James R Bindon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 78601 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James R Bindon |
| NOMBRES | James R |
| APELLIDO | Bindon |
| FIRMA | BINDON J R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alabama |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 146 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Ambulatory blood pressure and blood lipids in a multiethnic sample of healthy adults
OBJECTIVES: Elevated blood pressure (BP), elevated serum cholesterol, and aberrant lipoprotein fractions (low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and high levels of low-density lipoprotein fractions and triglycerides) have all been used as measures that assess the "metabolic syndrome" and more recently in indexes of allostatic load, which are designed to assess the degree of integrated metabolic pathology. While there are ample data regardin…
Blood pressure and lifestyle on Saba, Netherlands Antilles
During the 20th century, infectious disease morbidity and mortality generally waned whereas chronic degenerative diseases posed a growing burden at the global level. The population on Saba, Netherlands Antilles has recently experienced such an epidemiologic transition, and hypertension was reported to be extraordinarily high, although no prevalences have been reported and relationships with lifestyle factors associated with rapid modernization ha…
Household economic strategies and nutritional anthropometry of women in American Samoa and highland Bolivia
The Health Consequences of Cultural Consonance
Cultural dimensions of health and behavior have been difficult to study because of limited theoretical and methodological models linking the cultural, the individual, and the biological. We employ a cognitive theory of culture to understand culture and health in an African American community in the southern United States. First, cultural consensus analysis is used to test for shared cultural models of lifestyles and social supports within the com…
John Henryism, Gender, and Arterial Blood Pressure in an African American Community
OBJECTIVE: To examine the interaction between gender and John Henryism in relationship to arterial blood pressure in an African American community in the Southern United States. It was hypothesized that, within this specific social and cultural context, John Henryism would be associated with blood pressure differently for men and women. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of 600 persons, aged 25 to 65, was conducted in the African American communit…
Bergmann's rule and the thrifty genotype
One of Roberts' key contributions was his work demonstrating the applicability of several ecological rules to human populations (Roberts [1953] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 11:533-558; [1978] Climate and Human Variability, 2nd ed., Menlo Park, CA: Cummings). His finding that average body weight systematically covaries with mean annual temperature was widely taken as confirmation of Bergmann's rule for humans. More recently his findings on weight and t…
Social status, social context, and arterial blood pressure
As social change and economic development have proceeded, the prevalence of chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, has increased in the developing world. In part this is due to the adoption of diets and other health behaviors characteristic of industrialized nations; in part it is a function of changing social and economic circumstances. In this paper, we describe the development and testing of a model designed to account for socia…
Bergmann's rule and the thrifty genotype
One of Roberts' key contributions was his work demonstrating the applicability of several ecological rules to human populations (Roberts [1953] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 11:533–558; [1978] Climate and Human Variability, 2nd ed., Menlo Park, CA: Cummings). His finding that average body weight systematically covaries with mean annual temperature was widely taken as confirmation of Bergmann's rule for humans. More recently his findings on weight and t…
Social status, social context, and arterial blood pressure
As social change and economic development have proceeded, the prevalence of chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, has increased in the developing world. In part this is due to the adoption of diets and other health behaviors characteristics of industrialized nations; in part it is a function of changing social and economic circumstances. In this paper, we describe the development and testing of a model designed to account for soci…
Social context and psychosocial influences on blood pressure among American Samoans
This study explores social and explores social and economic influences on health within a model formulated to address explicitly both individual and household level phenomena. Dressler's lifestyle incongruity model is used as a basis from which to predict the effects of intracultural contexts of variability on blood pressure. The sample for this survey consists of 134 Samoan men and women living in American Samoa. Based on previous experience and…
