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Ethnicity and Cutaneous Melanoma in the City of Sao Paulo, Brazil: A Case-Control Study
BACKGROUND Over the last century the incidence of cutaneous melanoma has increased worldwide, a trend that has also been observed in Brazil. The identified risk factors for melanoma include the pattern of sun exposure, family history, and certain phenotypic features. In addition, the incidence of melanoma might be influenced by ethnicity. Like many countries, Brazil has high immigration rates a...
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Ceramic vessels are used in a first step for comparing how workingand middle-class women constructed domesticity in 19th-century New York City. In addition to exploring some of the interpretive problems encountered in studying workingclass families who lived in tenements, the analysis indicates that the women of the working class apparently did not emulate middle-class women when it came to cho...
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BACKGROUND More women are entering pregnancy with pre-existing diabetes. Disease severity, glycaemic control, and predictors of pregnancy complications may differ by race/ethnicity or educational attainment, leading to differences in adverse pregnancy outcomes. METHODS We used linked New York City hospital record and birth certificate data for 6291 singleton births among women with pre-existi...
متن کاملVariations in hip fracture hospitalization rates among different race/ethnicity groups in New York City.
Hip fractures are a major cause of death and disability among the elderly. Although previous studies have shown hip fracture rates to be highest among Whites, and lowest among Blacks, less is known about how these differences are affected by gender and age. We determined the hip fracture hospitalization rates for non-Hispanic Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians in New York City from 1988 to 2...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Japan Association for Urban Sociology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1341-4585,1884-4839
DOI: 10.5637/jpasurban.2013.35