Bright clothing and white helmets cut motorcycle deaths
...injury than other drivers. Compared with wearing a black helmet, use of a white helmet was associated with a 24% lower risk, and daytime use of headlights was associated with a 27% lower risk. There was no association between risk of crash related injury and the frontal colour of drivers' clothing or motor...Prevalence of age-related macular degeneration projected to increase substantially by 2020
... far more prevalent among white people compared to black people. "This article gives the best available estimate for the magnitude of the problem of AMD in the United States based on a meta-analysis of population-based data," the authors write. "The number of U.S. population affected by AMD is increasing ...Eye disorder that can cause blindness is high among people with type 1 diabetes mellitus
... vision-threatening retinopathy was 30 percent for black persons and 32.3 percent for whites. The researchers also found that the prevalence of DR due to type 1 DM diagnosed before age 30 in the general population 18 years and older is estimated at 767,000 persons having DR of any degree of severity (0.37...Leading causes of blindness for blacks and whites different
...eneration (54.4 percent of the cases), while among black persons, cataract and glaucoma accounted for more than 60 percent of blindness," the authors write. Cataracts were the leading cause of low vision. Among Hispanics, the leading cause of blindness was glaucoma. The authors project that the number of...Online tool estimates long-term chance of surviving prostate cancer
...for this is not known, some research suggests that black men are often diagnosed at later disease stages. ...m to ask and seek answers to new questions: Why do black men receive less aggressive treatment than whites? Are black men choosing less aggressive treatment ...Small uterine fibroids may be linked with increased risk of miscarriage, early study results show
...luding at least 15 percent Hispanic and 35 percent black women, Hartmann said. The Center for Women's Health Research, directed by Hartmann, will enroll study participants. "This is an ideal example of a study that follows from the center's mission of advancing the health of all women through research," s...Green and black tea polyphenols consumption results in slower prostate cancer cell growth
...the absorption and anti-tumor effects of green and black tea polyphenols in human tissue, researchers at th...lood serum of men who had consumed either green or black tea for five days compared to serum collected before the men began their tea-drinking regimen. Serum...Black women with high blood pressure during pregnancy have higher homocysteine levels
...hypertension condition known as preeclampsia among black women and indicate future risk for cardiovascular ...e. "There is a higher incidence of preeclampsia in black women and we know that when black women experience the disorder they are more likely to have a more ...Smoking linked to more than 60 percent of overall cancer death burden in black men
...ir overall cancer death rate. "This means that if black male smoking exposures fall dramatically, that alo...dies of smoking and health. "Going back to the low black male cancer burdens seen before the cigarette epidemic appears possible. Indeed, New York and, less ...Severity of depressed mood affects stroke risk
... effect of mood was seen on stroke risk for either black or Hispanic subgroups. In contrast, for whites, any level of depressed mood more than doubled the risk of stroke, with a very strong effect of severity on risk--those with the most severe symptoms had more than four times the risk for stroke as those...Dental disease hits hardest among older blacks
... among older people, is most prevalent among older black men and women, regardless of income or education, ...he researchers examined periodontitis among white, black and Mexican-American survey participants ages 50 and older. Borrell and colleagues classified the p...Delayed care may affect prostate cancer deaths in blacks
...ancer to see if they could help explain the gap in black and white deaths of prostate cancer patients. Blac...ses, however, are not to blame for the gap between black and white deaths from prostate cancer. In fact, the gap "disappeared" when both white and black men ...Link between caffeine consumption, high blood pressure found in adolescents
Adolescents, particularly black adolescents, who drink several soft drinks each da...res and caffeinated-beverage intake of 159 healthy black and white adolescents ages 15 to 19. The adolescents were enrolled in another MCG study, led by Dr. ...Increase in prevalence of marijuana abuse and dependence
...percent). The greatest increases were among young black men and women and young Hispanic men. Marijuana u...cally, programs targeting young adults, especially black and Hispanic young adults, need to be designed and tested for their effectiveness as quickly as poss...Rx pain medicines hard to find in pharmacies serving minority neighborhoods
...ducing potential that makes them attractive on the black market. While we can't say that fear of theft is behind the discrepancy in availability, we know that some of the pharmacists we spoke with admitted this was a factor. However, most pharmacists surveyed said they didn't get much demand for these medi...UMHS study links gonorrhea, prostate cancer in men
...nt Men's Health Study, a population-based study of black men ages 40-79 who live in Flint, Mich. The resear...American men as part of an effort to determine why black men are twice as likely as white men to develop prostate cancer and twice as likely to die from the ...Elevated rates of trauma may put urban American Indian women at increased risk for contracting HIV
...st these women is 30 percent higher than it is for black males, the group with the second-highest assault victimization rate. Walters, an associate professor of social work and an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation, said trauma has a pernicious effect on the family and has the potential to devastate t...Patients report high levels of trust in medical specialists
...itial visit. However, the authors also found that black patients had lower levels of trust than white pati..., including "How much of this lack of trust [among black patients as reported by the researchers] relates to the content of the visit vs. previous medical an...New UNC research finds high rate of chlamydia in U.S. young adults
...resent in all races but six times greater in young black adults than in young whites, researchers found. Almost 14 percent of young black women and more than 11 percent of black men of comparable ages carried the bug. Analysis of urine sp...Vaccine reduces racial disparity in incidence of childhood pneumonia and meningitis
... has helped to decrease the excess incidence among black Americans, according to a study in the May 12 issu...te ratio had been reduced to 2.2. Incidence among black children younger than 2 years went from being 3.3 times higher than among white children in the prev...