Browsing by Subject "African Americans"
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A housing mobility program's impacts on teen and young adult parenting.
(SSM - population health, 2019-12)Objective:To assess the impact of Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration Program (MTO) implemented in 1994 in five U.S. cities (Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City) on teen births. Methods:We ... -
Assessment of LD matrix measures for the analysis of biological pathway association.
(Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol, 2010)Complex diseases will have multiple functional sites, and it will be invaluable to understand the cross-locus interaction in terms of linkage disequilibrium (LD) between those sites (epistasis) in addition to the haplotype-LD ... -
Awareness and acceptability of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among students at two historically Black universities (HBCU): a cross-sectional survey.
(BMC public health, 2021-05-19)<h4>Background</h4>Despite young African American adults (ages 18-24) being among the highest risk groups for HIV infection, little is known about their awareness of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - a once daily pill ... -
Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies
(2008-04-24)Envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967, the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) represented a bold attempt to revitalize the black freedom struggle as a movement explicitly based on class, not race. Incorporating African ... -
Body image and body satisfaction differ by race in overweight postpartum mothers.
(J Womens Health (Larchmt), 2010-02)BACKGROUND: Body image (BI) and body satisfaction may be important in understanding weight loss behaviors, particularly during the postpartum period. We assessed these constructs among African American and white overweight ... -
Can a Hindu be Black?: A Study of Black Americans and Hinduism
(2021)Nearly half a century ago, acclaimed jazz musician Alice Coltrane (1937-2007), marital partner of saxophonist John Coltrane, began disseminating Hindu (Vedanta) teachings and jazz-inflected bhajans (songs of praise) in her ... -
Cannabis use disorders are comparatively prevalent among nonwhite racial/ethnic groups and adolescents: a national study.
(Journal of psychiatric research, 2014-03)The racial/ethnic composition of the US population is shifting, with the nonwhite population growing faster than whites. We examined cannabis use disorder (CUD) prevalences and correlates in seven racial/ethnic groups. We ... -
Community-wide job loss and teenage fertility: evidence from North Carolina.
(Demography, 2013-12)Using North Carolina data for the period 1990-2010, we estimate the effects of economic downturns on the birthrates of 15- to 19-year-olds, using county-level business closings and layoffs as a plausibly exogenous source ... -
Datapoints: Use of medications and counseling for depression by Asian and multiple-race adolescents aged 12-17 years.
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Effect of socioeconomic status as measured by education level on survival in breast cancer clinical trials.
(Psychooncology, 2013-02)OBJECTIVES: This paper aims to investigate the effect of socioeconomic status, as measured by education, on the survival of breast cancer patients treated on 10 studies conducted by the Cancer and Leukemia Group B. METHODS: ... -
Electrocardiographic J Wave and Cardiovascular Outcomes in the General Population (from the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities Study).
(Am J Cardiol, 2016-09-15)The association between the J wave, a key component of the early repolarization pattern, and adverse cardiovascular outcomes remains unclear. Inconsistencies have stemmed from the different methods used to measure the J ... -
Environmental Equity: Socio-Historical Context of Industrial Siting in Riceboro, Georgia
(2008-04-23)Riceboro is a small, rural, and predominantly African-American community in coastal Liberty County, Georgia. With two resident manufacturing industries producing over 75% over the county’s Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) emissions, ... -
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 ... -
Experiences With Smoking Cessation Attempts and Prior Use of Cessation Aids in Smokers With HIV: Findings From a Focus Group Study Conducted in Durham, North Carolina.
(AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education, 2021-04)Cigarette smoking remains disproportionately prevalent and is increasingly a cause of death and disability among people with HIV (PWH). Many PWH are interested in quitting, but interest in and uptake of first-line smoking ... -
Extensive haplotype diversity in African American mothers and their cord blood units.
(Tissue antigens, 2013-01)HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, -DQB1 assignments were obtained for 374 pairs of African American mothers and their umbilical cord blood units (CBU) by DNA sequencing. An algorithm developed by the National Marrow Donor Program was ... -
Family PArtners in Lifestyle Support (PALS): Family-based weight loss for African American adults with type 2 diabetes.
(Obesity (Silver Spring), 2017-01)OBJECTIVE: To develop and test a family-centered behavioral weight loss intervention for African American adults with type 2 diabetes. METHODS: In this randomized trial, dyads consisting of an African American adult with ... -
Folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy in the Newborn Epigenetics STudy (NEST).
(BMC public health, 2011-01-21)<h4>Background</h4>Folic acid (FA) added to foods during fortification is 70-85% bioavailable compared to 50% of folate occurring naturally in foods. Thus, if FA supplements also are taken during pregnancy, both mother and ... -
Gene by Environment Investigation of Incident Lung Cancer Risk in African-Americans.
(EBioMedicine, 2016-02)BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have identified polymorphisms linked to both smoking exposure and risk of lung cancer. The degree to which lung cancer risk is driven by increased smoking, genetics, or gene-environment ... -
Generalized admixture mapping for complex traits.
(G3 (Bethesda), 2013-07-08)Admixture mapping is a popular tool to identify regions of the genome associated with traits in a recently admixed population. Existing methods have been developed primarily for identification of a single locus influencing ... -
Genetic variants in IGF-I, IGF-II, IGFBP-3, and adiponectin genes and colon cancer risk in African Americans and Whites.
(Cancer Causes Control, 2012-07)PURPOSE: Evaluating genetic susceptibility may clarify effects of known environmental factors and also identify individuals at high risk. We evaluated the association of four insulin-related pathway gene polymorphisms in ...
