Stress leads kids to unhealthy diets
...p 8 percent of the sample, ate the best diets, and black students (comprising 19 percent) the worst, with white children (62 percent of the participants) in the middle. Higher socioeconomic status was also correlated with healthier eating practices. "Stress appears to be consistently harmful to children in...Progress shown in death rates from four leading cancers decline in overall mortality has slowed
...ncer killer, continues to decrease among white and black men, while the rate of increase has slowed among w...n white men and a 2.3 percent per year increase in black men. Clarification of the risks and benefits of prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening, includin...Purdue food scientists improve testing of health supplements
...upplement oils tested were almond, apricot kernel, black currant, borage, cod liver, evening primrose, flax seed, grape seed, hazelnut, hemp seed, macadamia nut, olive, pumpkin seed and wheat germ oils. The common food oils were canola, corn, peanut, soybean and sunflower. Though they didn't test for adult...Black cohosh may reduce hot flashes by targeting brain's thermostat
...hemistry . Until now, many scientists thought that black cohosh (koh-hawsh) worked by targeting receptors f... breast cancer and stroke. "This study shows that black cohosh does not appear to be estrogenic whatsoever and, as a result, is less likely to pose some of ...Lotion made from tea could help fight skin cancer
...e sunlight. The compounds, which are found in both black and green teas, inhibit a newly discovered chemica...to UV light. Similar polyphenols are also found in black tea. "We feel this is an important step in improving the prevention of skin cancer," says study lead...Finding the link between fat and high blood pressure
...ng the 15- to 19-year-olds this fall, a mixture of black and white males and females. Each participant engages in a protocol developed by Dr. Harshfield that includes two hours of rest followed by an hour-long stressful video game, then two more hours of rest. Blood pressure and sodium excretion are measur...The risk of intimate partner violence varies by ethnicity
...ous year. New longitudinal research has found that black and Hispanic couples are two to three times more l...: Clinical & Experimental Research has found that black and Hispanic couples are two to three times more likely to report male-to-female and female-to-male ...Major new center at UIC to study racial/ethnic disparities in health
...white women fell 2.5 percent during the 1990s, for black women the drop was only 1 percent. "Racial and et... that roughly equal proportions of women in white, black and Hispanic populations receive regular screening mammograms for breast cancer, yet minority women ...... Researchers measured sodium (Na) excretion in 40 black and 28 white adolescent girls 11-15 years old. The study was divided into two sessions of three weeks each. The girls ate diets with either 1.3 grams per day (g/d) or 4 g/d of dietary sodium, plus dietary calcium in one of three levels -- 800 milli...High blood pressure does not accelerate age-related cognitive decline
...different combinations of 20 white consonants on a black background. For the visual search tasks, participants had to view a pair of letters, and then after a period of time, had to quickly determine which one of that pair was present within displays of four to six letters. For the memory task, participant...Health disparities between racial groups affect joblessness
...percent to 9 percent of the employment gap between black and white men aged 25 to 34, but between 17 and 41...lar pattern exists for Native American men and for black and Native American women. Bound and his colleagues based their findings on a nationally representat...Gender and geography increase racial disparities in health care, Dartmouth study shows
...at higher among African-American women. But among black men in the same cities, rates of knee replacement ... men, or even less. Indeed, in Memphis, rates for black men were less than one-third the rate for white men, and were even very low among black women relati...Minority children: over- or underrepresented in medical research?
... to health care in general, "our data suggest that black children do have fair access to the potential bene...ercent of those enrolled in clinical trials. Both black and Hispanic children were overrepresented in research on topics that were potentially stigmatizing,...Forgiveness a factor in blood pressure
...lic blood pressure and lower levels of cortisol in black individuals of low socio-econokic status Introduction The study of forgiveness and health is beginning to receive attention but two limitations exist in the literature. First, the overwhelming majority of samples continue to be drawn from college ...Parents favor counseling over meds for kids' anxiety
...g of both medication and counseling than Latino or black parents. Chavira and colleagues collected 190 parents' opinions on social anxiety disorder treatment, along with information about their children's levels of social anxiety and previous mental health therapy. Contrary to what the researchers expected...Scientists discover overweight, obesity jump during period between adolescence, adulthood
...the large incidence of obesity, particularly among black and Hispanic females," Gordon-Larsen said. "Over the five-year exam period, 18 percent and 15 percent of them respectively, became obese. "At the beginning, 11 percent of teens studied were obese, and as they aged and became young adults, 22 percent ...Study finds hispanic heart patients have best survival rates
...ourse of the study. There was no differencebetween black and white survival rates. In explaining the apparent survivaladvantage of Hispanic VA patients over the other two groups, Froelichercited their strong social support as a possible factor. Medical research on the impact of race on mortality has produ...St. Jude leukemia therapy overcomes differences in treatment outcome between black, white children
... Jude Children's Research Hospital have found that black children are equally likely as white children to b...o the most advanced therapies. This finding--that black and white children had virtually equal rates of survival over 10 years--contrasts with the results o...Mix of factors related to exercise among minority women
...rs that influence whether Latina, Native American, black and white women in rural and urban areas are physi...chers found. The researchers interviewed groups of black and Latina women living in Chicago and Baltimore, black women in rural South Carolina and Alabama, L...U.S. blacks five times as likely as whites to progress to kidney failure
It's long been known that black Americans are four to five times as likely as whit...ysis or transplantation. The findings suggest that black Americans with early kidney disease require much more aggressive treatment than has been commonly pr...