NHLBI study finds hostility, impatience increase hypertension risk
... Young Adults (CARDIA) study, which involved 3,308 black and white men and women from four metropolitan areas (Birmingham, AL, Chicago, IL, Minneapolis, MN, and Oakland, CA). The participants were aged 18-30 at the time of their enrollment in the study. Enrollment took place from 1985 to 1986. Participa...Unusual fatigue may be warning symptom of heart attack in women
...verage, and 93 percent were Caucasian, 6.2 percent black and 0.4 percent Native American. Data collection occurred over three years. To assess symptoms that might suggest an imminent heart attack, the researchers used the McSweeney Acute and Prodromal Myocardial Infarction Symptom Survey (MAPMISS), a tel...Overweight boys outweigh girls in stress response, study finds
...to normal. Dr. Harshfields studies have found that black males particularly have a problem with pressure returning to normal because of reduced ability to eliminate sodium. Dr. Harshfield recently obtained a $1.4 million National Institutes of Health grant to explore whether obesity contributes to a decrea...UK trial results on value of cannabis for multiple sclerosis patients
...ical Research Council, said: "Science isn't always black and white and this work underlines the importance of funding large-scale clinical trials of possible treatments so the evidence can be weighed up. "Clinical research is at the heart of the MRC's aim to improve health and we will continue to use clini...One in eight N.C. schoolchildren display three or more heart risks
...he children, 47.9 percent were white, 42.4 percent black and 9.7 percent other races. Children were evaluated for body mass index, blood pressure, two types of fats in their blood and two indicators of how well they processed glucose. Results reported were based on initial testing of students who will be f...Air pollution, even at 'safe' levels, is bad for the heart
... 10 micrograms per cubic meter (mg/m3) increase in black smoke, they observed a 4 percent increase of CVD deaths. Similarly, a 10-mg/m3 increase in sulfur dioxide was associated with a 5 percent increase of CVD deaths. "The most important finding is that a 10-unit increase in carbon monoxide (CO) was ass...Major prostate-cancer prevention study to launch awareness campaign in churches nationwide
... Cancer Society. "Prostate cancer is attacking our black men at an alarming rate and we need to find a way ...in SELECT if they are 55 or older (50 or older for black men); have had neither prostate cancer nor any other type of cancer in the past five years (except n...Interracial interactions are cognitively demanding
...als attempt to control racial bias when exposed to black individuals, and that this act of suppressing bias...logy to determine how white individuals respond to black individuals. "We were surprised to find that brain activity in response to faces of black individual...Study finds racial differences in survival rates after prostate cancer treatment
...husetts General Hospital. The study involved 5,747 black men and 38,242 white men with clinically localized...hose who had surgery, the median survival time for black patients was 1.8 years less than for white patients (10.8 years versus 12.6 years, respectively). T...Other highlights in the November 19 issue of JNCI
...ery. In a study that examined the records of 5,747 black men and 38,242 white men with clinically localized...eagues found that overall median survival time for black patients was 1.7 years less than that for white patients. Among patients who received surgery, black...Suicidal minority teens lack adult support
Low-income black and Latino teens who report suicidal thoughts or s...en 1980 and 1995, the rate more than doubled among black youth. Rates remained high but unchanged among Latino adolescents....Inflammation of placental membranes may be risk factor for cerebral palsy
... restriction (four times increased risk); maternal black ethnicity (3.6 times increased risk); maternal age older than 25 years (2.6 times increased risk); and first birth by the mother (1.8 times increased risk). "We conclude that chorioamnionitis confers a 4-fold overall increased risk of CP in term inf...'Musical fruit' rich source of healthy antioxidants; black beans highest
...ontent, a new study finds that beans, particularly black ones, are a rich but overlooked source of antioxid...usly published study of the anthocyanin content of black beans, Beninger found that the levels of anthocyanins per 100 gm serving size of black beans was abo...Moderate alcohol use may be associated with brain shrinkage
...ddle-aged adults (22 percent white men, 18 percent black men, 29 percent white women and 32 percent black women) underwent a brain MRI. Neuroradiologists then identified the presence of infarction, the ext...Young adult fitness protects heart health in middle age
...n December 2001. The fitness study involved 4,487 black and white men and women, who were ages 18 to 30 at...her findings include: Results were the same for black and white adults, as well as men and women. Those who were low or moderately fit had twice the risk......serious injury in brown vehicles and the risks for black and green cars were also raised. The risk of a serious injury in yellow, grey, red, and blue cars was not significantly different from that in white cars. Some limitations mean that the extent to which these results are applicable to other settings i...Obesity linked to aggressive prostate cancer
...able to reduce the burden of prostate cancer among black men," explained lead author of the second study, Stephen J. Freedland, MD of the multi-institution Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) Database and currently at the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute at the Johns Hopkins Univ...Potential genetic links discovered between metabolic syndrome, diabetes and cardiovascular disease
...of 456 white participants from 99 families and 217 black participants from 105 families who were part of th... of genetic linkages to metabolic syndrome in both black and white patients. Additionally, Dr. Bouchard and his team noted that the same chromosomal regions...Urban areas organized in well developed partnering 'markets'
...that polygamy is more common among better educated black men, who presumably have more income. As a result... the researchers pointed out. About 57 percent of black men have been married, compared with about 72 percent of white men, according to census figures. ...Black tar heroin use explains lower HIV levels among injection drug users in the Western US
UCSF researchers have found that use of black tar heroin by injection drug users in West Coast c...iscrepancy is found in the distribution and use of black tar heroin and is due to its unique chemical properties," said the study's lead author, Daniel H. Ci...