Review
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Rola Abi Saleh, Seth T. Lirette, Emelia J. Benjamin, Myriam Fornage, Stephen T. Turner, Pamela I. Hammond, Thomas H. Mosley, Michael E. Griswold, B. Gwen Windham
Summary: This study investigated whether diabetes and adipokine-driven inflammation could explain the association of obesity with cognitive impairment. The results showed that diabetes and inflammation to a certain extent can explain the relationship between obesity and cognitive impairment.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Rheumatology
Emma M. Astrike-Davis, Rebecca J. Cleveland, S. Louis Bridges, Beth L. Jonas, Leigh F. Callahan
Summary: The study investigates the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and disease progression in African American patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The findings suggest that low educational attainment and nonprofessional occupation are associated with worsening of patient-reported outcomes, but there is no correlation with radiographically assessed joint damage.
ARTHRITIS CARE & RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Gerontology
Chien-Ching Li, Yi-Fan Chen, Jersey Liang, Alicia K. Matthews, Lisa L. Barnes
Summary: This study identified three joint trajectories of behavioral risk factors and cognitive function among older African Americans and white Americans. African Americans were found to have higher rates of overweight, smoking and drinking, and low cognitive functioning compared to white Americans. Future interventions targeting combinations of behavioral risk factors are needed to promote healthy aging among high-risk populations.
JOURNAL OF AGING AND HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hari S. Iyer, Scarlett Lin Gomez, Iona Cheng, Timothy R. Rebbeck
Summary: Self-identified race/ethnicity is associated with both genetic ancestry and socioeconomic factors, which may contribute to racial disparities in mortality. Higher African ancestry and lower neighborhood socioeconomic status are associated with higher mortality in African Americans.
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Oncology
Beth Savage, Peter D. Cole, Haiqun Lin, Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins
Summary: This study examined the relationship between race/ethnicity and pancreatitis in children hospitalized with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the United States in 2016. Hispanic children were found to be at greater risk of pancreatitis compared to white children, while no significant differences were observed among black, Asian, or other-race children.
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Samantha F. Butts
Summary: This review provides an overview of research on the association between African American race and infertility treatments outcomes, focusing on barriers to access. Studies have found durable disparities in the fertility spectrum for African Americans over the past 20 years. System-based practice issues in fertility evaluation and treatment that challenge reproductive health equity will also be discussed.
FERTILITY AND STERILITY
(2021)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Charles Washington, Matthew Dapas, Arjun Biddanda, Kevin M. Magnaye, Ivy Aneas, Britney A. Helling, Brooke Szczesny, Meher Preethi Boorgula, Margaret A. Taub, Eimear Kenny, Rasika A. Mathias, Kathleen C. Barnes, Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, Carolyn M. Kercsmar, Jessica D. Gereige, Melanie Makhija, Rebecca S. Gruchalla, Michelle A. Gill, Andrew H. Liu, Deepa Rastogi, William Busse, Peter J. Gergen, Cynthia M. Visness, Diane R. Gold, Tina Hartert, Christine C. Johnson, Robert F. Lemanske, Fernando D. Martinez, Rachel L. Miller, Dennis Ownby, Christine M. Seroogy, Anne L. Wright, Edward M. Zoratti, Leonard B. Bacharier, Meyer Kattan, George T. O'Connor, Robert A. Wood, Marcelo A. Nobrega, Matthew C. Altman, Daniel J. Jackson, James E. Gern, Christopher G. McKennan, Carole Ober
Summary: This study identified novel genetic variations at the 17q12-21 childhood-onset asthma locus that contribute to asthma severity in individuals with African ancestries, suggesting the presence of population-specific variants that contribute to genetic risk for asthma.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Karen D. Lincoln, Ann W. Nguyen
Summary: The study identified three distinct risk types among African Americans, with the high-risk type characterized by chronic health conditions, shorter STL, strained social relationships, and high psychosocial stress. African Americans were also less likely to be assigned to the health risk type, which was characterized by chronic health conditions, shorter STL, optimal social relationships, and low psychosocial stress. The biopsychosocial risk typology provided valuable insights into factors influencing accelerated aging in African Americans.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Ronald L. Simons, Mei Ling Ong, Steven R. H. Beach, Man-Kit Lei, Robert Philibert, Michelle M. Mielke
Summary: This study examines the impact of racism on African Americans' risk for dementia. It found that low socioeconomic status and discrimination predicted self-reported cognitive decline 19 years later. Depression, accelerated aging, and chronic illness were identified as potential mediating pathways.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Elizabeth Mahanna-Gabrielli, Sayaka Kuwayama, Wassim Tarraf, Sonya Kaur, Delia Cabrera DeBuc, Jianwen Cai, Martha L. Daviglus, Charlotte E. Joslin, David J. Lee, Carlos Mendoza-Santiesteban, Ariana M. Stickel, Diane Zheng, Hector M. Gonzalez, Alberto R. Ramos
Summary: This study found that self-reported visual impairment was independently associated with worse cognitive function and decline, and sleep disorders did not attenuate these associations.
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
(2023)
Article
Oncology
Ken Batai, Yuliang Chen, Brenna A. Rheinheimer, Amit Arora, Ritu Pandey, Ronald L. Heimark, Erika R. Bracamonte, Nathan A. Ellis, Benjamin R. Lee
Summary: This study examined molecular variations in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) in non-Hispanic White (NHW) and Hispanic patients and their effect on gene expression and overall mortality. The results showed that NHWs had higher frequency of VHL gene mutations, while Hispanics had higher frequency of the ccA subtype. Additionally, differential gene expression was observed between high- and low-grade tumors, and patients with the ccB subtype had significantly increased risk of mortality.
Article
Oncology
Samer Al Hadidi, Deepa Dongarwar, Hamisu M. Salihu, Rammurti T. Kamble, Premal Lulla, LaQuisa C. Hill, George Carrum, Carlos A. Ramos, Helen E. Heslop, Saad Z. Usmani
Summary: The study found that non-Hispanic Blacks had higher rates of hospitalizations and in-hospital mortality related to multiple myeloma compared to other racial groups, and there was a declining trend in mortality over the past decade. Disparities in MM care for non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics persist despite recent advancements in MM therapy.
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA
(2021)
Article
Urology & Nephrology
Helen Y. Hougen, Oleksii A. Iakymenko, Sanoj Punnen, Chad R. Ritch, Bruno Nahar, Dipen J. Parekh, Oleksandr N. Kryvenko, Mark L. Gonzalgo
Summary: This study investigated the outcomes of radical prostatectomy in Hispanic men with prostate cancer. The results showed that Hispanic men had similar rates of upgrading and adverse pathology outcomes as non-Hispanic white men. Race/ethnicity was not found to predict upgrading or worse oncologic outcomes after prostatectomy.
WORLD JOURNAL OF UROLOGY
(2022)
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
Roopradha Datta, Jennifer A. Lucas, Miguel Marino, Benjamin Aceves, David Ezekiel-Herrera, Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman, Sophia Giebultowicz, Katherine Chung-Bridges, Jorge Kaufmann, Andrew Bazemore, John Heintzman
Summary: This study examines diabetes screening and monitoring among Latino and non-Latino White individuals, using neighborhood data to address care inequities. The findings indicate that Latino individuals with diabetes had higher rates of HbA(1c) testing than non-Latino White individuals, and Latinos without diabetes had higher odds of screening. The study also reveals the impact of Latino subgroup neighborhood characteristics on health care utilization.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Lu Tang, Felicia N. York, Wenxue Zou
Summary: Middle-aged and older African American individuals primarily rely on routine media consumption to access information about COVID-19, with few actively searching for information outside of regular media use. When evaluating information quality, strategies including checking source credibility, comparing multiple sources, fact-checking, and praying are utilized. These findings could inform future health communication efforts aimed at disseminating information about the COVID-19 pandemic and future infectious disease outbreaks within African American communities.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)