نتایج جستجو برای: black african

تعداد نتایج: 237155  

Journal: :Pediatrics 2006
Yvonne J Kelly Richard G Watt James Y Nazroo

OBJECTIVE Patterns of breastfeeding vary considerably across different racial/ethnic groups; however, little is known about factors that might explain differences across and within different racial/ethnic groups. Here we examine patterns of breastfeeding initiation and continuation among a racially/ethnically diverse sample of new mothers and compare this with patterns seen in the United States...

Journal: :Ethnicity & disease 2012
Ruan Kruger Rudolph Schutte Hugo W Huisman Michael H Olsen Aletta E Schutte

OBJECTIVE The N-terminal prohormone B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is a reliable marker of cardiac strain. In hypertensive heart disease, NT-proBNP levels increase and may lose its protective function. Simultaneously, the vasculature is also subject to hemodynamic stress, resulting in vascular matrix remodeling and stiffening which contribute to further cardiac alterations. Alkaline pho...

Journal: :Psychological medicine 2006
Paul Fearon James B Kirkbride Craig Morgan Paola Dazzan Kevin Morgan Tuhina Lloyd Gerard Hutchinson Jane Tarrant Wai Lun Alan Fung John Holloway Rosemarie Mallett Glynn Harrison Julian Leff Peter B Jones Robin M Murray

BACKGROUND The incidence of schizophrenia in the African-Caribbean population in England is reported to be raised. We sought to clarify whether (a) the rates of other psychotic disorders are increased, (b) whether psychosis is increased in other ethnic minority groups, and (c) whether particular age or gender groups are especially at risk. METHOD We identified all people (n=568) aged 16-64 ye...

Journal: :Ethnicity & disease 2009
Julia F Hastings Lonnie R Snowden

OBJECTIVE Few studies focus on employment outcomes for overweight and obese low-income women. We describe the relationship between body mass index and employment status among African American, Caribbean Black and White women who receive assistance through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Family program. METHODS This was a secondary analysis of data from the National Survey of American Life ...

2017
Edward W. Morris Brea L. Perry

School disciplinary processes are an important mechanism of inequality in education. Most prior research in this area focuses on the significantly higher rates of punishment among African American boys, but in this article, we turn our attention to the discipline of African American girls. Using advanced multilevel models and a longitudinal data set of detailed school discipline records, we ana...

Journal: :African journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM 2014
Karl Peltzer Dorina Onoya Elias Makonko Leickness Simbayi

BACKGROUND The objectives of the current national study were to determine the rates of self-reported circumcision among South African men and, more importantly, evaluate the acceptability of male circumcision in South Africa by uncircumcised adult men and all adult women. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study based on a population-based survey included a nationally representative subgroup of 6654 m...

پایان نامه :وزارت علوم، تحقیقات و فناوری - دانشگاه تربیت مدرس - دانشکده علوم پایه 1391

bekenstein and hawking by introducing temperature and every black hole has entropy and using the first law of thermodynamic for black holes showed that this entropy changes with the event horizon surface. bekenstein and hawking entropy equation is valid for the black holes obeying einstein general relativity theory. however, from one side einstein relativity in some cases fails to explain expe...

Journal: :Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 1993

Journal: :Sociology of health & illness 2008
Damien Ridge Ian Williams Jane Anderson Jonathan Elford

Over 40,000 people are now living with diagnosed HIV in the UK. There is, however, uncertainty about how people with HIV use religion or spirituality to cope with their infection. Adopting a modified grounded theory approach, we analysed individual and group interviews with the people most affected by HIV in the UK: black African heterosexual men and women and gay men (mostly white). For the ma...

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