877 Race/Ethnicity and Sleep Disturbances in US Adults—Chen et al. INTRODUCTION The prevalence of sleep disordered breathing (SDB), short sleep duration, and insomnia has increased substantially over the past two decades.1,2 Epidemiologic studies have linked sleep disturbances to adverse health outcomes including obesity,3 hypertension,3 cardiovascular disease (CVD),3,4 premature mortality,5,6 ...

The prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and atherosclerosis varies among several minority ethnic groups in the United States. Recently, small, dense low density lipoprotein (LDL) particle size has been recognized as a risk factor for CVD. We examined LDL size as a possible explanation for differences in CVD rates in 1571 subjects from the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study (IRAS), ...

Little is known about whether culture influences social correlates of dietary behaviors. Questionnaires on parent- and child-reported family and peer influences on children's fruit, juice and vegetable consumption were analyzed for ethnic group differences in responses. Grade 4-6 students completed the questionnaires in the classroom and their parents completed telephone or in-home interviews. ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of ethnic differences in diabetes care on inequalities in mortality and prevalence of end-stage complications among diabetic patients. The following questions were examined: 1) Are there ethnic differences among diabetic patients in mortality and end-stage complications and 2) are there ethnic differences among diabetic patients in quality of care? RESEARC...