The need for professional care of African-American children with autism can go unmet. Some of the disparity could stem from cultural differences in parental perceptions of behavior, says autism expert Margaret C. Souders, PhD, RN, assistant professor of human genetics at Penn Nursing.
• Among dialysis patients, Hispanics tend to live the longer than Blacks, who in turn live longer than whites. • Determining the reasons for these racial and ethnic disparities may be important for improving care. As of 2010, there were approximately 410,000 dialysis patients in the United States.
• A study of kidney failure patients found that fewer patients in large-metro and rural counties received kidney specialist care before developing kidney failure than patients in medium/small-metro counties. • In all geographic areas, black patients received less care before developing kidney failure than their white counterparts. More than 590,000 Americans in 2010 were treated for kidney failure; more than 20 million Americans had some level of chronic kidney disease.
A pair of studies tells the tale of how a neuroscientist at Mayo Clinic in Florida helped to discover the first African-American family to have inherited the rare movement disorder dystonia, which causes repetitive muscle contractions and twisting, resulting in abnormal posture.
New research shows the dramatic gap in household wealth that now exists along racial lines in the United States cannot solely be attributed to personal ambition and behavioral choices, but rather reflects policies and institutional practices that create different opportunities for whites and African-Americans.
In a study using mathematical axioms, a group of researchers led by Ge Wang, adjunct professor of biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech, has refuted a study that reports on possible racial bias in NIH review process of funding proposals.
• African Americans and individuals without private health insurance are less likely to receive a kidney transplant before needing dialysis. • Geographic region is not a major factor in determining whether a patient receives a kidney transplant before starting dialysis.
African-American and Hispanic students may be less likely than non-Hispanic white students to hold a job during the school year, but when they do, they tend to work somewhat longer hours and seem less likely to see their grades suffer than non-Hispanic white students with jobs, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
• Residence in areas with higher average household income was linked with improved survival in kidney failure patients. • In White patients, income inequality was associated with mortality. • In Black patients exclusively, residence in highly segregated areas was associated with increased mortality. More than 590,000 Americans in 2010 were treated for kidney failure.
Gettysburg College Africana Studies and History Prof. considers African Americans' struggles and progress over the past 150 years, including the promises and hopes of Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.
Significant health disparity could be fatal for thousands of people.
The study, recently published online in Health Education Research, is the first to look at the role of Hmong patriarchal and family influences on women’s breast and cervical cancer screening. It is also one of the only studies conducted with Oregon’s Hmong population.
Northern patients paid more, adhered more to key Part D drugs in first two years of the option says School of Pharmacy.
Roughly half of all black and Hispanic patients who enter publicly funded alcohol treatment programs do not complete treatment, compared to 62 percent of white patients, according to a new study from a team of researchers including the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Comparable disparities were also identified for drug treatment program completion rates.
While minority populations are rising throughout the country, enrollment by minority students in the nation's medical schools has stagnated. Further, some data show that non-white students face a greater likelihood of academic withdrawal or dismissal, or graduate without passing key exams on their first try. Why is this happening? That question is at the crux of a new study that analyzes the successes of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine’s program to address the lack of diversity among health care professionals nationwide, particularly as minorities make up an increasing share of the U.S. population.
The ongoing REGARDS study finds that a 10-millimeter difference in blood pressure can make blacks three times more likely than whites to have a stroke.
Hair care and maintenance issues are primary factors that deter African-American women from exercising, a major health concern for a group that has the highest rates of overweight or obesity in the country.
African American women with early stage, invasive breast cancer were 12 percent less likely than Caucasian women with the same diagnosis to receive a minimally invasive technique, axillary sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy, years after the procedure had become the standard of surgical practice, according to research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
• Data from 2002 to 2007 show a consistent disparity. • Black women were 12 percent less likely to receive newer surgical practice. • More efforts are needed to widely implement improved techniques.
Genetic changes that protected their ancestors against fly-borne parasites may partly explain why African-Americans with lupus are up to five times more likely to develop end-stage kidney disease than those of European descent.
According to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. differences by income and geographic region may prevent Medicare recipients with rheumatoid arthritis from receiving the latest RA treatments.
Race and ethnicity, along with gender, are important factors in determining both short-term and lifetime risk of developing symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Black men and women have twice the risk of fatal coronary heart disease as whites, but the disparity could be eliminated with better risk factor control.
Hispanics and Latinos living in the U.S. are highly likely to have several major cardiovascular disease risk factors, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and smoking, according to a new, large-scale study.
