BACKGROUND This study was aimed to investigate the main and buffering effects of positive religious coping on the association between the number of chronic medical conditions and major depressive disorder (MDD) among African Americans, Caribbean Blacks and Non-Hispanic Whites. METHODS This cross-sectional study used data from the National Survey of American Life, 2001 and 2003. This study enr...

CONTEXT For Latinos, high rates of nonmarital fertility reinforce economic inequality and slow the pace of social and economic incorporation into American society. METHODS Changes in the nonmarital fertility ratio--nonmarital births as a percentage of all births (NMFR)--among women aged 15-44 over the period 1994-2005 were partitioned into three components: changes in marital and in nonmarita...

BACKGROUND It is unknown whether white and black Medicare beneficiaries have different rates of cardiac procedure utilization or long-term survival after cardiac arrest. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 5948 elderly Medicare beneficiaries (5429 white and 519 black) were identified who survived to hospital discharge between 1990 and 1999 after admission for cardiac arrest. Demographic, socioecon...

Despite declines in mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and many CVD risk factors, CVD remains the leading cause of death in the United States, and racial and ethnic disparities persist. In 2010, rates of CVD mortality per 100 000 were: 192.2 for white women; 260.5 for black women; 278.4 for white men; and 369.2 for black men. 1 In 2009 and 2010, metrics of ideal cardiovascular health...

BACKGROUND Medical and psychiatric comorbidities are commonly comorbid with diabetes. Race and ethnicity may, however, modify the link between medical and psychiatric comorbidities in individuals with diabetes. In this study we compared Non-Hispanic Whites, African Americans, and Caribbean Blacks with diabetes for the association between number of comorbid medical conditions and lifetime and 12...

This paper explores the existence of distinctively Black names in antebellum era. Building on recent research that documents a national naming pattern for African American males late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Cook, Logan, Parman, Explorations Economic History 53:64–82, 2014), we analyze three distinct novel data sources uncover stylized facts. First, identified by Cook, Logan Pa...

Despite substantial research on descriptive representation for Blacks and Latinos, we know little about the electoral conditions under which Asian candidates win office. Leveraging a new dataset American legislators elected from 2011 to 2020, combined with pre-existing newly conducted surveys, develop test hypotheses related candidates’ ingroup support, their crossover appeal other racial ethni...

BACKGROUND Alterations in endothelial function may contribute to increased susceptibility of black Americans to cardiovascular disease. The ability to pharmacologically reverse endothelial dysfunction in blacks was tested with nebivolol, a beta1-selective agent with vasodilating and antioxidant properties. METHODS AND RESULTS The effects of nebivolol on endothelial nitric oxide (NO), superoxi...