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The genetics of benign neutropenia.

Smoking and prostate cancer. Research suggests that smoking makes prostate cancer worse.

Motivational enhancement therapy for African American substance users: a randomized clinical trial.

High platelet count as a link between renal cachexia and cardiovascular mortality in end-stage renal disease patients.

Local inflammatory markers and systemic endotoxin in aggressive periodontitis.

Strategies used and challenges faced by a breast cancer patient navigator in an urban underserved community.

Dental students' attitudes toward underserved populations across four years of dental school.

Differential associations of serum amyloid A and pentraxin-3 with allele-specific lipoprotein(a) levels in African Americans and Caucasians

Intramyocellular lipid and insulin resistance: differential relationships in European and African Americans.

Down cancer alley: the lived experience of health and environmental suffering in Louisiana's chemical corridor.

Holding up the oral health safety net: the role of National Health Service Corps alumni dentists in North Carolina.

Cystic fibrosis carrier testing in an ethnically diverse US population.

Prevalence rates of hypertension self-care activities among African Americans.

Ethnicity differences in plasma apoC-III levels between African American and Caucasian youths.

A more complete picture of higher cardiovascular disease prevalence among blacks compared to whites.

Treatment for lupus, first in 50 years, offers modest benefits, hope to patients.

Characterizing genetic risk at known prostate cancer susceptibility loci in African Americans.

The APOL1 gene and allograft survival after kidney transplantation.

Serum potassium and the racial disparity in diabetes risk: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.

Hospital racial composition: a neglected factor in cardiac arrest survival disparities.