Urban neighborhoods affect how people think about health
...home or spend time in the hospital when ill, while whites and Puerto Ricans were more likely to stay home. "Those who seek care at urban clinics or don't seek health care at all were less likely to stay home from work," she said. "People who don't receive treatment for their illnesses may face more expensiv...Differential heart-attack risks among blacks, whites remain mystery
...)" lead to increased risks for heart attacks among whites but not among African-Americans. Researchers say t...sma levels of Lp(a) and coronary calcium in either whites or African-Americans, which indicates that some other mechanism is at work." The Dallas Heart Study ...University of Chicago receives grant to study connections between religious beliefs and health
...tudy includes 230 African Americans, Hispanics and whites between the ages of 50 and 67 from Chicago and the suburbs. The researchers are gathering extensive medical histories, health assessments, health care utilization measures, health behaviors measures, sleep quality indices, personality measures and li...Obesity adds risk of cardiovascular disease in siblings in families with a history of heart problems
..., the Hopkins team found that 50 percent of BMI in whites was hereditary, while in blacks, the hereditary factor was even less, at 30 percent. This means that lifestyle and environmental factors account for the rest, the researchers say, suggesting that much of BMI is not associated with family history and...'Surprising' findings reported about iron overload
...l of screening 10,000 African-Americans and 10,000 whites for blood iron levels or the presence of mutations in a gene, called the HFE gene, which evidence suggests regulates iron absorption. "Hemochromatosis and iron overload are easily treatable if diagnosed early, but the simple blood test that could d...New study finds combat vets face more cardiovascular risks
... years 1939-1998, was more common among older men, whites and those with more education." After adjusting for age, race and education, combat veterans were about twice as likely as non-vets to be heavy smokers, four times as likely to be heavy drinkers and moderately less likely to be physically inactive, s...UC Davis Cancer Center awarded $4.5 million
...an Americans are more than five times as likely as whites to die of liver cancer, for example, and on an aggregate basis, Asian Pacific Islander women over age 40 have the lowest mammogram screening rates in the country. In some Asian groups, the incidence of cervical cancer is as much as five times that of...African-Americans more prone to higher heart weight than whites, study shows
...eart weight, or left-ventricular hypertrophy, than whites regardless of their differences in body fat and overall body composition. The study, available online, was to be published in an upcoming issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. Elevated blood pressure seemed to be the best ...Use of high hydrostatic pressure to inactivate Hepatitis A virus in oysters studied
...led with the onset of jaundice, a yellowing of the whites of the eyes, and dark urine. The disease generally runs its course in two months, but can linger as long as six. While survival rates for Hepatitis A are above 99 percent, the disease can be very dangerous for infants, the elderly, immunosuppressed p...Once in the doctor's office, racial and ethnic disparities in care nearly disappear: Stanford study
...he country, and a pervasive gap in quality between whites and minorities. For example, the disparities report found that minorities are more likely than whites to die from HIV/AIDS, and they are also less likely to receive routine childhood immunizations. Whil...Study links race to risk of advanced colorectal cancer, death
... a few specific subgroups compared to non-Hispanic whites suggest more variation in cancer risks than the br... Americans, Asians/Pacific Islanders, and Hispanic whites were more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stages of colorectal cancer compared to non-Hispanic ...Knowledge of Tuskegee study doesn't increase medical mistrust
...ican-Americans were significantly more likely than whites to be mistrustful of medical care. The study is pu...cted it and 75 percent of blacks and 25 percent of whites thought the Tuskegee participants were given syphilis purposely. In fact, the U.S. Public Health Ser...NIH encourages African Americans to discuss kidney disease at family reunions
... African Americans are four times more likely than whites to develop kidney failure. Furthermore, diabetes and high blood pressure account for 70 percent of kidney failure in African Americans. Because diabetes and high blood pressure run in families, reunions offer good opportunities to discuss kidney dise...Healthy weight means healthier blood lipid profile in children, study finds
...y be different mechanisms by which some blacks and whites develop hypertension and probably cardiovascular disease," says Dr. Barbeau. "A bad lipid profile may not be the most important mechanism for blacks." The study also found that easy, inexpensive and widely available ways to measure fatness seem to wo...Immigrants spend half as much on health care as native-born Americans
...$1,870) and less than one third those of U.S.-born whites ($3,117). The future economic success of the United States depends on a healthy immigrant workforce. Our findings suggest an urgent need for partnerships between health organizations and community groups to improve access to care, particularly for mi...Black people more likely to survive a stroke than white people
...m stroke are generally higher in black people than whites in the United Kingdom and the United States. In south London, where this study took place, the average age of people with stroke is 10 years lower than in the whole population. The study involved over 2,000 patients registered on the south London str...National study shows black immigrants' health erodes the longer they live in US
...s. Blacks born in Africa and South America, where whites are the small minority, are much healthier than U.S.-born blacks. Those born in the Caribbean, a racially mixed region, are healthier than U.S.-born blacks but less healthy than those from Africa and South America. According to Emerson and Read, ra...Smoking may increase risk of diabetes
... equal numbers of African-Americans, Hispanics and whites recruited from Los Angeles and Oakland, Calif., San Antonio, Texas and the San Luis Valley area of Colorado....Sharper picture of major depression and alcohol disorders
...9.17 percent) lifetime MDD prevalence, followed by whites (14.58 percent), Hispanics (9.64 percent), Blacks (8.93 percent), and Asian or Pacific Islanders (8.77 percent). Since information is scarce on diagnosed mental disorders among Native Americans, this finding appears to warrant increased attention t......re found in diabetes, where rates for new cases in whites under age 40 were the lowest since the late 1980's, in stark contrast to rates for their African American counterparts, which have not budged. "It's gratifying to see progress, however small, and to know that NIDDK activities undoubtedly have had a ...