Sleep duration and quality: impact on lifestyle behaviors and cardiometabolic health: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

MP St-Onge, MA Grandner, D Brown, MB Conroy… - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Sleep is increasingly recognized as an important lifestyle contributor to health. However, this
has not always been the case, and an increasing number of Americans choose to curtail …

[HTML][HTML] Breastfeeding among minority women: moving from risk factors to interventions

DJ Chapman, R Pérez-Escamilla - Advances in Nutrition, 2012 - Elsevier
The gap between current breastfeeding practices and the Healthy People 2020
breastfeeding goals is widest for black women compared with all other ethnic groups. Also of …

Habitual sleep duration associated with self-reported and objectively determined cardiometabolic risk factors

MA Grandner, S Chakravorty, ML Perlis, L Oliver… - Sleep medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Self-reported short or long sleep duration has been associated with adverse
cardiometabolic health outcomes in laboratory and epidemiologic studies, but interpretation …

Validating the adapted Diabetes Complications Severity Index in claims data.

HY Chang, JP Weiner, TM Richards… - The American journal …, 2012 - europepmc.org
Validating the adapted Diabetes Complications Severity Index in claims data. - Abstract - Europe
PMC Sign in | Create an account https://orcid.org Europe PMC Menu About Tools Developers …

Elevated rates of diabetes in Pacific Islanders and Asian subgroups: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE)

AJ Karter, D Schillinger, AS Adams, HH Moffet… - Diabetes …, 2013 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE We estimated the prevalence and incidence of diabetes among specific
subgroups of Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) in a multiethnic US population with uniform …

Mexican American trial of community health workers: a randomized controlled trial of a community health worker intervention for Mexican Americans with type 2 …

SK Rothschild, MA Martin… - … journal of public …, 2014 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We assessed whether community health workers (CHWs) could improve
glycemic control among Mexican Americans with diabetes. Methods. We recruited 144 …

Differing effects of metformin on glycemic control by race-ethnicity

LK Williams, B Padhukasahasram… - The Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Context: Metformin is considered first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus. However,
little is known about its effects in African American individuals. Objective: The objective of the …

[HTML][HTML] Use of a text message program to raise type 2 diabetes risk awareness and promote health behavior change (part I): assessment of participant reach and …

LR Buis, L Hirzel, SA Turske, TR Des Jardins… - Journal of medical …, 2013 - jmir.org
Background: There are an estimated 25.8 million American children and adults, equivalent
to 8.3% of the US population, living with diabetes. Diabetes is particularly burdensome on …

A preliminary study of a composite sleep health score: associations with psychological distress, body mass index, and physical functioning in a low-income African …

AS DeSantis, T Dubowitz, B Ghosh-Dastidar… - Sleep Health, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives Although multiple individual sleep measures (eg, sleep duration, satisfaction)
have been linked to a wide range of physical and mental health conditions, scant research …

[PDF][PDF] Role of ethnicity in overweight and obese patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

R Lomonaco, C Ortiz‐Lopez, B Orsak, J Finch… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The role of ethnicity in determining disease severity in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
remains unclear. We recruited 152 patients with biopsy‐proven NASH, 63% of whom were …