Background Approximately 4% of black Americans carry a valine-to-isoleucine substitution (V122I)
in the transthyretin protein, which has been associated with late-onset restrictive …

Background US blood pressure reduction policies are largely restricted to hypertensive
populations and associated benefits are often estimated based on unrealistic interventions. …

Background: Although the population-level differences between estimated glomerular
filtration rate (eGFR) and measured glomerular filtration rate (mGFR) are well recognized, the …

Background— Heart failure is an important public health concern, particularly among persons
>65 years of age. Women and blacks are critically understudied populations that carry a …

The impact of social support on health outcomes is well documented. The current study
evaluated a short form of the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL-SF) administered to …

To inform the study and regulation of emerging tobacco products, we sought to identify sensitive
biomarkers of tobacco-induced subclinical cardiovascular damage by testing the cross-…

Background Black persons have an excess burden of cardiovascular disease ( CVD ) compared
with white persons. This burden persists after adjustment for socioeconomic status and …

Background— Obesity increases cardiovascular risk. However, the extent to which various
measures of body composition are associated with abnormalities in cardiac structure and …

Objectives : In an entirely African-American cohort, we compared clinical characteristics,
cardiac structure and function, and all-cause mortality in patients with heart failure (HF) with …

Upper cross syndrome (UCS) is a condition caused from prolonged poor posture
manifesting as thoracic hyperkyphosis with forward head and shoulder postures. It has been …