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  • Modesti PA, Cappuccio FP, Parati G eds. (2018) Ethnic Diversities, Hypertension and Global Cardiovascular Risk. Springer Nature; 2018.
    Modesti PA, Agyemang C, Cappuccio FP, Parati G (2018). Chapter 11. Disparities in Hypertension in the ethnic minority groups; beneficial aspects of minority ethnic group cultures. In: Ethnic Diversities, Hypertension and Global Cardiovascular Risk. Modesti PA, Cappuccio FP, Parati G eds. Springer Nature; pp. 139-153
  • Ji C, Miller MA, Venezia A, Strazzullo P & Cappuccio FP. (2014) Comparison of spot vs 24-h urine samples for estimating salt intake: validation study in two independent population samples of adults in Britain and Italy. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis; 24; 140-147.
  • Harte AL, da Silva NF, Miller MA, Cappuccio FP, Kelly MA, O’Hare JP, Barnett AH, Al-Daghri NM, Al-Attas SO, Alokail M, Sabico S, Tripathi G, Bellary S, Kumar S, McTernan PG. (2012) Telomere length attrition, a marker of biological senescence, is inversely correlated with triglycerides and cholesterol in South Asian males with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Exp Diabetes Research; doi: 10.1155/2012/895185
  • Wurie HR & Cappuccio FP. (2012) Cardiovascular diseasein low-and-middle-income countries: an urgent priority. Ethnicity & Health; 17(6): 543-550
  • Finucane MM, Stevens GA, Cowan MJ, Danaei G, Lin JK, Paciorek CJ, Singh GM, Gutierrez HR, Lu Y, Bahalim AN, Farzadfar F, Riley LM, Ezzati M, on behalf of the Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group (Body Mass Index)*. (*includes Cappuccio FP) (2011). National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9.1 million participants. Lancet; 377; 557-67
  • Shah T, Newcombe P, Smeeth L, Addo J, Casas JP, Whittaker J, Miller MA, Tinworth L, Jeffery S, Strazzullo P, Cappuccio FP & Hingorani AD (2010). Ancestry as a determinant of mean population C-reactive protein values: implications for cardiovascular risk prediction. Circulation Cardiovasc Genet; 3: 436-44
  • Miller M A, Strazzullo P, Karanam S & Cappuccio F P (2009) Ethnic variation in levels of circulating IgG autoantibodies to oxidised low-density lipoprotein, Atherosclerosis; 203(1): 126-36
  • Miller M A, McTernan P G, Harte A L, da Silva N F, Strazzullo P, Alberti K G M M, Kumar S & Cappuccio F P (2009) Circulating endotoxin levels: a novel marker of cardiovascular and metabolic risk in a British multi-ethnic population, Atherosclerosis; 203(2): 494-502
  • Miller M A & Cappuccio F P (2009). Endotoxin and metabolic syndrome, Atherosclerosis; 206: 37
  • Cappuccio F P, Kerry S M, Adeyemo A, Luke A, Amoah A G B, Bovet P, Connor M D, Forrester T, Gervasoni J-P, Kimbally Kaki G, Plange-Rhule J, Thorogood M & Cooper R S (2008) Body size and blood pressure. An analysis of Africans and the African diaspora, Epidemiology; 19: 39-46
  • Russo P, Siani A, Miller M A, Karanam S, Esposito T, Gianfrancesco F, Barba G, Lauria F, Strazzullo P & Cappuccio F P (2008) Genetic variants of Y chromosome are associated with a protective lipid profile in black men, Arterioscl Thromb Vasc Biol; 28: 1569-74
  • Lip G Y H, Barnett A H, Bradbury A, Cappuccio F P, Gill P S, Hughes E, Imray C, Jolly K & Patel K (2007) Ethnicity and cardiovascular disease prevention in the United Kingdom: a practical approach to management, J Hum Hypert; 21: 183-211
  • Miller M A & Cappuccio F P (2007) Ethnicity and inflammatory pathways: implications for vascular disease, vascular risk and therapeutic intervention, Curr Med Chem; 14: 1409-25
  • Brindle P, May M, Gill P, Cappuccio F P, D'Agostino R snr, Fischbacher C & Ebrahim S (2006) Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a web-based risk score for seven British black and minority ethnic groups, Heart; 92: 1595-1602
  • Humphries S E, Gable D, Cooper J A, Ireland H, Stephens J, Li K W, Palmen J, Miller M A, Cappuccio F P, Elkeles R, Godsland I, Miller G J & Talmud P J (2006) Common variants in the TCF7L2 gene and predisposition to Type 2 diabetes in UK European Whites, Indian Asians and Afro-Caribbean men and women, J Mol Med; 84: 1005-14  
