OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether parental preferences regarding primary care weight-management strategies differ by child age, gender, overweight severity, race/ethnicity or parental agreement that their child is overweight. METHODS A survey was administered to parents of 2- to 18-year-old children who are overweight at an academic primary-care clinic regarding p...

BACKGROUND Internet addiction can seriously affect the social functioning and studies of college students in China but measures for addressing this problem have not yet been developed or tested. OBJECTIVE Assess the personality characteristics of college students with internet addiction. METHODS Two self-report scales, the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) and the Chen Internet...

There was a consensus among earlier students of New England politics that the political influence of European ancestry was fading by the latter half of the 20th century. We examine this proposition in recent times by exploring the role of ethnic ancestry in explaining the political divide in the region’s presidential voting in over 1500 New England towns. Contrary to earlier predictions, ethnic...

BACKGROUND There are pervasive racial and socioeconomic differences in health status among older adults with type 2 diabetes. The extent to which racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities unfold to differential health outcomes has yet to be investigated among older adults with diabetes. This study examines whether or not race/ethnicity and SES are independent predictors of steeper rates of de...

Abstract Objective Traumatic brain injury (TBI) research in Veterans is based primarily on non-Hispanic White samples, which does not reflect the diversity of current military population. We examined relationship between race/ethnicity and clinical outcomes a large sample Iraq/Afghanistan-era within Million Veteran Program. Method Primary included characteristics, neurobehavioral-related sympto...

People of East Asian ethnicity have a different prevalence of and show unique clinical characteristics and tumor histology of oncogenic mutations. However, only limited studies have explored the landscape of genomic alterations in lung adenocarcinoma derived from Asian patients thus far. In this single-center study, with an aim to elucidate the mutational profile of lung cancer in people of Chi...

OBJECTIVE To test for discrimination by race/ethnicity arising from clinical uncertainty in treatment for depression, also known as "statistical discrimination." DATA SOURCES We used survey data from 1,321 African-American, Hispanic, and white adults identified with depression in primary care. Surveys were administered every six months for two years in the Quality Improvement for Depression (...

BackgroundContrary to well-documented disparities in cardiovascular care, there are knowledge gaps gender, race and ethnicity associated outcomes patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in-stent restenosis (ISR).MethodsWe analyzed the National Inpatient Sample Registry from October 1st, 2016 December 31st, 2019 identify hospitalized ACS ISR. Study cohort was stratified by race/ethnicity. C...