Sociocultural and behavioral influences on health status among the Mississippi Choctaw
Native American populations in North America are at increased risk of a variety of health problems, including (but not limited to) diabetes. This risk is presumed to be a result of the interaction of environmental influences with a population genetic susceptibility. Anthropologists have subsumed those environmental influences under the term "acculturation." Here, we break that broad concept into physical, behavioral, and sociocultural components …
Apolipoprotein polymorphisms and phenotypic variability in American Samoans
Human apolipoprotein genetic variation is associated with phenotypic variability in body habitus and in lipid and glucose metabolism, interrelated aspects of human physiology. In this study, structural variation at the apolipoprotein E and H loci, documented for 67 residents of American Samoa, was investigated for associations with body habitus, plasma glucose, glycated hemoglobin, pulse rate, and blood pressure. Compared to men with the common A…
Changes in some health status characteristics of American Samoan men
One of the concomitants of the rapid socioeconomic and medical changes which occurred in American Samoa beginning with World War II has been an increase in chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease and diabetes. As part of the Samoan Studies Project, a 1976 survey focusing on obesity and blood pressure was conducted in American Samoa. A total of 624 men age 18 or greater were seen at that time. In 1989 we conducted a follow‐up examinati…
Health transition in the Pacific Islands
Genetic studies of human apolipoproteins. XVII
Variation in human apolipoprotein genes is a major source of phenotypic differences in human lipid metabolism. Data regarding genetic variation at apolipoprotein loci in various populations are only beginning to accumulate, and they suggest that different populations vary widely in distribution of apolipoprotein alleles. Using isoelectric focusing‐immunoblotting techniques, we screened 67 serum samples from self‐identified Samoan residents of Ame…
Infant feeding and infant health in American Samoa
This study examines the association between infant feeding patterns and health for 6,267 Samoan children born between 1976 and 1982, and represented in the Well Baby Clinic records at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center, American Samoa. The visits to the clinic were aggregated by trimester of age during the first year of life. For each trimester, the principal source of milk was determined, and the children were categorized as breast‐fed if they were…
Taro or rice, plantation or market
(1988). Taro or rice, plantation or market: Dietary choice in American Samoa. Food and Foodways: Vol. 3, Continuity and Change in Pacific Foodways, pp. 59-78
Patterns of growth in weight and length among American Samoan infants
Well baby clinic records on 1, 186 infants born in 1975 to 1976 on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, form the basis for this study of the growth in weight and length from birth to 12 months. Semi‐longitudinal curves of weight and length indicate that these infants have median weights near the NCHS 75th percentile (boys) and 90th percentile (girls) up to 6 months, falling to just below the 75th percentile by 12 months. Median lengths are betw…
Dietary patterns of children in American Samoa
This report presents the findings of a dietary survey among 63 children aged five to seven years, on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa. Twenty‐four hour recall interviews were conducted with the children and household food preparers to estimate kinds and frequencies of foods consumed. The foods were aggregated into 19 groups, and a principal components analysis was performed to determine patterning among the groups. Four factors, acounting fo…
Patterns of growth in weight among infants in a rural Western Samoa village
The growth records of 55 infants from the village of Sale'a'aumua, Western Samoa, have been analyzed to describe patterns of growth in weight from birth to oneyear of age. This group of infants is unusual in that they are living in a lesser developed setting, but they also have mothers with substantial energy stores. The Samoan children equal or exceed the NCHS 50th percentile of weight up to the age of nine months, after which time they average …
Growth patterns of height and weight among three groups of Samoan preadolescents
The Samoan population affords an excellent opportunity to study the influences of modernization and migration on growth. Moreover, since Samoan adults in some settings have very high rates of obesity, the childhood precursors to obesity can be studied among Samoans. This study reports the results of a survey of 786 Samoan children between 5.5 and 11.5 years of age living in traditional, modern or migrant situations. It was found that the children…
Biological Anthropology Section
Anrhnrrpology NewslclterlFebruary
Modernization, migration and obesity among Samoan adults
