Published in Am J Hypertens on June 04, 2009
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Calcium channel blocker therapy in black hypertensive patients. Am J Hypertens (2010) 0.75
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Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature (2011) 13.25
The Dallas Heart Study: a population-based probability sample for the multidisciplinary study of ethnic differences in cardiovascular health. Am J Cardiol (2004) 9.43
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Association mapping, using a mixture model for complex traits. Genet Epidemiol (2002) 3.95
The development of a standardized neighborhood deprivation index. J Urban Health (2006) 3.82
Do medical marijuana laws increase marijuana use? Replication study and extension. Ann Epidemiol (2012) 3.41
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Left ventricular hypertrophy is more prevalent in blacks than whites in the general population: the Dallas Heart Study. Hypertension (2005) 3.07
A unified association analysis approach for family and unrelated samples correcting for stratification. Am J Hum Genet (2008) 3.00
Evaluating the evidence for models of life course socioeconomic factors and cardiovascular outcomes: a systematic review. BMC Public Health (2005) 2.97
Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease. Nat Genet (2013) 2.92
A genome-wide linkage analysis investigating the determinants of blood pressure in whites and African Americans. Am J Hypertens (2003) 2.76
Neighborhood characteristics and hypertension. Epidemiology (2008) 2.70
Assessing the possible direct effect of birth weight on childhood blood pressure: a sensitivity analysis. Am J Epidemiol (2013) 2.66
GIS approaches for the estimation of residential-level ambient PM concentrations. Environ Health Perspect (2006) 2.53
The Women's Health Initiative: The food environment, neighborhood socioeconomic status, BMI, and blood pressure. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2011) 2.50
HIV partner notification is effective and feasible in sub-Saharan Africa: opportunities for HIV treatment and prevention. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2011) 2.49
The "obesity paradox" explained. Epidemiology (2013) 2.46
The association of a SNP upstream of INSIG2 with body mass index is reproduced in several but not all cohorts. PLoS Genet (2007) 2.35
Multiple genes for essential-hypertension susceptibility on chromosome 1q. Am J Hum Genet (2006) 2.34
Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms act in concert to affect plasma levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Am J Hum Genet (2007) 2.28
Defining urban and rural areas in U.S. epidemiologic studies. J Urban Health (2006) 2.26
The female-male disparity in obesity prevalence among black American young adults: contributions of sociodemographic characteristics of the childhood family. Am J Clin Nutr (2009) 2.24
Association of higher levels of ambient criteria pollutants with impaired cardiac autonomic control: a population-based study. Am J Epidemiol (2004) 2.23
Discordance in national estimates of hypertension among young adults. Epidemiology (2011) 2.21
Linkage analysis of a complex disease through use of admixed populations. Am J Hum Genet (2004) 2.21
Deployment and the use of mental health services among U.S. Army wives. N Engl J Med (2010) 2.21
Corin I555(P568) allele is associated with enhanced cardiac hypertrophic response to increased systemic afterload. Hypertension (2007) 2.17
Response time effectiveness: comparison of response time and survival in an urban emergency medical services system. Acad Emerg Med (2002) 2.13
Neighborhood crime, deprivation, and preterm birth. Ann Epidemiol (2005) 2.11
Invited commentary: the socioeconomic causes of adverse birth outcomes. Am J Epidemiol (2010) 2.09
Neighborhood deprivation and preterm birth among non-Hispanic Black and White women in eight geographic areas in the United States. Am J Epidemiol (2007) 2.02
Reverse causation and illness-related weight loss in observational studies of body weight and mortality. Am J Epidemiol (2010) 1.99
Genetics. The science and business of genetic ancestry testing. Science (2007) 1.95
Intimate partner violence against adult women and its association with major depressive disorder, depressive symptoms and postpartum depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Soc Sci Med (2012) 1.94
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A combined analysis of genomewide linkage scans for body mass index from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Blood Pressure Program. Am J Hum Genet (2002) 1.87
Impact of energy intake, physical activity, and population-wide weight loss on cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality in Cuba, 1980-2005. Am J Epidemiol (2007) 1.87
Corin gene minor allele defined by 2 missense mutations is common in blacks and associated with high blood pressure and hypertension. Circulation (2005) 1.84
Incarceration and risky sexual partnerships in a southern US city. J Urban Health (2007) 1.83
A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry. Nat Genet (2013) 1.82
Estimation of the relative excess risk due to interaction and associated confidence bounds. Am J Epidemiol (2009) 1.79
Association of genetic variation with systolic and diastolic blood pressure among African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource study. Hum Mol Genet (2011) 1.77
Plasma n-3 fatty acids and the risk of cognitive decline in older adults: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Am J Clin Nutr (2007) 1.76
Reliability of variables on the North Carolina birth certificate: a comparison with directly queried values from a cohort study. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2010) 1.70
