African Americans - Ethnology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Disease activity and damage are not associated with increased levels of fatigue in systemic lupus erythematosus patients from a multiethnic cohort: LXVII.

13 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine the factors associated with increased levels of fatigue over the course of the disease in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients from LUpus in MInorities: NAture versus nurture, a longitudinal multiethnic cohort. ... Read more...

Matched-pair analysis of race or ethnicity in outcomes of head and neck cancer patients receiving similar multidisciplinary care.

6 Sep 2009 It is unknown whether population-level racial or ethnic disparities in mortality from squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) also occur in the setting of standardized multidisciplinary-team directed care. Therefore, we conducted a ... Read more...

Alcohol consumption, hypertension, and total mortality among women.

Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk of total mortality among Caucasian women. Whether moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk of total mortality among African-American or hypertensive ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'African Americans - Ethnology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Relationship between alcohol consumption and total mortality in hypertensive women. 30 Oct 2009
• Disease activity and damage are not associated with increased levels of fatigue in systemic lupus erythematosus patients from a multiethnic cohort: LXVII. 13 Sep 2009
• Matched-pair analysis of race or ethnicity in outcomes of head and neck cancer patients receiving similar multidisciplinary care. 6 Sep 2009
• Alcohol consumption, hypertension, and total mortality among women. Sep 2009
• Pilot testing of the PRAISEDD intervention among African American and low-income older adults. 30 Aug 2009
• African American men and mental health: is the climate changing? 30 Aug 2009
• Unveiling the mystery about adult ADHD: one woman's journey. 30 Aug 2009
• Risk factors and impact of recurrent lupus nephritis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus undergoing renal transplantation: data from a single US institution. 30 Aug 2009
• Social stressors and strengths as predictors of infant birth weight in low-income African American women. 30 Aug 2009
• Biological, psychological and behavioral, and social variables influencing colorectal cancer screening in African Americans. 30 Aug 2009
• Treatment disparity related to race/ethnicity and education in rheumatoid arthritis patients: comment on the article by Constantinescu et al. 13 Aug 2009
• Time to neuropsychiatric damage occurrence in LUMINA (LXVI): a multi-ethnic lupus cohort. 30 Jul 2009
• Patterns of HER2 testing in the management of primary breast cancer. 26 Jul 2009
• Race/Ethnicity has no effect on outcome for breast cancer patients treated at an academic center with a public hospital. 19 Jul 2009
• Static knee alignment measurements among Caucasians and African Americans: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 13 Jul 2009
• African Americans and Whites are equally appropriate to be considered for total joint arthroplasty. 13 Jul 2009
• Mail-delivered arthritis self-management tool kit: a randomized trial and longitudinal followup. 13 Jul 2009
• Prevalence and causes of visual impairment in African-American and Hispanic preschool children: the multi-ethnic pediatric eye disease study. 7 Jul 2009
• Age-related macular degeneration and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: the Cardiovascular Health Study. 7 Jul 2009
• A comparison of a spiritually based and non-spiritually based educational intervention for informed decision making for prostate cancer screening among church-attending African-American men. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'African Americans'

Definition: Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the black groups of Africa.

Descriptor UI: D001741

Alternative terms: African Americans; Americans, African;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; ethnology; genetics;

Tree Number: M01.686.508.100.100; M01.686.754.100;

History Note: 76; was NEGROES 1963-75