La Clínica del Pueblo: a model of collaboration between a private media broadcasting corporation and an academic medical center for health education for North Carolina Latinos.

La Clínica del Pueblo, a health education collaboration between the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Qué Pasa Media, Inc., disseminates culturally appropriate health information to the North Carolina (NC) Latino community. The program includes a weekly radio show and corresponding newspaper column addressing four areas: childhood health, adult health, safety, and utilization.

Racial/ethnic disparity and predictors of leisure-time physical activity among U.S. men.

Objectives: To examine racial/ethnic disparity in and predictors of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) among men.

Methods: We used the National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS) 1999-2000 data, a multistage probability sampling design producing a U.S.

Is there a racial difference in presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism?

Nearly 50,000 new cases of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) are diagnosed annually in the United States. Most information about the disease focuses on the white population. We evaluated African American (AA) and white patients at our tertiary care university medical center to determine whether there was a racial difference in presentation of PHPT.

Primary renal non-Hodgkins lymphoma presenting with acute renal failure.

Primary renal lymphoma (PRL) has been reported in medical literature. Its occurrence is rare and controversial, the kidney being an extranodal organ. We report a case of primary renal lymphoma presenting with acute-on-chronic renal failure and unilateral involvement of the left kidney without obstruction and with minimal peripheral organ involvement.

Hemostatic and inflammatory markers in obese youths: effects of exercise and adiposity.

Objectives: To determine the relation of hemostatic markers to cardiovascular fitness and adiposity and the effect of physical training (PT) on these markers.

Study Design: Seventy-four obese teenagers were randomly assigned to 8 months of lifestyle education (LSE), LSE plus moderate-intensity PT, or LSE plus high-intensity PT. Measures included fibrinogen, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), D-dimer, C-reactive protein (CRP), fitness, percent body fat (%BF), and visceral adiposity (VAT).

Cardiopulmonary responses to exercise in women with sickle cell anemia.

Multiple factors contribute to exercise intolerance in patients with sickle cell anemia, but little information exists regarding the safety of maximal cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) or the mechanisms of exercise limitation in these patients. The purpose of the present study was to examine these issues. Seventeen adult women with sickle cell anemia underwent symptom-limited maximal CPET using cycle ergometry and ramp protocols; blood gases and lactate concentrations were measured every 2 minutes.