Publications 1998-99

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Cooper R, Osotimehin B, Kaufman J, Forrester T.  Disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa: What should we conclude in the absence of data?  Lancet 1998;351:208-210.

Liao Y, Cooper R, Cao G, Durazo-Arvizu R, Kaufman JS, Luke A, McGee DL. Mortality patterns among adult Hispanics: Findings from the NHIS, 1986-1990. Am J Publ Health 1998;88:223-226.

Kaufman JS, Long AE, Durazo-Arvizu RA, Liao Y, Cooper RS, McGee DL. Relationship between income, and mortality in US blacks and whites. Epidemiology 1998;9:147-155.

Cooper R, Rotimi C, Kaufman J, Muna W, Osotimehin B.  Hypertension treatment and control in sub-Saharan Africa: Defining the epidemiologic basis for policy. BMJ 1998;316.614-617.

Ordunez-Garcia P, Espinosa-Brito AD, Cooper RS, Kaufman J, Nieto FJ.  Hypertension in Cuba: Evidence of a narrow black-white difference. J Human Hypertension 1998;12:111-116.

Cooper R. Hypertension in the African diaspora: Genes and the environment.  Symposium Proceedings: Plain Talk about the Human Genome Project, Tuskeegee University 1997, pp 31-44.

Durazo-Arvizu R, McGee D, Cooper R, Liao Y, Luke A.  Mortality and optimal body mass index in a sample of the US population. Am J Epidemiol 1998;147:739-749.

Cooper R, Forrester T, Ogunbiyi O, Mufunda J.  Angiotensinogen levels and obesity in four population samples.  J Hypertension 1998;16:571-576.

 Ghali JK, Liao Y, Cooper RS. Influence of left ventricular geometric patterns on prognosis in patients with or without coronary artery disease.  JACC 1998;31:1635-40.

 Sempos CT, Durazo-Arvizu R, McGee DL, Cooper RS, Prewitt TE. The influence of cigarette smoking on the association between body weight and mortality. The Framingham Heart Study revisited. Ann Epidemiol. 1998;8:289-300.

Cooper R, Durazo-Arvizu R, Luke A, McGee D. A contrary view of the search for weight guidelines. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 1998;8:117-120.

Long AE, Prewitt TE, Kaufman JS, Rotimi CN, Cooper RS, McGee DL. Weight-height relationships among eight populations of West African origin: Are constant BMI standards appropriate? Int J Obesity 1998;22:842-846.

Lurbe E, Alvarez V, Liao Y, Tacons J, Cooper R, Cremades B, Redon J. The impact of obesity and body fat distribution on ambulatory blood pressure in children and adolescents. Am J Hypertension 1998;11:418-424.

Okosun I, Muna WFT, Cooper R.  International epidemiology of stroke in African populations outside the United States. In: Stroke in Blacks, PB Gorelick, ES Cooper and RF Gillum, Eds,  S. Karger, AG, 1998, pp 70-83.

Cooper RS. Geographic patterns of hypertension. In: LJ Izzo and H Black, Eds. AHA, 1998.

Okosun IS, Cooper RS. Rotimi CN, Osotimehin B, Forrester T. Association of waist circumference with risk of hypertension and NIDDM in Nigerians, Jamaicans and US blacks. Diabetes Care 1998;21:1836-1842.

Cooper RS, Kaufman JS. Race and hypertension: Science or nescience? Hypertension 1998;32:813-816.

Forrester T, Cooper RS, Weatherall D.  Emergence of western diseases in the tropical world: The experience with chronic cardiovascular diseases.  Brit Med Bull 1998;54:463-473.

Liao Y, McGee DL, Cooper RS. Issues in determining the state of Asian-American and Pacific Islander health.  Proceedings of Am Stat Assoc 1998;64-68.

Luke A, Long A, Cooper RS, Rotimi C, Forrester T, Wilks R, Bennett F, Ogunbiyi O. Leptin and body composition among Nigerians, Jamaicans and US Blacks. Am J Clin Nutr .1998;67:391-6.

McGee DL, Liao Y, Cao G, Cooper RS. Self-reported health status and mortality in a multi-ethnic cohort. Am J Epidemiol.1999;149:41-46

Cooper RS, Rotimi CN, Ward R. The puzzle of hypertension in African Americans. Sci American. 1999; 280, # 2:56-63.

Rotimi CN, Comuzzie AG, Lowe WL, Luke A, Blangero J, Cooper RS.  The quantitative trait locus on chromosome 2 for serum leptin levels is confirmed in African Americans. Diabetes 1999;18:643-644.

Rotimi CN, Cooper RS, Cao G, Ogunbiyi O, Ladipo M, Owoaje E, Ward R.  Maximum-likelihood generalized heritability estimate for blood pressure in Nigerian families. Hypertension 1999;33:874-878.

Liao Y, McGee DL, Cao G, Cooper RS.  Socioeconomic status and morbidity in the last years of life. Am J Public Health 1999;89:569-572.

Kaufman J, Rotimi C, Cooper R.  Blood pressure change in Africa.  A case study from Nigeria. Human Biology 1999;71:641-657.

