BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to assess the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of intravenous levosimendan and the metabolites (OR1855 and OR1896) in healthy Chinese male subjects and to post hoc compare with Caucasian subjects. METHODS One single 2 mg dose of levosimendan was infused intravenously over 10 minutes to each of 14 healthy male subjects. Plasma levosimendan was an...

Attitudes towards eating, weight and shape were examined in 479 Caucasian, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British women. The Asian women were found to have significantly more disordered eating attitudes than the Caucasian women, but no difference was found between the three groups in their concern with their body weight and shape. However, while in the Caucasian group disordered eating attitudes were...

The comparative validity of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory—2 (MMPI-2) scores for African American (« = 123) and Caucasian (n = 561) clients from a community mental health center was investigated by contrasting mean MMPI-2 scores and correlations between those scores and conceptually related therapist rating scales for the 2 groups. The African American men scored significantly high...

This article surveys the major topics of Caucasian phonetics and phonology focusing on those aspects that bear broader implications for general phonetics and phonological theory. The article first presents an acoustic phonetic treatment of phonemic inventories in the three Caucasian families that involves both a review of recent instrumental data on the topic as well as a new analysis of experi...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the electrocardiographic (ECG) characteristics of West-Asian, black and Caucasian male athletes competing in Qatar using the 2010 recommendations for 12-lead ECG interpretation by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). DESIGN Cardiovascular screening with resting 12-lead ECG analysis of 1220 national level athletes (800 West-Asian, 300 black and 120 Caucasian) and 13...

PURPOSE A major limitation of studies reporting a lower prevalence rate of human papilloma virus (HPV) in African American patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell cancer (OPSCC) than Caucasian Americans, with corresponding worse outcomes, was adequate representation of HPV-positive African American patients. This study examined survival outcomes in HPV-positive and HPV-negative African Americ...

AIMS Aliskiren is the first in a new class of orally effective renin inhibitors for the treatment of hypertension. This study compared the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of aliskiren in Japanese and Caucasian subjects. METHODS In this open-label, single-centre, parallel-group, single- and multiple-dose study, 19 Japanese and 19 Caucasian healthy young male subjects received a ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate cognitive appraisal-adjustment relationships in Native American (NA) and Caucasian parents of children diagnosed with juvenile rheumatic diseases. METHODS NA (n = 16) and Caucasian (n = 24) parents completed measures of disease status, illness intrusiveness, and adjustment; the rheumatologist provided estimates of disease severity. RESULTS Hierarchical regression an...

Using recent survey data, this paper examines the career satisfaction of white/Caucasian and visible minority managerial, professional and executive employees in the information and communications technology and financial services sectors in corporate Canada. Black, south asian and Chinese employees were less satisfied with their careers than white/Caucasian employees, but to varying magnitudes...

Previous studies have reported that 3- to 4-month-olds show a visual preference for faces of the same gender as their primary caregiver (e.g., Quinn et al., 2002). In addition, this gender preference has been observed for own-race faces, but not for other-race faces (Quinn et al., 2008). However, most of the studies of face gender preference have focused on infants at 3-4 months. Development of...