“Kabaz di Terra” was created in 2019 by Guinean students from different courses at the University of International Integration Lusofonia Afrobrasileira (UNILAB) State Ceará-Brazil with aim disseminating, recognizing and valuing culture(s) diaspora. Guinea-Bissau is a West African country has more than dozen representative ethnic groups, groups distributed eight regions country, including capita...

OBJECTIVE This study is a descriptive investigation of trends in BMI in the USA over time, across race/ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status (SES) groups, and across different datasets. METHODS The study analyzes micro-level data from three widely used cross-sectional US health datasets: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the National Health Interview Survey ...

Commentators have criticised the terminology used for the classification of ethnic and racialised groups in health research for a number of years. The shortcomings of fixed-response categories include the reproduction of racialised categorisations, overemphasis of homogeneity within groups and contrast between them, and failure to offer terms with which people identify and which can express com...

OBJECTIVE Inpatient Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) ethnicity data are available but not always collected and data quality can be unreliable. This may have implications when assessing outcomes by ethnicity. An alternative method for assigning ethnicity is using naming algorithms. We investigate if the association between ethnicity and cancer incidence varied dependent on how ethnic group was ...

BACKGROUND Patient race in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) information system was previously recorded based on an administrative or clinical employee's observation. Since 2003, the VA started to collect self-reported race in compliance with a new federal guideline. We investigated the implications of this transition for using race/ethnicity data in multi-year trends in the VA and in oth...

BACKGROUND Health inequalities are already present at young age and tend to vary with ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES). Diet is a major determinant of overweight, and studying dietary patterns as a whole in relation to overweight rather than single nutrients or foods has been suggested. We derived dietary patterns at age 5 and determined whether ethnicity and SES were both related to th...

BACKGROUND The impact of increased central arterial stiffness as a predictor of morbidity and mortality, independently of other cardiovascular (CV) risk factors, has been established. The main aim of the present work was to investigate the association of ethnicity on arterial stiffness in different ethnic groups from the Brazilian population. METHODS A total of 1,427 individuals from the gene...

ThroughoU[ this volume, we have emphasized the need to consider carefully the role of ethnicity and culture in the etiology and prevention of youth violence in the United States. As we have discussed, in many cases factors that increase or decrease risk for youth violence are shared across ethnic groups; however, the life circumstances of ethnic minority youth can increase the likelihood that r...

Among social scientists, constructivism has long reigned supreme in the study of ethnicity, nationality, and nationalism. Accordingly, scholars have highlighted role cultural framing political choice definition ethnic categories, their fluidity, flexible boundaries. Conversely, they deemphasized historical roots ethnicity depicted nations as contested products nationalist movements leaders (mer...

BACKGROUND Everolimus (EVR) has demonstrated good efficacy after renal transplantation. Racial disparities in clinical outcomes after de novo renal transplantation are well documented; whether the efficacy of EVR varies based on recipient ethnicity is unknown. We conducted a comparative risk assessment of EVR by ethnicity. METHODS Data on 2004 renal transplant recipients from three EVR studie...