  • Miller M A & Cappuccio F P (2006) Cellular adhesion molecules and their relationship with measures of obesity and metabolic syndrome in a multi-ethnic population, Int J Obesity; 30: 1176-82
  • Russo P, Venezia A, Lauria F, Strazzullo P, Cappuccio F P, Iacoviello L, Barba G & Siani A (2006) HindIII (+/-) Polymorphism of the Y Chromosome, Blood Pressure, and Serum Lipids: No Evidence of Association in Three White Populations, Am J Hypert; 19: 331-8
  • Gomez G B, Kerry S M, Oakeshott P, Rowlands G & Cappuccio F P (2005) Changing from CHD to CVD risk-based guidelines for the management of mild uncomplicated hypertension in different ethnic groups: implications for primary care, J Hum Hypert; 19: 321-4
  • Miller M A, Kerry S M, Dong Y B, Sagnella G A, Cook D G & Cappuccio F P (2005) Circulating soluble E-selectin levels and the Ser128Arg polymorphism in individuals from different ethnic groups, Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis; 15: 65-70
  • Zitouni K, Harry D, Nourooz-Zadeh J, Kerry S M, Betteridge D J, Cappuccio F P & Earle K A (2005) Race-specific differences in antioxidant enzyme activity in patients with Type 2 Diabetes. A potential association with the risk of developing nephropathy, Diabetes Care; 28: 1698-1703
  • Barbato A, Russo P, Siani A, Folkerd E J, Miller M A, Venezia A, Grimaldi C, Strazzullo P & Cappuccio F P (2004) Aldosterone synthase gene (CYP11B2) C-344T polymorphism, plasma aldosterone, renin activity and blood pressure in a multiethnic population, J Hypertens; 22: 1895-1901
  • Barbato A, Cappuccio F P, Folkerd E J, Strazzullo P, Sampson B, Cook D G & Alberti K G M M (2004) Metabolic syndrome and renal sodium handling in three ethnic groups living in England, Diabetologia; 47: 40-6
  • Miller M A, Kerry S M, Dong Y B, Strazzullo P & Cappuccio F P (2004) Association between the Thr715Pro P-selectin gene polymorphism and soluble P-selectin levels in a multiethnic population in South London, Thromb Haemost; 92: 1060-5
  • Miller M A, Kerry S M, Cook D G & Cappuccio F P (2004) Cellular adhesion molecules and blood pressure: interaction with sex in a multi-ethnic population, J Hypertens; 22: 705-11
  • Barbato A, Russo P, Venezia A, Strazzullo V, Siani A & Cappuccio F P (2003) Analysis of Gly40Ser polymorphism of the glucagon receptor (GCGR) gene in different ethnic groups, J Hum Hypertens; 17: 577-9
  • Cappuccio F P, Barbato A & Kerry S M (2003) Hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular risk in ethnic minorities in the UK, Br J Diabetes Vasc Dis; 3: 286-93
  • Miller M A, Sagnella G A, Kerry S M, Strazzullo P, Cook D G & Cappuccio F P (2003) Ethnic differences in circulating adhesion molecules. The Wandsworth Heart & Stroke Study, Clin Sci; 104: 591-8
  • Cappuccio F P, Oakeshott P, Strazzullo P & Kerry S M (2002) Application of Framingham risk estimates to ethnic minorities in the UK and implications for primary prevention in general practice: a cross-sectional population based study, Br Med J; 325: 1271-4
  • Cappuccio F P, Bell R, Perry I J, Gilg J, Ueland P M, Refsum H, Sagnella G A, Jefferey S & Cook D G (2002) Homocysteine levels in men and women of different ethnic and cultural background living in England, Atherosclerosis; 164: 95-102
  • Cappuccio F P & Miller M A (2002) Soluble adhesion molecules and coronary heart disease, Lancet; 359: 526
  • Dong Y B, Plange-Rhule J, Owusu I, Micah F, Eastwood J B, Carter N D, Saggar-Malik A K, Cappuccio F P & Jeffery S (2002) T594M mutation of the beta-subunit of the epithelial sodium channel in Ghanaian populations from Kumasi and London and a possible association with hypertension, Genetic Testing; 6: 63-5
  • Splawski I, Timothy K W, Tateyama M, Clancy C E, Malhotra A, Beggs A H, Cappuccio F P, Sagnella G A, Kass R S & Keating M T (2002) Variant of SCN5A sodium channel implicated in risk of cardiac arrhythmia, Science; 297: 1333-6
  • Blackwood A M, Sagnella G A, Cook D G & Cappuccio F P (2001) Urinary calcium excretion, sodium intake and blood pressure in a multi-ethnic population: results of the Wandsworth Heart and Stroke Study, J Hum Hypert; 15: 229-37
