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Activity energy expenditure and adiposity among black adults in Nigeria and the United States

scientific article published in June 2002

Activity, adiposity and weight change in Jamaican adults

scientific article published in October 2007

An update on the burden of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Jamaica: findings from the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey 2007-2008

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Appropriate waist circumference cut points for identifying insulin resistance in black youth: a cross sectional analysis of the 1986 Jamaica birth cohort

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Association of macro-level determinants with adolescent overweight and suicidal ideation with planning: A cross-sectional study of 21 Latin American and Caribbean Countries

scientific article published on 29 December 2020

Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Associations between neighborhood effects and physical activity, obesity, and diabetes: The Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey 2008.

scientific article published on 22 April 2015

Associations of neighborhood physical and crime environments with obesity-related outcomes in Jamaica

scientific article published on 05 April 2021

Author Correction: Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Autoantibodies in Caribbean youth with diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on January 2008

Birth weight and maternal socioeconomic circumstances were inversely related to systolic blood pressure among Afro-Caribbean young adults

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

Blood pressure in Jamaican children: relationship to body size and composition.

scientific article published on June 1999

Blood pressure is related to placental volume and birth weight

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Cardiovascular disease among diabetic in-patients at a tertiary hospital in Jamaica

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Cardiovascular disease risk factors in menopausal Jamaican black women after hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy: an observational study.

scientific article published on December 2010

Cardiovascular risk profile in Caribbean youth with diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on June 2009

Cause-of-death disparities in the African diaspora: exploring differences among shared-heritage populations.

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

Chronic disease in the Caribbean: strategies to respond to the public health challenge in the region. What can we learn from Jamaica's experience?

scientific article published on July 2011

Clinical and laboratory features of youth onset type 2 diabetes in Jamaica.

scientific article published on March 2010

Cohort profile: the Jamaican 1986 birth cohort study

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Cold-induced elevation of forearm vascular resistance is inversely related to birth weight

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Diabetes mellitus in Jamaica: sex differences in burden, risk factors, awareness, treatment and control in a developing country

scientific article published on 15 October 2013

Diabetic foot complications among patients attending a specialist diabetes clinic in Jamaica: prevalence and associated factors

scientific article published on March 2013

Disparities in cardiovascular disease among Caribbean populations: a systematic literature review

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Disparities in diabetes mellitus among Caribbean populations: a scoping review

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Disparities in hypertension among black Caribbean populations: a scoping review by the U.S. Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group (USCAHDR)

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Early-life factors are associated with nocturnal cortisol and glucose effectiveness in Afro-Caribbean young adults

scientific article published on 7 August 2014

Educational Health Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Findings from Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey 2007-2008.

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Educational health disparities in hypertension and diabetes mellitus among African descent populations in the Caribbean and the USA: a comparative analysis from the Spanish town cohort (Jamaica) and the Jackson heart study (USA).

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

Energetic determinants of glucose tolerance status in Jamaican adults

scientific article published in December 2004

Ethnic differences in arterial responses and inflammatory markers in Afro-Caribbean and Caucasian subjects.

scientific article published on 25 August 2005

Excess Cardiovascular Risk Burden in Jamaican Women Does Not Influence Predicted 10-Year CVD Risk Profiles of Jamaica Adults: An Analysis of the 2007/08 Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

Factors affecting study efficiency and item non-response in health surveys in developing countries: the Jamaica national healthy lifestyle survey

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Factors associated with elevated blood pressure or hypertension in Afro-Caribbean youth: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Fast-food and sweetened beverage consumption: association with overweight and high waist circumference in adolescents

scientific article published on 26 February 2009

Fetal growth and cardiovascular risk factors in Jamaican schoolchildren

scientific article published on January 1996

Fine mapping of the association with obesity at the FTO locus in African-derived populations

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Foot care and footwear practices among patients attending a specialist diabetes clinic in Jamaica

scientific article published on 16 October 2012

Genome-wide association of anthropometric traits in African- and African-derived populations

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Genome-wide association study of coronary heart disease and its risk factors in 8,090 African Americans: the NHLBI CARe Project

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High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein is Related to Central Obesity and the Number of Metabolic Syndrome Components in Jamaican Young Adults

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Household food insecurity and childhood overweight in Jamaica and Québec: a gender-based analysis ⬇️

scientific article published on March 31, 2011

Ideal cardiovascular health in urban Jamaica: prevalence estimates and relationship to community property value, household assets and educational attainment: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Impact of adiponectin and ghrelin on incident glucose intolerance and on weight change

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Impaired glucose regulation in adults in Jamaica: who should have the oral glucose tolerance test?

