 West Indies
"West Indies" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Islands lying between southeastern North America and northern South America, enclosing the Caribbean Sea. They comprise the Greater Antilles (CUBA; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; HAITI; JAMAICA; and PUERTO RICO), the Lesser Antilles (ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA and the other Leeward Islands, BARBADOS; MARTINIQUE and the other Windward Islands, NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES, BRITISH VIRGINI ISLANDS, and the islands north of Venezuela which include TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO), and the BAHAMAS. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1330)
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D014900
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Z01.107.084.900 Z01.639.880
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Seydafkan S, Michl J, Pincus MR. Unique Features of Prostate Cancer in African American and West Indian Patients Including Diagnosis of High Grade Cancers Using Only Elevated Serum Levels of Prostate Specific Antigen. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2020 Jul; 50(4):504-511.
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Tilves C, Zmuda JM, Kuipers AL, Carr JJ, Terry JG, Wheeler V, Peddada SD, Nair S, Miljkovic I. Associations of Thigh and Abdominal Adipose Tissue Radiodensity with Glucose and Insulin in Nondiabetic African-Ancestry Men. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 02; 28(2):404-411.
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Hotez PJ, Bottazzi ME, Franco-Paredes C, Ault SK, Periago MR. The neglected tropical diseases of Latin America and the Caribbean: a review of disease burden and distribution and a roadmap for control and elimination. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 Sep 24; 2(9):e300.
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Rieder J, Santoro N, Cohen HW, Marantz P, Coupey SM. Body shape and size and insulin resistance as early clinical predictors of hyperandrogenic anovulation in ethnic minority adolescent girls. J Adolesc Health. 2008 Aug; 43(2):115-24.
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Wilson WD, Johnson PT, Sutherland DR, Mon? H, Loker ES. A molecular phylogenetic study of the genus Ribeiroia (Digenea): trematodes known to cause limb malformations in amphibians. J Parasitol. 2005 Oct; 91(5):1040-5.
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Barnes KC, Neely JD, Duffy DL, Freidhoff LR, Breazeale DR, Schou C, Naidu RP, Levett PN, Renault B, Kucherlapati R, Iozzino S, Ehrlich E, Beaty TH, Marsh DG. Linkage of asthma and total serum IgE concentration to markers on chromosome 12q: evidence from Afro-Caribbean and Caucasian populations. Genomics. 1996 Oct 01; 37(1):41-50.
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Gallo RC, Kalyanaraman VS, Sarngadharan MG, Sliski A, Vonderheid EC, Maeda M, Nakao Y, Yamada K, Ito Y, Gutensohn N, Murphy S, Bunn PA, Catovsky D, Greaves MF, Blayney DW, Blattner W, Jarrett WF, zur Hausen H, Seligmann M, Brouet JC, Haynes BF, Jegasothy BV, Jaffe E, Cossman J, Broder S, Fisher RI, Golde DW, Robert-Guroff M. Association of the human type C retrovirus with a subset of adult T-cell cancers. Cancer Res. 1983 Aug; 43(8):3892-9.
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