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Hypertension in Blacks of West African Origin

Clinical Trial ID NCT00005340

PubWeight™ 33.27‹?›

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1 Hypertension treatment and control in sub-Saharan Africa: the epidemiological basis for policy. BMJ 1998 2.93
2 Genome scan among Nigerians linking blood pressure to chromosomes 2, 3, and 19. Hypertension 2002 2.89
3 A genome-wide linkage analysis investigating the determinants of blood pressure in whites and African Americans. Am J Hypertens 2003 2.76
4 Ethnic-difference markers for use in mapping by admixture linkage disequilibrium. Am J Hum Genet 2002 2.29
5 Localization of a small genomic region associated with elevated ACE. Am J Hum Genet 2000 2.13
6 Hypertension in blacks. Am J Hypertens 1997 2.09
7 Standardization of blood pressure measurement in an international comparative study. J Clin Epidemiol 1996 1.99
8 Obesity and hypertension prevalence in populations of African origin. The Investigators of the International Collaborative Study on Hypertension in Blacks. Epidemiology 1996 1.91
9 Linkage and association analysis of angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE)-gene polymorphisms with ACE concentration and blood pressure. Am J Hum Genet 2001 1.91
10 Income, education, and blood pressure in adults in Jamaica, a middle-income developing country. Int J Epidemiol 2003 1.84
11 Comparability of resting energy expenditure in Nigerians and U.S. blacks. Obes Res 2000 1.77
12 Abdominal adiposity and clustering of multiple metabolic syndrome in White, Black and Hispanic americans. Ann Epidemiol 2000 1.63
13 Association between blood pressure and resting energy expenditure independent of body size. Hypertension 2004 1.62
14 Leptin and body composition of Nigerians, Jamaicans, and US blacks. Am J Clin Nutr 1998 1.52
15 Determinants of hypertension in West Africa: contribution of anthropometric and dietary factors to urban-rural and socioeconomic gradients. Am J Epidemiol 1996 1.52
16 Under- and overreporting of energy is related to obesity, lifestyle factors and food group intakes in Jamaican adults. Public Health Nutr 2004 1.46
17 Relation between body mass index and body fat in black population samples from Nigeria, Jamaica, and the United States. Am J Epidemiol 1997 1.44
18 The absence of adult mortality data for sub-Saharan Africa: a practical solution. Bull World Health Organ 1997 1.42
19 Predicting incident diabetes in Jamaica: the role of anthropometry. Obes Res 2002 1.38
20 Prevalence of NIDDM among populations of the African diaspora. Diabetes Care 1997 1.36
21 Meta-analysis of genome-wide scans for hypertension and blood pressure in Caucasians shows evidence of susceptibility regions on chromosomes 2 and 3. Hum Mol Genet 2004 1.29
22 Polymorphisms of renin-angiotensin genes among Nigerians, Jamaicans, and African Americans. Hypertension 1996 1.27
23 Markers that discriminate between European and African ancestry show limited variation within Africa. Hum Genet 2002 1.27
24 Angiotensinogen gene in human hypertension. Lack of an association of the 235T allele among African Americans. Hypertension 1994 1.26
25 Angiotensin-1-converting enzyme (ACE) plasma concentration is influenced by multiple ACE-linked quantitative trait nucleotides. Hum Mol Genet 2002 1.24
26 Activity energy expenditure and adiposity among black adults in Nigeria and the United States. Am J Clin Nutr 2002 1.13
27 Relationship between blood pressure and body mass index in lean populations. Hypertension 1997 1.09
28 Haplotypes produced from rare variants in the promoter and coding regions of angiotensinogen contribute to variation in angiotensinogen levels. Hum Mol Genet 2005 1.08
29 Lack of association between a biallelic polymorphism in the adducin gene and blood pressure in whites and African Americans. Am J Hypertens 2000 1.07
30 Blood pressure change in Africa: case study from Nigeria. Hum Biol 1999 1.07
31 Gene-environment interactions and the etiology of common complex disease. Ann Intern Med 2003 1.04
32 Heritability of blood pressure in Nigerian families. J Hypertens 2002 1.03
33 Angiotensin I-converting enzyme polymorphisms, ACE level and blood pressure among Nigerians, Jamaicans and African-Americans. Eur J Hum Genet 2004 1.02
34 Prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in Nigerians, Jamaicans and US blacks. Ethn Dis 1999 1.02
35 Hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control among African Americans in the 1990s: estimates from the Maywood Cardiovascular Survey. Am J Prev Med 1996 1.02
36 The mortality risk associated with hypertension: preliminary results of a prospective study in rural Nigeria. J Hum Hypertens 1996 1.01
37 Angiotensinogen levels and obesity in four black populations. ICSHIB Investigators. J Hypertens 1998 0.99
38 A genome-wide scan for body mass index among Nigerian families. Obes Res 2003 0.99
39 Hypertension, serum angiotensinogen, and molecular variants of the angiotensinogen gene among Nigerians. Circulation 1997 0.98
40 Distribution of anthropometric variables and the prevalence of obesity in populations of west African origin: the International Collaborative Study on Hypertension in Blacks (ICSHIB). Obes Res 1995 0.97
41 Abdominal adiposity in six populations of West African descent: prevalence and population attributable fraction of hypertension. Obes Res 1999 0.95
42 Impact of birth weight on ethnic variations in subcutaneous and central adiposity in American children aged 5-11 years. A study from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2000 0.93
43 Predictive values of waist circumference for dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes and hypertension in overweight White, Black, and Hispanic American adults. J Clin Epidemiol 2000 0.92
44 Linkage for BMI at 3q27 region confirmed in an African-American population. Diabetes 2003 0.91
45 Familial aggregation of cardiovascular diseases in African-American pedigrees. Genet Epidemiol 1994 0.90
46 The feasibility of implementing a dietary sodium reduction intervention among free-living normotensive individuals in south west Nigeria. Ethn Dis 2002 0.89
47 Higher income is more strongly associated with obesity than with obesity-related metabolic disorders in Jamaican adults. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2004 0.87
48 Familial resemblance for anthropometric measurements and relative fat distribution among African Americans. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1995 0.85
49 A comparative study of hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control rates in St Lucia, Jamaica and Barbados. J Hypertens 1996 0.84
50 Serum distribution of lipoprotein(a) in African Americans and Nigerians: potential evidence for a genotype-environmental effect. Genet Epidemiol 1997 0.83
51 Angiotensinogen and blood pressure among blacks: findings from a community survey in Jamaica. J Hypertens 1996 0.82
52 SNP haplotypes in the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) gene: analysis of Nigerian family data using gamete competition models. Ann Hum Genet 2005 0.82
53 The angiotensin converting enzyme and blood pressure in Jamaicans. Am J Hypertens 1997 0.81
54 Heritability of plasma leptin in a population sample of African-American families. Genet Epidemiol 1997 0.80
55 The relation of central adiposity to components of the insulin resistance syndrome in a biracial US population sample. Ethn Dis 1999 0.80
56 Body composition of children in south-western Nigeria: validation of bio-electrical impedance analysis. Ann Trop Paediatr 2003 0.80
57 Impaired glucose regulation in adults in Jamaica: who should have the oral glucose tolerance test? Rev Panam Salud Publica 2004 0.78
58 Lifestyle, education, and prevalence of hypertension in populations of African origin. Results from the International Collaborative Study on Hypertension in Blacks. Ann Epidemiol 1997 0.78
59 Weight-height relationships among eight populations of West African origin: the case against constant BMI standards. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1998 0.78
60 The beta 3-adrenergic receptor gene and obesity in a population sample of African Americans. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2001 0.77
61 Association between evolutionary history of angiotensinogen haplotypes and plasma levels. Hum Genet 2004 0.77
62 Genetic inheritance of body mass index in African-American and African families. Genet Epidemiol 2000 0.76
63 Using verbal autopsy to identify and proportionally assign cause of death in Ibadan, southwest Nigeria. Niger Postgrad Med J 2004 0.76
64 Features of isolated post-challenge hyperglycaemia in Jamaican adults. West Indian Med J 2004 0.75
65 Energetic determinants of glucose tolerance status in Jamaican adults. Eur J Clin Nutr 2004 0.75
66 Basal and stimulated platelet calcium and sodium in hypertensive versus normotensive black people. J Hum Hypertens 1995 0.75
67 Linkage disequilibrium analysis of the renin-angiotensin system genes. Curr Hypertens Rep 2003 0.75
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