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The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with fatigue in African American women with end stage renal disease. Twenty-seven of 36 women in the sample were fatigued. Correlations were found with mood disorder and fatigue (p < .001), social support and uremic malnutrition (p = .003),
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Iron overload unexplained by dietary or medicinal iron excess, transfusion, or sideroblastic anemia has been described infrequently in Americans of African descent. The purpose of this study was to characterize iron overload attributable to excessive iron absorption in African
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To document the pattern of presenting clinical and haematological features of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) in central Africans and evaluate the clinical consequences of treating the disease with chemotherapy.
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Prospective descriptive analysis of clinical and haematological
Advances have occurred in breast cancer survivorship but, for many African-American women, challenges and gaps in relevant information remain. This article identifies opportunities to address disparities in breast cancer survival and quality of life, and thereby to increase breast cancer
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Few studies have examined health behavior interventions for African American women who are uterine cancer survivors. Black-white differences in uterine cancer survival suggest that there are unmet needs among these survivors.
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This article identifies opportunities to address
Ten unselected African patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and with slim disease were evaluated using physical examination, anthropometric measurements, Karnovsky performance score, and muscle biopsy. All had marked weight loss (36.8 +/- 10.8%) with extreme fatigue, marked
Nine African and eight Caucasian 10-km runners resident at sea level volunteered. Maximal O2 consumption and peak treadmill velocity (PTV) were measured by using a progressive test, and fatigue resistance [time to fatigue (TTF)] was measured by using a newly developed high-intensity running test: 5
Objectives: To compare patient reported outcomes in Blacks/African Americans with Whites participating in IBD Partners Kids & Teens, in order to identify possible racial health care disparities in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease
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Accurately assessing depression in African American cancer patients is difficult because of the similarities of physical symptoms observed in cancer and depression.
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To identify universal and distinctive depressive symptoms in African American cancer
Fatigue is the most common side effect experienced by women undergoing treatment for breast cancer. The fatigue experience of African American (AA) women who undergo breast cancer treatment has been understudied. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory study is to share stories of 10 AA women
Oculoleptomeningeal amyloidosis is a rare manifestation of hereditary transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis. Here, we present the first case of leptomeningeal amyloidosis associated with the TTR variant Leu12Pro mutation in an African patient. A 43-year-old right-handed Nigerian man was referred to our
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The objective of this study was to describe the perspectives and experiences of South African nurses caring for patients receiving palliative chemotherapy.
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A qualitative descriptive design was used and purposive sampling allowed us to select 11 nurses practising in a private
Tick bite fever (TBF) and Q fever are zoonotic infections, highly prevalent in southern Africa, which are caused by different genera of obligate intracellular bacteria. While TBF was first described nearly 100 years ago, it has only recently been discovered that there are several rickettsial species
Sedentary behavior is a major public health problem for African American women. A qualitative study used focus groups to explore African American women's experiences with physical activity in their daily lives. Women aged 35-50 were recruited to participate in the focus groups. Transcripts from the
A 30-year-old African woman in Kenya succumbed to severe swollen regional lymph nodes, development of painful boils and ulcer formation and rashes at specific tick-biting sites together with an intermittent fever and headache following repeated tick bites of Rhipicephalus pulchellus. She later