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Disparities in access to COVID-19 testing in Los Angeles County

Preventive Medicine Reports
COVID-19 has disparately impacted low-income persons and racial and ethnic minorities–primarily Black and Hispanic populations. Our objective is to quantify disparities in access to COVID-19 testing and identify barriers to testing during the winter 2020–
Zain Khalifeh, Sonali Saluja, Chun Nok Lam, Cameron Kaplan   +3 more
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Epidemiology, Policy, and Racial/Ethnic Minority Health Disparities [PDF]

Annals of Epidemiology, 2012
Epidemiologists have long contributed to policy efforts to address health disparities. Three examples illustrate how epidemiologists have addressed health disparities in the United States and abroad through a "social determinants of health" lens.To identify examples of how epidemiologic research has been applied to reduce health disparities, we queried
Carter-Pokras, Olivia D., Offutt-Powell, Tabatha N., Kaufman, Jay S., Giles, Wayne H., Mays, Vickie M.   +4 more
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Distinct Systemic Sclerosis Phenotypes Related to Ethnicity: An Opportunity to Personalize Care?

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The objective is to describe and compare demographic, clinical, and serological characteristics of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) according to ethnic background. Methods Participants enrolled in the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group cohort who self‐identified to a single ethnicity group were included.
Danick Goulet, Camille Guertin, Maggie Larché, Isabelle Ferdinand, Marie Hudson, May Y. Choi, Mohammed Osman, Janet Pope, Carter Thorne, Murray Baron, Sasha Bernatsky, Sabrina Hoa   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Lupus Damage Index Revision Program: Results From the Item Generation and Reduction Phases

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective A data‐driven and expert/patient consensus‐based project to develop a revised Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Damage Index (SDI) is under way supported by SLICC, ACR, and the Lupus Foundation of America. Our objective is to report the item generation and reduction phase results
Burak Kundakci, Megan R. W. Barber, Ann E. Clarke, Sindhu R. Johnson, Anselm Mak, Hermine I. Brunner, Murat Inanc, Rosalind Ramsey‐Goldman, Guillermo Ruiz‐Irastorza, Ellen M. Ginzler, John G. Hanly, Alexandra Legge, Cynthia Aranow, Laurent Arnaud, Nathalie Costedoat‐Chalumeau, Dafna D. Gladman, Søren Jacobsen, Michelle Petri, Clovis A. Silva, Évelyne Vinet, Alexandre E. Voskuyl, SDI Revision Literature Review Groups, SDI Revision Delphi Panel, SDI Revision Item Reduction Committee, SDI Revision Clinical Domain Groups, Ian N. Bruce   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

2458 Determining the prevalence and associated multilevel characteristics of undiagnosed diabetic retinopathy

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2018
OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in adults aged 25–64 years. The prevalence of diabetic retinopathy is projected to increase 4-fold by 2050. Racial and ethnic minorities have a higher prevalence and greater
Kristen Nwanyanwu, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Mayur Desai, Thomas Gardner   +3 more
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Understanding the Burden of Orofacial Involvement and Patient Treatment Preferences in Systemic Sclerosis: Results From a Large International Survey

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Orofacial manifestations are significantly impactful in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) yet remain understudied, with no dedicated clinical guidelines to inform their management. Methods An international online survey comprised38 questions addressing orofacial manifestations of SSc, including patients’ confidence in their treating ...
Eleni Deligianni, Lee Shapiro, Deana Gibbs, Zsuzsanna H. McMahan, Michael Hughes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Public Health in Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health and Mental Illness

Preventing Chronic Disease, 2010
Racial/ethnic minority populations are underserved in the American mental health care system. Disparity in treatment between whites and African Americans has increased substantially since the 1990s.
Annelle B. Primm, MD, MPH, Melba J. T. Vasquez, PhD, Robert A. Mays, PhD, MSW, Doreleena Sammons-Posey, SM, Lela R. McKnight-Eily, PhD, Letitia R. Presley-Cantrell, PhD, Lisa C. McGuire, PhD, Daniel P. Chapman, PhD, MSc, Geraldine S. Perry, DrPH, RD   +8 more
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A Panel of Circulating Exosomal sncRNAs Associated With Lung Cancer Risk up to 10 Years in Advance

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Lung cancer is often diagnosed too late, and current screening overlooks many people at risk. In a long‐term study of smokers, a panel of small non‐coding RNAs carried in blood exosomes signals elevated lung cancer risk up to ten years before diagnosis, pointing toward a blood‐based tool for earlier risk detection.
Zhuokun Feng, Masaki Nasu, Ayman Abdul‐Ghani, Yu Chen, Shaoqiu Chen, Isam Mohd Ibrahim, Hanqiu Zhang, Lauren Higa, Zitong Gao, Hua Yang, Raphael Bueno, Loïc Le Marchand, Youping Deng   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pasta, a Versatile Transcriptomic Clock, Maps the Chemical and Genetic Determinants of Aging and Rejuvenation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Pasta is a transcriptomic aging clock built on an age‐shift learning framework and trained on 17 000 samples across 21 datasets. It accurately predicts relative biological age across tissues, platforms, and species, captures stemness‐to‐senescence transitions, and identifies age‐modulatory perturbations.
Jérôme Salignon, Maria Tsiokou, Patricia Marqués, Enriqueta Rodríguez‐Diaz, Hazel Ang, Federico Pietrocola, Christian G. Riedel   +6 more
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Overlooked Intersection of Gender and Racial/Ethnic Dimensions in Slovenian Academic Sexual Harassment & Violence Policies

Annales, Series Historia et Sociologia
This article addresses the need to adopt an intersectional perspective when discussing sexual harassment and violence in academia. The introduction of an intersectional perspective is important since sexual harassment and violence in relation to racial ...
Lucija Dežan, Mateja Sedmak, Zorana Medaric   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source