Study of school 'connectedness' identifies adolescents at risk
...dition to the four potentially modifiable factors, black race, female gender, and urban schools were also associated with a lower SCS. The researchers defined school connectedness as an adolescent's experience of caring at school and sense of closeness to school personnel and environment. "School violenc......ican-American community where it is estimated that black women are 2.4 times as likely to develop diabetes as white women are. The 4 Sight program developed a targeted telephone recruitment campaign aimed at high-risk candidates which is the most personal and cost effective approach according to Maguir...One more visit could close demographic gaps in infant immunization efforts
...ng NIS data. Of the more than one-quarter of black infants who do not receive all their immunization shots, 63.7 percent had had enough visits. As in the previous study, most of the children who failed to receive the full vaccination series also could have completed the series in just one more visit,...UT Southwestern researcher finds beta-blocking drug reduces heart failure in blacks
... the symptoms of mild to moderate heart failure in black patients as well as it does in nonblack patients, ...t failure, a disease that affects 3 percent of all black adults in the United States. The researchers reported a 54 percent reduction in both death and hospi...Human brain has unsuspected oxygen reserve, challenging previous theories
...subjects were asked to focus on a white cross on a black background and press a button whenever the cross became dim. They performed this task in a normal atmosphere and under oxygen levels resembling those on top of Pikes Peak in Colorado (roughly 14,000 feet). Current theory suggests that blood flow sh...NHLBI-VA study finds no increased survival from beta-blocker for moderate to advanced heart failure
...rt failure study to include substantial numbers of black patients and patients with advanced heart failure....lockers, had a less diverse population, with fewer black participants, had a shorter follow-up period, and were done outside the United States, where patient...Beta-blocker shown to be ineffective in patients with advanced heart failure
...uction in mortality while taking bucindolol, while black patients did not. The black patients enrolled in the study were younger and had more hypertension, diabetes and renal insufficie...Drug war strategy: First fund enforcement then switch to treatment, says O.R. paper
...r than users. In the long run, enforcement against black markets doesn't work primarily by removing people from the population, they note, because incarcerated street dealers are easily replaced. Instead, enforcement is believed to act more like a tax, raising risks and, as a result, the costs of distribut......r joining this trial." The disease also strikes black men at a younger age, so they will be eligible to enroll in the SELECT study at age 50, versus age 55 for other racial and ethnic groups. There is no upper age limit for participation in SELECT. Selenium and vitamin E, both naturally occurring nutr...Diet and exercise dramatically delay type 2 diabetes
... racial or ethnic background. Compared to whites, black adults have a 60 percent higher rate of type 2 diabetes and Hispanic adults have a 90 percent higher rate. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes has tripled in the last 30 years, and much of the increase is due to the dramatic upsurge in obesity. People......cientific society. The study focuses primarily on black men, who are often underrepresented as clinical subjects. It is also the first to link the effect of tomato sauce consumption to a reduction of human DNA damage, considered a marker for increased cancer risk, according to the researchers. Researcher...New research shows workplace homicides more likely at smaller businesses open late, Saturdays
... shows. Job sites with only male employees or only black or Asian workers also were at increased risk of on-site killings, the study found. While few of the risk factors identified are easy to change, it is important to know what they are before implementing measures to reduce potential risks, researchers ...Heavier white female workers earn less
...less, and no evidence that the wages of overweight black women are affected. Cawley also found no evidence...t affects the probability of employment for white, black or Hispanic women, or the probability of holding a white-collar job. Cawley, who presented his find...Studying growth, poverty and well-being in Africa
...ough the consolidation of the United States' first black graduate and professional institution (Atlanta Uni...rsity, established in 1865) and the nation's first black liberal arts college (Clark College, established in 1869)....UNC researchers awarded $2.25 million to study link between arthritis, emotions
...t and largest study ever done of arthritis in U.S. black and white rural communities. They also will conduct extensive new interviews with study participants at two different times. A major goal will be to examine the relationship between osteoarthritis and the emotions and coping strategies of people wit...Strong relationship between peasant farmers and city-dwellers in Zimbabwe
...ct of interests between urban and rural areas. The black rural residents are depicted as supporters of the ...ere born. The unequal distribution of land between black and white Zimbabweans arouses a strong feeling of injustice, which also played a large role in the w...Some patients not seeking rapid heart attack care
...er age 64), and are more often women (35 percent), black (6 percent), and diabetic patients (25 percent). Between 1990 and 1997, treatment time once patients were in the hospital improved by 18 minutes (66 minutes to 48 minutes); however, patients arrival time (84 minutes) to the hospital has not changed....Childhood stroke deaths drop, but still higher among blacks
...oke deaths for children have declined sharply, but black children have higher stroke death rates than other... These declines were tempered by the finding that black children and boys had higher risks for dying of strokes, says Fullerton. Black children were more t...Wake Forest establishes Maya Angelou Research Center on minority health
...ith Winston-Salem State University, a historically black university, and with the local community to create a nationally recognized model for addressing racial and ethnic health disparities. Nationally recognized programs in underrepresented minority health education. Nationally recognized research on un...