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Filter by:To continue surveillance of the participants in the University of North Carolina Alumni Heart Study, which tests the hypothesis that hostility and related psychosocial factors are involved in the pathogenesis of coronary heart disease.
To examine the relationship of risk factors measured in childhood to intimal medial thickness (IMT) in early adulthood and to examine familial factors which may be related to increased IMT, a measure of atherosclerosis.
To clarify the relationship of the arterial lesions to aging, define the influence of the arterial changes on the development of stroke, brain infarction, and dementia, and provide a better understanding of vascular dementia.
To identify and study a large cohort of glucocorticoid remediable aldosteronism (GRA) patients.
To measure serum concentrations of alpha tocopherol, selenium and all major carotenoids (alpha- and beta- carotene, lutein, (beta-cryptoxanthin and lycopene) in Black and white, male and female, high and low education individuals aged 18-30 in 1985-86. In subsequent renewals additional markers of oxidative stress and endothelial dysfunction have been measured in blood collected 7 to 30 years after baseline.
To conduct several studies on the epidemiology of venous disease.
To establish and maintain a national registry of children with different forms of cardiomyopathy.
To evaluate the safety of calcium-channel blockers in the secondary prevention of myocardial infarction in women.
To measure visceral (intraabdominal) fat by computerized tomography (CT) scan and to measure resting metabolic rate by indirect calorimetry in 400 CARDIA subjects, ages 28-40 years (100 of each race/gender group) from the Oakland, California and Birmingham, Alabama centers.
To investigate the genetic determinants of hypertension in three populations of the African diaspora, with a major focus on clarifying the role of genes that code for the renin-angiotensin system (RAS).