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Floyd J. Malveaux
Researcher at Merck & Co.
Publications - 61
Citations - 5944
Floyd J. Malveaux is an academic researcher from Merck & Co.. The author has contributed to research in topics: Asthma & Health care. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 61 publications receiving 5778 citations. Previous affiliations of Floyd J. Malveaux include University of Washington & Howard University.
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The role of cockroach allergy and exposure to cockroach allergen in causing morbidity among inner-city children with asthma
David L. Rosenstreich,Peyton A. Eggleston,Meyer Kattan,Dean Baker,Raymond G. Slavin,Peter J. Gergen,Herman Mitchell,Kathleen Mcniff-Mortimer,Henry Lynn,Dennis R. Ownby,Floyd J. Malveaux +10 more
TL;DR: The combination of cockroach allergy and exposure to high levels of this allergen may help explain the frequency of asthma-related health problems in inner-city children.
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The role of cockroach allergy and exposure to cockroach allergen in causing morbidity among innercity children with asthma
David L. Rosenstreich,Peyton A. Eggleston,Meyer Kattan,Dean Baker,Raymond G. Slavin,Peter J. Gergen,Herman Mitchell,Kathleen Mcniff-Mortimer,Henry Lynn,Dennis Randall Ownby,Floyd J. Malveaux +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that children who were both allergic to cockroach and exposed to high levels of this allergen had 0.37 hospitalization a year, as compared with 0.11 for the other children (P=0.43) and 2.56 unscheduled medical visits for asthma per year.
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A genome-wide search for asthma susceptibility loci in ethnically diverse populations
David G. Marsh,Nancy E. Maestri,Linda R. Freidhoff,Kathleen C. Barnes,Alkis Togias,Eva Ehrlich,Terri H. Beaty,David L. Duffy,Richard R. Rosenthal,Farhad Imani,Georgia M. Dunston,Paulette Furbert-Harris,Floyd J. Malveaux,Carole Ober,Nancy J. Cox,Lucille A. Lester,Rhonda Peterson,Heidi Gidley,Anna Pluzhnikov,Jennifer L. Anderson,Julian Solway,Alan R. Leff,Raoul L. Wolf,Mark Wylam,Bradley Kurtz,Anthony Richardson,Rodney Parry,Malcolm N. Blumenthal,Richard A. King,William S. Oetting,Delores Drury,Andreas Rosenberg,Lisa R. Daniels,Charlene McEvoy,Jay Lou,Mark Hamra,Marcia J. Brott,Stephen S. Rich,Beverly J. Spray,James L. Weber,Bo Yuan,Zhenyuan Wang,Eugene R. Bleecker,PJ Amelung,Betsy Rechstiner,Deborah A. Meyers,Jonathan M. Samet,Denise Wiesch,Jianfeng Xu,Shirley Murphy,Susan Banks-Schlegel +50 more
TL;DR: A genome-wide search in 140 families with ≥2 asthmatic sibs, from three racial groups and report evidence for linkage to six novel regions, including 5p15 (P= 0.0008) and 17p11.1–q11.2 (/> = 0.0015) in African Americans and 11p15 and 19q13 (P =0.0013) in Caucasians and Hispanics.
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Characteristics of inner-city children with asthma: the National Cooperative Inner-City Asthma Study.
Meyer Kattan,Herman Mitchell,Peyton A. Eggleston,Peter J. Gergen,Ellen F. Crain,Susan Redline,Kevin B. Weiss,Richard Evans,Richard A. Kaslow,Carolyn M. Kercsmar,Frederick E. Leickly,Floyd J. Malveaux,H. James Wedner +12 more
TL;DR: The National Cooperative Inner‐City Asthma Study (NCICAS) is a multicenter study designed to determine factors that contribute to asthma morbidity in children in the inner cities.
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A randomized clinical trial to reduce asthma morbidity among inner-city children: results of the National Cooperative Inner-City Asthma Study.
Richard W. Evans,Peter J. Gergen,Herman Mitchell,Meyer Kattan,Carolyn M. Kercsmar,Ellen F. Crain,John Anderson,Peyton A. Eggleston,Floyd J. Malveaux,H. James Wedner +9 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that an individually tailored, multifaceted intervention carried out by Masters-level social workers trained in asthma management can reduce asthma symptoms among children in the inner city.