Beta-amyloid and Cortical Thickness Reveal Racial Disparities in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
NeuroImage: Clinical, 2017 African Americans are two to four times more likely to develop dementia as Non-Hispanic Whites. This increased risk among African Americans represents a critical health disparity that affects nearly 43 million Americans.
Ian M. McDonough
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Differential expression of miR-34b and androgen receptor pathway regulate prostate cancer aggressiveness between African-Americans and Caucasians. [PDF]
, 2016 African-Americans are diagnosed with more aggressive prostate cancers and have worse survival than Caucasians, however a comprehensive understanding of this health disparity remains unclear.
Dahiya, Rajvir +15 more
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Advancing the sleep/wake schedule impacts the sleep of African-Americans more than European-Americans. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 There are differences in sleep duration between Blacks/African-Americans and Whites/European-Americans. Recently, we found differences between these ancestry groups in the circadian system, such as circadian period and the magnitude of phase shifts. Here
Gemma M Paech +3 more
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Future Internet, 2013 This study examines the participation of African Americans on social networking sites (SNS), and evaluates the degree to which African Americans engage in activities in the online environment to mitigate social capital deficits. Prior literature suggests
Danielle Taana Smith
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Association of Vitamin D3 Level with Breast Cancer Risk and Prognosis in African-American and Hispanic Women. [PDF]
, 2017 Background: This study investigated the association of vitamin D3 levels with breast cancer risk and progression in African-Americans and Hispanics. Methods: A total of 237 African-American (Cases = 119, Control = 118) and 423 Hispanic women (Cases = 124,
Chlebowski, Rowan +4 more
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Socius, 2021 Second-generation black Americans have been inadequately studied in prior quantitative research. The authors seek to ameliorate this research gap by using the Current Population Survey to investigate education and wages among second-generation black ...
Arthur Sakamoto +3 more
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Exploring the Effects of Mitonuclear Interactions on Mitochondrial DNA Gene Expression in Humans
Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 Most mitochondrial protein complexes include both nuclear and mitochondrial gene products, which coevolved to work together. This coevolution can be disrupted due to disparity in genetic ancestry between the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes in recently ...
Edmundo Torres-Gonzalez +1 more
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Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and prognosis of breast cancer among African-American and Hispanic women. [PDF]
, 2013 BackgroundVitamin D plays a role in cancer development and acts through the vitamin D receptor (VDR). Although African-Americans have the lowest levels of serum vitamin D, there is a dearth of information on VDR gene polymorphisms and breast cancer among
Chen, Zujian +9 more
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Impact of college education on incorporated and unincorporated self-employment: variations among African Americans and Hispanics [PDF]
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, 2022 Purpose – This study examines the impact of college education on incorporated and unincorporated self-employments. It specifically compares the effects on African Americans and Hispanics with the effects on Whites. Design/methodology/approach – The study
Xuguang Guo, Wei Chen, Denis Iurchenko
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Writing While Black: The Black Tax on African American Graduate Writers [PDF]
, 2016 In Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois states that African American identity contains a “double consciousness” of being both black and American (45).
Burrows, Cedric D.
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