Browsing by Author "Sims, Mario"
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Depressive Symptoms and Incident Heart Failure in the Jackson Heart Study: Differential Risk Among Black Men and Women.
(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2022-03)Background Associations between depression, incident heart failure (HF), and mortality are well documented in predominately White samples. Yet, there are sparse data from racial minorities, including those who are women, ... -
Evaluating the precision of EBF1 SNP x stress interaction association: sex, race, and age differences in a big harmonized data set of 28,026 participants.
(Translational psychiatry, 2020-10-20)In prior work, we identified a novel gene-by-stress association of EBF1's common variation (SNP rs4704963) with obesity (i.e., hip, waist) in Whites, which was further strengthened through multiple replications using our ... -
Evaluation of Allostatic Load as a Mediator of Sleep and Kidney Outcomes in Black Americans.
(Kidney international reports, 2019-03)Introduction:Poor sleep associates with adverse chronic kidney disease (CKD) outcomes yet the biological mechanisms underlying this relation remain unclear. One proposed mechanism is via allostatic load, a cumulative biologic ... -
Goal-Striving Stress and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Blacks: The Jackson Heart Study.
(Journal of the American Heart Association, 2020-05)Background Goal-striving stress (GSS), the stress from striving for goals, is associated with poor health. Less is known about its association with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Methods and Results We used data from the ... -
Low use of routine medical care among African Americans with high CKD risk: the Jackson Heart Study.
(BMC nephrology, 2019-01-10)BACKGROUND:Use of routine medical care (RMC) is advocated to address ethnic/racial disparities in chronic kidney disease (CKD) risks, but use is less frequent among African Americans. Factors associated with low RMC use ...
