 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.
Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the black groups of Africa.
| Descriptor ID |
D001741
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.686.508.100.100 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.
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| 1991 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1992 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1993 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1994 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 1995 | 4 | 8 | 12 | | 1996 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 1997 | 2 | 6 | 8 | | 1998 | 3 | 7 | 10 | | 1999 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2000 | 8 | 6 | 14 | | 2001 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2002 | 15 | 10 | 25 | | 2003 | 12 | 17 | 29 | | 2004 | 28 | 20 | 48 | | 2005 | 20 | 28 | 48 | | 2006 | 27 | 39 | 66 | | 2007 | 24 | 23 | 47 | | 2008 | 35 | 29 | 64 | | 2009 | 25 | 38 | 63 | | 2010 | 25 | 35 | 60 | | 2011 | 35 | 33 | 68 | | 2012 | 33 | 51 | 84 | | 2013 | 47 | 41 | 88 | | 2014 | 40 | 40 | 80 | | 2015 | 27 | 37 | 64 | | 2016 | 36 | 35 | 71 | | 2017 | 16 | 35 | 51 | | 2018 | 20 | 30 | 50 | | 2019 | 18 | 26 | 44 | | 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "African Americans" by people in Profiles.
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Cho D, Milbury K, McNeill LH. Stress and cancer-related lifestyle factors among African American heterosexual couples. PLoS One. 2020; 15(5):e0232577.
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Wohlford EM, Borrell LN, Elhawary JR, Plotkin B, Oh SS, Nuckton TJ, Eng C, Salazar S, LeNoir MA, Meade K, Farber HJ, Serebrisky D, Brigino-Buenaventura E, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Kumar R, Thyne S, Seibold MA, Rodríguez-Santana JR, Burchard EG. Differential asthma odds following respiratory infection in children from three minority populations. PLoS One. 2020; 15(5):e0231782.
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Ortega VE, Li X, O'Neal WK, Lackey L, Ampleford E, Hawkins GA, Grayeski PJ, Laederach A, Barjaktarevic I, Barr RG, Cooper C, Couper D, Han MK, Kanner RE, Kleerup EC, Martinez FJ, Paine R, Peters SP, Pirozzi C, Rennard SI, Woodruff PG, Hoffman EA, Meyers DA, Bleecker ER. The Effects of Rare SERPINA1 Variants on Lung Function and Emphysema in SPIROMICS. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020 03 01; 201(5):540-554.
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Kowalski MH, Qian H, Hou Z, Rosen JD, Tapia AL, Shan Y, Jain D, Argos M, Arnett DK, Avery C, Barnes KC, Becker LC, Bien SA, Bis JC, Blangero J, Boerwinkle E, Bowden DW, Buyske S, Cai J, Cho MH, Choi SH, Choquet H, Cupples LA, Cushman M, Daya M, de Vries PS, Ellinor PT, Faraday N, Fornage M, Gabriel S, Ganesh SK, Graff M, Gupta N, He J, Heckbert SR, Hidalgo B, Hodonsky CJ, Irvin MR, Johnson AD, Jorgenson E, Kaplan R, Kardia SLR, Kelly TN, Kooperberg C, Lasky-Su JA, Loos RJF, Lubitz SA, Mathias RA, McHugh CP, Montgomery C, Moon JY, Morrison AC, Palmer ND, Pankratz N, Papanicolaou GJ, Peralta JM, Peyser PA, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Silverman EK, Smith JA, Smith NL, Taylor KD, Thornton TA, Tiwari HK, Tracy RP, Wang T, Weiss ST, Weng LC, Wiggins KL, Wilson JG, Yanek LR, Zöllner S, North KE, Auer PL, Raffield LM, Reiner AP, Li Y. Use of >100,000 NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium whole genome sequences improves imputation quality and detection of rare variant associations in admixed African and Hispanic/Latino populations. PLoS Genet. 2019 12; 15(12):e1008500.
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Callahan CL, Schwartz K, Corley DA, Ruterbusch JJ, Zhao WK, Shuch B, Graubard BI, Rothman N, Chow WH, Silverman DT, Purdue MP, Hofmann JN. Understanding racial disparities in renal cell carcinoma incidence: estimates of population attributable risk in two US populations. Cancer Causes Control. 2020 Jan; 31(1):85-93.
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Vantaku V, Amara CS, Piyarathna DWB, Donepudi SR, Ambati CR, Putluri V, Tang W, Rajapakshe K, Estecio MR, Terris MK, Castro PD, Ittmann MM, Williams SB, Lerner SP, Sreekumar A, Bollag R, Coarfa C, Kornberg MD, Lotan Y, Ambs S, Putluri N. DNA methylation patterns in bladder tumors of African American patients point to distinct alterations in xenobiotic metabolism. Carcinogenesis. 2019 11 25; 40(11):1332-1340.
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Aseltine RH, Wang W, Benthien RA, Katz M, Wagner C, Yan J, Lewis CG. Reductions in Race and Ethnic Disparities in Hospital Readmissions Following Total Joint Arthroplasty from 2005 to 2015. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2019 Nov 20; 101(22):2044-2050.
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Obasi EM, Chen TA, Cavanagh L, Smith BK, Wilborn KA, McNeill LH, Reitzel LR. Depression, perceived social control, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in African-American adults. Health Psychol. 2020 Feb; 39(2):107-115.
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Apprey V, Wang S, Tang W, Kittles RA, Southerland WM, Ittmann M, Kwabi-Addo B. Association of Genetic Ancestry With DNA Methylation Changes in Prostate Cancer Disparity. Anticancer Res. 2019 Nov; 39(11):5861-5866.
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Cunningham PN, Wang Z, Grove ML, Cooper-DeHoff RM, Beitelshees AL, Gong Y, Gums JG, Johnson JA, Turner ST, Boerwinkle E, Chapman AB. Hypertensive APOL1 risk allele carriers demonstrate greater blood pressure reduction with angiotensin receptor blockade compared to low risk carriers. PLoS One. 2019; 14(9):e0221957.
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