• Breast cancer survival is known to differ across racial/ethnic groups. • More education, better neighborhood socioeconomic status improved survival rates.
• ER- and PR-negative tumors were more common among black and Hispanic patients. • Non-Hispanic black and Hispanic patients lived in more disadvantaged areas. • Socioeconomic disadvantage accounted for half of the racial/ethnic disparity.
• Discussions of cancer clinical trials with black patients were shorter in length. • These data may explain under-enrollment of black patients in cancer clinical trials.
• Disadvantaged neighborhoods of Chicago less likely to have nearby mammography clinic. • Findings may partially explain socioeconomic disparities in cancer severity.
• Associations found for BMI and waist-to-hip ratio. • Weight affected overall and breast cancer-specific mortality.
• Breast tumor aggressiveness increased receipt of chemotherapy, decreased adjuvant radiation utilization. • Adjuvant radiation still under-recommended. • Receiving chemotherapy decreased likelihood of radiation.
• Caregivers may delay seeking care if they are illegal immigrants. • Language was a barrier to caregivers fully understanding treatment risks. • Clinical trial consent process may not be adequate for Spanish-speaking caregivers.
• Risk was 48 percent greater relative to white women during first three years. • Increased risk varies by tumor subtype.
• In adjusted analyses, findings persisted for Asian survivors only. • Poor communication may contribute to poor ratings for follow-up care.
• Certain genetic variations exist only in African-Americans. • Some of these variations led to higher colorectal cancer risk. • One variant was linked to decreased risk for cancer of the left side of the colon.
Three separate studies presented today at the American College of Gastroenterology’s (ACG) 77th Annual Scientific meeting in Las Vegas help to advance understanding of the differences between African American and Caucasian patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and provide clinicians with new insight on how racial disparities involving disease characteristics, infliximab use, and fistulizing Crohn’s disease may impact their patients—and their decisions on how best to manage the disease.
A University of South Carolina health psychology study shows social marketing and interaction are key to making walking programs work in African-American communities. Findings from Dawn Wilson’s study appear in the latest issue of the American Journal of Public Health. It is the first known study to measure the impact of social marketing in the success of this type of health intervention in impoverished communities.
Older black patients are three times more likely than older white patients to suffer poorer outcomes after surgery, including death, when cared for by nurses with higher workloads, reports research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. The large-scale study showed higher nurse workloads negatively affected older surgical patients generally and that the rate was more significant in older black individuals. When the patient-to-nurse ratio increased above 5:1, the odds of patient death increased by 3 percent per additional patient among whites and by 10 percent per additional patient among blacks.
White non-Hispanic construction workers are awarded higher workers' compensation settlements in Illinois than Hispanic or black construction workers with similar injuries and disabilities, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.
An online study of eligible voters around the country revealed that the preference for whites over blacks is the strongest in the least politically-partisan voters. Among these voters, race biases against Barack Obama could produce as much as a 20 percent gap in the popular vote in a contest that would otherwise be equal.
Study shows kidney failure and heart disease in diabetic patients may be affected by race.
Low levels of vitamin D and high levels of parathyroid hormone are associated with increased mortality in African American and Caucasian older adults, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM).
New study finds African-American youths are over-exposed to alcohol advertising.
Regular mammography screening can help narrow the breast cancer gap between black and white women, according to a retrospective study published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment in August.
Faculty of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics share personal and professional experiences at the 40th Annual Sickle Cell Disease Association convention in Baltimore, and beyond.
New research finds that that we can improve our memory of members of another race by identifying ourselves as part of the same group. Such identification could improve everything from race relations to eyewitness identification.
A spectrum of disparities exist in the surgical management of well-differentiated thyroid cancer, according to new data presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) in Québec City, Québec, Canada.
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have published a study describing the greater difficulty in finding matched, unrelated donors for non-Caucasian patients who are candidates for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT).
Even though African American men in the United States are disproportionately more likely to have uncontrolled high blood pressure (or hypertension) than other racial and ethnic groups, they are less likely to take health-preserving medication.
A study led by investigators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), Nashville, Tenn., finds that black men with prostate cancer receive lower quality surgical care than white men. The racial differences persist even when controlling for factors such as the year of surgery, age, comorbidities and insurance status.
Healthcare providers should take into account differences among racial groups when using hemoglobin A1C levels to diagnose and monitor diabetes, new research from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center suggests.
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