OBJECTIVE This study tested whether an immigrant mother's perception of ethnic and language-based discrimination affects the health of her child (indexed by the child's frequency of sick visits to the doctor, adjusting for well-visits), as a function of her ethnic-group attachment and length of U.S. residency. METHOD A community-based sample of 98 immigrant Dominican and Mexican mothers of no...

Despite their rarity and physiologically neutral character, more inherited structural variants of serum albumin (alloalbumins) are known than for any other human protein except hemoglobin. Including three previously unreported examples described here, we have identified 13 different point substitutions in alloalbumins of Japanese origin. Of these only albumin B and two proalbumins have been rep...

The mutations in theGJB2(Сх26) gene make the biggest contribution to hereditary hearing loss. The spectrum and prevalence of theGJB2gene mutations are specific to populations of different ethnic origins. For severalGJB2 mutations, their origin from appropriate ancestral founder chromosome was shown, approximate estimations of "age" obtained, and presumable regions of their origin outlined. This...

BACKGROUND The life table is a valid and frequently used instrument to compare the mortality of migrant groups. Most analyses are limited to an overview and give only life expectancy; however, further analysis of the life table can give more insight into differences in patterns of mortality between groups. METHODS A thorough life table analysis was applied to the mortality data of seven ethni...

There is a geographic variation in the occurrence of cancers in populations of this part of the world. This retrospective study is an attempt to see the patterns of cancers in major ethnic groups of Assam and to identify any variation of cancer patterns in these ethnic groups. The data on cancer of different ethnic groups were obtained from the Hospital Cancer Registry of a regional cancer cent...

An important question for the acculturation of adolescents from immigrant families is whether they retain ethnic labels that refer to their national origin (e.g., Mexican, Chinese) or adopt labels that are dominant in American society (e.g., Latino, Asian American, American). Approximately 380 adolescents from Asian and Latin American immigrant families selected ethnic labels during each of the...

We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 in order to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration. We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns of segregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of ethnic segregation in England’s schools are high, with considerable variation both across LEAs and acros...

The cost-effectiveness of neonatal electrocardiographic (ECG) screening has been questioned. The objective of this study was to establish normal values for the QT interval in newborns of different ethnic origin. Between 2005 and 2006, ECGs were obtained during the first 48 h of life from 1305 at-term newborns at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain. The mean corrected QT interval (QTc) was ...