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Heart failure in African Americans: unique etiology and pharmacologic treatment responses.

Clyde W Yancy1.   

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OBJECTIVES: After reading the article, "Heart Failure in African Americans: Unique Etiology and Pharmacologic Treatment Responses," the learner should be able to complete the following quiz and evaluation questions.Accredidation:NMA is accredited by the Accredidation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. NMA designates this continuing medical education activity for one credit hour in category one of the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity. The Journal of the National Medical Association (JNMA) has been approved by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) as having educational content acceptable for five prescribed credit hours. This article has been approved for one credit hour. Term of approval is from January 1, 2003, through December 31, 2003. Credit may be claimed for one year from date of individual use.Expiration:The quiz must be completed, postmarked and mailed by Feb. 25, 2003, for eligibility to receive continuing medical education credit for this CME activity.

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Year:  2003        PMID: 12656444      PMCID: PMC2594359     

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Natl Med Assoc        ISSN: 0027-9684            Impact factor:   1.798


  23 in total

1.  Racial differences in the frequencies of cardiac beta(1)-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms: analysis of c145A>G and c1165G>C.

Authors:  J D Moore; D A Mason; S A Green; J Hsu; S B Liggett
Journal:  Hum Mutat       Date:  1999-09-19       Impact factor: 4.878

Review 2.  Heart failure in African Americans: a cardiovascular engima.

Authors:  C W Yancy
Journal:  J Card Fail       Date:  2000-09       Impact factor: 5.712

3.  A gain-of-function polymorphism in a G-protein coupling domain of the human beta1-adrenergic receptor.

Authors:  D A Mason; J D Moore; S A Green; S B Liggett
Journal:  J Biol Chem       Date:  1999-04-30       Impact factor: 5.157

4.  Racial differences in response to therapy for heart failure: analysis of the vasodilator-heart failure trials. Vasodilator-Heart Failure Trial Study Group.

Authors:  P Carson; S Ziesche; G Johnson; J N Cohn
Journal:  J Card Fail       Date:  1999-09       Impact factor: 5.712

5.  Vasodilation in black Americans: attenuated nitric oxide-mediated responses.

Authors:  C M Stein; C C Lang; R Nelson; M Brown; A J Wood
Journal:  Clin Pharmacol Ther       Date:  1997-10       Impact factor: 6.875

6.  Lesser response to angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor therapy in black as compared with white patients with left ventricular dysfunction.

Authors:  D V Exner; D L Dries; M J Domanski; J N Cohn
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  2001-05-03       Impact factor: 91.245

7.  Race and the response to adrenergic blockade with carvedilol in patients with chronic heart failure.

Authors:  C W Yancy; M B Fowler; W S Colucci; E M Gilbert; M R Bristow; J N Cohn; M A Lukas; S T Young; M Packer
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  2001-05-03       Impact factor: 91.245

8.  Racial differences in the outcome of left ventricular dysfunction.

Authors:  D L Dries; D V Exner; B J Gersh; H A Cooper; P E Carson; M J Domanski
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  1999-02-25       Impact factor: 91.245

9.  Effect of bradykinin-receptor blockade on the response to angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor in normotensive and hypertensive subjects.

Authors:  J V Gainer; J D Morrow; A Loveland; D J King; N J Brown
Journal:  N Engl J Med       Date:  1998-10-29       Impact factor: 91.245

10.  Transforming growth factor-beta 1 hyperexpression in African-American hypertensives: A novel mediator of hypertension and/or target organ damage.

Authors:  M Suthanthiran; B Li; J O Song; R Ding; V K Sharma; J E Schwartz; P August
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2000-03-28       Impact factor: 11.205

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  4 in total

1.  Peripheral tissue oxygenation improves during ED treatment of acute heart failure.

Authors:  Christopher J Hogan; Kevin R Ward; Michael C Kontos; Leroy R Thacker; Roland Pittman
Journal:  Am J Emerg Med       Date:  2011-01-03       Impact factor: 2.469

2.  Clinical characteristics and echocardiographic features of black men vs. black women with systolic heart failure.

Authors:  Meriam F Caboral; John Feng; Judith E Mitchell
Journal:  J Natl Med Assoc       Date:  2005-03       Impact factor: 1.798

3.  Sublingual tissue perfusion improves during emergency treatment of acute decompensated heart failure.

Authors:  Christopher J Hogan; Kevin R Ward; Douglas S Franzen; Bipin Rajendran; Leroy R Thacker
Journal:  Am J Emerg Med       Date:  2011-08-25       Impact factor: 2.469

4.  Associations of race and ethnicity with anemia management among patients initiating renal replacement therapy.

Authors:  Steven D Weisbord; Linda F Fried; Maria K Mor; Abby L Resnick; Paul L Kimmel; Paul M Palevsky; Michael J Fine
Journal:  J Natl Med Assoc       Date:  2007-11       Impact factor: 1.798

  4 in total

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