Modernization and migration have biological as well as social effects on people. In this study, 2657 Samoan adults from Western Samoa, American Samoa and Hawaii were surveyed in an attempt to examine the relationships between modernization, migration and obesity. The Samoan men showed an increase in the frequency of obesity with increasing modernity of residence or occupation. While the women in American Samoa had the highest frequency of obesity…
The influence of infant feeding patterns on growth of children in American Samoa
This paper examines the trends in infant feeding practices in American Samoa and analyzes the relationship between infant feeding and growth among children born in American Samoa from 1976 to 1982. The study population is composed of the Polynesian inhabitants of the islands comprising the Territory of American Samoa. The sample is drawn from the records of the Well Baby Clinic in American Samoa. Feeding habit information and health of the infant…
Caloric requirements of human populations
The Health Consequences of Cultural Consonance
Cultural dimensions of health and behavior have been difficult to study because of limited theoretical and methodological models linking the cultural, the individual, and the biological. We employ a cognitive theory of culture to understand culture and health in an African American community in the southern United States. First, cultural consensus analysis is used to test for shared cultural models of lifestyles and social supports within the com…
Genetic studies of human apolipoproteins. XVII
Variation in human apolipoprotein genes is a major source of phenotypic differences in human lipid metabolism. Data regarding genetic variation at apolipoprotein loci in various populations are only beginning to accumulate, and they suggest that different populations vary widely in distribution of apolipoprotein alleles. Using isoelectric focusing‐immunoblotting techniques, we screened 67 serum samples from self‐identified Samoan residents of Ame…
Sociocultural and behavioral influences on health status among the Mississippi Choctaw
Native American populations in North America are at increased risk of a variety of health problems, including (but not limited to) diabetes. This risk is presumed to be a result of the interaction of environmental influences with a population genetic susceptibility. Anthropologists have subsumed those environmental influences under the term "acculturation." Here, we break that broad concept into physical, behavioral, and sociocultural components …
Taro or rice, plantation or market
(1988). Taro or rice, plantation or market: Dietary choice in American Samoa. Food and Foodways: Vol. 3, Continuity and Change in Pacific Foodways, pp. 59-78
The influence of infant feeding patterns on growth of children in American Samoa
This paper examines the trends in infant feeding practices in American Samoa and analyzes the relationship between infant feeding and growth among children born in American Samoa from 1976 to 1982. The study population is composed of the Polynesian inhabitants of the islands comprising the Territory of American Samoa. The sample is drawn from the records of the Well Baby Clinic in American Samoa. Feeding habit information and health of the infant…
Household economic strategies and nutritional anthropometry of women in American Samoa and highland Bolivia
The body build and composition of Samoan children
The relationships between infant feeding patterns, infant weight status, and subsequent growth are not yet firmly established. This study attempts to address these topics among Samoan children. The study population consists of 1,186 children born between October 1974 and September 1976 who were subsequently seen in the Well Baby Clinic in American Samoa. On the basis of the clinic records the children were categorized into feeding groups (breast …
Breadfruit, banana, beef, and beer
The Samoans traditionally based their diet on breadfruit, banana, taro, yam and coconut, supplemented with fish and shellfish from coral reefs. Ocean fish, pigs and fowl were foods reserved for festive occasions. After 150 years of exposure to missionaries, traders and military personnel, the Samoan diet has been substantially altered. This paper provides a preliminary description of these changes. A 24‐hour recall questionnaire was administered …
Caloric requirements of human populations
An evaluation of the diet of three groups of samoan adults
This report presents the findings of a dietary survey on three groups of Samoan adults who have been exposed to varying degrees of modernization. The nutrient intakes of 330 Samoan adults living in American Samoa and Hawaii were estimated from a 24‐hour recall survey. Dietary adequacy was assessed against the 1980 RDA's. Energy intakes were lower, but skinfold measurements were higher for females than for males. There was no sexual differentiatio…
The body build and composition of Samoan children
