Ethnicity
Promoting Health Equity: A Call for Data Disaggregation on Race and Ethnicity
The US population is becoming increasingly diverse. Racial and ethnic health disparities and inequities have been extensively documented. As a disc...
Race and ethnicity influence end-of-life care
Researchers have known that race and ethnicity play a role in the intensity of medical care at the end of life, but the difference is more pronounc...
How Ethnicity Affects Breast Cancer Risk
No one is immune to breast cancer. Even men can be diagnosed with breast cancer, though the threat of the disease looms much larger for women. In f...
Heterogeneity in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Prevalence Among White, African American, African Immigrant, and Afro‐Caribbean Adults: Insight...
Nonstandard Abbreviations and Acronyms
AA
African American
AC
Afro‐Caribbean
AI
African immigrant
NCHS
National Center for Health Sta...
Visual Health Disparities by Race, Ethnicity Reported in Children in United States
New findings suggest that disparities by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status in subjective and objective visual function are evident by adole...
Unique Metabolic Profiles Associate with Gestational Diabetes and Ethnicity in Low- and High-Risk Women Living in the UK | The Journal of Nutrition
ABSTRACT
Background
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is the most common global pregnancy complication; however, prevalence varies substantiall...
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