BACKGROUND This study tested the hypothesis that data from random digit-dial telephone surveys underestimate the prevalence of cigarette smoking among African-American adults. METHOD A novel, community-sampling method was used to obtain a statewide, random sample of N = 2118 California (CA) African-American/Black adults, surveyed door-to-door. This Black community sample was compared to the B...

background and aims: blacks have a higher rate of chronic medical conditions (cmc), disability, and depressive symptoms compared to whites. the present study compared blacks and whites for bidirectional associations between cmc, disability, and depressive symptoms over a 25-year period. methods: data came from all five waves (1986, 1989, 1994, 2001, and 2011) of the americans’ changing lives st...

A lthough there has been a significant decline in overall stroke mortality rates since the 1950s, age-adjusted stroke death rates have remained higher in blacks than in whites through 2008. 1 The Table shows the 2009 stroke death rates per 100 000 according to age and sex for blacks and whites. The relative excess in deaths from stroke among blacks compared with whites is most marked in the pop...

Background and aims: As suggested by the Minorities’ Diminished Return Theory, the associationbetween socioeconomic status and health is weaker for racial and ethnic minorities compared toWhites. The current study compared Blacks and Whites in terms of the association between maritalstatus and physical health.Methods: The State of the State Survey (SOSS) included 881 adu...

OBJECTIVE To examine sexual health disparities between blacks and whites in a national sample of US college students. PARTICIPANTS AND METHOD SUMMARY: Analyses utilized secondary data from 44,165 nonmarried undergraduates (aged 18-24; M = 20.1) responding to the Spring 2007 American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment; 64% were female and 94.7% were white. RESULTS Wh...

This paper aims to achieve the very basic idea of home and also creates promotion aestheticism in which striving struggle blacks will be discussed. Home is a place whereby productivity born. shed light on productive lives black are surrounded by racism. When or homeland discussed, then concepts unity, peace, financial benefits issues identity solved. discuss that how fate nation changed (Harlem...

OBJECTIVES We sought to compare the prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis in a cohort of middle-age African American (black) and non-Hispanic Caucasian (white) men and women from a population-based probability sample. BACKGROUND Blacks have a higher mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD) than whites, particularly among younger individuals, and yet several studies have reported that coro...

Results: Of 442,167 BRFSS respondents who met our study criteria, 81.6% were nonHispanic (NH) White, 8.4% were NH Black, 1.6% were NH Asian, 1.0% were NH American Indian, and 7.4% were Hispanic. Within each racial/ethnic group, weight status as measured by BMI was strongly associated with all five health conditions examined and particularly with diabetes, hypertension, and doctor-diagnosed arth...