Food insecurity among African Americans in the United States: A scoping review. by Elizabeth Dennard, Elizabeth Kristjansson, Nedelina Tchangalova, Sarah Totton, Donna Winham, Annette O'Connor

“…Risk factors linked to racial discrimination and food insecurity need to be better understood in order to minimize health disparities among African American adults during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.…”
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African American Womanhood: A Study of Women’s Life Writings (1861-1910s) by Élise Vallier

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Erin Forbes, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793-1845 by Jeannine DeLombard

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The Mode of Pretransplant Dialysis Does Not Affect Postrenal Transplant Outcomes in African Americans by Amit Sharma, Todd L. Teigeler, Martha Behnke, Adrian Cotterell, Robert Fisher, Anne King, Todd Gehr, Marc Posner

“…We report our experience on the outcomes of prerenal transplant peritoneal dialysis in predominantly (73%) African American patient population. Methods. A retrospective data analysis of 401 kidney transplants performed at our center from 2000 to 2006 was performed. …”
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Nicole Brittingham Furlonge, Race Sounds. The Art of Listening in African American Literature by Charles Joseph

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Attitudes toward Genetic Testing for Hypertension among African American Women and Girls by Jacquelyn Y. Taylor, Bronwen Peternell, Jennifer A. Smith

“…Introduction. Although African American (AA) women have the highest prevalence of hypertension and many genetic studies have been conducted to examine this disparity, no published studies have investigated their attitudes toward genetic testing for hypertension. …”
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Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Modified Mini Mental State Examination in African Americans by Kaycee M. Sink, Suzanne Craft, S. Carrie Smith, Joseph A. Maldjian, Donald W. Bowden, Jianzhao Xu, Barry I. Freedman, Jasmin Divers

“…Five hundred and thirty African Americans with type 2 diabetes were enrolled in African American-Diabetes Heart Study-MIND, a cross-sectional study of cognition and structural and functional brain imaging. …”
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One-day symposium “Material Culture and the Writing of History: the Case of African Americans” by Christen Bryson, Alice Morin

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The End of the African American Political Space? The Court, Redistricting and Black Interests in Contemporary America by Lisa Veroni

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Medical and Psychological Risk Factors for Incident Hypertension in Type 1 Diabetic African-Americans by Monique S. Roy, Malvin N. Janal, Alec Roy

“…To determine risk factors for the development of hypertension among African-Americans living with type 1 diabetes. Methods. …”
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Impact of Serum Nutritional Status on Physical Function in African American and Caucasian Stroke Survivors by Monica C. Serra, Charlene E. Hafer-Macko, Frederick M. Ivey, Richard F. Macko, Alice S. Ryan

“…Fasting serum samples were collected for analysis of lipids, uric acid, and albumin in 145 African American (AA) and 111 Caucasian (C) stroke survivors (age: 60 ± 1 years [mean ± SEM]). …”
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Ocular Rosacea Causing Corneal Melt in an African American Patient and a Hispanic Patient by Joanna S. Saade, Bachir Abiad, Jonathan Jan, Dana Saadeh, James P. McCulley, Jeremy Bartley

“…To discuss two rare presentations of ocular rosacea in a Hispanic patient and an African American patient with unusual ocular manifestations. …”
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Designing a Cocreated Intervention with African American Older Adults for Hypertension Self-Management by Kathy D. Wright, Carolyn H. Still, Lenette M. Jones, Karen O. Moss

“…Additionally, there are disparities in hypertension self-management that disproportionately affect African Americans. Interventions designed in collaboration with older adults have the potential to improve hypertension self-management. …”
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Neighborhood environment associations with cognitive function and structural brain measures in older African Americans by Dima L. Chaar, Le Tu, Kari Moore, Jiacong Du, Lauren A Opsasnick, Scott M Ratliff, Thomas H Mosley, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Wei Zhao, Xiang Zhou, Ana V Diez Roux, Fazlay S Faruque, Kenneth R Butler, Jennifer A Smith

“…Methods 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 Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy (GENOA). …”
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A male-female mathematical model of human papillomavirus (HPV) in African American population by Najat Ziyadi

“…We introduce mathematical human papillomavirus (HPV) epidemic models (with and without vaccination) for African American females (AAF) and African American males (AAM) with 'fitted' logistic demographics and use these models to study the HPV disease dynamics. …”
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Psychosocial Characteristics and Gestational Weight Change among Overweight, African American Pregnant Women by Kelly C. Allison, Brian H. Wrotniak, Emmanuelle Paré, David B. Sarwer

“…To describe psychosocial factors identified as contributors of weight gain in the general population and to examine the relationship between these factors and gestational weight gain among low socioeconomic status, African American, overweight pregnant women. Methods. African American women (n=120) with a pregravid body mass index ≥25 kg/m2 completed measures of eating, sleep, and depressed mood between 14 and 24 weeks of gestation. …”
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Replication of European hypertension associations in a case-control study of 9,534 African Americans. by Harpreet Kaur, Dana C Crawford, Jingjing Liang, Penelope Benchek, COGENT BP Consortium, Xiaofeng Zhu, Asha R Kallianpur, William S Bush

“…<h4>Objective</h4>Hypertension is more prevalent in African Americans (AA) than other ethnic groups. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified loci associated with hypertension and other cardio-metabolic traits like type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and body mass index (BMI), however the AA population is underrepresented in these studies. …”
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W.E.B Du Bois and the Place of African American Youth in Histories of Environmental Thought. by Katie Taylor

“…In this article I reflect upon the development of my research on African American environmental thought as it emerged through the coincidence of my PhD research with the COVID-19 pandemic and the international Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. …”
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Giant Merkel Cell Carcinoma Masquerading as a Benign Cyst on the Buttock of an African American Man by Marissa J. Perman, Janelle M. King, Laurel L. Leithauser, Hugh M. Gloster

“…We report a case of a 60-year-old African American man who presented with a 4-year history of a previously asymptomatic, recently enlarging nodule on his left buttock, which was initially presumed to be an epidermoid cyst. …”
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Health information ties: preliminary findings on the health information seeking behaviour of an African-American community by Ophelia T. Morey

“…</b> The purpose of this study is to explore the health information seeking behaviour of African-Americans using Granovetter's strength of weak ties as the theoretical framework. …”
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