Enhancing recruitment of healthy African American volunteers in a city with a small African American community: Results from a dietary supplement crossover trial

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 555-559

  Anderson, Cheryl A M ^a,d   Beresford, Shirley A A ^a,b   Lampe, Johanna ^b   Knopp, Robert H ^a   Motulsky, Arno G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c Departments of Medical Genetics   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Folic acid; Recruitment; Retention

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIGION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; WASHINGTON;

EID: 35348956917     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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