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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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5009.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 8:30 AM-9:30 AM | |||
Poster | |||
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| In this session the learner will hear about studies on chronic diseases, including a case-control study on colorectal cancer, a study on breast cancer among women in urban areas, and a county level analysis on prostate cancer. Racial disparities in chronic diseases will be addressed in several talks. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Discuss the effects of meat consumption and cooking methods on risk of colorectal cancer 2. Identify the associations between length of time in the U.S. and prevalence of chronic diseases and health behaviors in Asian immigrants. 3. Discuss the role of cigarette smoking on the etiology of renal cell carcinoma, and its effect modification with respect to agent orange. 4. Characterize African American women who live in areas with high risk for breast cancer, with regard to their demographic, psychosocial, cancer risk behavior profiles. 5. Describe characteristics of adults who had CJS 6. Describe the relationship between reproductive history and the risk of endometrial cancer. 7. Recognize the public health importance of investigating racial differences related to breast cancer risk among rural women in Georgia. 8. Discuss the racial differences in prostate cancer in the US | |||
| Prevalence of hypertension in rural Haitian women Cris MK Malino, MPH 2006, Trace S. Kershaw, PhD, Maria J. Small, MD, Rikerdy Frederic, MD | |||
| Smoking, agent orange, and renal cell carcinoma: A population-based case-control study René Arrazola, BSc, Ryan P. Theis, MA, MPH, Nabih R. Asal, PhD, FACE | |||
| Trends in the incidence of breast, cervical and ovarian cancer in Puerto Ricans and US Hispanics: A comparative study Ana Patricia Ortiz, MPH, PhD, Erick Suárez, MS, PhD, Graciela Nogueras, MPH | |||
| Health characteristics of Asian immigrant adults: Results from the 1998-2003 National Health Interview Survey Achintya Dey, MA, Jacqueline Lucas, MPH, Jeannine S. Schiller, MPH | |||
| Breast cancer epidemiology in high risk urban areas Lee Kallenbach, MPH, PhD, Rosalie F. Young, MA, PhD, John B. Waller, DrPH, Julie H. Young, MS | |||
| Psychosocial characteristics of asthmatic children and their primary caregivers in a South Carolina population Deborah Hurley, MSPH, Robert McKeown, PhD, Tim Aldrich, PhD, Eugene Feigley, PhD | |||
| Endometrial cancer and childbirth at older ages Maura K. Whiteman, PhD, Polly A. Marchbanks, PhD | |||
| Breast cancer screening in southeast Georgia: An epidemiologic profile of perceptual and behavioral factors affecting participation Anthony Parrillo, PhD, CHES, Stuart Tedders, PhD | |||
| Prostate cancer and segregation: A Black and White county-level analysis Chantal M. Montagnet, MA, MPhil, Mary Putt, PhD, ScD, Yu-Ning Wong, MD, Katrina Armstrong, MD | |||
| Obesity, diet and renal cell carcinoma: A population-based case-control study April Snyder, BSc, Cristina Barr, BSc, Nabih R. Asal, PhD, FACE | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Epidemiology | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA