Gun violence—and racial disparities in gun violence—have increased substantially during the pandemic, particularly among children. Now a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher ...
Mar 8, 2023
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In the largest and longest study thus far of ethnic disparities in dementia risk, researchers compared six ethnic and racial groups within the same geographic population and found significant variation in dementia incidence ...
Feb 11, 2016
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The burden of risk factors for chronic disease is substantially higher in black men compared with their white counterparts, including a higher prevalence of obesity and hypertension. The Center for Healthy African American ...
Oct 17, 2018
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Black children were less likely to receive any pain medication for moderate pain and less likely to receive opioids for severe pain than white children in a study of racial disparities in the pain management of children with ...
Sep 14, 2015
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A new analysis has found that Hispanic lung cancer patients seem to live longer than white or black patients. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study suggests that, ...
Apr 23, 2012
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A quartet of researchers, three with Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment, and the fourth with McGill University, has found that there are ethnic and racial disparities ...
Since 2009, the most commonly used blood test to evaluate kidney function has used equations that include race as a determining factor. The equations estimate glomerular filtration rate from blood creatinine concentrations. ...
Jun 7, 2022
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Whites believe that they are replacing blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard ...
May 23, 2011
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Poor sleep patterns could explain, in part, the differences in the risk of cardiometabolic disease between African-Americans and European-Americans, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Aug 18, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Current wisdom holds that white kids are at greater risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than Black children are, but a new analysis finds the opposite is true.
Sep 16, 2020
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