Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Graduate Training and Education Center (GTEC) - Wynette Williams-Kirkwood Diversity Supplement

杰克逊心脏研究(JHS)是在非裔美国人人口中进行的最大规模的心血管疾病调查，是在杰克逊、密西西比州大都市区的Hinds、Madison和Rankin县进行的单地点前瞻性流行病学调查。JHS由国家心肺和血液研究所(NHLBI)和国立卫生研究院(NIH)的国家少数民族健康和健康差距研究所(NIMHD)赞助。JHS最初是杰克逊州立大学、图加鲁学院和密西西比大学医学中心这三个当地机构之间的合作伙伴关系，招募了5306名年龄在35岁到84岁之间的非裔美国人。纳入家庭成员是为了能够研究家庭和遗传因素对心血管疾病的影响。这项研究的初步检查阶段从2000年秋季持续到2004年3月，包括一系列调查问卷(涉及生活习惯、病史、药物、社会和文化因素)、身体评估(身高、体重、体型、血压、心电图、心脏和颈部动脉的超声波测量以及肺功能)和实验室测量(胆固醇和其他血脂、血糖、与血液凝结有关的指标等)。本研究收集的信息既包括传统的危险因素，也包括可能与心血管疾病相关的新的或新出现的因素。它还包括新的重点领域，包括疾病的早期指标、遗传学、社会经济地位和歧视等社会文化影响，以及高血压、肥胖症和糖尿病等常见疾病之间的生理关系及其对心血管疾病的影响。考试2在2005至2008年间进行，考试3在2009至2012年间进行。JHS的下一阶段从2013-2018年延长，不包括临床考试。

The Jackson Heart Study (JHS), the largest investigation of CVD undertaken in an African-American population, is a single-site prospective epidemiologic investigation in the Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan area of Hinds, Madison, and Rankin counties. The JHS is sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The JHS started as a partnership between three local institutions: Jackson State University, Tougaloo College, and the University of Mississippi Medical Center and recruited 5,306 African-American men and women between the ages of 35 and 84. Family members were included in order to permit studies of familial and genetic contributions to CVD. The initial examination phase of the study lasted from the fall of 2000 to March 2004 and involved an extensive examination that included a series of questionnaires (dealing with lifestyle habits, medical history, medications, social and cultural factors), physical assessments (height, weight, body size, blood pressure, electrocardiogram, ultrasound measurements of the heart and arteries in the neck, and lung function) and laboratory measurements (cholesterol and other lipids, glucose, indicators related to clotting of the blood, among others). The information collected in this study includes both conventional risk factors and new or emerging factors that may be related to CVD. It also included newer areas of focus comprising early indicators of disease, genetics, socio-cultural influences, such as socioeconomic status and discrimination, and physiological relations between common disorders such as high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes and their influence on CVD. Exam 2 was conducted between 2005 and 2008, and Exam 3 from 2009 to 2012. The next phase of the JHS extended from 2013-2018 and did not include a clinic exam.