The relationships between infant feeding patterns, infant weight status, and subsequent growth are not yet firmly established. This study attempts to address these topics among Samoan children. The study population consists of 1,186 children born between October 1974 and September 1976 who were subsequently seen in the Well Baby Clinic in American Samoa. On the basis of the clinic records the children were categorized into feeding groups (breast …
Modernization, migration and obesity among Samoan adults
Modernization and migration have biological as well as social effects on people. In this study, 2657 Samoan adults from Western Samoa, American Samoa and Hawaii were surveyed in an attempt to examine the relationships between modernization, migration and obesity. The Samoan men showed an increase in the frequency of obesity with increasing modernity of residence or occupation. While the women in American Samoa had the highest frequency of obesity…
The influence of infant feeding patterns on growth of children in American Samoa
This paper examines the trends in infant feeding practices in American Samoa and analyzes the relationship between infant feeding and growth among children born in American Samoa from 1976 to 1982. The study population is composed of the Polynesian inhabitants of the islands comprising the Territory of American Samoa. The sample is drawn from the records of the Well Baby Clinic in American Samoa. Feeding habit information and health of the infant…
Patterns of growth in weight and length among American Samoan infants
Well baby clinic records on 1, 186 infants born in 1975 to 1976 on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, form the basis for this study of the growth in weight and length from birth to 12 months. Semi‐longitudinal curves of weight and length indicate that these infants have median weights near the NCHS 75th percentile (boys) and 90th percentile (girls) up to 6 months, falling to just below the 75th percentile by 12 months. Median lengths are betw…
Dietary patterns of children in American Samoa
This report presents the findings of a dietary survey among 63 children aged five to seven years, on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa. Twenty‐four hour recall interviews were conducted with the children and household food preparers to estimate kinds and frequencies of foods consumed. The foods were aggregated into 19 groups, and a principal components analysis was performed to determine patterning among the groups. Four factors, acounting fo…
Patterns of growth in weight among infants in a rural Western Samoa village
The growth records of 55 infants from the village of Sale'a'aumua, Western Samoa, have been analyzed to describe patterns of growth in weight from birth to oneyear of age. This group of infants is unusual in that they are living in a lesser developed setting, but they also have mothers with substantial energy stores. The Samoan children equal or exceed the NCHS 50th percentile of weight up to the age of nine months, after which time they average …
Growth patterns of height and weight among three groups of Samoan preadolescents
The Samoan population affords an excellent opportunity to study the influences of modernization and migration on growth. Moreover, since Samoan adults in some settings have very high rates of obesity, the childhood precursors to obesity can be studied among Samoans. This study reports the results of a survey of 786 Samoan children between 5.5 and 11.5 years of age living in traditional, modern or migrant situations. It was found that the children…
Biological Anthropology Section
Anrhnrrpology NewslclterlFebruary
Taro or rice, plantation or market
(1988). Taro or rice, plantation or market: Dietary choice in American Samoa. Food and Foodways: Vol. 3, Continuity and Change in Pacific Foodways, pp. 59-78
Infant feeding and infant health in American Samoa
This study examines the association between infant feeding patterns and health for 6,267 Samoan children born between 1976 and 1982, and represented in the Well Baby Clinic records at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center, American Samoa. The visits to the clinic were aggregated by trimester of age during the first year of life. For each trimester, the principal source of milk was determined, and the children were categorized as breast‐fed if they were…
Genetic studies of human apolipoproteins. XVII
Variation in human apolipoprotein genes is a major source of phenotypic differences in human lipid metabolism. Data regarding genetic variation at apolipoprotein loci in various populations are only beginning to accumulate, and they suggest that different populations vary widely in distribution of apolipoprotein alleles. Using isoelectric focusing‐immunoblotting techniques, we screened 67 serum samples from self‐identified Samoan residents of Ame…
Apolipoprotein polymorphisms and phenotypic variability in American Samoans
Human apolipoprotein genetic variation is associated with phenotypic variability in body habitus and in lipid and glucose metabolism, interrelated aspects of human physiology. In this study, structural variation at the apolipoprotein E and H loci, documented for 67 residents of American Samoa, was investigated for associations with body habitus, plasma glucose, glycated hemoglobin, pulse rate, and blood pressure. Compared to men with the common A…
