As part of a gene expression study, we recruited cases with T2DM and matched, unaffected controls at an urban hospital in Washington, DC, with a majority AA population. Here we describe the profile of socio-demographic, behavioral, and health-related associations of the study population. Self-...
Houston is home to the fourth largest city in America and more than 30% of Texas’ African American population. It is the nation’s 9th largest Black population and was the most recent city to reach the 1 million mark. African Americans in Houston are very excited about the city and its ...
Cite this chapter O’Donnell, J. (2006). Palliative Care for Breast Cancer in the African-American Population. In: Williams, C.K.O., Olopade, O.I., Falkson, C.I. (eds) Breast Cancer in Women of African Descent. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3664-4_10 ...
Creating a toxic storm of death and illness, the pandemic is devastating black communities across the United States and revealing the deadly legacy of inequality.
9, 10 For example, the patiromer development program, in which <1% of participants were black or African American, was largely conducted outside the United States3 (Fig 1). In the phase 3 trial that was conducted to support the approval of valsartan/sacubitril for the treatment of heart ...
juicy fried chicken have lured celebrities like Michelle Obama and Jesse Jackson for decades.Busboys and Poetsis a favorite hangout of the young and vibrant African American population, opting to not only enjoy dinner but also stay for open mic poetry nights. For something quick,Ooh’s & Aah’...
In this study, we examined whether DNA methylation in peripheral blood leukocytes mediates the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and cognitive function (N = 542) or WMH (N = 466) in older African American (AA) participants without preliminary evidence of dementia from the Gen...
There are very many different groups of culture in America; one in particular that represents about 15% of the general population in America is African American culture (Center Of Disease Control, 2002). The African American culture was derived from the country Africa. The African people have be...
(hospitalized COVID-19 patients versus general population) and B1 analysis (hospitalized versus nonhospitalized COVID-19). Thus, COVNET and HGI results agree on comparable effect sizes between these variants, although all COVNET effect sizes are larger than in HGI. Ancestry-specific results from ...
The scale also performed well with African American early adolescents aged 10 to 15 from two hospital emergency departments in Baltimore, Maryland. Within this population, the parental encouragement subscale and the parental supervision subscales performed acceptably (α = 0.75 and α = 0.89...