"African Americans" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the black groups of Africa.
| Descriptor ID |
D001741
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.686.508.100.100 M01.686.754.100
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| Concept/Terms |
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "African Americans" by people in this website by year, and whether "African Americans" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 1995 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 1999 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2002 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2003 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2004 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2005 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2006 | 9 | 6 | 15 |
| 2007 | 8 | 11 | 19 |
| 2008 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2009 | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| 2010 | 4 | 12 | 16 |
| 2011 | 6 | 13 | 19 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
| 2013 | 10 | 9 | 19 |
| 2014 | 11 | 12 | 23 |
| 2015 | 4 | 24 | 28 |
| 2016 | 9 | 11 | 20 |
| 2017 | 9 | 19 | 28 |
| 2018 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| 2019 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| 2020 | 7 | 24 | 31 |
| 2021 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "African Americans" by people in Profiles.
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Association of Estimated GFR Calculated Using Race-Free Equations With Kidney Failure and Mortality by Black vs Non-Black Race. JAMA. 2022 06 21; 327(23):2306-2316.
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Association between Improved Colorectal Screening and Racial Disparities. N Engl J Med. 2022 02 24; 386(8):796-798.
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Health Disparities, Inequities, and Social Determinants of Health in Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders in the US: A Review. JAMA Neurol. 2021 12 01; 78(12):1515-1524.
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Effect of Values Affirmation on Reducing Racial Differences in Adherence to Hypertension Medication: The HYVALUE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 12 01; 4(12):e2139533.
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Association of Timing of School Desegregation in the United States With Late-Life Cognition in the Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans (STAR) Cohort. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 10 01; 4(10):e2129052.
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Stroke Belt birth state and late-life cognition in the Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans (STAR). Ann Epidemiol. 2021 12; 64:26-32.
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New and sex-specific migraine susceptibility loci identified from a multiethnic genome-wide meta-analysis. Commun Biol. 2021 07 22; 4(1):864.
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Racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in hospitalizations among persons with HIV in the United States and Canada, 2005-2015. AIDS. 2021 07 01; 35(8):1229-1239.
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Horizons and Group Motivational Enhancement Therapy: HIV Prevention for Alcohol-Using Young Black Women, a Randomized Experiment. Am J Prev Med. 2021 05; 60(5):629-638.
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Cigarette smoking behaviors and the importance of ethnicity and genetic ancestry. Transl Psychiatry. 2021 02 11; 11(1):120.