Barbara V. Howard

TL;DR: A subset of 2264 participants with complete renal function data from Strong Heart Exams 1, 2, and 3 was used to examine the performance of five methods used to impute missing data: listwise deletion, mean of serial measures, adjacent value, multiple imputation, and pattern-mixture.

TL;DR: The stroke risk prediction models provide a mechanism for stroke risk assessment designed for American Indians and may be also useful to other populations with high prevalence of obesity and/or diabetes for screening individuals for risk of incident stroke and designing prevention programs.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors evaluated associations of 4 ceramide and 4 sphingomyelin species with incident CVD in a longitudinal population-based study among American Indians with diabetes.

TL;DR: Application of echocardiography to non-diabetic SHS participants reveals that LV chamber and arterial size are larger in ND/SD Indians and that LV wall thicknesses and mass are higher and LV myocardial contractility lower in Arizona Indians, possibly contributing to the higher than expected rates of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among Indians in Arizona.

TL;DR: Dietary intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids significantly modifies the effect of a leukotriene haplotype on carotid artery hypertrophy but not atherosclerosis in American Indians, independent of established cardiovascular risk factors.