African American obesity research has largely focused on individual and community interventions, which have not been sufficient to reverse the obesity epidemic.The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between race and body mass index (BMI) for African American women.Previously ...
However, an increasing body of evidence demonstrates that this heterogeneous group has numerous differences in cancer statistics when disaggregated in other cancer types.8,9,10,11,12 This paper builds on this body of evidence by looking at cancer outcomes in the disaggregated AsA population for ...
Sources: incidence, North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, 2021; mortality, National Center for Health Statistics, 2021. TABLE 6. Prevalence of cancer risk factors (%) among individuals aged 18 years and older by race, sex, and region, United States Prevalence (95% CI), ...
Unlike the finding for low-grade cancer, the AA race effect did not differ significantly across obesity categories (P for trend = .41). Findings from sensitivity analyses are given in eTables 1 through 5 in the Supplement. Notably, when ungraded cancers were assigned a grade on the ...
He also contributes to gene-wide associate studies (GWAS) that seek to discover correlated cancer genes related to obesity, diet, and exercise, as well as consult on computational genetics analysis. Other work includes Bayesian hierarchical models, Markov chain Monte Carlo theory, bureaucratic ...
African Americans are twice as likely as Caucasians to develop gout, but they are less likely to be treated with urate-lowering therapy (ULT). Furthermore, African Americans typically present with more comorbidities associated with gout, such as hypertension, obesity, and renal impairment. We deter...
G. (2011). Race and gender associations between obesity and nine health-related quality-of-life measures. Quality of Life Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-011-9878-7 Article PubMed Google Scholar Goldenberg, M., Danovitch, I., & IsHak, W. W. (2014). Quality of life and ...
After obtaining the permission of the National Center for Health Statistics , the 17-year-old adolescents in the NSFG Cycle 6 were selected, consisting of 235 girls and 199 boys. For these 17-year-old NSFG adolescents, weighted frequencies and means were computed for the following variables: (...
Many previous studies demonstrated the relationship between diabetes, obesity, and hypertension in persons with chronic kidney disease. RAASI treatment correlates with subsequent reduction in the rate of ESKD [49, 50]. The prevalence of hypertension in CKD varies by race, etiology of CKD and GFR [...
Contrary to our hypothesis, the Head Start program did not have a statistically significant effect on children’s obesity. The unweighted (e.g., number of participants) and weighted (e.g., mean, SD, and percentage) descriptive statistics of the study population are shown in Table 2. A ...