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

authors： Agodoa L

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although minority populations suffer a disproportionately higher burden of tobacco-attributable morbidity and mortality, the church appears to be a promising avenue through which to pursue tobacco-cessation interventions in these communities. This report describes church-related correlates of tobacco use amo...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Spangler JG,Bell RA,Knick S,Michielutte R,Dignan MB,Summerson JH

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To ascertain the extent to which residence in violent communities is an independent risk factor for adverse pregnancy outcomes among impoverished (census tract median family income < $10,000/year) African-American mothers. DESIGN:A cross-sectional study was performed. METHODS:We performed multivariate anal...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Collins JW Jr,David RJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of diet, acculturation, and physical activity on systolic and diastolic blood pressure was examined among 1,420 Mexican American, 388 Cuban American, and 542 Puerto Rican women who responded to the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey collected in 1982-4. Dietary intake measures included sodium, p...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Goslar PW,Macera CA,Castellanos LG,Hussey JR,Sy FS,Sharpe PA

更新日期：1997-04-01 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

authors： Rey E

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The inclusion of women and minorities in health research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has received increasing attention since the adoption of related guidelines by NIH in 1990. Investigators in population-based and clinical research may need to identify and recruit research participant...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Grunbaum JA,Labarthe DR,Ayars C,Harrist R,Nichaman MZ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The successful recruitment of African-Americans for AIDS/HIV interventions is essential to reducing HIV transmission and the spread of AIDS among this population. However, many high risk groups in the African-American community are reluctant to participate in AIDS/HIV interventions due to factors such as poverty, and ...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Icard LD,Zamora-Hernandez CE,Spencer MS,Catalano R

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experiments have examined the subjective and physiological responses of African Americans to racism using video-taped vignettes or emotional imagery. These studies reported changes in mood and increases in cardiovascular (CV) and electromyographic (EMG) activity when analogs of the stressful situations were enc...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Jones DR,Harrell JP,Morris-Prather CE,Thomas J,Omowale N

更新日期：1996-01-01 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

authors： Zang EA,Barrett NO,Cohen LA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a behavioral problem, and the emphasis placed by researchers on race and ethnicity as "risk factors," have led to research focused on the "risk behaviors" of historically oppressed groups and a continuing social policy thrust that "blames the victim." Dispro...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Lester B

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine whether lipid levels in black patients with type II diabetes with and without hypertension differ from those in white patients. Lipid levels were screened in 207 blacks and 103 whites with type II diabetes visiting a weekly diabetes clinic in a southeastern US regional community hospital. Levels...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Werk EE Jr,Gonzalez JJ,Ranney JE

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linked maternity data were used to calculate birth intervals from records of 7129 consecutive singleton births to Bangladeshi mothers who delivered in the London borough of Tower Hamlets from 1974 through 1984. During this period, there was active migration of women from Bangladesh, the majority coming to the United K...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Hilder AS

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though the rate of stroke mortality in the United States has been declining for all race-sex-specific groups, rates for blacks are among the highest in the world. Studies of the geographic and social variation of stroke mortality between populations have focused solely on either trends or social determinants, but not ...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Carter LR,Walton SE,Knowles MK,Wing S,Tyroler HA

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the influence of ethnicity (African-American vs white) and family history of hypertension on the blood pressure and heart rate responses of healthy, unmedicated men, aged 21 to 39 years, to a variety of stressors that are hypothesized to elicit beta-adrenergic or alpha-adrenergic reactivity. Cardio...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Johnson EH,Nazzaro P,Gilbert DC,Weder A,Jamerson K

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For some time, biologists and anthropologists have overwhelmingly rejected the partitioning of modern humans into biological "races." An examination of recent human evolutionary history suggests that the zoological definition of race, based on significant genetic differences, cannot be legitimately applied to contempo...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Jackson FL

更新日期：1992-04-01 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

authors： Hauck FR,King J,Vian T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the physical, sociodemographic, and psychosocial health status of diabetic Mexican Americans aged 45 to 74 years using data from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Diabetic Mexican-American women had lower education levels and lower employment rates in comparison with nondiabetics. Glauc...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Zhang J,Markides KS,Lee DJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation is made of the inverse role social integration plays in explaining variation in blood pressure among a sample of 1420 black Americans. This sample is part of a larger representative sample of 6717 adults (18 years and older) who were interviewed in the 1981-82 Maryland Statewide Hypertension Control Prog...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Livingston IL,Levine DM,Moore RD

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethnicity and race are commonly used in biomedical research to portion human populations into groups for analysis. The view taken here is that race is a sociological construct that is poorly correlated with any measurable biological or cultural phenomenon other than the amount of melanin in an individual's skin. On th...

journal_title：Ethnicity & disease

authors： Crews DE,Bindon JR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00