Obesity is a serious health condition that has reached epidemic proportions. About 60% of adults in the United States are overweight, with the prevalence of obesity increasing in the last decade for all age, race, and gender groups.1,2 Although obesity is becoming more prevalent in the US population overall, African-American and low-income women are disproportionately affected.3 Based on data f...

BACKGROUND Ovomucoid is the dominant allergen in hen's egg. Although several studies evaluated the utility of ovomucoid specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE) levels in predicting baked (e.g., muffin or cupcake) or raw egg food challenge outcomes, studies that evaluated ovomucoid sIgE as a predictor of cooked egg (e.g., scrambled or hard boiled) challenge outcomes are limited. OBJECTIVE To determin...

The Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS) can be used to obtain U.S. adult current smoking prevalence estimates for the recent past. In this paper, we use the TUS-CPS to evaluate current smoking prevalence rates and trends by race/ethnicity and gender for the period 1992 to 2003. The TUS-CPS adult sample size of approximately 240,000/year allows accurate estimates of...

C smoking among adults has remained at about 20.8% since 2004 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2005b). Those most likely to smoke include men, adults less than age 40, and those living below the poverty line. American Indians/ Alaskan Natives smoke at a much higher rate (32.4%) than nonHispanic Blacks (23.0%), non-Hispanic Whites (21.9%), or Hispanics (15.2%). Cigarette smokin...

In the United States and the San Francisco Bay Area, whites are nearly twice as likely as non-whites to develop brain cancer. To test whether prevalence and types of alterations in the p53 pathway in brain tumor development may explain some of this difference in risk, we have analyzed the p53 status of astrocytic gliomas from a population-based sample of cases within our San Francisco Bay Area ...

This essay explores the intersections of race, weather and climate. Earth science construes as temperature precipitation that impacts environments. Thinking about how this applies to bodies has come into vogue in trying understand disproportionate number COVID-19 infections deaths for Blacks Latinx people. Arline Geronimus pioneered 1992 when she transposed notion “weathering” from its standard...

We measure the effects of firm policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. Non-Whites are less likely to be hired by high-wage firms, explaining about 20 percent wage gap for both genders. Firm-specific premiums non-Whites also compressed relative Whites, contributing another 5 that gap. A counterfactual analysis reveals two-thirds underrepresentation at higher-wage firms is explained race-ne...