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Filter by:To examine the biobehavioral determinants of obesity in Black as compared with white women.
To describe and delineate in a prospective study the nature and causes of seasonal variation of blood lipid levels in the general population.
To perform a follow-up study of physical activity and dietary behaviors and their determinants in 10- to 11-year-old Anglo and Mexican-American children from low- and middle-socioeconomic status (SES) families who were studied initially when they were 4 to 7 years old.
To examine anger and cardiovascular disease risk in urban youth. The project studied patterns of hemodynamic responses to social and nonsocial stressors, ambulatory blood pressure (BP), fasting insulin, fasting glucose, lipid profiles, and central obesity in adolescents from a wide range of socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds.
To distinguish whether the observed gender differences in plasma insulin and insulin resistance reflect biologic differences, or whether the gender differences in insulinemia are determined by greater adiposity in women. Also, to determine if the hyperinsulinemia per se contributes to excess risk for cardiovascular disease in African American women. Finally, since higher androgenicity is linked with cardiovascular risk in women, to determine if the risk factors associated with hyperinsulinemia are modulated by sex hormones.
To test the hypothesis that clinically inapparent sleep-disordered breathing was associated with blood pressure elevation, impairment of health-related quality of life, and depression.
To localize individual genes, called blood pressure quantitative trait genes [BPQTGs], which influence blood pressure levels in the population-at- large, and to determine if these genes are able to predict the occurrence of essential hypertension or coronary artery disease.
To conduct a prospective study of the determinants of smoking onset in adolescents attending Memphis City Schools and to determine the unique predictors of smoking onset in Black versus white adolescent females.
To investigate the genetic influence of candidate gene polymorphisms on risk factors for the metabolic insulin resistance syndrome in Japanese American sibships and kindreds. The original grant in 1994 had as its objective to understand the genetic epidemiology of coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors in Japanese- American families with probands living in Seattle, Washington.
To study mechanisms of excess coronary ischemia secondary to alterations in autoregulation and arteriolar vasoreactivity in Black Americans with hypertension, varying degree of left ventricular hypertrophy, and angiographically normal or mildly diseased coronary arteries.