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25-Hydroxyvitamin D and blood pressure: a plateau effect in adults with African ancestry living at different latitudes

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in African American and Nigerian women.

scientific article published on 04 April 2013

A Survey Study of Pregnant Women and Healthcare Practitioners Assessing the Knowledge of Attitudes and Practices of Hepatitis B Management at a Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa

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A Synthesis of Hepatitis C prevalence estimates in Sub-Saharan Africa: 2000-2013.

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A comparison of FourStar™ Briquets and natular™ XRT tablets in a North Shore suburb of Chicago, Il.

scientific article published in March 2014

A comparison of indices of glucose metabolism in five black populations: Data from modeling the epidemiologic transition study (METS)

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A mixed ecologic-cohort comparison of physical activity & weight among young adults from five populations of African origin

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A novel energy expenditure prediction equation for intermittent physical activity.

scientific article published in December 2005

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D AND INTACT PARATHYROID HORMONE LEVELS ACROSS LATITUDE AMONG ADULTS WITH AFRICAN ANCESTRY.

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Accelerometer-measured physical activity is not associated with two-year weight change in African-origin adults from five diverse populations

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Active summers matter: evaluation of a community-based summertime program targeting obesogenic behaviors of low-income, ethnic minority girls.

scientific article published on January 2014

Adiposity Is Not Equal in a Multi‐Race/Ethnic Adolescent Population: NHANES 1999–2004 ⬇️

scientific article published on March 24, 2011

An actor-based model of social network influence on adolescent body size, screen time, and playing sports

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Assessing Physical Activity and its Relationship to Cardiovascular Risk Factors: NHANES 2003-2006 ⬇️

scientific article published on May 25, 2011

Association between smoking and total energy expenditure in a multi-country study

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Association of car ownership and physical activity across the spectrum of human development: Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study (METS)

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CLINICAL PRACTICE PATTERNS FOR POSTOPERATIVE WATER BALANCE AFTER PITUITARY SURGERY

scientific article published on 06 June 2019

Cardiovascular risk status of Afro-origin populations across the spectrum of economic development: findings from the Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study

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Comparisons of intensity-duration patterns of physical activity in the US, Jamaica and 3 African countries.

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Constrained Total Energy Expenditure and Metabolic Adaptation to Physical Activity in Adult Humans

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Constraint and trade-offs regulate energy expenditure during childhood

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Daily activity patterns of 2316 men and women from five countries differing in socioeconomic development

scientific article published on 2 June 2015

Decreased microbial co-occurrence network stability and SCFA receptor level correlates with obesity in African-origin women

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Determining the Accuracy and Reliability of Indirect Calorimeters Utilizing the Methanol Combustion Technique.

scientific article published in April 2018

Dietary factors and fibroblast growth factor-23 levels in young adults with African ancestry

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Early antibiotic exposure and development of asthma and allergic rhinitis in childhood

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Elevated hypertension risk for African-origin populations in biracial societies: modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study

scientific article published on March 2015

Energy expenditure and adiposity in Nigerian and African-American women

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Energy expenditure does not predict weight change in either Nigerian or African American women

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Energy expenditure in adults living in developing compared with industrialized countries: a meta-analysis of doubly labeled water studies

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Ethnicity, energy expenditure and obesity: are the observed black/white differences meaningful?

scientific article published on October 2007

Evaluation of Culex pipiens Populations in a Residential Area with a High Density of Catch Basins in a Suburb of Chicago, Illinois.

scientific article published on September 2014

Evidence for daily and weekly rhythmicity but not lunar or seasonal rhythmicity of physical activity in a large cohort of individuals from five different countries

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Extreme events reveal an alimentary limit on sustained maximal human energy expenditure.

scientific article published on 5 June 2019

Fasting substrate oxidation in relation to habitual dietary fat intake and insulin resistance in non-diabetic women: a case for metabolic flexibility?

scientific article published on 14 January 2013

Fecal transplantation and butyrate improve neuropathic pain, modify immune cell profile, and gene expression in the PNS of obese mice

