Abstract：
:This article presents data on total cholesterol (TC) determinations carried out in black patients of an inner-city neighborhood health center. In the pediatric group (under age 18), TC determinations were carried out only in over-weight children. In adults, they were performed routinely on all new admissions. During 1992, a total of 1158 TC determinations were made, 385 in males and 773 in females. Age-related changes in mean TC were compared between black males and females, between males in our population and those in the general population, and between females in the two populations. Age-related changes in the proportion of cases in our population also were analyzed in the desirable, borderline, and high-risk TC levels. Our objective was to determine if these data could account for the higher black mortality rates from coronary heart disease (CHD) than in the general population. The data show that mean TC levels and risk ratios are not substantially different in our population than in the general population. The differences in CHD mortality rates in the two populations, therefore, cannot be attributed to TC levels.
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J Natl Med Assocjournal_title
Journal of the National Medical Associationauthors
Blumenthal HT,Mayfield Rsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1994-07-01 00:00:00pages
500-5issue
7eissn
0027-9684issn
1943-4693journal_volume
86pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:This study examines gender differences in the aerobic fitness levels of young African-American adults. Two hundred twelve African-American college freshmen (79 men, 133 women) completed the Houston Non-Exercise Test-Body Mass Index Model (HNET-BMI) questionnaire, a questionnaire designed to estimate maximum oxygen con...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The psychosomatic disorder termed Munchausen's syndrome has gained official recognition in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, in which it is referred to as a "chronic factitious disorder with physical symptoms." Sporadic case reports have been published over t...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:At Howard University Hospital, nine terminally ill cancer patients with chronic pain have been treated with continuous intrathecal infusion of morphine delivered by the implantable Infusaid pump. The case of a patient treated at Howard University Hospital with this method of pain management is presented. Following Inf...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if African American and European American children with asthma admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) had different characteristics, we conducted a retrospective chart review of asthma admissions to the region's only pediatric ICU. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A chart review was performed on 125 patie...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0027-9684(15)31107-x
更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This analysis represents the first national look at family and individual use of home remedies by African Americans. The purpose is to examine home remedy usage by African-American individuals and their families and assess the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and home remedy usage for African-Amer...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：PURPOSES:To assess patterns of dementia/Alzheimer's disease (AD) management and to investigate predictive factors of cholinesterase inhibitor prescriptions. METHODOLOGY:A cross-sectional study was conducted using a national survey among the elderly aged >60 from 2000 to 2002. Visit characteristics and cholinesterase i...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The personality of the therapist does influence the psychotherapeutic process. Given that therapists are human, they do, in fact, bring into the encounter their moral and cultural, and sometimes even racial, attitudes in spite of efforts to maintain objectivity and neutrality. Ignoring the impact of the therapist-clie...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Little is known about the adverse consequences of anemia during infancy or maternal anemia during pregnancy on the behavioral development of the infant. The present research investigates one aspect of these relationships. ...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：ISSUES:Tobacco Control remains one of the greatest determinants for reducing the morbidity and mortality of African Americans. OBJECTIVE:To examine the scope and consequences of tobacco use among African Americans and characterize its implications for the National Medical Association physician membership and their pat...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 共识发展会议,杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is considered to be 1 of the cornerstones of diabetes self-management. It is unclear whether inadequate health literacy affects SMBG. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between health literacy and SMBG. METHODS:This was a cross-sect...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0027-9684(15)30469-7
更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if differences in health-related behaviors (diet and physical activity) exist in African American college women based on body mass index (BMI) risk categories. METHODS:One hundred eighty-six African American women (age, 19.5 +/- 2.5 y) in college were surveyed using the modified National College...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0027-9684(15)30236-4
更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Nigeria is one of the ten countries with the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden globally and is experiencing an increasing incidence of drug resistance. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance (DR-TB) among patients screened at the TB clinic of a ter...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.jnma.2017.04.007
更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study examined the clinical characteristics and outcome of pulmonary tuberculosis in African Americans hospitalized in a teaching hospital in south-central Los Angeles from May 1992 through April 1994. The charts of 41 African Americans with culture-positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis were reviewed. Predisposing ...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:This study presents black-white breast cancer statistics, tumor histology and receptor status, and treatment patterns for all ages and by age groups (< 40, 40-49, and > or = 50). METHODS:The study used data from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program fo...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0027-9684(15)31294-3
