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Gut Microbiome Alterations Associated with Diabetes in Mexican Americans in South Texas

open access: yesmSystems, 2022
Mexican Americans have a high prevalence of diabetes and burden of diabetes-related complications, highlighting the need for novel preventive strategies and noninvasive predictors of diabetes risk tailored to this population.
Suet-Ying Kwan   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health Disparities and the Microbiome [PDF]

open access: yesTrends in Microbiology, 2016
An individual's microbiome is likely to be an important contributor to certain health disparity diseases and conditions. We present a framework to study the role of the microbiome and the multiple factors that are likely to influence differences in disease predisposition, onset, and progression at the individual and population level.
Keisha, Findley   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Social disparity and oral health

open access: yesBrazilian Oral Research, 2012
There is a clear reported association between social disparity and oral health, for example, between dental caries and malnutrition in children. This fact is detected in several studies, and also found amongst the Brazilian population.
Maria Fidela de Lima Navarro   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health Disparities in Women [PDF]

open access: yesClinical Medicine Insights: Women's Health, 2017
Aims and scope: Clinical Medicine Insights: Women’s Health is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal which considers manuscripts on all aspects of the diagnosis, management, and prevention of disorders specific to women, in addition to related genetic, pathophysiological, and epidemiological topics.
Hornbuckle, Lyndsey M   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Potential Health Risks from Uranium in Home Well Water: An Investigation by the Apsaalooke (Crow) Tribal Research Group

open access: yesGeosciences, 2015
Exposure to uranium can damage kidneys, increase long term risks of various cancers, and cause developmental and reproductive effects. Historically, home well water in Montana has not been tested for uranium. Data for the Crow Reservation from the United
Margaret J. Eggers   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epigenetics and Health Disparities [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Epidemiology Reports, 2017
African Americans disproportionately suffer from leading causes of morbidity and mortality including cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and preterm birth. Disparities can arise from multiple social and environmental exposures, but how the human body responds to these exposures to result in pathophysiologic states is incompletely understood ...
Alexis D, Vick, Heather H, Burris
openaire   +2 more sources

Diabetes Screening and Prevention in a High-Risk, Medically Isolated Border Community

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2017
IntroductionA project in a Texas border community setting, Prevention Organized against Diabetes and Dialysis with Education and Resources (POD2ER), offered diabetes prevention information, screening, and medical referrals.
Ann V. Millard   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does digital technology reduce health disparity? Investigating difference of depression stemming from socioeconomic status among Chinese older adults

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2021
Background Prior studies on health disparity have shown that socioeconomic status is critical to inequality of health outcomes such as depression.
Aruhan Mu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geographical Variations in Prostate Cancer Outcomes: A Systematic Review of International Evidence

open access: yesFrontiers in Oncology, 2019
Background: Previous reviews of geographical disparities in the prostate cancer continuum from diagnosis to mortality have identified a consistent pattern of poorer outcomes with increasing residential disadvantage and for rural residents. However, there
Paramita Dasgupta   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sleep Health Disparities

open access: yesAnnual Review of Medicine
Sleep is an important and potentially modifiable determinant of many severe health outcomes. Sleep health disparities exist and are exemplified by reported differential rates of prevalence, severity, and outcomes among minority groups and low-socioeconomic-status backgrounds.
Seyni, Gueye-Ndiaye, Susan, Redline
openaire   +2 more sources

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