BACKGROUND The prevalence of eczema varies markedly across the globe. It is unclear whether the geographic variation is due to race and/or ethnic differences, environmental exposures, or genetic factors. OBJECTIVE We investigated the effects of ethnicity and environmental exposures on eczema in Hispanic white and non-Hispanic white children who participated in the Southern California Children...

Objectives: Opioid overdose death rates in the United States has been increasing over past several years. This trend seen states across country. Previous studies have highlighted that opioid-involved deaths occurred mostly non-Hispanic Whites. The objectives of this study were to (1) compare opioid trends U.S. a state, Louisiana, (2) Louisiana urban and suburban areas, (3) evaluate changes over...

Despite recent social and political advances, most interracial contact is still superficial in nature, and White individuals interact mainly with other Whites. Based on recent mere exposure research, we propose that repeated exposure to Whites may actually increase prejudice. In a series of experiments, White participants were subliminally exposed to White faces or nothing (control) and then co...

Hypertension is more prevalent and severe in urban black populations compared to whites, and is associated with a greater degree of target-organ damage for any given blood pressure level. In general, compared to whites, blacks respond well to diuretics and calcium channel blockers and less well to beta-blockers and ACE inhibitors. The exact mechanisms that contribute to differences in blood pre...

The present work demonstrates that, contrary to popular political narratives, working-class White Americans are far from monolithic in their class identities, social attitudes, and preferences. Latent profile analysis is used distinguish three types of identity a nationally representative sample Whites: Working Class Patriots, who valorize responsibility, embrace national identity, disparage th...

BACKGROUND Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a hemorrhagic stroke with high morbidity and mortality. Recent studies have shown that minorities such as Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders (NHOPI) with ICH are significantly younger compared to whites. However, the interaction of race and gender, and its impact on observed disparities among a multi-ethnic population in Hawai'i, have not b...

Racial inequity was theorized to threaten Whites' self-image when inequity is framed as White privilege but not when framed as anti-Black discrimination. Manipulations of Whites' need for self-regard were hypothesized to affect their perceptions of White privilege but not of anti-Black discrimination. In Experiment 1, White participants reported less privilege when given threatening (vs. affirm...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Adverse outcomes associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) in Asians have not yet been fully elucidated. This study was designed to racial differences the risk for bleeding and effect new-onset AF on mortality. Methods is based a patient-level comparative analysis UK Biobank Korean National Health Insurance Service-Healt...

The systematic study of misanthropy, the lack trust in humanity, has proliferated over last 30 years. One prominent line research details racial and ethnic disparities levels but pays little attention to role religiosity, while another focuses on religiosity its impact with only scant race ethnicity. Little attempt been made synthesize these two strands literature address an important unanswere...