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Healthcare Disparities Report - September 2004

Center for Supported Research Articles:

2005

Baquet CR, Commiskey P, Mack K, Meltzer S, Mishra SI: "Esophageal cancer epidemiology in blacks and whites: racial and gender disparities in incidence, mortality, survival rates and histology. Journal of the National Medical Association, 2005; 97(11): 1471-1478. PUBMID 16334494

Baquet CR, Mishra SI, Commiskey P, Ellison G. "Regional and racial differences in cancer screening practices in Maryland" Journal of the Association for Academic Minority Physicians, 2005; 16:19-27.

Brooks SE, Gordon NJ, Guo C, Moses G, Khanna N, Goloubeva OG, Mishra SI: “Utilization of telephone lay counselors to improve health communication in urban colposcopy clinic: a feasibility study.” Journal of the Association for Academic Minority Physicians, 2005; 16: 40-45.

Dogra N, Carter-Pokras O: “Stakeholder views regarding cultural diversity teaching outcomes; a qualitative study.” BMC Med Educ. 2005 Nov 1; 5:37. Available at: http://biomedcentral .com/1472-6920/5/37

Jones-Burton C, Brown J, Miranda M, Passmore SP, Royah-Schaler R, Fink JC: “Awareness of the association between smoking and kidney disease among African Americans.” Journal of the Association for Academic Minority Physicians 2005; 16(1): 15-20.

Jones-Burton C, Seliger SL, Brown J, Stackiewicz L, Dorne Hsu V, Fink JC. “Racial variations in erythro-poietic response to epoetin alfa in chronic kidney disease and the impact of smoking”. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2005 Dec; 20(12): 2739-45. PUBMID 16188897

Mishra SI, Jones-Burton C, Fink JC, Brown J, Bakris GL, Weir MR. “Does dietary salt increase the risk for progression of kidney disease?” Curr Hypertension Rep. 2005 Oct; 7(5): 385-91. PUBMID 1216157084

Mullins CD, Blatt L, Gbarayor CM, Yang H-W-K, Baquet CR. "Health Disparities: A Barrier to High Quality Care". American Journal Health - Syst Pharm 2005; 62 Sept 15: 1873-1882. PUBMID 16141106

2006

Baquet CR, Mishra SI, Commiskey P, Khanna N. "Clinical trials: a strategy for improving health and reducing health disparities". Maryland Family Doctor, Winter 2006: 9-12.

Baquet CR, Commiskey P, Mullins CD, Mishra SI. "Recruitment and Participation in Clinical Trials: Socio-demographic, rural, urban and healthcare access predictors.” Cancer Detection Prev. 2006; 30(1): 24-33. PUBMID 16495020

Jones-Burton C, Mishra SI, Fink JC, Brown J, Gossa W, Bakris GL, Weir MR: “An In-Depth Review of Evidence Linking Dietary Salt Intake and the Progress of Chronic Kidney Disease.” American Journal of Nephrology 2006 June 9; 26(3): 268-275. PUBMID 16763384

Kelly DL, Dixon L, Kreyenbuhl J, Medoff D, Lehman AF, Love RC, Brown C, Conley RR: “Clozapine Utilization and Outcomes by Race in a Public Mental Health System”, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Sept., 2006; 67 (9) 1404-11.

Khanna AK, Mehra MR. “Targeted in vitro and in vivo gene transfer into T lymphocytes: potential of direct inhibition of allo-immune activation. BMC Immunology 2006; Nov., 10; 7:26-33.

Mullins CD, Pradel FG, Meng F, Blatt L, Bartlett ST: “Relative Costs of Transplantation versus Dialysis.” Journal of the Association for Academic Minority Physicians 2006.

2007

Khanna N, Mishra S, Tian G, Tan M, Arnold S, Lee C, Ramachandran S. “Human papillomavirus detection in self-collected vaginal speciments and matched clinican-collected cervical specimens” International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, 2007 17(3) 615-22.

Khanna AK, Pieper GM. “NADPH oxidase subunits (NOX-1, p22phox, Rac-1) and tacrolimus-induced nephrotoxicity in a rat renal transplant model”. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2007; Feb., 22(2): 376-85.

Onukwugha E, Mullins CD. “Racial Disparities in Hospital Discharge Disposition Among Stroke Patients in Maryland”. Medical Decision Making 2007; 27(3): 233-42.

Wang J, Zuckerman IH, Miller NA, Shaya FT, Noel JM, Mullins CD. “Utilizing New Prescription Drugs: Disparities among Non-Hispanic Whites, Non-Hispanic Blacks, and Hispanic Whites. Health Services Research 2007; 42(4): 1499-519.

2008

Kreyenbuhl, J, Medoff, DR, Seliger, SL, Dixon, L.B.: “Use of Medications to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk among Individuals with Psychotic Disorders and Type 2 Diabetes:”, Schizophrenia Research, 2008.

Manuscript(s) in Progress

Khanna AK, Jianping X, Uber P, Baquet C, Mandeep M, “The Interaction of Nicotine and Immunosuppression on proximal tubular epithelial cell Viability: Growth Inhibition, Tissue Repair and Oxidative Stress Gene Expression. Manuscript in
Preparation.