black/obesity

Long-term promotion of physical activity is necessary to achieve obesity prevention. This represents a particular challenge for our intervention design, as few studies have demonstrated positive long-term physical activity promotion outcomes among Black women. We have demonstrated the utility of

BACKGROUND: Behavioral medicine surveys consistently find that obesity is a treatment-resistant disease that continues to be a significant health problem and that the incidence of obesity is much higher in Blacks relative to whites in general, and even higher in Black women relative to white women.

Obesity prevention among Black women is a major public health priority; presently, nearly 54% of the adult Black female population is obese. To date, most intervention attention has been focused on weight reduction among the overweight and obese. However, both conditions are notoriously recalcitrant

Despite broad awareness of the role that diet plays in increasing obesity risk, adherence to public health recommendations for maintaining healthy eating is low. Insights gained from weight loss intervention trials find that trial participants report difficulty in restricting calories,

BACKGROUND: This community-based study in three geographically distinct populations of West African heritage with contrasting levels of hypertension risk was one of the first comprehensive examinations of the genetics of hypertension in African Americans. The study focused on the renin-angiotensin

Overweight premenopausal Black and White women are randomized to either diet-only, diet+aerobic or diet+resistance exercise training. Diet/behavior intervention, with or without the aerobic or resistance exercise training, will be provided throughout the 18 months of study. Major outcomes will

OBJECTIVE: Prior research has documented racial differences in sleep health by occupational class. While increasing professional responsibility has been associated with shorter sleep duration among non-Hispanic Blacks, increasing professional responsibility appears to be associated with a lower

This study is designed to investigate in blacks the relationship of risk for diabetes and heart disease from obesity plasma glucose and triglyceride concentrations and the triglyceride related risk factors of small dense low density lipoprotein (LDL), high density lipoprotein (HDL) and central

BACKGROUND: The increased risk of hypertension in United States Blacks remains a major unsolved public health problem. Comparisons between macro-population groups in the United States suffer from confounding by social factors and genetic admixture. The study's international comparative design

OBJECTIVES: Primary - To estimate the effectiveness of a 24-week diet and physical activity intervention and a 1-year maintenance intervention designed to produce and maintain weight loss in obese black women. - To estimate the effect of these interventions on changes in fasting serum insulin,

BACKGROUND: Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated a greater prevalence of essential hypertension in Blacks with a disproportionately greater hypertension related mortality in Blacks. Similar vascular consequences occur with diabetes and obesity. These three diseases not only share a common

BACKGROUND: The Black population has age-specific all causes mortality rates among adults which are up to 3.5 times higher than for whites. There remains a pressing need to improve detection and treatment of coronary artery disease among Blacks in an attempt to reduce these unfavorable racial

A total of 256 students, ages 18-25, who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be recruited from Columbus State Community College (CSCC). A sample size of 256 subjects (n=128 per each trial arm) will have sufficient power (>80%) to detect an average between-group difference with a moderate

BACKGROUND: The high prevalence of obesity in African-American (AA) women is of public health importance since AA women suffer higher mortality from cardiovascular and renal diseases than do white women. The reason for their marked susceptibility to obesity remains poorly understood though it is now