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https://read.qxmd.com/read/25674726/linguistic-acculturation-and-perceptions-of-quality-access-and-discrimination-in-health-care-among-latinos-in-the-united-states
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COMPARATIVE STUDY
David Becerra, David Androff, Jill T Messing, Jason Castillo, Andrea Cimino
This study examined the relationship between acculturation and Latinos' perceptions of health care treatment quality, discrimination, and access to health information. The results of this study indicated that participants who had lower levels of acculturation perceived: 1) greater discrimination in health care treatment; 2) a lower quality of health care treatment; 3) less confidence filling out health related forms; and 4) greater challenges understanding written information about their medical conditions...
2015: Social Work in Health Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25564841/cultural-beliefs-and-physical-activity-among-african-american-adolescents
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Herpreet Thind, Tashauna U Goldsby, Akilah Dulin-Keita, Monica L Baskin
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of cultural beliefs with physical activity (PA) among African-American adolescents. METHODS: For a list of 42 leisure-time physical activities, adolescents (N = 116) indicated whether they believed the activity was 'Mostly a Black Thing', 'Equally a Black and White Thing', or 'Mostly a White Thing'. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity was assessed using accelerometers. RESULTS: Participants scoring in the highest quartile of Mostly Black score engaged in more PA and were less likely to be overweight or obese compared to those in lower quartiles...
March 2015: American Journal of Health Behavior
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25733342/behavioral-and-psychosocial-correlates-of-adiposity-and-healthy-lifestyle-in-asian-indians
#23
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Mary Beth Weber, Harish Ranjani, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Viswanathan Mohan, K M Venkat Narayan, Julie A Gazmararian
AIMS: Adiposity is an important diabetes risk factor, and Asian Indians have elevated diabetes risk. This analysis assessed the relationship between behavioral and psychosocial factors and adiposity among Asian Indians to better understand factors driving elevated weight/waist circumference in this population. METHODS: This study used screening data (N=1285) from the D-CLIP study, a randomized controlled diabetes prevention trial in Chennai, India. Correlation tests and linear regression models were done to describe relationships among exposure variables (weight loss/exercise self-efficacy, fruit/vegetable intake, weekly exercise, past weight loss experience) and between these exposures and BMI or waist circumference...
December 2015: Primary Care Diabetes
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25704352/hypertension-in-minority-populations-new-guidelines-and-emerging-concepts
#24
REVIEW
Fátima Rodriguez, Keith C Ferdinand
Persistent disparities in hypertension, CKD, and associated cardiovascular disease have been noted in the United States among racial/ethnic minority groups. Overall, these disparities are largely mediated by social determinants of health. Yet, emerging data suggest additional biologic factors in racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension prevalence, complications, particularly CKD, and responses to treatment. Nevertheless, race is a social construct and not a physiologic concept, and ethnicity, federally defined as the binary "Hispanic/Latino" or "not Hispanic/Latino," is also imprecise...
March 2015: Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25711687/health-disparities-in-cardiovascular-disease-risk-in-obese-youth
#25
COMMENT
Kara S Hughan, Radhika Muzumdar
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
February 2015: Endocrine Practice
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25731887/the-contribution-of-genomic-research-to-explaining-racial-disparities-in-cardiovascular-disease-a-systematic-review
#26
REVIEW
Jay S Kaufman, Lena Dolman, Dinela Rushani, Richard S Cooper
After nearly a decade of genome-wide association studies, no assessment has yet been made of their contribution toward an explanation of the most prominent racial health disparities observed at the population level. We examined populations of African and European ancestry and focused on cardiovascular diseases, which are collectively the largest contributor to the racial mortality gap. We conducted a systematic search for review articles and meta-analyses published in 2007-2013 in which genetic data from both populations were available...
April 1, 2015: American Journal of Epidemiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25725241/need-for-chronic-kidney-disease-prevention-programs-in-disadvantaged-populations
#27
REVIEW
Norberto Perico, Giuseppe Remuzzi
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a key determinant of the poor health outcomes for major non-communicable diseases that are the leading cause of death in the world. CKD is a worldwide threat to public health, but the size of the problem is not fully appreciated. Early recognition of CKD and concomitant co-morbid conditions, can potentially slow progression to renal failure, increase longevity, improve quality of life, and reduce healthcare costs. Although screening programmes are attractive, there is no consensus yet on which individuals should be prioritized (high-risk group for CKD, or general population) especially in resourcepoor regions...
