Updates

September 25, 2015
Veronica Barcelona de Mendoza, Postdoctoral Associate for the Intergenerational Blood Pressure Study, was recently awarded a travel grant to attend the American Heart...
June 24, 2015
The Intergen research team has been working hard to spread the word about our study in the community.  Over the past 2 months, Intergen team members have been attended a...
May 28, 2015
Things are moving at breakneck speed with the Intergenerational Blood Pressure Study.  We began participant enrollment in April 2015 and to date, we have 13 families...
May 14, 2015
The effects of trauma on children are broad in scope and can last throughout a lifetime.  However, little is known about the immediate physical effects that trauma exposure...
April 28, 2015
The experience of homelessness is traumatic for any individual, let alone a child.  Roughly a third of the U.S. homeless population is made up of families, and approximately...
April 23, 2015
African American women are more at risk for high blood pressure (hypertension) and other heart-related illnesses than any other group in the United States.  Genetic...
April 22, 2015
For young adults, depression is the most common clinical disorder.  Among all populations, including college students, depression is one of the most significant, disabling,...