BACKGROUND Higher levels of N-terminal prohormone brain-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) in several disease states, but few data are available in patients with chronic kidney disease or in blacks. METHODS AND RESULTS The African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension trial enrolled hypertensive blacks with a glomerular filtration rate of 20 ...

graphics, dialysis modality and cause of death [4] . Nutritional status and inflammation play a major part in this mortality difference. Blacks on MHD have higher average lean body mass and prealbumin levels than their White counterparts [6] . The mortality difference between Blacks and Whites is most pronounced at higher levels of Creactive protein and interleukin-6 (IL-6) [5] . Analysis by ra...

OBJECTIVE . To examine racial-ethnic differences in the endorsement and attribution of psychotic-like symptoms in a nationally representative sample of African-Americans, Asians, Caribbean Blacks, and Latinos living in the USA. DESIGN Data were drawn from a total of 979 respondents who endorsed psychotic-like symptoms as part of the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS) and the Nat...

PURPOSE To assess the medical oncology (MO) physician workforce diversity by race, Hispanic ethnicity, and sex, with attention to trainees. METHODS Public registries were used to assess 2010 differences among MO practicing physicians, academic faculty, and fellows; internal medicine (IM) residents; and the US population, using binomial tests with P < .001 significance adjusting for multiple c...

BACKGROUND The European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology (ESC/ACC) consensus document for definition of myocardial infarction (MI) is predicated on increased cardiac troponin or creatine kinase (CK) MB mass above the 99th percentile reference limit. The purpose of this study was to determine the plasma (heparin) 99th percentile reference limits for the leading in vitro diagn...

Imprisonment rates for black Americans have long been five to seven times higher than those for whites. The immediate causes are well known: high levels of black imprisonment resulting in part from higher black than white arrest rates for violent crime and vastly higher black drug arrest rates. Drug arrest disparities result from police decisions to concentrate attention on drugs blacks sell an...

It is often stated that left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is more common in blacks than in whites.1,2 Given that hypertension and hypertensive complications such as stroke and end-stage renal disease are more common in blacks than whites,3 it would be surprising if LVH was also not more common in blacks. Why then is the study by Kizer4 in this issue of Hypertension newsworthy? First, it is imp...

This Article is largely an argument that the pervasive sense of cultural resistance in the African American community must be considered by criminal theorists as, at least, a partial explanation of “criminality” within the African American community. Woven into the fabric of African American culture is a vital oppositional element. This element, spoken of in many circles as “oppositional cultur...

The present cross-sectional study examined the home environment, socio-cultural characteristics, and nutrition knowledge of 222 clients a soup kitchen food pantry. Participants completed demographic questionnaire, Multidimensional Home Environment Scale, Nutrition Knowledge Scale. pantry population consisted more women, Blacks, Hispanics, older than did those from kitchen. Soup also exhibited l...

Black newspapers are an important yet underused source for historically contextualizing African American sites. The press helped shape notions of identity and community through philosophies racial uplift that promoted a vision achievement citizenship. Although sociologist E. Franklin Frazier criticized the as elitist, I suggest non-affluent Americans were also invested in tenets uplift. To demo...