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Contraceptive Use on the Decline among the Poor

...d to 9 % from 7 %. In case of Hispanic women and blacks it was increased to 12 % and 15 % respectively. The rate of unintended pregnancies, which had previously declined has now leveled off. The researchers blamed reductions in federally and state-financed family planning programs for declining contracep...

Blacks and East Asians Prone To Side Effects of Cardiovascular Drugs

...ac patients has revealed that it is more common in blacks and those of an East Asian origin//, the results o...or lips by a margin of three times. Furthermore, blacks were also at increased risk (50% high risk) of developing intracranial bleeding (bleeding in the bra...

Undetected Cases Of Diabetes Boom In The US

...ad diabetes. * about 13 percent of non-Hispanic blacks age 20 and older had diabetes. Diabetes was twice as common in non-Hispanic blacks compared to non-Hispanic whites. * about 8 percent of Mexican Americans age 20 and older had diab...

Quota System: Diverting Attention From The Real Problem

... of social problems. In the United States, where blacks and Hispanics are in the minority, they needed affirmative action programmes to help students from those communities. However, because of the constitutional constraints, they have not been able to take recourse to a quota system. Still, they are hand...

Adult Diabetics Were Unaware Of Their Condition

... Non-Hispanic blacks aged 20 and older, and people aged 65 and older ha... Thus diabetes was twice as common in non-Hispanic blacks compared to non-Hispanic whites – Researchers found. U.S. adults, aged 20 years and older, who to...

Breast Cancer Mortality Rate is Higher Among Black Women

...her when compared with the whites with many of the blacks under the age of 50 have a 77 percent of mortality rate. When younger, premenopausal, black women get breast cancer, they are more than twice as likely as older women, black or white, to get an aggressive breast cancer subtype, the study found. The...

U.S: Prize for the best hearing category (ethnic groups) goes to…. Non-Hispanic Blacks

... the U.S., the researchers found that non-Hispanic blacks have on average the best hearing thresholds, non-Hispanic whites the worst, with Mexican Americans in between. Women in general had better hearing compared to men. Revisiting a similar study from 35 years ago with adults aged 25-74, the researchers...

Prevalence Of AIDS Goes Down In Illinois

...ell slightly//. But experts were worried because blacks are still disproportionately affected by AIDS. They also feel that the low numbers could be due to the fact that not enough people are being tested thoroughly. David Ernesto Munar, associate director of the non-profit AIDS Foundation of Chicago said ...

The sleep race: White, wealthy, and sleep-wise

... hours in bed. White men slept for 6.09 hours. The blacks slept for a little more than 5 hours. The researchers were perplexed by the difference in sleeping pattern among races, with no scientific reasoning yet for this occurring. The findings have been published in the current issue of the American Journ...

Worksite Wellness Programs Plays a Vital Role in Improving the Health of the Staff

...ck women compared to their white counterparts. And blacks are 1.8 times as likely to have diabetes as whites.’ UCLA examined the results of the CHC study of 35 organizations. More than 700 staff, members or clients--mostly overweight African-American women--within those organizations completed a 12-week or ...

Risk of Death Greater With Low Literacy Levels

...h the consent form. According to Sudore, "Among blacks as opposed to whites, the odds of requiring more passes were 2.5." Sudore speculates the reasons might have to do with an already-existing high level of distrust of medical studies among African Americans. She cites the Tuskegee Study, in which...

Stroke Care Cost To Touch $2.2 trillion by 2050

...sk of stroke is highest in minority groups such as blacks and non-white Hispanics," said Dr. Devin Brown, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Michigan stroke program, and lead author of a report in the Aug. 16 online issue of Neurology. Following the findings of the study, the American...

Racial differences show difference in blood sugar control too!!

...This lower level of control may partly explain why blacks have disproportionately higher rates of death and ...sugar. Studies that measured sugar control among blacks and whites using a blood test for glycosylated hemoglobin – hemoglobin that has linked with glucose,...

Lactose-Intolerant kids need to take dairy products to meet nutrient requirements

...d Native Americans (almost 100%), Hispanics (80%), blacks (60% to 80%) and Ashkenazi Jews (60% to 80%). Whereas, only 2 % of the European population is affected by this condition. Symptoms may be apparent at the age of 2 or 3 years in kids belonging to the high-risk ethnic groups. Caucasian kids normally ...

Bladder Cancer Has Worse Outcomes In Blacks

...of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds that blacks with bladder cancer have the worst prognosis and a...d 93,093 people with bladder cancer and found that blacks with advanced cancer had aggressive cancers and were more likely to succumb to it. Results of the s...

Menthol cigarettes harder to quit than regular cigarettes

...ason for the excessive smoking-related diseases in blacks in the U.S.// This study was published in the Ar...art disease and other smoking-related disorders in blacks in the U.S. in spite of them usually smoking less. "The study, which looked at the smoking habits ...

Uterine Cancer More Lethal For Black Women

...e women. "When response to treatment was analyzed, blacks appeared to have lower tumor response to each of the chemotherapy regimens employed in the trials," the researchers wrote. The researchers examined clinical data from 1,151 patients attending various trials. They found that black women came in very ...

Drop in smoking rate stalls

... the non-Hispanic whites at 21.9% and non-Hispanic blacks at 21.5%. The smoking rate is 13.3% in Asians and 16.2% in Hispanics. "Between late 1997 and 2003, cigarette prices doubled, which contributed to continued dips in smoking prevalence. But since 2003, prices have gone up very slowly; only by about 1...

The connection between socioeconomic status and risk of stroke

...and women residing in the Greater Cincinnati area, blacks seemed to be 69 percent prone to suffering a stroke, for the first time, as compared to whites. Kleindorfer and her team inferred that the risk of stroke due to socioeconomic status was about 39 percent in African Americans. Other risk factors could ...

African-Americans With Prostate Cancer More Likely to Have Family History

... the primary risk factors for the disease, in both blacks and whites. A first-degree relative with prostate cancer increases a man’s risk by two to four times, and the more relatives who are affected, the more the risk increases. “Collecting a family history of prostate and breast cancer, especially amon...

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