Graves disease in african americans

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Avatar f tn It is NOT true that interferon and ribavirin don't work for African Americans. It is true that African Americans don't respond as well and therefore they are treated more aggressively. It doesn't mean that the drugs won't work.
1711722 tn?1356487554 There was not a whole lot of information about African Americans and triple tx when I started, because the drugs were just approved. I did 6 months of triple with VIC and just found out I am still UND, one month later.
Avatar m tn This new study shows that the variation in therapy responsiveness between African Americans and Caucasian Americans can be partly explained by differences in viral response noted as early as one to two days after the first dose of peginterferon. The study, conducted by a collaborative group of eight medical centers throughout the United States, monitored 341 patients with chronic HCV, genotype 1, who underwent therapy with peginterferon and ribavirin for at least 24 weeks.
Avatar f tn Asians seem to be the most responsive, followed be Caucasians, then African Americans. What genotype are you? Did you treat with weight-based ribavirin? Welcome to the discussion group; hang around and get to know this disease if you like. A good place for further information is the site: http://janis7hepc.com/ Also take a look at this page from hivandhepatitis .com, which explores treatment response in the African American population: http://tinyurl.
Avatar m tn I ask because HIV risks are a lot higher in African Americans than in whites or Asians (with intermediate risks in Latinos and Native Americans).
Avatar n tn I have was diagnosed as having Graves Disease in 2002 and was given a pill to shrink my thyroid. So I have been taking Levoxl ever since. I tend to shed a lot and my hair on the sides and nap always seem to grow a little and then break off. I've been taking hair vitamins for over a year to promoe hair growth and strenghten my hair. But I'm not seeing satisfactory results. Is it my medicine or do I need to take a specific vitiamin to reverse the constant breaking of hair?
Avatar f tn Because the genotype leading to better response is in substantially greater frequency in European than African populations, this genetic polymorphism also explains approximately half of the difference in response rates between African-Americans and patients of European ancestry." This means if you take the IL28B test and your result is CC, your chances are actually better to SVR than a European who tests CT or TT. Welcome and Good Luck.
Avatar m tn A new, large study finds that African-Americans diagnosed with hepatitis C (HCV) respond better to treatment when the antiviral drug, ribavirin, is dosed based on weight rather than standardized. http://www.hepatitis-central.com/mt/archives/2004/12/weightbased_tre.
1815939 tn?1377991799 The deletion variant is more common in people of African ancestry, which helps partially explain why African-Americans have a lower response to current hepatitis C treatments than patients of Asian and European ancestry. "Our work fulfills several promises of the genomic era," said NCI's Thomas R. O'Brien, M.D., Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, DCEG. "One, a better understanding of biology; two, personalized medicine; and three, new potential treatments.
1999508 tn?1329500124 SVR rates among these patients were 88% and 94% in the respective arms, compared to 93% SVR rate in Caucasians. In the Advance trial, 26 subjects were Blacks/African Americans. The overall SVR rate was 62%. 31% of these achieved eRVR, and 89% of these achieved SVR. In the Realize trial, 4% of subjects were Black/African American and 63% of these patients achieved SVR as compared to a 65% SVR rate for Caucasians. http://pi.vrtx.com/files/uspi_telaprevir.
Avatar f tn Caucasians are more than twice as likely as African-Americans to get the disease. You would think that if the primary factor for developing MS was vitamin D deficiency due to lack of sun exposure you would expect that the rates of blacks with MS would be much greater than whites. It is claimed that whites only need about 15 mins of sun exposure 3 times per week to get sufficient vitamin D whereas black need more like 40 minutes/3 times per week.
Avatar n tn This disorder can affect people at any age and strikes men and women equally. It is rare in African Americans compared with Caucasians. I hope all goes well..I found this and thought it might help..
412873 tn?1329174455 People with a certain gene variant are far more likely to respond to treatment, and that variant is more common in people with European ancestry than African-Americans, researchers report. In fact, that probably explains about half the racial disparity in treatment response, the scientists estimate in a study published online Sunday by the journal Nature.
Avatar f tn populations more than others. Half of all hepatitis B infected persons in the U.S. are Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; African-Americans are twice as likely to be infected with hepatitis C when compared with the general population. To actively address these disparities and to accelerate our efforts to fight viral hepatitis, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) developed an Action Plan for the Prevention, Care and Treatment of Viral Hepatitis.
148588 tn?1465778809 Black leaders have condemned the Russian efforts in the 2016 election cycle that apparently sought to divide African-Americans both from whites and from each other, but nothing about those efforts is new. Russian and Soviet influence-mongers have spent decades pressing as hard as they can on the most painful areas of the American body politic, from the days of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to the current era of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Avatar f tn CDC: 1 in 3 Americans will have diabetes by 2050 If new cases develop as projected, rates could double or even triple over next 40 years. By Amanda Chan MyHealthNewsDaily updated 26 minutes ago 2010-10-22T19:51:03 In the United States, 1 in 3 people will have Type 2 diabetes by 2050 if current trends continue, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The projections, released today, are alarming to U.S.
Avatar m tn It seems that in the boceprevir trials african americans who achieved RVR were about the same as non-blacks, in the people that did not achieve rvr the difference was much greater. -Dave http://www.natap.org/2011/CROI/croi_126.
1310633 tn?1430224091 For example, in 2008 in North Carolina, Obama won the state by just over 14,000 votes -- helped, in part, by 95% of African-Americans there voting for him. Similar scenarios played out in other battleground states with high black populations, like Florida, Ohio and Virginia. That said, Shelton of the NAACP said he feels that Romney could "surely" capture more black votes if the candidate offers economic proposals that appeal to the community.
1530342 tn?1405016490 originally referred to the intentionally misleading words and actions that African-Americans would employ in order to deceive racist Euro-Americans in power, both during the period of slavery and afterwards." As Politico points out, this isn't the first time the phrase has come up and inspired controversy. Several years ago, Andrew Cuomo, then New York's Attorney General, used the expression while campaigning for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Avatar m tn Tendency to scar varies widely among people, and young people and African-Americans tend to scar more. Depending on the size and diagnosis, Mitomycin can be applied; this is a chemical used in some eye surgeries to try to reduce the scarring reaction. Ask your ophthalmologist about this.
Avatar n tn in the US, African Americans on average have higher HIV rates than people of other racial/ethnic origins. (The geographic relationship is true, i.e. higher HIV rates in inner cities and the southeast. But those relationships are partly because of where African Americans live.) Nevertheless, the vast majority of young, sexually active African Americans don't have HIV.
Avatar f tn "According to the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry, more than 95 percent of normal, healthy people have a TSH level below 2.5mU/L. Anyone with a higher level is likely to have underlying Hashimoto's thyroiditis or another thyroid disease which has not progressed to full blow hypothyroidism. This fact is backed up studing TSH levels in African Americans. This population has a very low incidence of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and has an average TSH level of 1.18mIU/L.
Avatar f tn I live in Washington dc area and its high HIV infection rate especially amongst young African Americans.. @nursegirl your right this disease can be preventable we need to just be more cautious and smart about the decisions we make.