Black-white life expectancy gap narrows, but remains substantial
...rrowing the life expectancy gap between blacks and whites in the United States, although substantial inequal...nce in life expectancy at birth between blacks and whites remains substantial, 6.3 years for men and 4.5 years for women. "Homicide, HIV, and perinatal death...Americans still not eating enough fruits and vegetables, according to 2 recent studies
...k, concludes, "Dietary intake trends in blacks and whites over the past several decades appear to be similarsuggesting that previously identified dietary risk factors that differentially affect black Americans have not improved in a relative sense. The differences observed need to be confirmed with biomarke...Chunky adolescents' cardiovascular health is headed in wrong direction
...g was in between," says Dr. Dong. For example, the whites had about a 2-mmHg increase in casual and ambulatory systolic blood pressure (the top number taken when the heart is contracting) as he looked across the three categories of kids from thinnest to heaviest. Although the incremental increases dont g...Epidemiology of TB: Updates from CDC studies to be presented at ATS 2007
... Americans is more than eight times the rate among whites and has been for some time. Over one-third of the TB cases in African Americans are in the southeastern United States. During the first phase of this study, researchers gathered information about knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about TB from six ...Veterans exposed to Agent Orange have higher rates of prostate cancer recurrence
...rrence rates in exposed and non-exposed blacks and whites and the results held up. "As a population in general, if you were exposed to Agent Orange, youre more likely to have a recurrence," says Dr. Shah. "If you were black and exposed, you were more likely to recur than if you were black and unexposed." ......ll be prevented, and lives will be saved. While whites were more likely than either blacks or Hispanics t...ll be prevented, and lives will be saved. While whites were more likely than either blacks or Hispanics to have had a colonoscopy in 2003, the three groups...When minority patients have insurance and a medical home, their health care improves
... point during the year. In contrast, 21 percent of whites and 18 percent of Asian Americans lacked coverage. In addition to being the groups most likely to go without health insurance, African Americans and Hispanics are least likely to have a regular doctor or source of care. While health insurance coverag...Environmental inequality study finds no direct links to segregation, income
...e investigated why minorities are more likely than whites to reside in areas where there is more pollution, ...nequality could not exist if blacks, Hispanics and whites were equally represented in all neighborhoods. Instead, the study demonstrates that residential seg...Hispanic drug use rises in US culture
...ces as well. The study shows that 6.4 percent of whites reported using illicit drugs in the previous month, compared to 7.2 percent of acculturated Hispanics. However, less than 1 percent of non-acculturated, Spanish-speaking Hispanics reported use in the same time period. Their percentage/general patte...RAND finds cases of undiagnosed diabetes drop sharply
...s and African-Americans no longer more likely than whites to unknowingly have the disease, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. Study author James P. Smith found that in 1999-2002 about 20 percent of American men who had diabetes did not know they had the disease, in contrast to 25 years ag...Conventional prognostic factors fail to explain better prostate cancer survival in most Asian men
...factors and survival rates of 116,916 men (108,076 whites and 8,840 Asians from the six largest represented Asian ethnicities - Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Vietnamese) diagnosed with prostate cancer. Dr. Robbins and his coauthors found that for each Asian ethnic subgroup, prognos...