نتایج جستجو برای: black african

تعداد نتایج: 237155  

Production of high quality seeds in African leafy vegetables has not been practiced due to varying reasons including incorrect harvesting stages and fertilizer rates. Jute mallow (Corchorus olitorius L.) pods do not ripen simultaneously and fruits left to dry on mother plant long before harvesting, which face seed quality deterioration. Timely seed harvesting ensures maximum seed quality attrib...

Journal: :PLoS Genetics 2009
James M. Kelley Laura B. Hughes Jeffrey D. Faggard Maria I. Danila Monica H. Crawford Yuanqing Edberg Miguel A. Padilla Hemant K. Tiwari Andrew O. Westfall Graciela S. Alarcón Doyt L. Conn Beth L. Jonas Leigh F. Callahan Edwin A. Smith Richard D. Brasington David B. Allison Robert P. Kimberly Larry W. Moreland Jeffrey C. Edberg S. Louis Bridges

Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA4) is a negative regulator of T-cell proliferation. Polymorphisms in CTLA4 have been inconsistently associated with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in populations of European ancestry but have not been examined in African Americans. The prevalence of RA in most populations of European and Asian ancestry is approximately 1.0%; RA is pu...

2016
Carmen H. Logie Jesse I. R. Jenkinson Valerie Earnshaw Wangari Tharao Mona R. Loutfy

African and Caribbean Black women in Canada have new HIV infection rates 7 times higher than their white counterparts. This overrepresentation is situated in structural contexts of inequities that result in social, economic and health disparities among African and Caribbean Black populations. Economic insecurity is a distal driver of HIV vulnerability, reducing access to HIV testing, prevention...

2016
C M Nightingale A S Donin S R Kerry C G Owen A R Rudnicka S Brage K L Westgate U Ekelund D G Cook P H Whincup

OBJECTIVE Little is known about levels of physical fitness in children from different ethnic groups in the UK. We therefore studied physical fitness in UK children (aged 9-10 years) of South Asian, black African-Caribbean and white European origin. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Primary schools in the UK. PARTICIPANTS 1625 children (aged 9-10 years) of South Asian, black African-Ca...

Journal: :South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde 2016
Anna Cecelia Mahne Jonathan A Carr Soraya Bardien Clara Maria Schutte

BACKGROUND Parkinson's disease (PD), with a prevalence of up to 4% in Western countries, appears to be less common in Africa, possibly in part because of genetic factors. African studies investigating the genetic causation of PD are limited. OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical and genetic findings in a group of black South African patients with PD. METHODS All black African patients with PD ...

2017
Alison G. M. Brown Linda B. Hudson Kenneth Chui Nesly Metayer Namibia Lebron-Torres Rebecca A. Seguin Sara C. Folta

BACKGROUND Despite increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and related conditions, evaluations of health interventions indicate that Black/African American women are less likely to benefit than their white counterparts and are not as likely to engage in behaviors that reduce CVD risk. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility and effectiveness of civic engagement as an inter...

Journal: :Public health genomics 2014
C A Caburnay P Babb K A Kaphingst J Roberts S Rath

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND/AIMS/OBJECTIVES: The media are an important source of health information, especially for those with less access to regular health care. Black news outlets such as Black newspapers are a source of health information for African Americans. This study characterized media coverage of genetics-related information in Black weekly newspapers and general audience newspapers from t...

Journal: :Psychological medicine 2007
Craig Morgan James Kirkbride Julian Leff Tom Craig Gerard Hutchinson Kwame McKenzie Kevin Morgan Paola Dazzan Gillian A Doody Peter Jones Robin Murray Paul Fearon

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have reported high rates of psychosis in the Black Caribbean and Black African populations in the UK. However, few studies have investigated the role of specific risk factors in different ethnic groups. We sought to investigate the relationship between long-term separation from, and death of, a parent before the age of 16 and risk of adult psychosis in different ethn...

Journal: :MEDICC review 2008
Jehu E Iputo

Introduction The South African health system has disturbing inequalities, namely few black doctors, a wide divide between urban and rural sectors, and also between private and public services. Most medical training programs in the country consider only applicants with higher-grade preparation in mathematics and physical science, while most secondary schools in black communities have limited cap...

2012
Michael K. Stoskopf

Ten captive-reared African black-footed penguins (Spheniscus demersus) from a large outdoor colony were monitored for avian malaria, using severa l diagnostic tests. One treatment regimen was evaluated. Thin smear blood eva luation enabled detection of seven parasitemias involving Plasmodium relictum a nd Plasmodium elongatum in the penguins. Leukocytosis (relative lymphocytosis) was characteri...

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