African Americans

"African Americans" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the black groups of Africa.

Descriptor ID	D001741
MeSH Number(s)	M01.686.508.100.100 M01.686.754.100
Concept/Terms	African Americans African Americans Americans, African

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Named Groups [M]
Persons [M01]
Population Groups [M01.686]
Continental Population Groups [M01.686.508]
African Continental Ancestry Group [M01.686.508.100]
African Americans [M01.686.508.100.100]
Ethnic Groups [M01.686.754]
African Americans [M01.686.754.100]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "African Americans" by people in this website by year, and whether "African Americans" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 1254 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 85 publications in 2013

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1992	2	2	4
1993	1	2	3
1994	3	3	6
1995	4	8	12
1996	3	4	7
1997	2	6	8
1998	3	7	10
1999	2	3	5
2000	7	8	15
2001	5	3	8
2002	15	9	24
2003	11	16	27
2004	26	19	45
2005	20	28	48
2006	25	38	63
2007	26	25	51
2008	35	28	63
2009	26	38	64
2010	26	34	60
2011	37	32	69
2012	35	49	84
2013	44	41	85
2014	42	42	84
2015	29	35	64
2016	34	37	71
2017	17	34	51
2018	21	35	56
2019	28	37	65
2020	25	30	55
2021	17	25	42
2022	2	3	5

Below are the most recent publications written about "African Americans" by people in Profiles.

Sarnowski C, Ghanbari M, Bis JC, Logue M, Fornage M, Mishra A, Ahmad S, Beiser AS, Boerwinkle E, Bouteloup V, Chouraki V, Cupples LA, Damotte V, DeCarli CS, DeStefano AL, Djoussé L, Fohner AE, Franz CE, Kautz TF, Lambert JC, Lyons MJ, Mosley TH, Mukamal KJ, Pase MP, Portilla Fernandez EC, Rissman RA, Satizabal CL, Vasan RS, Yaqub A, Debette S, Dufouil C, Launer LJ, Kremen WS, Longstreth WT, Ikram MA, Seshadri S. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies ancestry-specific associations underlying circulating total tau levels. Commun Biol. 2022 Apr 08; 5(1):336.

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Nazir S, Ariss RW, Minhas AMK, Issa R, Michos ED, Birnbaum Y, Moukarbel GV, Ramanathan PK, Jneid H. Demographic and Regional Trends of Mortality in Patients With Aortic Dissection in the United States, 1999 to 2019. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 Apr 05; 11(7):e024533.

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Jialal I, Devaraj S. An African American Male Patient with Rare Type B Insulin Resistance Syndrome. Lab Med. 2022 Mar 07; 53(2):215-217.

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Lowder D, Rizwan K, McColl C, Paparella A, Ittmann M, Mitsiades N, Kaochar S. Racial disparities in prostate cancer: A complex interplay between socioeconomic inequities and genomics. Cancer Lett. 2022 04 10; 531:71-82.

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Castellanos MI, Dongarwar D, Wanser R, Caceres I, Park C, Rodriguez J, Salihu HM. In-hospital Mortality and Racial Disparity in Children and Adolescents With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Population-based Study. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2022 01 01; 44(1):e114-e122.

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Xu Y, Tsai CW, Chang WS, Han Y, Huang M, Pettaway CA, Bau DT, Gu J. Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Prostate Cancer in African Americans Identifies DNA Methylation Biomarkers for Aggressive Disease. Biomolecules. 2021 12 03; 11(12).

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Stubbs LA, Saliba CK, Schallert EK, John SD, Khatua S, Valencia Deray KG, Stevens AM, Rocha MEM. A Lucky Break: A Case of a 3-Month-Old Female With a Pathologic Fracture. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2022 01; 61(1):76-80.

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Jindra PT, Shah MB, Shafer TJ, Van Buren CT, Siminoff LA. Systemic Racism Harms Black Americans' Access to Kidney Transplantation and Full Participation in Organ Donation. Prog Transplant. 2021 12; 31(4):394-397.

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Croce EA, Levy ML, Adamson AS, Matsui EC. Reframing racial and ethnic disparities in atopic dermatitis in Black and Latinx populations. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2021 11; 148(5):1104-1111.

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White EM, Maduka RC, Ballouz D, Chen H, Wexner SD, Behrns KE, Lillemoe KD, LeMaire SA, Smink DS, Sandhu G. Surgical research journals - Under review: An assessment of diversity among editorial boards and outcomes of peer review. Am J Surg. 2021 Dec; 222(6):1104-1111.

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