Chronic illnesses

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2020). Telehealth interventions to improve chronic diseases. https://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/pubs/telehealth.htm

Agyemanga, C., Nyaabaa, G., Beunea, E., et al. (2018). Variations in hypertension awareness, treatment, and control among Ghanaian migrants living in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and nonmigrant Ghanaians living in rural and urban Ghana: the RODAM study. Journal of Hypertension. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Henneman/publication/319365701_Variations_in_hypertension_awareness_treatment_and_control_among_Ghanaian_migrants_living_in_Amsterdam…/links/59b6a0aea6fdcc7415bdbc87/Variations-in-hypertension-awareness-treatment-and-control-among-Ghanaian-migrants-living-in-Amsterdam-Berlin-London-and-nonmigrant-Ghanaians-living-in-rural-and-urban-Ghana-the-RODAM-study.pdf

Commodore-Mensah, Y., Ukonu, N., Cooper, L., Agyemang, C., Himmelfarb, C. D. (2018). The Association Between Acculturation and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Ghanaian and Nigerian-born African Immigrants in the United States: The Afro-Cardiac Study. J Immigrant Minority Health DOI 10.1007/s10903-017-0644-y, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yvonne-Commodore-Mensah/publication/319363490_The_Association_Between_Acculturation_and_Cardiovascular_Disease_Risk_in_Ghanaian_and_Nigerian-born_African_Immigrants_in_the_United_States_The_Afro-Cardiac_Study/links/59aebc97a6fdcca65424136d/The-Association-Between-Acculturation-and-Cardiovascular-Disease-Risk-in-Ghanaian-and-Nigerian-born-African-Immigrants-in-the-United-States-The-Afro-Cardiac-Study.pdf

Commodore-Mensah, Y., Matthie, N., Wells, J., Dunbar, S. B., Himmelfarb, C. D., Cooper, L. A., & Chandler, R. D. (2017). African Americans, African Immigrants, and Afro-Caribbeans Differ in Social Determinants of Hypertension and Diabetes: Evidence from the National Health Interview Survey. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-017-0446-x,   https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yvonne-Commodore-Mensah/publication/321759945_African_Americans_African_Immigrants_and_Afro-Caribbeans_Differ_in_Social_Determinants_of_Hypertension_and_Diabetes_Evidence_from_the_National_Health_Interview_Survey/links/5a351c49a6fdcc769fd48849/African-Americans-African-Immigrants-and-Afro-Caribbeans-Differ-in-Social-Determinants-of-Hypertension-and-Diabetes-Evidence-from-the-National-Health-Interview-Survey.pdf

Commodore-Mensah, Y., Himmelfarb, C. D., Agyemang, C., & Sumner, A. E. (2015). Cardiometabolic Health in African Immigrants to the United States: A Call to Re-examine Research on African-descent populations. Ethnicity & disease, 25(3), 373–380. https://doi.org/10.18865/ed.25.3.373 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671407/

O’Connor, M. Y., Thoreson, C. K., Ricks, M., Courville, A. B., Thomas, F., Yao, J., Katzmarzyk, P. T., & Sumner, A. E. (2014). Worse cardiometabolic health in African immigrant men than African American men: reconsideration of the healthy immigrant effect. Metabolic syndrome and related disorders, 12(6), 347–353. https://doi.org/10.1089/met.2014.0026