The Afro-Americans

Rates and factors associated with falls in older European Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, African-Americans, and Hispanics

PURPOSE To evaluate rates and factors associated with older adult falls in different ethnic groups. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS Information on demographics, medical and falls history, and pain and physical activity levels was collected from 550 community-dwelling older adults (75±9 years old, 222 European Americans, 109 Afro-Caribbeans, 106 African-Americans, and 113 Hispanics). RESULTS Taking...

A Biohistory of 19th-Century Afro-Americans: The Burial Remains of a Philadelphia Cemetery

TTR sequencing should be considered ahead of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Afro-Americans

Background Amyloid cardiomyopathy is a polymorphic condition with heterogeneous prognosis. Whereas AL amyloid cardiomyopathy is the most frequent type of amyloid cardiopathy, transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis is often under diagnosed. TTR gene sequencing may be easily performed although usually used after a histological proof of amyloidosis is obtained. We conducted a prospective study to evaluat...

The Afro-American Biomphalariae.

The reports on the occurrence of African planorbids in South America and of South American species in Africa and Asia are reviewed.

Revision of Afro-Malagasy Otomops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with the description of a new Afro-Arabian species.

The paucity of data for the molossid bat Otomops throughout its range has hindered our ability to resolve the number of Otomops species present within the Afro-Malagasy region (including the Arabian Peninsula). This paper employed an integrative approach by combining morphometric (cranial morphology) and molecular (mitochondrial cytochrome b and D-loop sequences, nuclear intron sequences and mi...