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other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...
in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...
to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...
p. 12). Additionally, many blacks believe the principal cause of hypertension to be stress, "resulting from being black, experienc...
which will be used to answer the research questions and determine if the main hypothesis has been verified. The student researchin...
This paper describes hypertension and the threat it constitutes for African Americans. The writer then describes a project that pe...
and gender groups between 1999 and 2004, in African American women this incidence of hypertension increased by 14 percent (Taylor,...
documented that "total cholesterol levels were reduced in patients following the DASH diet by an average of 7.3 percent and LDL-C ...
management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...
anonymity and confidentiality. In any research that is expected to be effective, informative, and beneficial in any way it is impe...
of the African Americans, up until just before the Second World War, the United States was also apparently guilty of trying to eng...
and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...
This 25 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding CVD in African American patients. Bibliography lists ...
At the same time, it is also the case that Black women...
15 pages and 19 sources. This paper considers the importance of public health outreach for women who are pregnant, especially wom...
as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...
In 3 pages this paper discusses how women's involvement in the U.S. labor force was profoundly influenced by the role of African A...
insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...
American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...
a discussion and review of literature that focuses on hypertension (HTN) among minority ethnic groups, with a particular emphasis ...
This research paper pertains to a 40-year-old African American male who has hypertension. Ten pages in length, eight sources are c...
this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...
injustice of it all is recognized today but at the time preceding the civil war there was little sympathy for the black men, women...
5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...
In five pages the African American community is considered in terms of the incidences of child abuse in other cultural comparisons...
5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates the concept of cultural continuity as it can be applied to a view of the African Americ...
Kingdom - is still predominantly that of white male, with a low representation of ethnic minorities, including African Americans i...
for decades to be a disease of the insane, mental conditions like depression that intensify juvenile delinquency have finally been...
rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...
This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...