The current study assessed the prevalence of diabetes across four different physical activity lifestyles and infer through machine learning which combinations of physical activity, sleep, stress, and body mass index yield the lowest prevalence of diabetes in Blacks and Whites. Data were extracted from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) dataset from 2004-2013 containing demographics, ch...

To the Editor: In the letter “Article on Sodium Intake Should Include Ethnic Disclaimer,” Professor Hilliard states that “healthy blacks who consume more than 1,500 mg of sodium per day are at risk for hypertension and chronic kidney disease” and that “accumulation of irrefutable medical data on the subject” shows that “American blacks are 4 times more likely than whites to die of kidney failur...

This essay explores the intersections of race, weather and climate. Earth science construes as temperature precipitation that impacts environments. Thinking about how this applies to bodies has come into vogue in trying understand disproportionate number COVID-19 infections deaths for Blacks Latinx people. Arline Geronimus pioneered 1992 when she transposed notion “weathering” from its standard...

BACKGROUND Despite a higher incidence of end-stage renal disease (stage 5), blacks have been shown to have the same or lower prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD stages 3 and 4). Current creatinine-based glomerular filtration rate (GFR)-estimating equations may misclassify young, healthy blacks. METHODS Among 3501 young adults (mean age 45), we compared the prevalence of CKD in blacks an...