OBJECTIVES It is unclear whether cultural differences or material disadvantage explain the ethnic patterning of obesogenic behaviours. The aim of this study was to examine ethnicity as a predictor of obesity-related behaviours among children in England, and to assess whether the effects of ethnicity could be explained by deprivation. SETTING Five primary care trusts in England, 2010-2011. P...

We examine the role of perceived stress and health behaviors (i.e., cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, sleep duration) in shaping differential mortality among whites, blacks, and Hispanics. We use data from the 1990 National Health Interview Survey (N = 38,891), a nationally representative sample of United States adults, to model prospective mortality through 2006. Our...

High-quality care for diabetes is based on proper prevention, coordination of care among a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals, enhanced patient-provider relationships, and patient self-management skills. This paper discusses gender differences across racial and ethnic groups in the quality of care for type 2 diabetes according to 10 measures defined by the National Healthcare Q...

BACKGROUND Rapid socioeconomic development resulting in changing lifestyles and life expectancy appears to be accompanied by an increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes. Genetic predisposition related to ethnicity is a major determinant of diabetes risk. This study investigates the prevalences of diabetes and prediabetes in different ethnic populations residing in the Mudanjiang area located in...

morphometric differentiations may explain biogeographic distinctions among populations of a given species. the possibility of morphometric distinctions between two populations of eurygaster maura l. collected from the northeast (golestan province) and the northwest (azarbayejan province) of iran was examined using principal component analysis over 25 body measurements (eight absolute and 17 pro...

This article examines the Boxer Codex (BC, ca. 1590), which is a manuscript that contains illustrations and narratives describing ethnic groups of western Pacific islands continental Southeast East Asia. The codex in relation to early modern costume books by examining role images played creation ethnographical knowledge. Divided into four parts, first second sections examine opening foldout dra...