Parra E, Marcini A, Akey J, Martinson J, Batzer M, Cooper R, Forrester T, Allison DB, Deka R, Ferrell RE, Shriver MD.  Estimating African-American admixture proportions by use of population-specific alleles. Am J Hum Genetics 1998;63:1839-1851.

Cooper RS. What is the role of genetic and environmental factors in cardiovascular disease in African Americans?  Am J Med Sci 1999;317:208-213.

Liao Y, McGee DL, Cooper RS, Sutkowski MB. How generalizable are coronary risk prediction models?  Comparison of Framingham and two national cohorts. Am Heart J 1999;137:837-845.

Okosun IS, Cooper RS, Prewitt TE.  Association of waist circumference with ApoB to ApoAI ratio in black and white Americans. Int J Obesity 1999;23:498-504.

Liao Y, McGee DL, Cao G, Cooper RS. Black-white differences in disability and morbidity in the last years of life.  Am J Epidemiol 1999;149:P1097-1103.

Halushka M, Fan J-B, Bentley K, Hsie L, Weder A, Cooper RS, Lipshutz R, Chakravarti A.  Patterns of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in candidate genes for blood pressure homeostasis. Nat Genetics 1999;22:239-247

Okosun IS, Prewitt TE, Cooper RS.  Abdominal obesity in the United States: prevalence and attributable risk of hypertension. J Human Hypertension 1999;13:425-430.

Okosun IS, Cooper RS, Prewitt TE, Rotimi CN.  The relation of central adiposity to components of the insulin resistance syndrome in a biracial US population sample.  Ethn Dis 1999;9:218-229.

Rotimi CN, Cooper RS, Okosun IS, Olatubosun ST, Bella AF, Wilks R, Bennett F, Cruickshank JK, Forrester T. Prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in Nigerians, Jamaicans, and U.S. blacks.  Ethn Dis 1999;9:190-200.

Chung WK, Luke A, Cooper RS, Vidal-Puig A, Rosenbaum, Gordon D, Leal SM, Caprio S, Goldsmith R, Andreu AL, Bruno C, DiMauro S, Heo M, Lowe WL, Lowell BB, Allison DB, Leibel RL. The long isoform uncoupling protein-3 in human energy homeostatsis. Int J Obesity 1999;6:S49-50.

Kaufman J, Cooper RS. Seeking causal explanations in social epidemiology. Am J Epidemiol 1999;150:113-120.

Liao Y, McGee DL, Cooper RS. Prediction of coronary heart disease mortality in blacks and whites - Pooled data from two national cohorts. Am J Cardiol 1999;84:31-36. 

Cooper RS, Kaufman JS. Is there an absence of theory in social epidemiology?  Am J Epidemiol 1999;150:127-128.

Cooper RS, Freeman VL.  Limitations in the use of race in the study of disease causation. J Nat Med Assoc. 1999:91:379-383.

Okosun IS, Forrester TE, Rotimi CN, Osotimehin BO, Muna W, Cooper RS.  Abdominal obesity in six populations of West African descent: Prevalence and population attributable fraction of hypertension. Obesity Res. 1999:7:453-462.

Rotimi C, Okosun I, Johnson L, Owoaje E, Lawoyin T, Asuzu M, Kaufman J, Adeyemo A, Cooper R.  The distribution and mortality impact of chronic energy deficiency among adult Nigerian men and women.  Euro J Clin Nutr 1999;53:734-739.

Chung WK, Luke A, Cooper RS, Rotimi C, Vidal-Puig A, Rosenbaum M, Chua M, Solanes G, Zheng M, Zhao M, Zhao L, LeDuc C, Eisberg A, Chu F, Murphy E, Schreir M, Rotimi CN Aronne L, Caprio S, Kahle B, Flier JS, Gordon D, Leal S, Goldsmith R, Andreu AL, Bruno C, DiMauro S, Heo M, Lowe WL, Lowell BB, Allison DB, Reibel RL. Genetic and physiologic analysis of the role of UCP3 in human energy homeostasis. Diabetes 1999;48:1890-1895.

Wilks R, Rotimi C, Bennett F, MacFarlane-Anderson N, Kaufman JS, Anderson SG, Cooper RS, Cruickshank JK,  Forrester T. Diabetes in Caribbean: results of a population survey from Spanish Town, Jamaica. Diabet Med 1999:16:875-83.

Liao Y, McGee DL, Cooper RS. Mortality among U.S. adult Asians and Pacific Islanders: Findings from the National Health Interview Surveys and the National Longitudinal Morality Study.  Ethnicity Dis. 1999;9:423-433.

The BMI in Diverse Populations Collaborative Group.  The effect of smoking on the BMI-mortality relationship. Empirical evidence from 15 studies. Am J Epidemiol. 1999:150:1297-1308

Guo X, Rotimi C, Cooper R, Luke A, Elston R, Ward R, Ogunbiyi O.  Evidence of a major gene effect for angiotensinogen among Nigerians. Ann Human Genetics 1999;63:293-300.