Hypertension is more prevalent and severe in urban black populations compared to whites, and is associated with a greater degree of target-organ damage for any given blood pressure level. In general, compared to whites, blacks respond well to diuretics and calcium channel blockers and less well to beta-blockers and ACE inhibitors. The exact mechanisms that contribute to differences in blood pre...

The present work demonstrates that, contrary to popular political narratives, working-class White Americans are far from monolithic in their class identities, social attitudes, and preferences. Latent profile analysis is used distinguish three types of identity a nationally representative sample Whites: Working Class Patriots, who valorize responsibility, embrace national identity, disparage th...

BACKGROUND Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a hemorrhagic stroke with high morbidity and mortality. Recent studies have shown that minorities such as Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders (NHOPI) with ICH are significantly younger compared to whites. However, the interaction of race and gender, and its impact on observed disparities among a multi-ethnic population in Hawai'i, have not b...

Racial inequity was theorized to threaten Whites' self-image when inequity is framed as White privilege but not when framed as anti-Black discrimination. Manipulations of Whites' need for self-regard were hypothesized to affect their perceptions of White privilege but not of anti-Black discrimination. In Experiment 1, White participants reported less privilege when given threatening (vs. affirm...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Adverse outcomes associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) in Asians have not yet been fully elucidated. This study was designed to racial differences the risk for bleeding and effect new-onset AF on mortality. Methods is based a patient-level comparative analysis UK Biobank Korean National Health Insurance Service-Healt...

The systematic study of misanthropy, the lack trust in humanity, has proliferated over last 30 years. One prominent line research details racial and ethnic disparities levels but pays little attention to role religiosity, while another focuses on religiosity its impact with only scant race ethnicity. Little attempt been made synthesize these two strands literature address an important unanswere...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate if the different results of prostate cancer risk between black and white Brazilian men may be associated with the varying methodology used to define participants as either Blacks or Whites. PATIENTS AND METHODS We evaluated median PSA values, rate of PSA level ≥ 4.0 ng/ mL, indications for prostate biopsy, prostate cancer detection rate, biopsy/cancer rate, cancer/biops...

CONTEXT Ethnicity is an important factor known to impact the biology and outcome of many cancers. In pancreatic cancer, African Americans are thought to have a higher incidence and poorer prognosis than Whites. PATIENTS A total 645 pancreatic cancer patients were identified in the database, of which, 530 patients were eligible for this study and retained for the statistical analysis. Of the 5...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess inequality of experience of dental caries, based on race/ethnicity, among Brazilian adolescents aged 15 to 19 years in 2010 and test whether socioeconomic indicators fully explain ethnic differences in dental caries. METHODS Data from a National Oral Health Survey conducted in Brazil in 2010 was analysed. Race/ethnicity was self-assigned and mo...

Public understandings of race in the United States have evolved, at least among some, to acknowledge that whiteness confers privilege. In contrast negative racial stereotypes animate resentment, white privilege inverts lens by focusing on whites and notion unearned advantages. Given centrality American politics, we investigate denial whether it matters politically. Our inquiry shows is a distin...