Conventional prognostic factors fail to explain better prostate cancer survival in most Asian men
...Asia. The few that have tried to analyze by Asian ethnicity have typically analyzed only a few ethnicities, missing significant Asian-American ethnic populations in the process. Interestingly, the data to date show that compared to non-Hispanic white Americans, some Asian ethnicities, such as Japanese-Americ...Anti-gay hate crimes widespread
...fter Herek controlled statistically for age, race, ethnicity and education. Men are generally more likely than women to be the targets of most kinds of violent crime, and this pattern seems to hold in anti-gay hate crimes as well, Herek said. The gay men and lesbians in the study were much more likely than t...Gene variations point to why lung cancer drugs work better in Japanese vs. US patients
...ith the patients genetic makeup, rather than their ethnicity per se, since. some individuals in each group possessed genetic variations not typical of their group. Thus, the study suggests therapies in the future need to be tailored to each individual based on analysis of his or her genetic makeup, not simply ...NIH study tracks brain development in some 500 children across US
... of the study group in terms of family income and ethnicity to resemble the demographics of the U.S. population, based on census data from 2000. Finally, they used questionnaires to exclude children who had any signs or known risk of serious neurological or psychiatric disorders. Recruitment and screening...Place more than race tied to heart disease risk
...gger role in your risk for heart disease than your ethnicity or race. New research reveals that rural residents were more knowledgeable about healthy eating and heart disease risk than urban residents, but that urban residents were more motivated and optimistic about getting healthy. And further, these differe...Updated guidelines advise focusing on women's lifetime heart risk
...ormal blood pressure, prehypertensive women of any ethnicity had a 58 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death: 76 percent higher risk of heart attack; 93 percent higher risk of stroke; 36 percent higher risk for being hospitalized with heart failure; and 66 percent higher risk for any cardiovascular event....Children who sleep more weigh less
...ts income and education and the childrens race and ethnicity were taken into consideration. Specifically, the researchers found that sleeping an additional hour reduced young childrens chance of being overweight from 36 percent to 30 percent, while it reduced older children's risk from 34 percent to 30 percent...Children who sleep less more likely to be overweight
...ossible effects of other variables including race, ethnicity and income. Snell co-wrote the article with Northwestern's Emma K. Adam and Greg J. Duncan, assistant professor and professor of education and social policy, respectively. Adam and Duncan are fellows at the University's Institute for Policy Researc...Highlights from the February 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...they ate as well as their income, education level, ethnicity and lifestyle, such as marital status and level of physical activity. Results include: Those with an income of greater than $45,000 ate fewer burgers and sandwiches than those who made less than that. Consumption of cereals, breads, dairy product...NOVA to air two-hour documentary on pioneering African American chemist
...generally true for all, no matter what their race, ethnicity or gender." Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery, Ala., on April 11, 1899, the son of a railway clerk. Julian's schooling was spotty in the segregated South of the early 20th century. Even so, he was accepted at DePauw University in Greencastl...Novel brain areas associated with the recognition of gender, ethnicity and the identity of faces
...ns that respond selectively to the cues of gender, ethnicity and identity in faces. Using a novel adaptation te...for neurons that are selectively tuned for gender, ethnicity and identity cues in an area not previously thought to be associated with face processing. Led by re...Racial disparities high in Medicare plans
...ny health plans do not collect data on the race or ethnicity of enrollees, but without such data, health care organizations will be unable to detect systematic racial or ethnic disparities among patients or develop and evaluate interventions to eliminate disparities....Doctor urges health-care workers to be alert to suicide risk amongst cancer patients
...ognosis, the stage of disease, the type of cancer, ethnicity and family situation, according to the study's author Dr Wayne Kendal, a radiation oncologist at the Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Centre. "If we were to draw a composite picture of the patient most at risk, this would be a widowed white male, wi...ADHD costly before and after diagnosis
...ifferences in costs and use of ADHD medications by ethnicity could be related to cultural acceptance of diagnosis and treatment, they continue. "Future studies, particularly those involving interviews of the parents of children with ADHD and their health care providers, could shed light on the reasons for the...Uninsured Latino children more likely not to get medical care
...sociated with being an uninsured child, but Latino ethnicity is not. The higher prevalence of other risk factors appears to account for Latino children's high risk of being uninsured. Uninsured Latino children are significantly more likely than insured Latino children to have no regular physician, and to not g...Vitamin D supplements should be given to Asian children for two years from birth
...em," the authors conclude. While people of Asian ethnicity are predominantly affected, there are cases of the deficiency among white populations, particularly among recent arrivals to the UK from Eastern Europe, they add....... complete data were available. Mexican-American ethnicity was a strong factor in a person's risk of a second stroke. The risk of recurrent stroke at two years among the first-time stroke survivors was 11 percent. When the researchers looked at the risk of dying from any cause during the study period, the...Mexican Americans have higher risk of stroke recurrence
... compliance, or differential drug effectiveness by ethnicity could also translate into increased stroke recurrence for MAs," they note. They add that it would be useful to investigate the rate of other vascular events following stroke and that this should be explored in future studies. One interesting findin...New study links higher income with lower disability rates
...us operates independently of such factors as race, ethnicity and health behaviors. Although researchers often control for social class, it warrants much more focused attention." ...Mild to severe heart muscle impairment linked to higher stroke risk
...hed with the patients according to age, gender and ethnicity or race. Echocardiography was performed within three days from stroke onset in the stroke group. Reflecting the multiethnic makeup of NOMAS, about 32 percent of the study group was black, 49 percent was Hispanic, and 17 percent was white. Stroke ri...