More than black and white

Mouse Strain Backgrounds: More Than Black and White

two suggested, among them neuronal excitability and Mouse Strain Backgrounds: degeneration (Messer et al., 1992; Schauwecker and More Than Black and White Steward, 1997; Cox et al., 1997; Hamilton et al., 1997) and hearing loss (Erway et al., 1993). A recent Viewpoint in Neuron, which arose from a BanAn extended panelof readily available common inbred strains that would serve neuroscientists we...

Datawarehousing Has More Colours Than Just Black & White

Depressive Symptoms Are Associated with More Hopelessness among White than Black Older Adults

BACKGROUND Hopelessness is a core component of depression. Our information is, however, very limited on ethnic variations in the magnitude of the link between depression and hopelessness. Using a national sample of older adults in United States, we compared Blacks and Whites for the magnitude of the association between depressive symptoms and hopelessness. METHODS With a cross-sectional desig...

Left ventricular hypertrophy is more common in black than white hypertensives: is this news?

It is often stated that left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is more common in blacks than in whites.1,2 Given that hypertension and hypertensive complications such as stroke and end-stage renal disease are more common in blacks than whites,3 it would be surprising if LVH was also not more common in blacks. Why then is the study by Kizer4 in this issue of Hypertension newsworthy? First, it is imp...

More than Black and White: Differences in Predictors of Obesity among Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders and European Americans

Although Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders exhibit the highest rates of obesity and associated chronic diseases of any racial/ethnic group, they remain vastly underrepresented in health research. In a cross-sectional survey of college students (N = 402) we examined BMI and health outcomes in an ethno-racially diverse rural sample of Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders (25.1%), Asian American...