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Filter by:To investigate psychosocial and dietary influences on blood pressure in Blacks.
To describe secular trends in cardiovascular risk factors in the adolescent and adult United States population and to identify and quantify the changes in variables related to these risk factors. Also, to modify and implement the statistical methodology available for the analysis of complex sample survey data in order to model and test these secular trends across separate nationally representative databases. The differences in risk factors in these samples were contrasted with those from a special population group, Hispanic Americans.
To determine ways in which behavioral factors influenced the diagnosis and development of hypertension in adult working populations.
To monitor the relationship of lifestyle variables, particularly exercise, to cardiovascular mortality, all-cause mortality, projected longevity and aging, and cardiovascular morbidity in a large cohort of college graduates. To assess changing patterns of exercise, cigarette smoking, body weight, and blood pressure between the 1960s and 1990s for relationship to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
To determine the role of apolipoprotein B and apolipoprotein A1 in the etiology of coronary artery disease.
To determine the effects of diet modification on blood pressure, blood cholesterol, and bone density in healthy young people.
Originally, to determine whether genetic alterations in pathways of sodium ion transport in the red blood cells of children could predict their risk of developing primary hypertension in adulthood. In 1992, the objective was to determine the genetic basis of interindividual variation in the risk of essential hypertension in the population at large using the Rochester Family Heart Study.
To examine the role of isolated systolic hypertension and other predictors of all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality in elderly Blacks and whites of the Charleston Heart Study cohort of 1960 and to compare and pool those findings with the Evans County Heart Study findings in order to develop a logistic risk function for Blacks. Also, to identify predictors of physical functioning in older Blacks and whites and to prepare rosters of the off-spring of the Charleston cohort for future studies of genetic/familial influences on cardiovascular disease.
To determine the role of insulin resistance in peripheral vascular dynamics, sodium sensitivity, and blood pressure regulation in a young representative Black population and in a group of young Blacks at high risk for hypertension.
To field test the validity, reliability, cost, and cost-benefit of Health Risk Appraisal (HRA) instruments.