Background and aims: As suggested by the Minorities’ Diminished Return Theory, the associationbetween socioeconomic status and health is weaker for racial and ethnic minorities compared toWhites. The current study compared Blacks and Whites in terms of the association between maritalstatus and physical health.Methods: The State of the State Survey (SOSS) included 881 adu...

background and aims: blacks have a higher rate of chronic medical conditions (cmc), disability, and depressive symptoms compared to whites. the present study compared blacks and whites for bidirectional associations between cmc, disability, and depressive symptoms over a 25-year period. methods: data came from all five waves (1986, 1989, 1994, 2001, and 2011) of the americans’ changing lives st...

The authors examined the association between waist circumference and mortality among 154,776 men and 90,757 women aged 51–72 years at baseline (1996–1997) in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Additionally, the combined effects of waist circumference and body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)) were examined. All-cause mortality was assessed over 9 years of follow-up (1996–2005). After ad...

This study explored potential gender and racial/ethnic disparities in overall health risk related to 24 health risk indicators selected across six domains: socioeconomic, health status and health care, lifestyle, nutritional, clinical, and environmental. Using the 20032006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), it evaluated crosssectional data for 5,024 adults in the United...

An estimated two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese (Body Mass Index (BMI)=25-29.9; BMI>30, respectively), an increase of 110% over the past two decades.1-3 Furthermore, over the past 10-years the prevalence of obesity in this country has increased nearly 40%, with estimates indicating that 26% of Americans are obese.4 Obesity is most prevalent among the nation’s two largest ethn...

682 Am J P Abstract: Exposure to ultraviolet radiation from indoor tanning devices (tanning beds, booths, and sun lamps) or from the sun contributes to the risk of skin cancer, including melanoma, which is the type of skin cancer responsible for most deaths. Indoor tanning is common among certain groups, especially among older adolescents and young adults, adolescent girls and young women, and ...

background:  the  current study examined race and ethnic differences in the separate and combined (additive) effects of anxiety, depression and problem drinking on the baseline and trajectory of subjective health among adult men in the united states. methods:  this longitudinal study used data from the fragile families and child well-being study. we included 4655 men, composed of 2407 blacks, 1...

Background and aims: Blacks have a higher rate of chronic medical conditions (CMC), disability, and depressive symptoms compared to Whites. The present study compared Blacks and Whites for bidirectional associations between CMC, disability, and depressive symptoms over a 25-year period. Methods: Data came from all five waves (1986, 1989, 1994, 2001, and 2...

Prior to the start of the University’s Antarctic program in the middle 1960’s, our laboratory had long been studying the comparative biochemistry of proteins, particularly those of blood serum, milk, and egg whites. The main thrust of our studies was the use of differences in molecular structure of related proteins to help understand how the proteins function. The Antarctic program started from...

Data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for the years 2005-2010 were used to develop cut off levels for urinary thiocyanate (USCN) to distinguish smokers from nonsmokers aged ≥ 20 years. A cut off of (i) 1840 ng/ml for USCN was able to distinguish smokers from nonsmokers with a sensitivity of 80.7% and a specificity of 80.8%, (ii) 2630 ng/ml for USCN was able to distinguish s...