2015: Clinical Nephrology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25403151/long-term-trends-in-adult-mortality-for-u-s-blacks-and-whites-an-examination-of-period-and-cohort-based-changes
#28
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ryan K Masters, Robert A Hummer, Daniel A Powers, Audrey Beck, Shih-Fan Lin, Brian Karl Finch
Black-white differences in U.S. adult mortality have narrowed over the past five decades, but whether this narrowing unfolded on a period or cohort basis is unclear. The distinction has important implications for understanding the socioeconomic, public health, lifestyle, and medical mechanisms responsible for this narrowing. We use data from 1959 to 2009 and age-period-cohort (APC) models to examine period- and cohort-based changes in adult mortality for U.S. blacks and whites. We do so for all-cause mortality among persons aged 15-74 as well as for several underlying causes of death more pertinent for specific age groups...
December 2014: Demography
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25097215/the-gap-in-current-disparities-research-a-lesson-from-the-community
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paul S Chan
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
September 2014: Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25714822/difference-or-disparity-will-big-data-improve-our-understanding-of-sex-and-cardiovascular-disease
#30
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Karen E Joynt, Jessica L Mega, Michelle L O'Donoghue
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 2015: Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25695260/recruitment-strategies-and-the-retention-of-obese-urban-racial-ethnic-minority-adolescents-in-clinical-trials-the-fit-families-project-michigan-2010-2014
#31
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Kathryn Brogan Hartlieb, Angela J Jacques-Tiura, Sylvie Naar-King, Deborah A Ellis, Kai-Lin Catherine Jen, Sharon Marshall
INTRODUCTION: The successful recruitment and retention of participants is integral to the translation of research findings. We examined the recruitment and retention rates of racial/ethnic minority adolescents at a center involved in the National Institutes of Health Obesity Research for Behavioral Intervention Trials (ORBIT) initiative by the 3 recruitment strategies used: clinic, informatics, and community. METHODS: During the 9-month study, 186 family dyads, each composed of an obese African American adolescent and a caregiver, enrolled in a 6-month weight-loss intervention, a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial...
February 19, 2015: Preventing Chronic Disease
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25724829/does-maternal-asthma-contribute-to-racial-ethnic-disparities-in-obstetrical-and-neonatal-complications
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katrina F Flores, Candace A Robledo, Beom Seuk Hwang, Kira Leishear, Katherine Laughon Grantz, Pauline Mendola
PURPOSE: To examine whether maternal asthma contributes to racial/ethnic differences in obstetrical and neonatal complications. METHODS: Data on white (n = 110,603), black (n = 50,284), and Hispanic (n = 38,831) singleton deliveries came from the Consortium on Safe Labor. Multilevel logistic regression models, with an interaction term for asthma and race/ethnicity, estimated within-group adjusted odds ratios (aORs) for gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia, placental abruption, premature rupture of membranes, preterm delivery, maternal hemorrhage, neonatal intensive care unit admissions, small for gestational age, apnea, respiratory distress syndrome, transient tachypnea of the newborn, anemia, and hyperbilirubinemia after adjustment for clinical and demographic confounders...
June 2015: Annals of Epidemiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25724969/race-and-referral-to-diabetes-education-in-primary-care-patients-with-prediabetes-and-diabetes
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Denise R Hooks-Anderson, Erica F Crannage, Joanne Salas, Jeffrey F Scherrer
PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to determine whether there are any race-related disparities in the prevalence of provisions for diabetes education in primary care clinics for patients with diabetes and prediabetes. METHODS: A retrospective cross-sectional study of 3967 patients aged 14 to >89 years with prediabetes and diabetes. Medical record data from patient encounters within primary care clinics at a large academic medical health system between July 1, 2008, and July 31, 2013, were used to determine rates of referral for diabetes education by race...
