This article reflects on the matter of state-sanctioned death in Black religious studies, with murder Breonna Taylor as its central focus. It examines how scholars religion engage issues murder, antiblackness, and misogynoir, it endeavors to underscore ways for male* respond experiences deaths women people all gendered experiences. article’s claim is that if continue has been a catalyst liberat...

BACKGROUND Hospitalization for cardiovascular disease (CVD) is common among patients receiving maintenance dialysis, but patterns of readmissions following cardiovascular events are underexplored. METHODS AND RESULTS In this retrospective analysis of prevalent, Medicare-eligible patients receiving dialysis in 2012-2013, all live-discharge hospitalizations attributed to CVD were ascertained. R...

OBJECTIVE Ethnic disparities in infant mortality have been consistently documented in the United States, but these disparities are poorly understood. Although the infant mortality rate in the United States has fallen to record low rates, since 1971 the ethnic disparity between black and white infants has remained unchanged or increased. In 2001, the infant mortality rate among black infants was...

BACKGROUND The association between galectin-3 and heart failure (HF) or death is well established for white, but not for black, adults. METHODS AND RESULTS Galectin-3 was measured in 1809 participants (1375 white, 434 black), enrolled in a substudy of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) observational cohort during 2004-2005. We used Cox proportional hazard models to estimate the ad...

OBJECTIVE Assuming that ethnicity might be a basis for social differentiation and that such differences might represent vulnerability to sickness, this study attempts to verify whether race or ethnic origin have an effect on mortality patterns. METHODS The Sao Paulo State death register was examined from 1999 to 2001 in a contingence table of causes according to the 10th ICD and race or skin-...

In this study the factor structure of the Death Obsession Scale (DOS) was examined using confirmatory factor analysis. Data used consisted of DOS reports of 328 Black African students. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that two- and three-factor models obtained among female and male African students, respectively, provided the best fit to the data. The two factors in female African students...

BACKGROUND Despite long-term declines in US stroke mortality rates, declines have slowed in the past decade and targets for blacks for the years 2000 and 2010 seem attainable only by extraordinary measures, if at all. This review focuses attention on key aspects of this problem. Data from the US National Center for Health Statistics and reports of population-based studies of stroke mortality pu...