Purpose This study examines the impact of college education on incorporated and unincorporated self-employments. It specifically compares effects African Americans Hispanics with Whites. Design/methodology/approach The sample was drawn from US Current Population Survey between 1989 2018. Based a size 1,657,043 individuals, this employed logit regression models to test hypotheses. Racial variati...

Background Inequalities in dementia incidence and heterogeneities observed on memory decline are present across ethnic/racial groups. Research suggests that inequities risk/protective factors contribute towards these differences. We examine risk multiple domains to identify those best discriminate differences trajectories ethnoracial Method used an ethnoracially diverse longitudinal cohort of c...

OBJECTIVES To determine if clustering of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors has a differential impact on CVD and renal disease among African Americans compared to Whites with type 2 diabetes DESIGN Cross-sectional. METHODS Prevalent CVD, macroalbuminuria, and CVD risk factors were measured in 323 African-American and White adult patients with type 2 diabetes. CVD risk factors were di...

PURPOSE We compared the nutrient profiles of hypertensive Korean-Americans, non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks with those of normotensive Korean-Americans, Whites, and Blacks. METHODS This study was a cross-sectional comparative design of nutrient profiles among three ethnic groups. Korean-Americans were interviewed at Korean-American health clinics and churches in Chicago and data were collected...

Debrisoquin hydroxylase (CYP2D6) is a cytochrome P450 enzyme that catalyzes the metabolism of > 30 commonly prescribed medications. Deficiency in CYP2D6 activity, inherited as an autosomal recessive trait, was found to be significantly less common in American blacks (1.9%) than whites (7.7%). To determine the genetic basis for this difference, inactivating CYP2D6 mutations were assessed by alle...

OBJECTIVES To explore whether there are differences in sleep duration between blacks and whites residing in similar urban neighborhoods and examine whether the relationship between sleep durations and sociodemographic and/or health indices are consistent for blacks and whites. METHODS A total of 1,207 participants from the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Disparities across the Life Span stu...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have found that, for preterm babies, the risk of stillbirth among Australian Aborigines is similar to the risk for whites. In contrast, at full term, the risk for Aborigines is more than twice the risk for whites. However, these studies (like most other analyses of stillbirths) used the number of births at each gestational age to calculate the risk. For stillbirths, ...

OBJECTIVE Abnormalities in nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability have been reported in blacks. Whether there are differences in endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) in addition to NO between blacks and whites and how these affect physiological vasodilation remain unknown. We hypothesized that the bioavailability of vascular NO and EDHF, at rest and with pharmacological and physiologica...

Domestic work constitutes a large sector, with more than million women working as domestic workers. In South Africa, it is norm that whites employ black servants, but the...