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How White and African Americans View Their Health and Social Problems: Different Experiences, Different Expectations

, 1995
This article seeks to examine how the gap in attitudes between the races is associated with differing life experiences. It is based on results from a recent national household survey.
Scheck, Ann C., Donelan, Karen, Beatrice, Dennis, Hill, Craig A., Blendon, Robert J., Altman, Drew, Smith, Mark   +6 more
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The Influence of Ethnic and Mainstream Cultures on African Americans’ Health Behaviors: A Qualitative Study

Behavioral Sciences, 2017
Background: Culture plays an important role in shaping individuals’ health behaviors. This qualitative research examines the relationship between African Americans’ ethnic and mainstream cultures and their health behaviors (i.e., food intake and physical
Ewelina M. Swierad, Lenny R. Vartanian, Marlee King   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

4355 Impact of Demographic & Racial Differences on DNA Repair Capacity in Lung Cancer

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2020
OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States for both men and women. African Americans are disproportionately affected with lung cancer, having higher incidence and mortality rates compared to ...
Francesca Christina Duncan, Catherine Sears, Nawar Al Narallah, Ahmad Al-Hader   +3 more
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Dementia Incidence in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease in the Framingham Heart Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Limited information exists on incident dementia in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) in US community‐based samples. We examined cognitive statuses and PD diagnoses of 183 individuals in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) to establish incident dementia, mortality rates, associations with sex, age at PD onset, and education level.
Joshi Dookhy, Michael Cummings, Eden Price, Yulin Liu, Santiago Gutierrez‐Gomez, Sarah O'Shea, Samuel Frank, Rhoda Au, Ashita S. Gurnani, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Jesse Mez, Ludy C. Shih   +11 more
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Efficacy of Inebilizumab in N‐MOmentum Trial Participants With or Without Prior Immunosuppressants

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This post hoc analysis examined the impact of prior immunosuppressants on the long‐term efficacy and safety of inebilizumab, a cluster of differentiation 19+ B‐cell–depleting monoclonal antibody, in participants with aquaporin‐4–seropositive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder from the N‐MOmentum trial (NTC02200770).
Bruce A. C. Cree, Beatrice Suero, Sarah Walsh, Romain Marignier, John W. Lindsey, Ho Jin Kim, Dewei She, Daniel Cimbora, Dustin Cavida, Friedemann Paul   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Race modifies the relationship between cognition and Alzheimer’s disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers

Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 2017
Background African Americans have been reported to have a higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) than Caucasians, but etiology-specific AD biomarkers have not been systematically analyzed in older African Americans.
Jennifer C. Howell, Kelly D. Watts, Monica W. Parker, Junjie Wu, Alexander Kollhoff, Thomas S. Wingo, Cornelya D. Dorbin, Deqiang Qiu, William T. Hu   +8 more
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Racial disparities in the prevalence and control of hypertension among a cohort of HIV-infected patients in the southeastern United States. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:African Americans are disproportionately affected by both HIV and hypertension. Failure to modify risk factors for cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease such as hypertension among HIV-infected patients may attenuate the benefits ...
Greer A Burkholder, Ashutosh R Tamhane, Monika M Safford, Paul M Muntner, Amanda L Willig, James H Willig, James L Raper, Michael S Saag, Michael J Mugavero   +8 more
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Metabolic and Microvascular Risk Factors Associated With Brain Health in Type 1 Diabetes

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examined relationships between metabolic factors, microvascular complications, and brain health in adults with type 1 diabetes. Fifty‐one adults were assessed for metabolic risk factors, microvascular complications, and cognitive function, with a subset completing brain MRI.
Jihyun Park, Emily J. Koubek, Richard Beare, Lynn Ang, Brian C. Callaghan, Rodica Pop‐Busui, Eva L. Feldman, Evan L. Reynolds   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inequitable service delivery to African American clients in vocational rehabilitation [PDF]

, 2001
Plan BThe purpose of this research is to investigate the patterns of inequitable treatment in rehabilitation service delivery to African American clients, which have been demonstrated and documented across various literature and research.
Showalter, Mandy
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New Discovery: Robert S. Duncanson’s Ruins of Carthage (1845)

Panorama, 2021
By depicting a celebrated African site singled out by African Americans at an 1843 state convention in Michigan as proof that “we are worthy of the name of American citizens,” as asserted by Committee Chairman William Lambert, Duncanson was expressing ...
Theresa Leininger-Miller
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