Discovering the full spectrum of cardiovascular disease: Minority Health Summit 2003: report of the Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Hypertension Writing Group. Circulation (2005) 1.67
Bounding causal effects under uncontrolled confounding using counterfactuals. Epidemiology (2005) 1.67
Deployment and mental health diagnoses among children of US Army personnel. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2011) 1.66
Success in control of hypertension in a low-resource setting: the Cuban experience. J Hypertens (2006) 1.64
Association between blood pressure and resting energy expenditure independent of body size. Hypertension (2004) 1.62
Timing and duration of incarceration and high-risk sexual partnerships among African Americans in North Carolina. Ann Epidemiol (2008) 1.60
Association of childhood obesity with atopic and nonatopic asthma: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2006. J Asthma (2010) 1.55
Genome-wide association analysis of blood-pressure traits in African-ancestry individuals reveals common associated genes in African and non-African populations. Am J Hum Genet (2013) 1.55
Race and ancestry in biomedical research: exploring the challenges. Genome Med (2009) 1.55
Combined admixture mapping and association analysis identifies a novel blood pressure genetic locus on 5p13: contributions from the CARe consortium. Hum Mol Genet (2011) 1.54
Neighbourhood deprivation and small-for-gestational-age term births in the United States. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2009) 1.53
Trends in the black-white life expectancy gap, 2003-2008. JAMA (2012) 1.52
The Nigerian antihypertensive adherence trial: a community-based randomized trial. J Hypertens (2013) 1.52
Prospective analysis of traffic exposure as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Environ Health Perspect (2008) 1.51
Improved estimation of controlled direct effects in the presence of unmeasured confounding of intermediate variables. Stat Med (2005) 1.51
Interrogating local population structure for fine mapping in genome-wide association studies. Bioinformatics (2010) 1.48
"Toward a clearer definition of confounding" revisited with directed acyclic graphs. Am J Epidemiol (2012) 1.48
Neighborhood income, health insurance, and prehospital delay for myocardial infarction: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study. Arch Intern Med (2008) 1.48
Black sexuality, social construction, and research targeting 'The Down Low' ('The DL'). Ann Epidemiol (2007) 1.47
Identification, replication, and fine-mapping of Loci associated with adult height in individuals of african ancestry. PLoS Genet (2011) 1.47
Heart rate variability predicts ESRD and CKD-related hospitalization. J Am Soc Nephrol (2010) 1.46
Estimating personal exposures from ambient air pollution measures: using meta-analysis to assess measurement error. Epidemiology (2014) 1.45
Cross-sectional association between perceived discrimination and hypertension in African-American men and women: the Pitt County Study. Am J Epidemiol (2007) 1.45
Replication of the Wellcome Trust genome-wide association study of essential hypertension: the Family Blood Pressure Program. Eur J Hum Genet (2008) 1.45
Cumulative socioeconomic status across the life course and subclinical atherosclerosis. Ann Epidemiol (2006) 1.44
Infective endocarditis in children with congenital heart disease: cumulative incidence and predictors. Circulation (2013) 1.44
An association study of angiotensinogen polymorphisms with serum level and hypertension in an African-American population. J Hypertens (2003) 1.44
Assessing physical activity and its relationship to cardiovascular risk factors: NHANES 2003-2006. BMC Public Health (2011) 1.44
Adjustment for local ancestry in genetic association analysis of admixed populations. Bioinformatics (2010) 1.44
Direct observation of neighborhood attributes in an urban area of the US south: characterizing the social context of pregnancy. Int J Health Geogr (2006) 1.42
Depression, sexually transmitted infection, and sexual risk behavior among young adults in the United States. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2009) 1.41
Repeatability of heart rate variability measures. J Electrocardiol (2004) 1.40
Protocol for the modeling the epidemiologic transition study: a longitudinal observational study of energy balance and change in body weight, diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk. BMC Public Health (2011) 1.39
Racial differences in clinical progression among Medicare recipients after treatment for localized prostate cancer (United States). Cancer Causes Control (2006) 1.38
Predicting incident diabetes in Jamaica: the role of anthropometry. Obes Res (2002) 1.38
Association of obesity with IgE levels and allergy symptoms in children and adolescents: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005-2006. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2009) 1.32
Voluntary participation and informed consent to international genetic research. Am J Public Health (2006) 1.32
Genetic variation in APOL1 and MYH9 genes is associated with chronic kidney disease among Nigerians. Int Urol Nephrol (2012) 1.32
Admixture mapping provides evidence of association of the VNN1 gene with hypertension. PLoS One (2007) 1.31
Stroke mortality and trends from 1990 to 2006 in 39 countries from Europe and Central Asia: implications for control of high blood pressure. Eur Heart J (2011) 1.31
Tuberculosis treatment and risk of stavudine substitution in first-line antiretroviral therapy. Clin Infect Dis (2009) 1.30
An actor-based model of social network influence on adolescent body size, screen time, and playing sports. PLoS One (2012) 1.29
A study in contrasts: measures of racial disparity in rates of sexually transmitted disease. Sex Transm Dis (2004) 1.29