更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Although mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) has been declining, it remains the leading cause of death among urban U.S. blacks. McCord and Freeman reported CVD as the major contributor to excess mortality in Central Harlem. However the disease-specific CVD mortality was not assessed. Thus, it was unclear wha...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Many Native American tribes use acanthosis nigricans to screen for type 2 diabetes risk. We hypothesized that acanthosis nigricans misses many children at risk for type 2 diabetes. METHODS:We evaluated 5- to 18-year-old Native American children and youth to assess the sensitivity and specificity of acanthos...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0027-9684(15)30714-8
更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The growing incidence of diabetes mellitus in the world is a widespread concern. While there has been improvement in the epidemiology and management of the disease in the developed world, the same cannot be said in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is getting less attention as is the funding that it merits compared to c...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0027-9684(15)30643-x
更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A severe, acutely evolving peripheral gangrene of unknown etiology has been reported sporadically from different parts of Africa. This case report describes such a case of fulminant gangrene of the extremities following a febrile diarrheal illness associated with abdominal pain, polyarthropathy, and altered hemostatic...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An update of the state of the art of cancer chemotherapeutic treatment of genitourinary tract cancer is described in this multi-part series. Included in the review are cancers of the kidney, bladder, prostate, testicle, ovary, uterus, vulva, and gestational trophoblastic neoplasms. Part 2 focuses on Wilms' tumor and b...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF), an idiopathic cardiac disorder, occurs predominantly in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. We present herein a report of EMF in a young man from the savannah belt of Nigeria. He was a 19-year-old young man who presented with recent onset of palpitation and dyspnea and was...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0027-9684(15)30756-2
更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Sixteen trauma victims with adult respiratory distress syndrome were retrospectively examined. High injury severity score (mean: 44), massive transfusion requirements, and prolonged ventilator days characterize this group. Persistent intra-abdominal infection accounted for two of three deaths in this series. Most of t...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A pilot study was conducted in anticipation of implementation of a larger project to assess human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk behaviors among older African Americans. A cross-sectional methodology was employed, including 33 African Americans aged more than 50 years in the metropolitan Washington, DC, area. The a...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0027-9684(15)30291-1
更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Primary lymphoma of the central nervous system (CNS) is difficult to diagnose because of the difficulty in differentiating it from multiple sclerosis, sarcoidosis, metastatic disease, chronic granulomatous disease, and cerebral cysticercosis. With the patient presented in this report, no abnormalities were found after...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Psychiatry is in ferment. In the present sluggish economy nonphysician psychotherapists, often charging lower fees, are competing with psychiatrists for patients. At the same time theories and therapies that can be characterized as psychodynamic appear to be on the defensive, increasingly challenged by those with beha...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Sickle cell disease (SCD) is characterized by significant morbidity and early mortality. Children with this hemoglobinopathy exhibit many of the manifestations associated with immunodeficiency disorders. Serum was obtained from 56 healthy SCD subjects and 45 normal healthy controls. Type 2 cytokines interleukin (IL)-4...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The endolymphatic sac has been proposed as a target organ responsible for inner-ear symptom in allergic subjects. This is a report of inner-ear symptoms in patients with nasal allergy. METHOD:Retrospective review of record charts of patients with known nasal allergy presenting to the otorhinolaryngology out...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0027-9684(15)31403-6
更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Splenomegaly, when present as a manifestation of sarcoidosis, may cause pressure symptoms and hypersplenism. Literature reports of giant splenomegaly are few in number and describe the use of aggressive intervention with systemic steroids and splenectomy. However, the natural history of splenic sarcoidosis is not well...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:It is now well documented that substantial disparities exist in the quality and quantity of medical care received by minority Americans, especially those of African, Asian and Hispanic heritage. In addition, the special needs and responses to pharmaceutical treatment of these groups have been undervalued or ignored. T...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this review was to better understand possible social, economic, cultural, behavioral, and systems barriers to breast cancer screening among minority women. METHODS:Relevant manuscripts were identified through a MEDLINE/PubMed search for English-language literature from October 1971 through April...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0027-9684(15)30527-7
更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Low megavoltage electrons, because of their limited penetration, have been found very useful in the treatment of generalized superficial malignancies. However, because of the complexity of the human body contour, it is extremely difficult to achieve uniform dose distribution over the entire body surface. To achieve th...
journal_title：Journal of the National Medical Association
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00