Changes in some health status characteristics of American Samoan men
One of the concomitants of the rapid socioeconomic and medical changes which occurred in American Samoa beginning with World War II has been an increase in chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease and diabetes. As part of the Samoan Studies Project, a 1976 survey focusing on obesity and blood pressure was conducted in American Samoa. A total of 624 men age 18 or greater were seen at that time. In 1989 we conducted a follow‐up examinati…
Health transition in the Pacific Islands
Sociocultural and behavioral influences on health status among the Mississippi Choctaw
Native American populations in North America are at increased risk of a variety of health problems, including (but not limited to) diabetes. This risk is presumed to be a result of the interaction of environmental influences with a population genetic susceptibility. Anthropologists have subsumed those environmental influences under the term "acculturation." Here, we break that broad concept into physical, behavioral, and sociocultural components …
Bergmann's rule and the thrifty genotype
One of Roberts' key contributions was his work demonstrating the applicability of several ecological rules to human populations (Roberts [1953] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 11:533-558; [1978] Climate and Human Variability, 2nd ed., Menlo Park, CA: Cummings). His finding that average body weight systematically covaries with mean annual temperature was widely taken as confirmation of Bergmann's rule for humans. More recently his findings on weight and t…
Social status, social context, and arterial blood pressure
As social change and economic development have proceeded, the prevalence of chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, has increased in the developing world. In part this is due to the adoption of diets and other health behaviors characteristic of industrialized nations; in part it is a function of changing social and economic circumstances. In this paper, we describe the development and testing of a model designed to account for socia…
Bergmann's rule and the thrifty genotype
One of Roberts' key contributions was his work demonstrating the applicability of several ecological rules to human populations (Roberts [1953] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 11:533–558; [1978] Climate and Human Variability, 2nd ed., Menlo Park, CA: Cummings). His finding that average body weight systematically covaries with mean annual temperature was widely taken as confirmation of Bergmann's rule for humans. More recently his findings on weight and t…
Social status, social context, and arterial blood pressure
As social change and economic development have proceeded, the prevalence of chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, has increased in the developing world. In part this is due to the adoption of diets and other health behaviors characteristics of industrialized nations; in part it is a function of changing social and economic circumstances. In this paper, we describe the development and testing of a model designed to account for soci…
Social context and psychosocial influences on blood pressure among American Samoans
This study explores social and explores social and economic influences on health within a model formulated to address explicitly both individual and household level phenomena. Dressler's lifestyle incongruity model is used as a basis from which to predict the effects of intracultural contexts of variability on blood pressure. The sample for this survey consists of 134 Samoan men and women living in American Samoa. Based on previous experience and…
John Henryism, Gender, and Arterial Blood Pressure in an African American Community
OBJECTIVE: To examine the interaction between gender and John Henryism in relationship to arterial blood pressure in an African American community in the Southern United States. It was hypothesized that, within this specific social and cultural context, John Henryism would be associated with blood pressure differently for men and women. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey of 600 persons, aged 25 to 65, was conducted in the African American communit…
The Health Consequences of Cultural Consonance
Cultural dimensions of health and behavior have been difficult to study because of limited theoretical and methodological models linking the cultural, the individual, and the biological. We employ a cognitive theory of culture to understand culture and health in an African American community in the southern United States. First, cultural consensus analysis is used to test for shared cultural models of lifestyles and social supports within the com…
Medicine (18 obras) · Demography (16 obras) · Population (13 obras) · Samoan (13 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Internal Medicine (11 obras) · Biology (10 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 obras) · Endocrinology (9 obras)