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 (FGF-23) Levels Differ Across Populations by Degree of Industrialization

scientific article published on 22 March 2016

Gut microbiota varies by opioid use, circulating leptin and oxytocin in African American men with diabetes and high burden of chronic disease.

scientific article published on 29 March 2018

Gut microbiota, short chain fatty acids, and obesity across the epidemiologic transition: the METS-Microbiome study protocol

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

Hepatitis C in sub-saharan Africa: urgent need for attention

scientific article published on 17 September 2014

High frequency of active HCV infection among seropositive cases in west Africa and evidence for multiple transmission pathways

scientific article published on 4 December 2014

Improving Urban Minority Girls' Health Via Community Summer Programming.

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Increasing BMI and waist circumference and prevalence of obesity among adults with Type 2 diabetes: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys

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Independent association of resting energy expenditure with blood pressure: confirmation in populations of the African diaspora.

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

More evening preference is positively associated with systemic inflammation in prediabetes and type 2 diabetes patients

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Multimethod analyses of discretionary time use and health behaviors among urban low-income African-American adolescents: a pilot study.

scientific article published on October 2013

Obesity as an effect modifier of the risk of death in chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on 24 September 2013

Obesity-related metabolite profiles of black women spanning the epidemiologic transition

scientific article published on 05 February 2016

Oxytocin alterations and neurocognitive domains in patients with hypopituitarism

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Oxytocin is lower in African American men with diabetes and associates with psycho-social and metabolic health factors

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Physical activity and pre-diabetes-an unacknowledged mid-life crisis: findings from NHANES 2003-2006.

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Prediction of fat-free mass using bioelectrical impedance analysis in young adults from five populations of African origin.

scientific article published on 24 July 2013

Predictors of HbA1c among Adipocytokine Biomarkers in African-American Men with Varied Glucose Tolerance

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Predictors of Obesity among Gut Microbiota Biomarkers in African American Men with and without Diabetes

scientific article published on 05 September 2019

Protocol for the modeling the epidemiologic transition study: a longitudinal observational study of energy balance and change in body weight, diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk

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Race and the insulin resistance syndrome

scientific article published on September 2013

Rapid increases in obesity in Jamaica, compared to Nigeria and the United States

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Relative height and weight among children and adolescents of rural southwestern Nigeria

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Reply to T Weishaar

scientific article published in February 2015

Seasonal variation in natural abundance of 2H and 18O in urine samples from rural Nigeria

scientific article published on 14 May 2015

Sleep is in for Summer: Patterns of Sleep and Physical Activity in Urban Minority Girls.

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Specialization patterns across various youth sports and relationship to injury risk.

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Sports specialization in young athletes: evidence-based recommendations

scientific article published on May 2013

Sports-specialized intensive training and the risk of injury in young athletes: a clinical case-control study

scientific article published on 2 February 2015

Sugar-sweetened beverage intake and relative weight gain among South African adults living in resource-poor communities: longitudinal data from the STOP-SA study

scientific article published on 03 October 2018

Sustained high levels of physical activity lead to improved performance among "Race Across the USA" athletes

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

The Association of Dietary Fiber Intake with Cardiometabolic Risk in Four Countries across the Epidemiologic Transition.

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The human microbiota is associated with cardiometabolic risk across the epidemiologic transition

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

The obese gut microbiome across the epidemiologic transition

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The social patterning of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases in five countries: evidence from the modeling the epidemiologic transition study (METS).

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Total daily energy expenditure in black and white, lean and obese South African women

scientific article published on 13 February 2008

Under-reporting of dietary energy intake in five populations of the African diaspora

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Very low levels of energy expenditure among pre-adolescent Mexican-American girls.

scientific article published on January 2008

Women’s access to health care for non-communicable diseases in South Africa: A scoping review.

scientific article published in 2022

Wrist Accelerometry in the Health, Functional, and Social Assessment of Older Adults

scientific article published on April 2016

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