Blackness andMestizaje: Afro-Caribbean Music in Chetumal, Mexico

Breathlessness in an Afro-Caribbean woman.

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Squamous cell carcinomas in Afro-Caribbean women.

Progressive breathlessness in an Afro Caribbean hypertensive subject.

The sensitivity and specificity of structural assessment of the heart by echocardiography in black hypertensive patients presenting with symptoms of heart failure is often incomplete. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance, mainly by virtue of its ability to characterize myocardial tissue composition, may be of value in differentiating some of the common pathologies noninvasively. We present an ...

Metabolic acidosis in an Afro-Caribbean man with hyperpigmentation.

A 46 year old Afro-Caribbean man presented with a 10 day history of increasing malaise, polydipsia, polyuria, and weight loss. One day before admission he had become increasingly unwell and had repeated vomiting without abdominal pain. He regularly drank six units of alcohol daily (42 units per week) and had consumed three pints of beer on the day of admission. There was no previous history of ...

Afro-Caribbean Heart Failure in the United Kingdom

Most large heart failure studies in the United Kingdom population fail to include specific data on AfroCaribbean patients because ethnic minority groups form a relatively small proportion nationwide. However, >1 million people of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity live in the Greater London area (2011 census data) forming a significant proportion of the city’s population (13.3%). There are few studies fo...