• THE EFFECTS OF FEMALE SEX HORMONES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARA-OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO AGRICULTURAL WORK AND URINARY BLADDER CANCER AMONG EGYPTIAN WOMEN 

  James, India C (2018)

  Well-established risk factors such as tobacco smoke, occupational exposure, and Schistosoma haematobium infections do not fully explain the lower risk of bladder cancer for women compared to men. Recently, an association ...

• THE SYNDEMIC EFFECT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL AND STRUCTURAL FACTORS ON HIV TESTING AMONG BLACK MEN AND THE MODERATING EFFECT OF SEXUAL IDENTITY 

  Turpin, Rodman Emory (2018)

  Black populations experience the highest incidence and prevalence of HIV in the United States. It has been posited that numerous structural and psychosocial factors contribute to HIV disparities among Black populations, ...

• THE IMPACT OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS 

  Wilkerson, Thomas G. (2017)

  Cardiovascular disease (CVD) tends to be more prevalent in individuals older than 18 years of age with serious mental illness (SMI) and CVD is the leading cause of death of African Americans in the United States. Socioeconomic ...

• The Health Implications of Stress among Asian Americans in the US and Chinese In China: the Effects of Perceived Stress and Caregiving Stress on Cardiovascular Risk Factors 

  Lu, Xiaoxiao (2018)

  Prior research suggests that stress plays a role in the etiology and progression of cardiovascular disease (CVD). To lend a more accurate depiction of the associations between stress and CVD risk factors, this dissertation ...

• ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN AMBIENT PARTICULATE MATTER EXPOSURES, STROKE, AND MARKERS OF CARDIOVASCULAR INFLAMMATION 

  Fisher, Jared A. (2017)

  Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States with 795,000 people experiencing a new or recurrent stroke every year. Identifying modifiable risk factors for stroke should therefore be considered ...

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