Racial Differences in Coronary Vasomotor Response or Selection Bias?

Racial differences in coronary vasomotor response or selection bias?

Response or Selection Bias? To the Editor: Pristipino et al1 found that, compared with white patients in Italy, Japanese patients with myocardial infarction had a 3-fold-greater incidence of coronary spasm and a vasoconstrictive response to acetylcholine. The authors conclude that these “major racial differences in the coronary constrictor response{warrant further investigations because they ma...

Racial heterogeneity in coronary artery vasomotor reactivity: differences between Japanese and Caucasian patients.

Japanese investigators have provided a substantial contribution in the understanding of coronary vasomotor reactivity. On occasions, their findings have been at variance with those undertaken on caucasian patients, raising speculation that vasomotor differences between races may exist. In a comparative review of the published literature, we evaluated the vasoreactive differences among Japanese ...

Marital Status and Physical Health: Racial Differences

Background and aims: As suggested by the Minorities’ Diminished Return Theory, the associationbetween socioeconomic status and health is weaker for racial and ethnic minorities compared toWhites. The current study compared Blacks and Whites in terms of the association between maritalstatus and physical health.Methods: The State of the State Survey (SOSS) included 881 adu...

The effects of sample selection bias on racial differences in child abuse reporting.

OBJECTIVE The aim was to examine whether design features of Wave 1, 1980 National Incidence Study (NIS) data resulted in sample selection bias when certain victims of maltreatment were excluded. METHOD Logistic regression models for the probability of child abuse reports to the child protective services (CPS) were estimated using maximum likelihood methods for Black (n = 511) and White (n = 2...

racial differences in secondary hyperparathyroidism