Publications 2000-01

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Liao Y, McGee DL, Cao G, Cooper RS. Quality of the last year of life of older adults: 1986-1994. JAMA. 2000;283:512-516.

Redon J, Chaves FJ, Liao Y, Pascual JM, Rovira E, Armengod ME, Cooper RS.  Influence of the I/D polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene on the outcome of microalbuminuria in essential hypertension. Hypertension 2000;35(No.1, Part 2):490-495.

Mufunda J, Scott LJ, Chifamba J, Matenga, Sparks B, Cooper R, Sparks H.  Correlates of blood pressure in an urban Zimbabwean population and comparison to other populations of African origin.  J Human Hypertension 2000;14:65-73.

Olatunbosun ST, Kaufman JS, Cooper RS, Bella AF.  Prevalence of hypertension and related biosocial risk factors in a group of urban blacks. J Human Hypertens 2000;14:249-258.

Liao Y, McGee DL, Cooper RS. Alcohol and mortality: Findings from the National Health Interview Surveys (1998 and 1990). Am J Epidemiol 2000;151:651-659.

Okosun IS, Halback SM, Cooper RS. Ethnic differences in the rates of low birth weight attributable to differences in early motherhood.  A study from the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey. J Perinatology .2000;2:105-109.

Stamler J, Appel L, Cooper R, Denton D, Dyer AR, Elliott, P, Greenland P, Kesteloot H, Kumanyika S, Liu K, Marmot M, Van Horn L, Whelton P. Dietary sodium chloride (salt), other dietary components and blood pressure - paradigm expansion, not paradigm shift. Acta Cardiologia. 2000:55:73-78.

Okosun IA, Liao Y, Rotimi CN, Cooper RS. Predictive value of waist circumference for dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes and hypertension in overweight white, black and Hispanic American adults. J Clin Epidemiol. 2000;53:401-408.    

Okosun IS, Rotimi CN, Forrester TE, Fraser H, Osotimehin B, Muna WF, Cooper RS. Predictive value of abdominal obesity cut-off points for hypertension in blacks from West African and Caribbean island nations.  Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2000;24:180-186.

Cooper RS, Guo X, Rotimi CR, Luke A, Ward R, Adeyemo A, Danilov S.  Heritability of angiotensinogen and ACE: A comparison of Nigerian and African-American family sets. Hypertension 2000;35:1141-1147.

Colilla S, Rotimi C, Cooper RS, Goldberg J, Cox N.  The genetic inheritance of body mass index in African-American and African families. Genetic Epidemiol 2000;18:360-376.

Province MA, Boerwinkle E, Chakravarti A, Cooper R, Fornage M, Leppert M,  Risch N, K Ranade. Lack of association of the angiotensinogen -6 polymorphism with blood pressure levels in the comprehensive NHLBI Family Blood Pressure Program. J Hypertension. 2000;18:867-875.

Okosun IS, Liao Y, Rotimi CN, Dever GE, Cooper RS. Impact of birth weight on ethnic variations in subcutaneous and central adiposity in American children ages 5-11.  A study from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Int J Obesity Relat Metab Disord 2000;24:479-484.

Schork NJ, Chakravarti A, Thiel B, Fornage M, Jacob HJ, Cai R, Rotimi CN, Cooper RS, Weder AB. Lack of association between a bi-allelic polymorphism in the adducin gene and blood pressure in Caucasians and African Americans.  Am J Hypertension 2000;13:693-698.

Okosun IS, Liao Y, Rotimi CN, Prewitt TE, Cooper RS. Abdominal adiposity and clustering of multiple metabolic syndrome in white, black and Hispanic Americans.  Ann Epidemiol 2000;10:263-270.

Luke A, Rotimi CN, Adeyemo A, Durazo-Arvizu R, Prewitt E, Moragne-Kayser L, Harders R, Cooper RS. Comparability of resting energy expenditure in Nigerians and US blacks. Obesity Res 2000;8:351-359.

Zhu X, McKenzie C, Forrester T, Nickerson DA, Cooper RS, Rieder MJ. Localization of a small genomic region associated with elevated ACE. Am J Hum Genetics 2000;67:1144-1153.

Asuzu M, Johnson OO, Owoaje ET, Kaufman JS, Rotimi C, Cooper RS. The Idikan adult mortality study. Afr J Med Sci 2001;29:1150118.

Escary J-L, Bottius E, Prince N, Reyes C, Fiawoumo Y, Caloustian C, Bruls T, Fujiyama A, Cooper RS, Adeyemmo AA, Lathrop GM, Weissenbach J, Gyapay G, Foglio M, Beckmann JS. A first high density map of 981 biallelic markers on human chromosome 14. Genomics.2000;70:153-164.

Cooper R, Cutler J, Desvigne-Nickens P, Fortmann S, Friedman L, Havlik R, Hogelin G, Manolio T, Marler J, McGovern P, Morosco G, Mosca L,  Pearson T, Stamler J, Stryer D, Thom T. Trends and disparities in coronary heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases in the United States: Findings of the National Conference on CVD Prevention. Circulation 2001;102:3137-3147.

Cooper RS, Zhu X. Racial differences and the genetics of hypertension. Curr Hypertens Rep. 2001;3:19-24.

Zhu X, Elston RC, Cooper RS. Testing quantitative traits for association and linkage in the presence or absence of parental data. Human Heredity. 2001;51:183-191.

Freeman V, Liao Y, Cooper R.  Height and the risk of fatal prostate cancer: Findings from the National Interview Survey (1986 to 1994). Ann Epidemiology. 2001;11:22-27.

Hu YJ, Korotkov KV, Mehta R Das Gupta TK, Hatfield Dl, Rotimi C, Luke A, Prewitt TE, Cooper RS, Stock W, Vokes EE, Dolan ME, Gladyshev VN, Diamond AM. Ethnic distribution and functional consequences of nucleotide polymorphisms in the 3'-untranslated region of the human 15 kDa selenoproteinn gene. Cancer Res 2001;61:2307-2310.                         

Lowe W, Rotimi C, Luke A, Guo X, Zhu X, Commuzie AG, Schuh TS, Halbach S, Kotlar TJ, Cooper RS. The beta-3 adrenergic receptor gene and obesity in a population sample of African Americans.  Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2001;25:54-60.

Zhu X, Bouzekri N, Southam L, Cooper RS, Adeyemo A, McKenzie CA, Luke A, Chen G, Elston RC, Ward R.  Linkage and association analysis of angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphisms with ACE concentration and blood pressure. Am J Hum Genetics 2001;68:1139-1148.

Grundy SM, Becker D, Clark LT, Cooper RS. Denke MA. Howard WJ, Hunninghake DB, Illingworth DR, Luepker RV, McBride P, McKenney JM, Pasternak RC, Stone NJ, Van Horn L. Executive summary of the third report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III). JAMA 2001;285:2486-2497.

Liao Y, McGee DL, Cao G, Cooper RS. Recent changes in the health status of the U.S. elderly population- Findings from the 1984 and 1994 SOA.  J Amer Geriatrics Soc 2001;49:443-449.

Luke A, Cooper RS, Forrester T, Adeyemo A, Prewitt E. The nutritional consequences of the African diaspora.  Ann Rev Nutrition 2001;21:47-71. 

Luke A, Guo X, Zhu X, Rotimi C, Adeyemo A, Wilks R, Forrester T, Lowe W, Comuzzie A, Martin LJ, Cooper R. Heritability of obesity-related traits among Nigerians, Jamaicans, and US blacks. Int J Obesity. 2001;25:1034-1041.