INTRODUCTION Although multiple factors likely influence the differences between African Americans (AAs) and whites in cardiovascular disease and lung cancer mortality rates, historical patterns of tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking, are the major contributors. This issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research presents original research, a review, and commentaries that will serve to advance our...

OBJECTIVE To compare body-mass index (BMI)-related mortality risk in U.S. Blacks vs. Whites as the relationship appears to differ across race/ethnicity groups. METHODS Cross-sectional surveys of nationally representative samples of 11,934 Blacks and 59,741 Whites aged 35-75 in the National Health Interview Survey from 1997 to 2002 with no history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) or cancer were...

In the early years of the Medicare program, proportionally more whites than non-whites among the aged used Medicare services. This article examines the use and reimbursement of Medicare services by the aged between 1967 and 1976 to determine if racial differences still exist. To do so, three measures are studied. The first, the number of persons reimbursed for Medicare service per 1,000 enrolle...

On average, whites and blacks differ in their response to specific antihypertensive drugs. These differences are often highlighted in reviews and practice guidelines. However, there is wide variation in drug-associated changes in blood pressure within each race. The goal of this meta-analysis is to quantitate how often whites and blacks have similar responses to specific antihypertensive drugs....

Abstract As racialized and gendered structures, organizations can reinforce complex inequalities, especially with regard to emotional labor. While the literature on labor is established, little known about how race sexual orientation shape feeling rule enforcement. Interviewing staff at university LGBTQ resource centers, we argue that rules have a orientation-based dimension are experienced enf...

BACKGROUND The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale is one of the most widely used tools to measure depressive symptoms in epidemiological studies. Given the importance of cross-racial measurement equivalence of the CES-D scale for research, we performed confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the 12-item CES-D in a nationally representative sample of Black and White adults i...

Neural control of blood pressure (BP) has been reported to differ between young blacks and whites. We hypothesized that elderly blacks have enhanced sympathetic neural responses during orthostasis compared with elderly whites. Muscle sympathetic nerve activity, arm-cuff BP, and heart rate were recorded continuously, and cardiac output, stroke volume, and total peripheral resistance were measure...

A total of 94,7463 patients with lung cancer were identifi ed between 1973 and 2010 ( Tables 1 , 2 ). Th e proportion of SCLC to total lung cancers decreased over the years along with the sex gap; the ratio of men to women decreased from 2.69:1 in 1973 to 1:1 in 2010. Th e fi ndings were consistent between both black and white patients. Th e incidence of SCLC compared with all lung cancer was c...

For unclear reasons, anemia is more common in American blacks than whites. The authors evaluated anemia prevalence (using World Health Organization criteria) among 19,836 blacks and whites recruited in 2003-2007 for the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke Renal Ancillary study and characterized anemia by 3 anemia-associated conditions (chronic kidney disease, inflammation, a...

This article introduces multinomial logit latent-class regression models for racial comparisons of intergenerational occupational mobility. The models distinguish mobility patterns by four latent classes, which are labeled as the “stable middle” (SM) class, the “downwardly mobile” (DM) class, the “upwardly mobile” (UM) class, and the “stable working” (SW) class. Compared with whites, blacks are...