  • Cook D G, Cappuccio F P, Atkinson R W, Wicks P D, Chitolie A, Nakandakare E R, Sagnella G A & Humphries S E (2001) Ethnic differences in fibrinogen levels: the role of environmental factors and the ß-fibrinogen gene, Am J Epidemiol; 153: 799-806
  • Dong Y B, Zhu H D, Baker E H, Sagnella G A, MacGregor G A, Carter N D, Wicks P D, Cook D G & Cappuccio F P (2001) T594M and G442V polymorphisms of the sodium channel ß subunit and hypertension in a black population, J Hum Hypert; 15: 425-30
  • Waterworth D M, Talmud P J, Humphries S E, Wicks P D, Sagnella G A, Strazzullo P, Alberti K G M M, Cook D G & Cappuccio F P (2001) Variable effects of the ApoCIII -482C>T variant on insulin, glucose and triglyceride levels in different ethnic groups. The Wandsworth Heart & Stroke Study, Diabetologia; 44: 245-8
  • Hall S, Talmud P J, Cook D G, Wicks P D, Rothwell M J, Strazzullo P, Sagnella G A & Cappuccio F P (2000) Frequency and allelic association of common variants in the lipoprotein lipase gene in different ethnic groups. The Wandsworth Heart & Stroke Study, Gen Epidemiol; 18: 203-16
  • Harris T J, Cook D G, Wicks P D & Cappuccio F P (2000) Impact of the new American Diabetes Association diagnostic criteria for diabetes and impaired fasting glucose on subjects from three different ethnic groups living in the UK, Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis; 10: 305-9
  • Dong Y B, Zhu H D, Sagnella G A, Carter N D, Cook D G & Cappuccio F P (1999) Association between the C825T polymorphism of the G protein ß3-subunit gene and hypertension in blacks, Hypertension; 34: 1193-6
  • Harris T J, Cook D G, Wicks P D & Cappuccio F P (1999) Ethnic differences in use of hormone replacement therapy: community based survey, Br Med J; 319: 610-1
  • Ness A R, Cappuccio F P, Atkinson R W, Khaw K-T & Cook D G (1999) Plasma vitamin C levels in men and women from different ethnic backgrounds living in England, Int J Epidemiol; 28: 450-5
  • Sagnella G A, Rothwell M J, Onipinla A K, Wicks P D, Cook D G & Cappuccio F P (1999) A population study of ethnic variations in the angiotensin-converting enzyme I/D polymorphism: relationships with gender, hypertension and impaired glucose metabolism, J Hypertens; 17: 657-64
  • Harris T, Cook D G & Cappuccio F P (1999) New diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus. Subjects with impaired glucose tolerance but normal fasting values will not be identified, Br Med J; 318: 531
  • Cappuccio F P, Cook D G, Atkinson R W & Wicks P D (1998) The Wandsworth Heart and Stroke Study. A population-based survey of cardiovascular risk factors in different ethnic groups. Methods and baseline findings, Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis; 8: 371-85
  • Baker E H, Dong Y B, Sagnella G A, Rothwell M, Onipinla A K, Markandu N D, Cappuccio F P, Cook D G, Persu A, Corvol P, Jeunemaitre X, Carter N D & MacGregor G A (1998) Association of hypertension with T594M mutation in ß subunit of epithelial sodium channels in black people resident in London, Lancet; 351: 1388-92
  • Cappuccio F P, Cook D G, Atkinson R W & Strazzullo P (1997) Prevalence, detection, and management of cardiovascular risk factors in different ethnic groups in south London, Heart; 78: 555-63
  • Cappuccio F P (1997) Ethnicity and cardiovascular risk: variations in people of African ancestry and South Asian origin, J Hum Hypert; 11: 571-6
  • Poulter N R, Cappuccio F P, Chaturvedi N & Cruickshank J K (1997) High blood pressure and the African-Caribbean community in the UK, Birmingham, MediNews Ltd: 1-47
  • Barley J, Blackwood A, Miller M, Markandu N D, Carter N D, Jefferey S, Cappuccio F P, MacGregor G A & Sagnella G A (1996) Angiotensin converting enzyme gene I/D polymorphism, blood pressure and the renin-angiotensin system in Caucasian and Afro-Caribbean peoples, J Hum Hypert; 10: 31-5
  • Cappuccio F P (1996) Cardiovascular risk factors and vascular diseases in different ethnic groups, Practice Nurse Network; 10: 4-5