attention to differences of cardiovascular risk among Latino subgroups.
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Ethn Disjournal_title
Ethnicity & diseaseauthors
Getaneh A,Michelen W,Findley Ssubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-07-01 00:00:00pages
342-7issue
3eissn
1049-510Xissn
1945-0826journal_volume
18pub_type
杂志文章abstract：OBJECTIVE:To ascertain the association of -3826 A/G polymorphism with blood pressure and different obesity markers. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS:A total of 96 adult participants (49 males, 47 females) were studied. Anthropometric measurements and blood pressure were taken using standardized techniques. Obesity indices of body ...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe beliefs about hypertension and health education of young African American adults varying in their hypertension risk status. DESIGN:Fifty-eight African American young adults (17-20 years) were selected based on low and high risk criteria for hypertension assessed in earlier investigations of hemo...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Breast cancer incidence is significantly lower in Hispanic and black women than in non-Hispanic white women. Since diet has been suggested as an important determinant of breast cancer risk, we compared the food intake of college students sampled from these three racial-ethnic groups in New York City to evaluate the po...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Both genetic and environmental factors have been hypothesized to explain the higher prevalence of hypertension in US African Americans compared to populations still residing in western Africa. Studies of first-generation immigrants can help to identify risk factors for increased chronic disease expression in the devel...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:African Americans are disproportionately afflicted with end-stage kidney failure (ESRD). Whereas they constitute approximately 12 percent of the US population, they comprise 32 percent of the prevalent ESRD population. Diabetes mellitus is the predominant cause of ESRD in the U.S. population. However, hypertension is ...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus (DM) in the Adankwame community of Ghana. DESIGN:This was a cross-sectional, observational study. SETTING:This study took place in the rural Adankwame community of Ghana, approximately 12 km from Kumasi, Ghana. PAR...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:This cross-sectional study was designed to examine the association between adiponectin and cardiovascular disease (CVD) among an understudied ethnic group of Filipino American women. METHODS:We recruited 266 Filipino women aged 40-86 years from the University of California, San Diego Filipino Women's Health...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：Background:Established relationships between researchers, stakeholders and potential participants are integral for recruitment of potential older adult participants and Evidence-Based Programs (EBPs) for chronic disease management have empirically been shown to help improve health and maintain healthy and active lives....
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.30.S2.735
更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00
abstract：:An estimated 170 million persons (3% of the world's population) are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), and 3 to 4 million persons are newly infected each year. Of those infected, 70%-85% develop chronic viremia with the potential for devastating long-term sequelae, including chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, h...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An assessment of the risk or diagnosis of diabetes in a random sample of 386 adult border residents found 46% obese, 12% at risk for diabetes, and 18% diagnosed with diabetes. While obesity was associated with greater diabetes risk, > 50% of obese adults reported not being told of their diabetes risk. Independent of o...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：
更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:African-American infants weigh on average 200-300 grams less at birth than do European-American infants, leading to a two-fold higher rate of low birth-weight (LBW) infants. This birth weight disparity has not changed significantly over the past 95 years. Numerous research studies have been undertaken to elucidate thi...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effectiveness of a 10-week aerobic exercise training intervention on blood pressure, cardiorespiratory fitness, and workload in African American women with prehypertension. DESIGN:After we obtained informed consent and medical clearance, each participant underwent baseline measurements, an a...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：Introduction:Farmers' market incentive programs, such as Link Match, provide monetary incentives to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants to promote their use of local farmers' markets. Information on racial/ethnic differences in the shopping behaviors and fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption of...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.30.1.109
更新日期：2020-01-16 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The current study examined ethnic differences in patterns of weight loss and regain in response to an initial behavioral weight loss intervention followed by an extended-care maintenance program. METHODS:We analyzed data from 224 women (African American n = 43, Caucasian n = 181) from rural communities who p...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：
更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify cultural barriers to hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination and parental compliance with a specific vaccination protocol among a primarily among population of infants born at a community hospital. METHODS:This study was concurrent with an immunogenicity study of two vaccination schedules and occurre...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：
