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Not a spectator sport: improving participation of Black patients in cardiovascular clinical trials
Representation of Black patients in cardiovascular clinical trials remains dismally low, reflective of systemic and structural barriers, which can lead to missed opportunities to meet community-identified need...
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Open AccessImproving mental health in black men through a 24-week community-based lifestyle change intervention: the black impact program
Poor mental health is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among Black men in the United States. Efforts to improve mental health among Black men have been hampered by a lack of access and utilization of...
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Open AccessThe association of serum vitamin D with incident diabetes in an African American population
Incident diabetes risk is inversely proportional to 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels among non-Hispanic white but is unclear among African American (AA) populations. Serum 25(OH)D2 may be an important comp...
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Open AccessInterferon gamma mediates the reduction of adipose tissue regulatory T cells in human obesity
Decreased adipose tissue regulatory T cells contribute to insulin resistance in obese mice, however, little is known about the mechanisms regulating adipose tissue regulatory T cells numbers in humans. Here we...
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Open AccessCommunity-Based Participatory Research to Improve Cardiovascular Health Among US Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups
This review aims to assess the contemporary community-based participatory research (CBPR) literature seeking to improve the cardiovascular health of racial and ethnic minority groups in the USA with a higher b...
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How academia should respond to racism
Structural racism in academia and academic medicine is destructive to science and society. To deny its existence is to fertilize the soil in which it thrives. Uprooting it demands, at the very least, a fundame...
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Diabetes and CVD Risk: Special Considerations in African Americans Related to Care
Among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death regardless of ethnicity. However, recent studies suggest that special considerations should be taken into a...
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Ideal cardiovascular health, glycaemic status and incident type 2 diabetes mellitus: the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study
Ideal cardiovascular health (CVH) is associated with lower diabetes risk. However, it is unclear whether this association is similar across glycaemic levels (normal [<5.6 mmol/l] vs impaired fasting glucose [I...
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Open AccessType 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic risk may be associated with increase in DNA methylation of FKBP5
Subclinical hypercortisolism and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction are associated with type 2 diabetes (T2DM), cardiovascular disease, and metabolic dysfunction. Intronic methylation of FKBP5 ...
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The association of ideal cardiovascular health with incident type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Levels of ideal cardiovascular health (ICH) and incident type 2 diabetes mellitus have not been examined in a multiethnic population. We assessed the total and race/ethnicity-specific incidence of diabetes bas...
