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.

MeSH information

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Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the black groups of Africa.

Descriptor ID

D001741

MeSH Number(s)

M01.686.508.100.100

M01.686.754.100

Concept/Terms

African Americans

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "African Americans".

Named Groups [M]
Persons [M01]
Population Groups [M01.686]
Continental Population Groups [M01.686.508]
African Continental Ancestry Group [M01.686.508.100]
African Americans [M01.686.508.100.100]
Ethnic Groups [M01.686.754]
African Americans [M01.686.754.100]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "African Americans".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "African Americans".

publications

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "African Americans" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "African Americans" was a major or minor topic of these publication.

Bar chart showing 12 publications over 3 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2002

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2000	1	1	2
2001	1	2	3
2002	6	1	7

Below are the most recent publications written about "African Americans" by people in Profiles.

Inequalities in use of specialty mental health services among Latinos, African Americans, and non-Latino whites. Psychiatr Serv. 2002 Dec; 53(12):1547-55.

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Mentholated cigarettes and smoking habits in whites and blacks. Tob Control. 2002 Dec; 11(4):368-71.

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Predictors of mortality, coronary angiography, and revascularization in unstable angina pectoris and acute non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (the TIMI III Registry). Am J Cardiol. 2002 Nov 15; 90(10):1154-6.

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Race, socioeconomic status, and breast carcinoma in the U.S: what have we learned from clinical studies. Cancer. 2002 Nov 01; 95(9):1988-99.

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Indices of insulin action, disposal, and secretion derived from fasting samples and clamps in normal glucose-tolerant black and white children. Diabetes Care. 2002 Nov; 25(11):2081-7.

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Physician-patient interaction and hysterectomy decision making: the ENDOW study. Ethnicity, Needs, and Decisions of Women. Am J Health Behav. 2002 Nov-Dec; 26(6):431-41.

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Identification of hypertension-related QTLs in African American sib pairs. Hypertension. 2002 Nov; 40(5):634-9.

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The acceptability of a culturally-tailored depression education videotape to African Americans. J Natl Med Assoc. 2002 Nov; 94(11):1007-16.

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Racial and geographic disparities in timing of bidirectional Glenn and Fontan stages of single-ventricle palliation. J Natl Med Assoc. 2002 Oct; 94(10):873-8.

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Epstein-Barr virus in gastric adenocarcinomas: association with ethnicity and CDKN2A promoter methylation. J Clin Pathol. 2002 Sep; 55(9):669-75.

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