Health risks from impaired drug metabolism
...explain how prevalent this characteristic is among racial and ethnic groups.She will also describe her discovery of a new, related genetic variation that's likely to affect metabolism of the same drugs, particularly in African-Americans. "It's important to know when patients have this [characteristic], b...Anger-prone people are more likely to have heart attacks
...mokers and drinkers. Researchers did not find any racial differences in the association between anger and coronary events. "The lack of an increase in heart attacks among individuals who had high blood pressure and high anger could have been due to the fact that high blood pressure alone is associated with......earch to be the most definitive study ever done on racial differences in osteoarthritis. Jordan is a member of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center at UNC-CH. Others involved in the study were Dr. Jordan Renner, associate professor of radiology, and Anca Dragomir and Gheorghe Luta, doctoral students in ...Welfare to work does not improve mental health
...the women were white, which also is similar to the racial composition in that state. "Results demonstrate that there were no significant differences in depression, self-esteem, self-efficacy or perceived emotional support scores between the women who continued to receive Aid to Families with Dependent C...Low dose estrogen improves bone health
...eport on the ethnic differences. Each of the three racial or ethnic groups was represented in the four dose groups: a placebo group, those taking the conventional dose of 1.0 mg 17-beta estradiol, a group taking 0.5 mg estradiol, and a group taking 0.25 mg estradiol. The women, whose mean age was 75, recei...Other highlights in the October 15 issue of JNCI
...ge breast cancer. The treatment delays may explain racial differences in breast cancer survival, authors of a new study suggest. Dawn Hershman, M.D., of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York, and her colleagues collected information on 73 African American and 126 matched white women, and of these w...No evidence that large numbers of physicians are leaving California, say UCSF researchers
...ysician workforce is losing ground in terms of its racial and ethnic diversity. African Americans and Hispan...o not show significant advances in recent years in racial and ethnic diversity. Only about a quarter of physicians practicing in California in 2000 attended ...Increased prostate cancer diagnoses tied to access to screening
... rate across all socioeconomic levels, within each racial or ethnic group.That changed after 1987. For men diagnosed in the 10 years after PSA testing started, the higher their socioeconomic status, the greater the incidence of prostate cancer. And, the higher a mans socioeconomic status, on average, the ea...NHLBI-VA study finds no increased survival from beta-blocker for moderate to advanced heart failure
...e to severe heart failure. The results also showed racial differences in the drug's effects, although the reasons for these differences are not yet clear. Black heart failure patients received no benefit from bucindolol, while non-black patients treated with the drug lived longer. Non-black patients inclu......he 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 nutrients, are antioxidants. They are capable of neutralizing toxins known as "free radicals" that might otherwise damage ...Diet and exercise dramatically delay type 2 diabetes
...ight), inactivity, family history of diabetes, and 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 i...Annals of Internal Medicine, Tip Sheet, September 4, 2001
...f these variables simultaneously to understand the racial differences in cardiac care. Racial differenc...among white patients but did not fully explain the racial disparities. Overuse varied more widely by state than by race or sex. These researchers suggest that...UCSF study finds shortage of California dentists in rural, poor, minority communities
...California and across the nation, Mertz said. The racial and ethnic composition of the health care workforce is also a public health issue, as minority health care providers are more likely to practice in undeserved communities. The study found that two-thirds of communities without dentists are rural, at ...News tips from the care and outcomes meeting
...Dallas, 972-566-6626; aanderson@nthc.com P33 Do racial differences in cardiac revascularization use affect outcomes for African-Americans? While studies have found that African-Americans with coronary artery disease are less likely than whites to undergo cardiac revascularization procedures, the impact ...Underage smokers respond to threat of legal penalties
...vingood. The study findings were consistent across racial and ethnic groups, although smoking rates among African-American students were more dramatically influenced by the enforcement rating of their county than white students....College freshmen more politically liberal than in the past, UCLA survey reveals
...re likely than men to socialize with people from a racial or ethnic background different from their own (71....67.6 percent among men). Fewer freshmen agree that racial discrimination is no longer a major problem in America (19.5 percent this year, with a rating of 20....Wake Forest establishes Maya Angelou Research Center on minority health
...reate a nationally recognized model for addressing racial and ethnic health disparities. Nationally recognized programs in underrepresented minority health education. Nationally recognized research on underrepresented minority health related areas and in the development of mechanisms for the translation o...Social factors may affect survival in lung cancer patients
...velop and die from cancer than people of any other racial and ethnic group. A new study suggests that socioeconomic status and other social circumstances are likely to be responsible for decreased physical health at the time of diagnosis among African American patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. The...Racial and ethnic minorities may receive less appropriate cancer treatment
...number of cancers in the United States occur among racial and ethnic minorities. When compared with whites, ...dies of cancer treatment and survival, focusing on racial and ethnic variations in the treatment of patients with breast, cervical, colorectal, prostate, or l...... While the researchers cannot explain why this racial disparity exists, they emphasize that theirfinding... research activity. Although we knew there are racial disparities in care, we did not know how these differencesaffected patients symptoms and functional ...