Full blood counts, serum ferritin, vitamin B12 and folate, erythrocyte folate concentrations and nutrient intakes were estimated in twenty-three Indian vegetarian, twenty-two Caucasian omnivores and eighteen Caucasian vegetarian women aged 25-40 years. Energy and copper intakes were lower in the Indian women than in the Caucasians. Intakes of dietary fibre, vitamin C and folate were greater and...

BACKGROUND Prevention of aortic dissection and sudden death in patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS) requires accurate diagnosis. MFS is diagnosed by the Ghent criteria, which are primarily based on clinical features of Caucasian MFS populations. We determined whether the Ghent criteria apply to Asian MFS populations. METHODS AND RESULTS In this multicenter study, we included 255 adult MFS pati...

A previous study described the phenomenon of 16 financially stable Caucasian elders living with a chronic wound. The purpose of this study was to extend this research and describe the phenomenon of living with a chronic nonhealing wound in elders of color and in financially fragile circumstances. A purposive sample of 11 elders (nine older than and two disabled persons younger than 65...

Purpose The aim of this study is to generate reference values for anterior chamber morphometrics to facilitate the interpretation of anterior chamber images acquired with swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) in a Caucasian population. Materials and methods Non-glaucomatous Caucasian subjects, who were newly referred to the outpatient department of the University Eye Clinic Maast...

Research on neural basis of inhibitory control has been extensively conducted in various parts of the world. It is often implicitly assumed that neural basis of inhibitory control is universally similar across cultures. Here, we investigated the extent to which culture modulated inhibitory-control brain activity at both cultural-group and cultural-value levels of analysis. During fMRI scanning,...

Controlling for body size and composition, the authors examined the association between estrogen therapy and bone mineral density in older African-American and Caucasian women. In 1992-1998, 443 African-American and 989 Caucasian women aged 45-87 years were assessed for medication use, laboratory variables, behavioral characteristics, and bone mineral density. The mean age was 61.3 (95% confide...

OBJECTIVES Childhood type 2 diabetes (T2D) is increasing and may present differently across various populations. This study compares clinical features of T2D at diagnosis in Aboriginal children with Caucasian children and children from other high-risk ethnic groups. PATIENTS AND METHODS This retrospective observational study used data from a Canadian surveillance study where newly diagnosed c...

Objective: The mitochondrial uncoupling proteins (UCPs) are involved in body weight regulation and glucose homeostasis. Genetic variants in the UCP2-UCP3 gene cluster, located on chromosome 11q13, may play a significant role in the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Research Design And Methods: We conducted a comprehensive assessment of common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at the 70...

BACKGROUND MicroRNAs (miRNA) play important roles in the regulation of eukaryotic gene expression and are involved in human carcinogenesis. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in miRNA sequence may alter miRNA functions in gene regulation, which, in turn, may affect cancer risk and disease progression. METHODS We conducted an analysis of associations of 142 miRNA SNPs with non-small cell lu...

Abstract Objective The Dot Counting Test (DCT) is a performance validity test. McCaul et al. (2018) recently revised the DCT cut-off score from ≥17 to 13.80; we evaluated new in non-Latinx Caucasian and Latinx traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors healthy comparison (HC) participants. Method sample consisted of 37 acute TBI (ATBI; 11 Latinx; 26 Caucasian), 27 chronic (CTBI; 10 17 55 HC (29 Cau...