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A Jury of One’s Peers : Felon Jury Exclusion and Racial Inequality in Georgia Courts [PDF]
, 2011 African-Americans are overrepresented in felony convictions and, thus, more likely to be excluded from jury service. This study examines the potential impact of felon jury exclusion on the proportion of African-Americans that remain eligible for jury ...
Wheelock, Darren
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Air pollution has been linked to several neurological conditions, including stroke and neurodegenerative diseases. Evidence regarding its association with multiple sclerosis (MS) remains conflicting, limited by small sample sizes. Methods PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Cochrane controlled register of trials (CENTRAL) were searched on ...
Ahmad A. Toubasi, Thuraya N. Al‐Sayegh
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Relationships Among Perceived Burden, Depressive Cognitions, Resourcefulness, and Quality of Life in Female Relatives of Seriously Mentally Ill Adults [PDF]
, 2009 Providing care and support to a seriously mentally ill (SMI) family member can have deleterious effects on one\u27s health and quality of life. This study explored relationships among perceived burden, depressive cognitions, resourcefulness, and quality ...
Bekhet, Abir K. +2 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.We report the national burden of dermatopolymyositis mortality over the past quarter century using the US national vital statistics data. Age‐standardized mortality rates for dermatopolymyositis decreased at an annual rate of 3.8% each year, which was higher than the annual percent decrease for deaths from all other causes.
Elizabeth Matz, Ram R. Singh
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HIV/AIDS at 30: A Public Opinion Perspective [PDF]
, 2011 Based on the 2011 Survey of Americans on HIV/AIDS, examines national trends in perceptions of and concerns about HIV/AIDS by demographic group, with a focus on African Americans, who have been disproportionately affected, and people under age ...
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective This study examined the global and regional temporal changes in cross‐country inequalities of site‐specific osteoarthritis (OA) burden from 1990 to 2021. Methods Age‐standardized years lived with disability rates (ASYRs) for site‐specific OA across 204 countries and territories were obtained from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and ...
Haowei Chen +14 more
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Wealth and Asset Building: Black Facts [PDF]
, 2015 African American households lost 53% of their net worth between 2005 to 2009 compared to only16% of whites for the same time period. That translates into African Americans only having $17,100 in wealth compared to $170,400 for whites.
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Although treat‐to‐target urate‐lowering therapy (ULT) is endorsed as best practice in gout management, limited data exist on its impact on health‐related quality of life (HRQoL). We assessed the impact of treat‐to‐target ULT on HRQoL among participants receiving protocolized gout care, identifying factors associated with HRQoL and HRQoL ...
Austin Barry +16 more
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Research lumbar punctures among African Americans and Caucasians: Perception predicts experience
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2016 African Americans are under-represented in Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-related biomarker studies, and it has been speculated that mistrust plays a major factor in the recruitment of African Americans for studies involving invasive procedures such as the ...
Jennifer C Howell +5 more
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Unfair Lending: The Effect of Race and Ethnicity on the Price of Subprime Mortgages [PDF]
, 2006 African-Americans and Latinos get high-priced subprime mortgages far more frequently than whites -- even when they are equally qualified, according to a groundbreaking new study from CRL.Lenders say they charge more because African-Americans and Latinos ...
Debbie Bocian, Keith Ernst, Wei Li
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