An estimated 1.5 million people suffer a bone disease-related fracture every year. Most work investigating bone mineral density (BMD) focuses on post-menopausal females but a report from the Surgeon General in 2004 stated that of particular concern are men, racial and ethnic minorities, poor individuals, individuals with disabilities, and individuals living in rural areas. The purpose of this s...

Although the leading cause of death among black men in the United States is coronary artery disease (CAD), risk factors have not been well documented in black populations. Therefore, possible racial differences in the relation of several characteristics to the extent of CAD were assessed in 4,722 white and 169 black men who underwent arteriography. Associations between an occlusion score (rangi...

BACKGROUND Many studies have examined differences in hypertension across race/ethnic groups but few have evaluated differences within groups. METHODS We investigated within-group geographic variations in hypertension prevalence among 3,322 black and white participants of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Place of birth and place of residence were included in multivariate Poiss...

BACKGROUND During screening for enrollment in a clinical trial, we noticed potential racial disparities in metabolic syndrome variables in women who responded to our study advertisement. We designed a nested observational study to investigate whether metabolic syndrome variables differed between non-Hispanic blacks and non-Hispanic whites. METHODS The cohort comprised of women who have met th...

From time to time, the public is startled by a further report on the extreme commonness of dental caries. Such a report is that on adult dental health in Scot­ land.' Commenting on the information given, a leading article in L a n c e t entitled ‘Something rotten in Scotland and elsewhere’, noted that 44% of Scots over the age of 16 have lost all their natural teeth; oyer half go to the dentist...

Abstract Past research finds that Americans hold biased stereotypes about ethnoracial groups and immigrants, but we lack an understanding of how these group identities intersect. Immigration theories offer opposing predictions; while the straight-line assimilation model predicts will weaker native-born compared to their immigrant coethnics, racialized suggest enduring power race limit any diffe...

BACKGROUND Vasodilator reactivity is attenuated in normotensive blacks, and this may contribute to their enhanced susceptibility to hypertension and its complications. However, the mechanisms responsible for this phenomenon are unknown. We therefore studied nitric oxide (NO)-dependent and -independent vasorelaxation in healthy blacks and whites to investigate the nature of racial differences in...

Impaired stress-induced pressure natriuresis, ie, an inadequate compensatory increase in urinary sodium excretion (UNaV) in response to a stress-induced blood pressure increase, may lead to the premature development of essential hypertension. To assess the heritability of baseline UNaV, stress UNaV, and the UNaV response to stress ( UNaV stress UNaV baseline UNaV), we studied 396 black and 494 ...

The influence of early-life socioeconomic position (SEP) on incident heart failure in blacks and whites is unknown. The authors examined the relation between early-life SEP and incident, hospitalized heart failure among middle-aged US participants (2,503 black and 8,519 white) in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Early-life SEP indicators assessed included parental education...

BACKGROUND Racial differences in psychological determinants of exercise exist between non-Hispanic blacks (blacks) and non-Hispanic whites (whites). To date, no study has examined racial differences in the psychological responses during and after exercise. The objective of this study was to compare psychological outcomes of single exercise bouts in blacks and whites. METHODS On 3 separate occ...