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Race-related differences in the economic, healthcare-access, and psychological impact of COVID-19: personal resources associated with resilience

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2022
Background The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) is worse among those with fewer financial resources, in jobs not amenable to remote work, and in denser living conditions.
Carolyn E. Schwartz, Katrina Borowiec, Elijah Biletch, Bruce D. Rapkin   +3 more
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Prognostic Impact of Treatment Modalities, Including Targeted Compartmental Radio‐Immunotherapy, in a Cohort of Neuroblastoma Patients With CNS Metastases at Relapse

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Neuroblastoma (NB) with central nervous system (CNS) metastases is rare at diagnosis, but occurs more often during relapse/progression. Patients with CNS metastases face a dismal prognosis, with no standardized curative treatment available.
Vicente Santa‐Maria Lopez, Anna Felip‐Badia, Marina Caballero‐Bellon, Nazaret Sanchez‐Sierra, Alicia Castañeda, Moira Garraus, Maite Gorostegui, Margarida Simão‐Rafael, Juan Pablo Muñoz, Marta Perez‐Somarriba, Salvador Mañe, Mariana Cecilia Planells, Sara Perez‐Jaume, Jaume Mora   +13 more
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Education Attainment and Alcohol Binge Drinking: Diminished Returns of Hispanics in Los Angeles

Behavioral Sciences, 2019
According to the minorities’ diminished returns (MDR) theory, socioeconomic status (SES) indicators such as education attainment have smaller protective effects on health risk behaviors for racial and ethnic minority groups in comparison to the ‘dominant’
Shervin Assari, Mehdi Farokhnia, Ritesh Mistry   +2 more
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Patient‐Level Barriers and Facilitators to Inpatient Physical Therapy in Adolescents and Young Adults With a Hematological Malignancy: A Qualitative Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite their increased risk for functional impairment resulting from cancer and its treatments, few adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with a hematological malignancy receive the recommended or therapeutic dose of exercise per week during inpatient hospitalizations.
Jennifer A. Kelleher, Jennifer L. Bernstein, Katia M. Crisler, Julia K. Herriott, Kimberly L. Klages, Robin E. Norris, Mariann L. Strenk, Sarah E. Bills, Meghan E. McGrady   +8 more
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Differences in Lp[a] concentrations and apo[a] polymorphs between black and white Americans

Journal of Lipid Research, 1996
Lp[a] concentrations in nmol/L and apo[a] size isoforms, expressed in terms of the relative number of apo[a] kringle 4 (K4) repeats, were determined in 3959 whites and blacks from four U.S. communities.
S M Marcovina, J J Albers, E Wijsman, Z Zhang, N H Chapman, H Kennedy   +5 more
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NT -pro BNP as a Mediator of the Racial Difference in Incident Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure. [PDF]

, 2019
Background Blacks harbor more cardiovascular risk factors than whites, but experience less atrial fibrillation ( AF ). Conversely, whites may have a lower risk of heart failure ( CHF ).
Alonso, Alvaro, Arking, Dan, Chen, Lin, DeFilippi, Christopher, Dewland, Thomas, Gottdiener, John, Heckbert, Susan, Hoogeveen, Ron, Marcus, Gregory, Psaty, Bruce, Selvin, Elizabeth, Vittinghoff, Eric, Whitman, Isaac   +12 more
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Race/ethnicity and the risk of childhood leukaemia: a case-control study in California. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundWe conducted a large registry-based study in California to investigate the association between race/ethnicity and childhood leukaemia focusing on two subtypes: acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).MethodsWe ...
Cockburn, Myles, Crespi, Catherine M, Kheifets, Leeka, Mezei, Gabor, Oksuzyan, Sona, Vergara, Ximena   +5 more
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Differential and Combined Effects of Physical Activity Profiles and Prohealth Behaviors on Diabetes Prevalence among Blacks and Whites in the US Population: A Novel Bayesian Belief Network Machine Learning Analysis

Journal of Diabetes Research, 2017
The current study assessed the prevalence of diabetes across four different physical activity lifestyles and infer through machine learning which combinations of physical activity, sleep, stress, and body mass index yield the lowest prevalence of ...
Azizi A. Seixas, Dwayne A. Henclewood, Aisha T. Langford, Samy I. McFarlane, Ferdinand Zizi, Girardin Jean-Louis   +5 more
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Developmental Disorders in Children Recently Diagnosed With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neurocognitive deficits in adult survivors of childhood cancer are well established, but less is known about developmental disorders (DD) arising shortly after cancer diagnosis. Using 2016–2019 linked Ohio cancer registry and Medicaid data, we compared DD among 324 children with cancer and 606,913 cancer‐free controls.
Jamie Shoag, Long Vu, Ritika Miryala, Jeffrey M. Albert, Molly McVoy, Siran M. Koroukian   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Race-specific alterations in DNA methylation among middle-aged African Americans and Whites with metabolic syndrome

Epigenetics, 2020
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of cardiometabolic risk factors for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Identifying epigenetic alterations associated with MetS in African Americans (AAs) and Whites may provide insight into ...
Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala, Dena G. Hernandez, Michael A. Nalls, Nicolle A. Mode, Alan B. Zonderman, Ngozi Ezike, Michele K. Evans   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source