Puerto Rican and African-American children show different patterns of asthma care
..." Many studies have compared asthma care between whites and African Americans, but relatively few have looked at Hispanics and even fewer have looked at Puerto Rican children specifically. "Hispanics are usually reported as one mixed group, although there are substantial differences in asthma outcomes bet...Projected costs of stroke in the United States top $2 trillion dollars
..., followed by Hispanics ($17,201) and non-Hispanic whites ($15,597). "The economic burden of stroke in African Americans and Hispanics will be enormous over the next several decades," said the study's lead author Devin Brown, MD, of the Stroke Program at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Ar...Strokes will cost US $2.2 trillion by 2050 if prevention & treatment don't improve
...pact of lost earnings is greater than non-Hispanic whites per capita," says Brown. On average, 2 percent of non-Latino whites under age 65 have had a stroke, while 9 percent of those over age 65 have had one. Those rates are h...Mexican Americans have higher risk of stroke recurrence
... they had a higher risk compared with non-Hispanic whites (NHWs). Led by Lynda D. Lisabeth, Ph.D., of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, MI, researchers identified stroke cases in Nueces County, TX as part of the BASIC project, a stroke sur......e predominance of Mexican-Americans and non-Latino whites in the study population, results for other Latino subgroups and African-Americans are not available. The study followed 1,345 people who had their first strokes between 2000 and 2004 -- 53 percent of whom were Mexican-Americans -- and determined th...Analysis shows blacks have poorer diabetes control than whites
...udies that measured sugar control among blacks and whites using a blood test for glycosylated hemoglobin he...ent plan is working. The researchers found that whites had about 0.65 percent less A1C than blacks. Previous research has shown that for every 1 percent re...Life and death in the USA: New study concludes there are 'Eight Americas'
...ow-income rural whites, Middle America, low-income whites in Appalachia and the Mississippi Valley, western Native Americans, black Middle America, southern low-income rural blacks, and high-risk urban blacks. Many striking differences in life expectancy were found between the eight groups. In 2001, the li...Blacks with bladder cancer have more aggressive tumors, worse survival, U-M study finds
...," Lee adds. Bladder cancer is twice as common in whites as it is in blacks, but black people have lower survival rates. In this study, 24 percent of the black patients died of bladder cancer while 15 percent of the white patients did. Even when the researchers compared only the patients with early stage d...$36.4 billion a year: Cost of HIV/AIDS highlights racial and ethnic disparities
..., minorities incur fewer direct medical costs than whites ($160,400 for blacks on average, compared with $18...r stages of the disease than whites. In addition, whites with HIV/AIDS are more likely to receive antiretroviral therapy (ART). As Dr. Hutchinson notes, "AR...Minorities, uninsured less likely to receive care at high-volume hospitals
... to go to low-volume hospitals, when compared with whites and patients with Medicare. Furthermore, patients with private insurance were significantly more likely to go to high-volume hospitals for 3 of the surgical procedures." For all 10 operations, black patients were significantly less likely to receive...Younger African American women at significantly higher risk for breast cancer
...n newer generations are about 21 percent higher in whites and 41 percent higher in African-Americans than in previous generations of women. The researchers attributed much of the increased incidence among white women to better detection, due to the widespread availability of mammographic screening beginn...Wide racial disparities found in coronary artery disease deaths
...t blacks have had a 36 percent survival rate while whites have had a 46 percent survival rate. The researc...sease is the leading cause of death for blacks and whites in the United States, and yet there is a paucity of information on the long-term prognosis for black...Novel program enhances dementia caregivers' quality of life
...ercent, 13 percent and 11 percent among Hispanics, whites and African Americans, respectively, in the control group. For Hispanics, the intervention was found to be most effective in reducing depressive symptoms and problem behaviors of the care recipient. Among whites, the greatest impact was in the are...RAND study finds adolescent Asian immigrants improve their good health habits over time
...nos showed either poorer preventive behaviors than whites or a worsening of behaviors across generations. The first generation of Latino teens reported eating more fruits and vegetables, and drinking less soda than white teens. But by the third generation, that trend reversed with Latino teens reporting ...Blacks less likely to recognize overweight and obesity, study shows
...weight black men and women were twice as likely as whites to make inaccurate body weight perceptions, and obese black adults were even more likely to exhibit weight status misperceptions, according to the report. Unrealistic assessments of body weight were just as common in people who were relatively fina...Workers' compensation ratings don't accurately predict disabilities
...views found that blacks were much less likely than whites to be diagnosed with a herniated disk or to have b...ss likely to be operated on, but the care that the whites got, even though it looks like more care, because it's surgery and it's more expensive, didn't do an...Risk factors for hypertension start young
...ites. The gap between the pressure measurements of whites and blacks also widens as children get older. At night, blood pressure should drop because the body is resting, says Dr. Gregory Harshfield, director of MCG's Georgia Prevention Institute and a co-author on the study published in the Dec. 19 editio...Ethnic disparities in alcohol services: financial and logistical barriers are key
...ems appear to utilize services at lower rates than whites with similar problems. For Hispanics especially, ...blems seem to utilize services at lower rates than whites with similar problems. This appears to be due in part particularly for Hispanics to financial and...Researchers identify gene associated with severe kidney failure in diabetes
... actions of this gene apply to Europeans, American whites and Arabs. When his group repeated the analysis in black Americans, there was no evidence that the carnosinase pathway was involved in their kidney failure. "It is possible that American blacks have different carnosine metabolism, making them less...Health-care inequities underscore racial disparities in prostate cancer
... researchers surveyed 84 African-Americans and 253 whites from North Carolina recently diagnosed with prostate cancer to better characterize the role of knowledge and attitudes, socioeconomic status, demography, and healthcare access in race and prostate cancer. The researchers found that compared to whit...