نتایج جستجو برای: ethnicity linguisticcultural characteristics

تعداد نتایج: 684132  

Journal: :caspian journal of internal medicine 0
sasan fallahi rheumatology research center, shariati hospital, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran ahmad reza jamshidi rheumatology research center, shariati hospital, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran mahdi mahmoudi rheumatology research center, shariati hospital, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran mostafa qorbani non-communicable diseases research center, endocrinology and metabolism population sciences institute, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.

background: ankylosing spondylitis (as) may manifest with heterogeneous patterns according to ethnic origins. the objectives of this study were to describe the influence of various iranian ethnic origins on clinical measures in patients with as. methods: 0ne hundred sixty-three as patients diagnosed by modified new york 1984 criteria were enrolled consecutively in a cross-sectional study. the p...

2014
Amy R. Bentley Guanjie Chen Daniel Shriner Ayo P. Doumatey Jie Zhou Hanxia Huang James C. Mullikin Robert W. Blakesley Nancy F. Hansen Gerard G. Bouffard Praveen F. Cherukuri Baishali Maskeri Alice C. Young Adebowale Adeyemo Charles N. Rotimi

Although a considerable proportion of serum lipids loci identified in European ancestry individuals (EA) replicate in African Americans (AA), interethnic differences in the distribution of serum lipids suggest that some genetic determinants differ by ethnicity. We conducted a comprehensive evaluation of five lipid candidate genes to identify variants with ethnicity-specific effects. We sequence...

2012
Vassilis Polychronopoulos

We use a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) dataset provided by the FBI to build classifiers that can guess the ethnicity of the bearer of an mtDNA sample, using a number of different algorithms. Mitochondrial DNA is the genetic material that is found in mitochondria, organelles that reside inside the cells. The DNA found in mitochondria is relatively small in size but is highly informative and is there...

Journal: :Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique 2011
Laverne E Monette Sean B Rourke Katherine Gibson Tsegaye M Bekele Ruthann Tucker Saara Greene Michael Sobota Jay Koornstra Steve Byers Elisabeth Marks Jean Bacon James R Watson Stephen W Hwang Amrita Ahluwalia James R Dunn Dale Guenter Keith Hambly Shafi Bhuiyan

OBJECTIVES Aboriginal Canadians (i.e., First Nations, Inuit and Métis) are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, and experience greater social and economic marginalization and poorer housing conditions. This study sought to understand the differences in the determinants of health and housing-related characteristics between samples of Aboriginal and Caucasian adults living with HIV/AIDS in On...

2012
Raquel A Benavides-Torres Kristin M Wall Georgina Máyela Núñez Rocha Dora Julia Onofre Rodríguez Laura Hopson

INTRODUCTION In United States, roughly 1/5 of all HIV infected persons remain undiagnosed. Because HIV testing is critical to improve prevention efforts, more research is needed to understand the characteristics of individuals who get tested for HIV. METHODS This secondary analysis of the 2010 Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System used data from 9,744 respondents between 18-64 year...

Journal: :Appetite 2013
Katie A Loth Richard F MacLehose Jayne A Fulkerson Scott Crow Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

To understand how parents of adolescents attempt to regulate their children's eating behaviors, the prevalence of specific food-related parenting practices (restriction, pressure-to-eat) by sociodemographic characteristics (parent gender, race/ethnicity, education level, employment status, and household income) were examined within a population-based sample of parents (n=3709) of adolescents. L...

2017
R Costas-Muniz J Amir M Paris D Spratt J Arevalo-Perez S Fareedy CJ González F Gany M Camacho-Rivera JR Osborne

Addressing language and cultural nuance is required to improve the quality of care among all patients. The tenth version of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care (CLAS) recommends implementing ongoing assessments to integrate specific actions into measurement and continuous quality improvement activities. To this end, we have created the In...

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