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Mental Health Screening Needs and Preference in Treatment Types and Providers in African American and Asian American Older Adults

Brain Sciences, 2021
Older African Americans and Asian Americans in the U.S. underuse mental health services, despite their vulnerability to diverse mental health problems.
Minsun Lee, Wenyue Lu, Tyrell Mann-Barnes, Jin-Hyeok Nam, Julie Nelson, Grace X. Ma   +5 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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APOL1 Risk Variants Independently Associated With Early Cardiovascular Disease Death

Kidney International Reports, 2018
The relationship of APOL1 renal risk variants to cardiovascular disease (CVD) is controversial and was the subject of this investigation. Methods: Age, cause of death, and nephrosclerosis (the latter defined by glomerulosclerosis) were analyzed in the ...
Michael D. Hughson, Wendy E. Hoy, Susan A. Mott, John F. Bertram, Cheryl A. Winkler, Jeffrey B. Kopp   +5 more
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Quantitative proteomics of cerebrospinal fluid from African Americans and Caucasians reveals shared and divergent changes in Alzheimer’s disease

Molecular Neurodegeneration, 2023
Background Despite being twice as likely to get Alzheimer’s disease (AD), African Americans have been grossly underrepresented in AD research. While emerging evidence indicates that African Americans with AD have lower cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of
Erica S. Modeste, Lingyan Ping, Caroline M. Watson, Duc M. Duong, Eric B. Dammer, Erik C. B. Johnson, Blaine R. Roberts, James J. Lah, Allan I. Levey, Nicholas T. Seyfried   +9 more
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A meta-analysis of COVID-19 vaccines acceptance among black/African American

Heliyon, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic had harmed Black/African Americans disproportionately. Mortality and morbidity can reduce by increasing vaccination acceptability and availability. We conducted a meta-analysis of 20 studies that show the prevalence of Black/African
Rezaul Karim Ripon, Umma Motahara, Adiba Alam, Kifayat Sadmam Ishadi, Md Samun Sarker   +4 more
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Ectopic cardiovascular fat in middle-aged men: effects of race/ethnicity, overall and central adiposity. The ERA JUMP study. [PDF]

, 2015
Background/objectivesHigher volumes of ectopic cardiovascular fat (ECF) are associated with greater risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Identifying factors that are associated with ECF volumes may lead to new preventive efforts to reduce risk of CHD ...
Barinas-Mitchell, E, Budoff, M, Edmundowicz, D, El Khoudary, SR, El-Saed, A, ERA JUMP Study Group, Evans, RW, Fujiyoshi, A, Hisamatsu, T, Kadowaki, S, Kuller, LH, Masaki, K, Miura, K, Ohkubo, T, Sekikawa, A, Shin, C, Ueshima, H, Willcox, BJ   +17 more
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Apolipoprotein [a] genotype influences isoform dominance pattern differently in African Americans and Caucasians

Journal of Lipid Research, 2002
Plasma lipoprotein [a] (Lp[a]) concentrations are inversely associated with, and largely determined by, apolipoprotein [a] (apo[a]) gene size, a highly polymorphic trait.
Jill Rubin, Furcy Paultre, Catherine H. Tuck, Steve Holleran, Roberta G. Reed, Thomas A. Pearson, Christopher M. Thomas, Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan, Lars Berglund   +8 more
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Racial Disparities in Hidradenitis Suppurativa Management at a Single Institution

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open
Background:. Hidradenitis suppurativa (H/S) disproportionately affects African Americans. We describe those affected by this disease to evaluate potential racial disparities. Methods:.
Nikhi P. Singh, MD, MBA, Kaitlin Burge, MD, Sean Drummond, MD, Ryan Zaniewski, MD, Spencer MacLeod, MD, Lauren Moradi, BS, Reagan Hattaway, MD, Timothy W. King, MD, PhD, MBA, Tiffany Mayo, MD, Jorge I. de la Torre, MD, MSHA, MSHQS   +9 more
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The effect of race/ethnicity on cancer-specific mortality after salvage radical prostatectomy

Frontiers in Oncology, 2022
BackgroundTo test the effect of race/ethnicity on cancer-specific mortality (CSM) after salvage radical prostatectomy (SRP).Material and methodsWe relied on the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database (SEER, 2004–2016) to identify SRP ...
Mike Wenzel, Mike Wenzel, Christoph Würnschimmel, Christoph Würnschimmel, Luigi Nocera, Luigi Nocera, Claudia Colla Ruvolo, Claudia Colla Ruvolo, Benedikt Hoeh, Benedikt Hoeh, Zhe Tian, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Fred Saad, Alberto Briganti, Markus Graefen, Felix Preisser, Andreas Becker, Philipp Mandel, Felix K. H. Chun, Pierre I. Karakiewicz   +24 more
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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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