June 2015: Diabetes Educator
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25721453/behavioral-reactivity-to-acute-stress-among-black-and-white-women-with-type-2-diabetes-the-roles-of-income-and-racial-discrimination
#34
COMPARATIVE STUDY
Angela Bermudez-Millan, Kristina P Schumann, Richard Feinn, Howard Tennen, Julie Wagner
This study investigated relationships of income and self-reported racial discrimination to diabetes health behaviors following an acute stressor. A total of 77 diabetic women (51% Black, 49% White) completed a laboratory public speaking stressor. That evening, participants reported same-day eating, alcohol consumption, and medication adherence; physical activity was measured with actigraphy, and the next morning participants reported sleep quality. Measures were repeated on a counterbalanced control day. There was no mean level difference in health behaviors between stressor and control days...
September 2016: Journal of Health Psychology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25695338/diabetes-among-us-and-foreign-born-blacks-in-the-usa
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nicole D Ford, K M Venkat Narayan, Neil K Mehta
OBJECTIVE: Little is known about diabetes status among US blacks by nativity. This study aims to measure differences in diabetes among US blacks by region of birth and examines potential explanations for subgroup differences. DESIGN: Data from 47,751 blacks aged 25-74 pooled from the 2000-2013 waves of the National Health Interview Survey were analyzed. Logistic regression models predicted self-reported diabetes. The roles of education, income, body mass index (BMI), smoking, and duration of US residence were explored...
2016: Ethnicity & Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25689212/persons-with-disabilities-as-an-unrecognized-health-disparity-population
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gloria L Krahn, Deborah Klein Walker, Rosaly Correa-De-Araujo
Disability is an emerging field within public health; people with significant disabilities account for more than 12% of the US population. Disparity status for this group would allow federal and state governments to actively work to reduce inequities. We summarize the evidence and recommend that observed differences are sufficient to meet the criteria for health disparities: population-level differences in health outcomes that are related to a history of wide-ranging disadvantages, which are avoidable and not primarily caused by the underlying disability...
April 2015: American Journal of Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25687140/racial-ethnic-disparities-in-management-and-outcomes-among-children-with-type-1-diabetes
#37
MULTICENTER STUDY
Steven M Willi, Kellee M Miller, Linda A DiMeglio, Georgeanna J Klingensmith, Jill H Simmons, William V Tamborlane, Kristen J Nadeau, Julie M Kittelsrud, Peter Huckfeldt, Roy W Beck, Terri H Lipman
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Previous research has documented racial/ethnic disparities in diabetes treatments and outcomes. It remains controversial whether these disparities result from differences in socioeconomic status (SES) or other factors. We examined racial/ethnic disparities in therapeutic modalities and diabetes outcomes among the large number of pediatric participants in the T1D Exchange Clinic Registry. METHODS: The cohort included 10 704 participants aged <18 years with type 1 diabetes for ≥1 year (48% female; mean age: 11...
March 2015: Pediatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25687243/the-role-of-neighborhood-characteristics-in-racial-ethnic-disparities-in-type-2-diabetes-results-from-the-boston-area-community-health-bach-survey
#38
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rebecca S Piccolo, Dustin T Duncan, Neil Pearce, John B McKinlay
Racial/ethnic disparities in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are well documented and until recently, research has focused almost exclusively on individual-based determinants as potential contributors to these disparities (health behaviors, biological/genetic factors, and individual-level socio-demographics). Research on the role of neighborhood characteristics in relation to racial/ethnic disparities in T2DM is very limited. Therefore, the aim of this research is to identify and estimate the contribution of specific aspects of neighborhoods that may be associated with racial/ethnic disparities in T2DM...
April 2015: Social Science & Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25687141/the-continuing-challenge-of-outcome-disparities-in-children-with-diabetes
#39
COMMENT
Stuart A Chalew
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 2015: Pediatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25678378/building-equity-improvement-into-quality-improvement-reducing-socioeconomic-disparities-in-colorectal-cancer-screening-as-part-of-population-health-management
#40
MULTICENTER STUDY
Seth A Berkowitz, Sanja Percac-Lima, Jeffrey M Ashburner, Yuchiao Chang, Adrian H Zai, Wei He, Richard W Grant, Steven J Atlas
BACKGROUND: Improving colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates for patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds is a recognized public health priority. OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to determine if implementation of a system-wide screening intervention could reduce disparities in the setting of improved overall screening rates. DESIGN: This was an interrupted time series (ITS) analysis before and after a population management intervention...
July 2015: Journal of General Internal Medicine
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