 African Americans
"African Americans" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the black groups of Africa.
| Descriptor ID |
D001741
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.686.508.100.100 M01.686.754.100
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "African Americans" by people in this website by year, and whether "African Americans" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1990 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2006 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2008 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2009 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2010 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2011 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2012 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2013 | 9 | 6 | 15 | | 2014 | 12 | 4 | 16 | | 2015 | 2 | 6 | 8 | | 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "African Americans" by people in Profiles.
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Rinker DV, Rodriguez LM, Krieger H, Tackett JL, Neighbors C. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Problem Gambling among College Students. J Gambl Stud. 2016 Jun; 32(2):581-90.
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Mama SK, Li Y, Basen-Engquist K, Lee RE, Thompson D, Wetter DW, Nguyen NT, Reitzel LR, McNeill LH. Psychosocial Mechanisms Linking the Social Environment to Mental Health in African Americans. PLoS One. 2016; 11(4):e0154035.
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Leach HJ, O'Connor DP, Simpson RJ, Rifai HS, Mama SK, Lee RE. An exploratory decision tree analysis to predict cardiovascular disease risk in African American women. Health Psychol. 2016 Apr; 35(4):397-402.
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Reitzel LR, Okamoto H, Hernandez DC, Regan SD, McNeill LH, Obasi EM. The Built Food Environment and Dietary Intake among African-American Adults. Am J Health Behav. 2016 Jan; 40(1):3-11.
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Naumova OY, Hein S, Suderman M, Barbot B, Lee M, Raefski A, Dobrynin PV, Brown PJ, Szyf M, Luthar SS, Grigorenko EL. Epigenetic Patterns Modulate the Connection Between Developmental Dynamics of Parenting and Offspring Psychosocial Adjustment. Child Dev. 2016 Jan-Feb; 87(1):98-110.
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Ledoux T, Van Den Berg P, Leung P, Berens PD. Factors associated with knowledge of personal gestational weight gain recommendations. BMC Res Notes. 2015 Aug 13; 8:349.
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Buckner JD, Shah SM, Dean KE, Zvolensky MJ. Cannabis use frequency and use-related impairment among African-American and White users: the impact of cannabis use motives. Ethn Health. 2016; 21(3):318-31.
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Frankel L, Fisher JO, Power TG, Chen TA, Cross MB, Hughes SO. Confirmatory factor analysis of the Feeding Emotions Scale. A measure of parent emotions in the context of feeding. Appetite. 2015 Aug; 91:107-13.
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Power TG, Hughes SO, Goodell LS, Johnson SL, Duran JA, Williams K, Beck AD, Frankel LA. Feeding practices of low-income mothers: how do they compare to current recommendations? Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2015 Mar 07; 12:34.
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Watkins KL, Reitzel LR, Wetter DW, McNeill LH. HPV awareness, knowledge and attitudes among older African-American women. Am J Health Behav. 2015 Mar; 39(2):205-11.
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