IDDM is one of the most common chronic disorders of childhood (see Chapter 3). Standardized descriptive studies of the epidemiology of IDDM are being conducted around the world, providing much needed information regarding the frequency and potential risk factors for IDDM in developed and developing countries. In many areas, these investigations are being facilitated through the World Health Org...

The aim of the current study is to examine the influence of the victim's, perpetrator's, and participant's ethnicity on victim and perpetrator blame attributions. Additionally, comparisons between males and females and a community and student sample were made. Participants read a rape vignette in the form of a newspaper article and subsequently attributed victim and perpetrator blame. A 2 (vict...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Race and ethnicity are variables frequently used in medical research. However, researchers employ race and ethnicity in different ways and with differing intent. This leads to confusion over the interpretation of racial or ethnic differences. This study sought to determine how race and ethnicity are used in research on infant mortality. METHODS We did a structured li...

To the Editor: Benjamin et al1 address the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) in the Framingham Study with a longitudinal population design, which overcomes the common problem of selection bias. However, the study sample was predominantly white, and the one epidemiological question that remains unanswered is the relationship between race and the incidence of AF. Although there are recognized ethn...

Concerns about ethnicity-related differences have resulted in a significant “drug lag” in regulatory approvals. The International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) document on Ethnic Factors in the Acceptability of Foreign Clinical Data, ICH E5, provides guidelines for assessing ethnicity as a cause of differences in dr...

Neither nationalism nor ethnicity is vanishing as part of an obsolete traditional order. Both are part of a modem set of categorical identities invoked by elites and other participants in political and social struggles. These categorical identities also shape everyday life, offering both tools for grasping pre-existing homogeneity and difference and for constructing specific versions of such id...

In the United States, race and ethnicity predict different outcomes in known diseases. Race and ethnicity also predict different outcomes in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), categories of mortality that are arguably as yet undiscovered diseases. It is important to monitor disparities affecting the health of children and to understand the impact of i...

  Background:The present study compared the differences between survivals of patients with colorectal cancer according to their ethnicity adjusted for other predictors of survival.   Methods: In this prospective cohort study patients were followed up from definite diagnosis of colorectal cancer to death. Totally, 2431 person-year follow-ups were undertaken for 1127 colorectal cancer patients on...