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Filter by:To elucidate the influence of ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) on women's cardiovascular health, using recently completed risk factor and mortality data from the Stanford Five-City Project.
To establish the aspects of ethnicity that are associated with the differential expression of cardiovascular disease processes in African Americans and Caucasian Americans twin children.
To elucidate the biochemical, metabolic, and genetic markers and mechanisms of macrovascular disease in insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM).
To test hypotheses related to gender differences in cardiovascular mortality trends between 1980 and 1991 in two southeastern New England communities which were part of the Pawtucket Heart Health Program.
To analyze the association between an objective measure of "job strain" and risk of stroke, and change in ambulatory blood pressure.
To evaluate the hypothesis that chronic anxiety and/or anxiety disorders resulted in hyperkinetic cardiovascular autonomic regulation, often associated with increased coronary risk.
To continue examinations of 670 girls enrolled in the National Growth and Health Study (NGHS) for four more years, adding measurements of total peripheral resistance, cardiac output, DEXA scans for fat-free mass and fat mass, left ventricular mass and geometry, circulating blood volume, whole blood viscosity, and left ventricular contractility.
To examine a school-based population of children for maturational changes in blood pressure and cardiac structures.
To investigate the variability of lipids and specifically the effects of stress on serum triglyceride levels, total cholesterol, HDL, and LDL in a 2.5 year epidemiological study.
To estimate the relative risks of acute myocardial infarction (MI) and of stroke in postmenopausal users of estrogen/progestogen (E/P) combinations and to estimate the relative risks of MI and of stroke in users of estrogen alone.