更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Training is a crucial tool for building the capacity necessary for prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in developing countries. This paper summarizes some features of a 2-week workshop aimed at enabling local health professionals to initiate a comprehensive CVD prevention and control program in a ...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The prevalence of metabolic syndrome is increasing in African populations, and is particularly high in Black South African women (42%) vs women in the United Kingdom (23%) and the United States of America (36%). This population group is also known to have the highest prevalence of obesity in the sub-Saharan African re...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.27.2.189
更新日期：2017-04-20 00:00:00
abstract：Objective:This article describes Mayors Mentoring Mayors (3M), an initiative of the Arkansas Coalition for Obesity Prevention (ArCOP), which expanded to five states to become the signature community initiative of the Mid-South Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center (Mid-South TCC) for Health Disparities Research. Meth...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.18865/ed.27.S1.347
更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe older African Americans' communication with pharmacists and their opinions, beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes about the role of the community pharmacist. DESIGN:We conducted six sex-specific focus groups for this qualitative study. SETTING:Community-based senior-serving agency located in a pre...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated metabolic syndrome and its association with high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) levels in Cuban Americans. METHODS:The study included 161 nondiabetic Cuban Americans (55 men and 106 women) aged > or = 30 years living in South Florida. Metabolic syndrome was defined by using Adult Tre...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Structural racism is a multilevel system of ideologies, institutions, and processes that have created and reified racial/ethnic inequities. As a system, it works in concert across institutions to propagate racial injustice. Thus, efforts to address structural racism and its implications for health inequity require tra...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.30.3.381
更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00
abstract：:Advancing health equity and reducing disparities through evidence-based policy research requires the expertise, insights, and active participation of various policy stakeholders - particularly those representing vulnerable populations who may be disproportionately affected by such policies. Unfortunately, there are fe...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 社论
doi：10.18865/ed.29.S2.323
更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00
abstract：:USAID began funding the Rural Health Delivery Services Project (RHDS) in Sine Saloum region (later divided into 2 regions--Kaolack and Fatick) of Senegal in 1977. Its aim was to improve the health of rural inhabitants and to set up a model health care delivery system. It specifically set out to increase agricultural...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Black women are more likely to be diagnosed with later stage breast cancer and have higher mortality rates from breast cancer than white women. To determine whether cancer treatment varies for white and black women, we analyzed data from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Black-White Cancer Survival Study (BWCSS). Da...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:Relationships among sedentary behavior, weight gain, and weight loss and regain are understudied particularly for African Americans, a high risk group for obesity. The hypotheses were: sedentary behavior is positively associated with current body mass and % of weight loss maintained after initial weight loss...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The JHS is the largest single-site prospective, epidemiological study of CVD among African Americans undertaken to date. It is focused on African-American health, yet comprehensive in its scientific scope. Its design will allow future refinements in scientific direction, the development of ancillary projects, and the ...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 评论,社论
doi：
更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We compared the incidence of preeclampsia and neonatal outcomes in 208 white (born in Canada) and 74 black (born in Haiti) women with mild chronic hypertension. Controls included 17,677 white and 2,400 black normotensive women delivered in the same center between 1987 and 1991. Superimposed preeclampsia (32.4% vs 14.9...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine ace-inhibitor (ACEI) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) prescription and adherence patterns by race in diabetic public aid recipients. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS, AND MEASURES:We analyzed prescription records of 27,529 adults aged 18-64 with diabetes who had at least one clinical indication for rec...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study evaluates patient inertia (PtInert) factors including hopelessness in African Americans participating in church cardiovascular screening programs in low income areas in Forsyth County, North Carolina. Patient inertia is defined as an inability to assume adequate hypertension self-management behavio...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:So-called 'diseases of lifestyle' are playing a major role in epidemiological transitions in many developing countries. Stratifying, urbanizing, and ageing African populations face rising levels of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This article examines the need for anthropological perspectives on the causes, preventi...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00
