[HTML][HTML] Interethnic differences in serum lipids and implications for cardiometabolic disease risk in African ancestry populations

AR Bentley, CN Rotimi - Global heart, 2017 - Elsevier
cardiometabolic diseases that serum lipids are expected to predict. This review explores this
mismatch between biomarker and disease among African ancestry … –disease association. …

Genes, environment, and African ancestry in cardiometabolic disorders

AP Doumatey, AR Bentley, R Akinyemi… - Trends in Endocrinology …, 2023 - cell.com
… we discuss cardiometabolic diseases and traits in the context of African descent populations,
… We also review new initiatives to include more individuals of African descent in genomics to …

The cardiometabolic syndrome in persons of the African diaspora: challenges and opportunities

DP Schuster, T Gaillard, K Osei - … the cardiometabolic syndrome, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… , and obesity in persons of African descent. Indeed, with … cardiometabolic syndrome and
cardiovascular disease (CVD) can be seen in Africans compared with persons of African descent

[HTML][HTML] Ancestral and environmental patterns in the association between triglycerides and other cardiometabolic risk factors

KAC Meeks, AR Bentley, C Agyemang… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
… In addition, we separated West African ancestry from East African ancestry to assess whether
the relationship between TG and cardiometabolic disorders and risk factors differs across …

Importance of genetic studies of cardiometabolic disease in diverse populations

L Fernández-Rhodes, KL Young, AG Lilly… - Circulation …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
… the risk of myocardial infarction from low coverage WGS. As described above, it is especially
critical that we study African descent populations, 64 as early human migrations out of …

Genetic risk scores for cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan African populations

K Ekoru, AA Adeyemo, G Chen… - International Journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… varied substantially among 12 cardiometabolic traits and among populations with differing
proportions of African ancestry and in comparison with European ancestry populations. Trait-…

[HTML][HTML] A review of the literature regarding sleep and cardiometabolic disease in African descent populations

PL Whitesell, J Obi, NS Tamanna… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… these concepts to African descent populations, a relatively understudied population. Initial
data … emerging patterns of cardiometabolic disease for African descent populations both in the …

Genomics of cardiometabolic disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa

SN Adebamowo, F Tekola-Ayele, AA Adeyemo… - Public Health …, 2017 - karger.com
… Admixture mapping analysis suggested that African ancestry is associated with increased
risk of hypertension [44]. Some studies reported heritability estimates of systolic blood …

The genomic landscape of African populations in health and disease

CN Rotimi, AR Bentley, AP Doumatey… - Human molecular …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… with cardiometabolic traits, we show that while genomic research in African ancestry populations
… Using examples from infectious and cardiometabolic disorders, this review will illustrate …

Why are there ethnic differences in cardio-metabolic risk factors and cardiovascular diseases?

E Dal Canto, B Farukh… - … cardiovascular disease, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
… On the contrary, BA populations that have a higher risk of developing hypertension and
T2DM seem to have a more favorable lipid profile. In fact, people of African ancestry often depict …