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Income, education, and blood pressure in adults in Jamaica, a middle-income developing country

scientific article published on June 2003

Isoprostanes, a marker of lipid peroxidation, may not be involved in the development of glucose intolerance

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Laboratory-based and office-based risk scores and charts to predict 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in 182 countries: a pooled analysis of prospective cohorts and health surveys.

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

Limitations of fasting indices in the measurement of insulin sensitivity in Afro-Caribbean adults

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

Maternal body composition, offspring blood pressure and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis

scientific article published in July 2005

National Health Surveys and Health Policy: Impact of the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Surveys and the Reproductive Health Surveys

scientific article published on July 1, 2012

Neighbourhood characteristics and cumulative biological risk: evidence from the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey 2008: a cross-sectional study

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Neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics and blood pressure among Jamaican youth: a pooled analysis of data from observational studies

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Non-fatal violence-related injuries in Kingston, Jamaica: a preventable drain on resources

scientific article published on December 2002

Nutrient intakes and dysglycaemia in populations of West African origin.

scientific article published in January 2011

Predicting incident diabetes in Jamaica: the role of anthropometry

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Prehypertension in Jamaica: a review of data from recent studies

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease among Patients Attending a Specialist Diabetes Clinic in Jamaica.

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Prevalence of high-risk sexual behaviour in Jamaican adults and its relationship to sociodemographic and religious factors: findings from the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey 2007-2008.

scientific article published in December 2012

Prevalence of overweight and obesity among children six to ten years of age in the north-east health region of Jamaica

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Prevalence of prehypertension and its relationship to risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Jamaica: analysis from a cross-sectional survey

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Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its components in relation to socioeconomic status among Jamaican young adults: a cross-sectional study

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Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Jamaican adults and its relationship to income and education levels.

scientific article published on June 2010

Progression from prehypertension to hypertension in a Jamaican cohort: incident hypertension and its predictors ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Rapid assessment of genetic ancestry in populations of unknown origin by genome-wide genotyping of pooled samples

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Reported Hours of Sleep, Diabetes Prevalence and Glucose Control in Jamaican Adults: Analysis from the Jamaica Lifestyle Survey 2007-2008 ⬇️

scientific article published on November 17, 2011

Sex-differences in adiponectin levels and body fat distribution: longitudinal observations in Afro-Jamaicans

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Social determinants of breast cancer in the Caribbean: a systematic review

scientific article published on 05 April 2017

Social determinants of depression and suicidal behaviour in the Caribbean: a systematic review

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Social determinants of prostate cancer in the Caribbean: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

The association of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and blood pressure in an Afro-Caribbean population

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The burden of obesity in women of reproductive age and in pregnancy in a middle-income setting: A population based study from Jamaica

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The efficacy of detecting variants with small effects on the Affymetrix 6.0 platform using pooled DNA.

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The epidemiology of diabetes mellitus in Jamaica and the Caribbean: a historical review

scientific article published on June 1, 2010

The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

The role of inheritance and environment in predisposition to vascular disease in people of African descent.

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The slipping slipper sign: a simple test with high specificity and positive predictive value for peripheral neuropathy among diabetic patients

scientific article published on March 2012

The vascular effects of metabolic impairment clusters in subjects of different ethnicities

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Trends in Longevity in the Americas: Disparities in Life Expectancy in Women and Men, 1965-2010.

scientific article published on 19 June 2015

Under- and overreporting of energy is related to obesity, lifestyle factors and food group intakes in Jamaican adults

scientific article published in February 2004

Understanding neighbourhood retail food environmental mechanisms influencing BMI in the Caribbean: a multilevel analysis from the Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 23 August 2020

WHO/ISH total risk approach for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease shows greater decrease in costs for women but not the elderly in Jamaica.

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Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

scholarly article

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