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Rheumatic diseases in blacks, whites and Asians--some comments.
The aetiology of rheumatic diseases is unknown but in many of them it appears that there are one or more trigger factors which induce inflammatory rheumatic disease against the genetic background of the patient. Both trigger factors and genetic background may differ in different parts of the world. Ethnic differences can therefore modulate rheumatic diseases in many ways which will appear as di...
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association of the insulin resistance syndrome with both blood pressure and target organ damage in blacks and whites with essential hypertension. Eighty-two black and 63 white French Canadian patients were studied. None had diabetes, and antihypertensive medications had been discontinued for >/=1 week. Measurements included 24-hour blood pressure mo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
سال: 1897
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-189710000-00009