Do minorities survive hospitalization better than others?
...arge population of hospital patients. When sex and ethnicity differences in the use of DNR orders were taken into account, the apparent mortality advantage for minorities disappeared. Over 300,000 patients admitted to non-federal California hospitals in 1999 were part of this study. Over 25,000 of these patien...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
...oss units. The gaining of consent was unrelated to ethnicity or level of deprivation but was better for those who had a longer hospital stays and was worse for older children. The extremely low refusal rate suggested that parents were willing to share personal data. These results reinforce the view that the lo...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
...d that differences in care based solely on race or ethnicity occur in overall health care. Thirty-three percent also agreed such disparities occur specifically in cardiovascular care. However, only 12 percent agreed that disparities existed in their own hospitals, and only 5 percent said their own patients w...Postmenopausal breast cancer survivors at increased risk for bone fractures
...e researchers found. Other factors, including age, ethnicity and depression, were associated with increased risk of fractures among breast cancer survivors. "An increased risk for total fractures was observed in all ages of breast cancer survivors in this study regardless of the time of the breast cancer diagn...English-speaking Hispanic youth more likely to have sex early
...e analysis allows us to consider the effect of the ethnicity and language beyond the impact of those other predictors," the authors state. "We find that acculturation has a unique contribution to the onset of intercourse beyond those other predictors." Overall, Hispanic youth were at greater risk for having ex...Scientific evidence for diets: don't believe everything you read
...n use (other than drugs taken to control obesity), ethnicity and postmenopausal status. It has been shown that all of these characteristics affect weight and can alter the effect of diet and exercise on weight loss. The researchers also examined whether the sample size at the beginning and at the end of the st...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January 2005 (second issue)
...on data from 4,574 persons who self-reported their ethnicity as Mexican American during the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHAMES III), as well as from 12,980 persons who reported their Mexican American heritage in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Of the 4,574 NHAMES III participants,...Breast reconstruction with implants after mastectomy doesn't hurt survival chances
...ore likely to be younger and of non-Hispanic white ethnicity than women who had no implant. After adjusting for these and other clinical and sociodemographic factors in their analysis, the authors concluded that breast cancer mortality in patients with breast implants is about half that of patients without imp...2004's top 10 hot topics in plastic surgery
...ontinue to hone techniques to maintain a patient's ethnicity while enhancing features. 10. Stem cells from fat? Doctors can harvest and store adult stem cells from liposuction fat and successfully grow stem cells. While this advance is exciting, treatment of medical disorders using stem cells from liposuctio...Minority teens' views of drug use differ from reality
...measured the adolescents' feelings about their own ethnicity and compared those with their attitudes and propen...tity as a nonuser - along with a belief that their ethnicity is important -- that motivated them to assert a positive drug-free identity as characteristic of Bla...As obesity increases in people with diabetes, so does risk of cardiovascular disease
...MI, researchers highlighted significant racial and ethnicity differences in control of risk factors. Results showed that 12.2 percent of Asian-Pacific Island participants met all three risk factor goals, compared to only 5 percent of blacks. Among whites, 11.9 percent met all three goals; among Native American...Study finds nearly 60% of American adults may have elevated blood pressure
...analyzed the group by age, sex, body weight group, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, as determined by education. They also analyzed awareness of hypertension and efforts taken to control it, based on questions asked of survey participants. The most pronounced prevalence of either prehypertension or hyp...Researcher looks at racial identity as part of healthy lifestyle
... Now with a deeper understanding of how race and ethnicity influence behavior, Resnicow is embarking on a new...oal is to use responses to determine the role that ethnicity and culture play in the lives of participants. "To date, when we have developed health programs f...Eye drops may delay or prevent glaucoma in African Americans at higher risk
... factors rather than relying solely on the race or ethnicity of the individual." Dr. Higginbotham suggested that before determining treatment, the doctor and patient should also discuss the patient's health status and life expectancy, and the burden of daily treatment, including cost, inconvenience, and possib...Highlights of June Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...e approximately 150 million women, diverse in age, ethnicity and race, in the United States and Canada. Dietetics professionals are trained experts that can help educate women on the importance of a healthy diet and the link between nutrition and health. The joint ADA and DC position statement is as follows: "...GI health affected by consumption of coffee and carbonated drinks
...nalyses both unadjusted and adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity and cigarette smoking, the prevalence of liver injury declined with increasing coffee drinking and caffeine consumption, though the protective effect was greater for caffeine intake. The correlation was consistent across subgroups when defined by in...90 million Americans are burdened with inadequate health literacy
...nt language and cultural backgrounds. Culture and ethnicity may influence patients' perceptions of health, illness, and the risks and benefits of treatments. Differing cultural and educational backgrounds between a patient and provider also contribute to problems in the patient's comprehension. Health care ...One form of vitamin E appears beneficial in reducing bladder cancer risk
...r developing bladder cancer, such as smoking, age, ethnicity and gender, to determine the benefits of the two forms of vitamin E. "Our long term goal is to identify risk factors that are important for bladder cancer development," says Wu. Radcliffe says more studies are suggesting that different...Human rights abuses common in southern Iraq between 1991 and 2003
... averaged 38 years of age, and were mostly of Arab ethnicity (99.7 percent) and Muslim Shi'a (96.7 percent). "Overall, 47 percent of those interviewed reported 1 or more of the following abuses among themselves and household members since 1991: torture, killings, disappearance, forced [military service], beati...New computer-aided approach tailors drug dose to patient needs
..., among others, whether the patient smokes or not, ethnicity and the patient's weight. By comparing the dosages predicted by the new system with dose-effect data from 39 patients who had undergone standard abciximab therapy, the researchers found that the new software offered potential for dose prescription ...