Broadening the environmental lens to include social and structural determinants of women's health disparities

MM Smarr, M Avakian, AR Lopez… - Environmental …, 2024 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Due to the physical, metabolic, and hormonal changes before, during, and after
pregnancy, women—defined here as people assigned female at birth—are particularly …

Minorities are underrepresented in clinical trials of pharmaceutical agents for cystic fibrosis

ME McGarry, SA McColley - Annals of the American Thoracic …, 2016 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Members of racial or ethnic minorities make up an appreciable proportion of
patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and have worse outcomes than non-Latino white …

Leveraging genetic ancestry to study health disparities

K Batai, S Hooker, RA Kittles - American Journal of Physical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research to understand human genomic variation and its implications in health has great
potential to contribute in the reduction of health disparities. Biological anthropology can play …

Air pollution and lung function in minority youth with asthma in the GALA II (Genes–Environments and Admixture in Latino Americans) and SAGE II (Study of African …

AM Neophytou, MJ White, SS Oh, N Thakur… - American journal of …, 2016 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Adverse effects of exposures to ambient air pollution on lung function are well
documented, but evidence in racial/ethnic minority children is lacking. Objectives: To assess …

These labs are remarkably diverse--here's why they're winning at science

K Powell - Nature, 2018 - go.gale.com
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A call to action: A systematic review examining the failure to include females and members of minoritized racial/ethnic groups in clinical trials of pharmacological …

MR Schick, NS Spillane… - Alcoholism: Clinical and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) presents a significant public health concern given the high
prevalence estimates and numerous deleterious‐associated consequences. The FDA …

Bacterial salivary microbiome associates with asthma among african american children and young adults

A Espuela‐Ortiz, F Lorenzo‐Diaz… - Pediatric …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Several studies have shown that the airways of asthma patients contain higher diversity of
bacteria and are enriched in pathogenic species. However, sampling the airways in children …

[HTML][HTML] Racial/ethnic differences in eligibility for asthma biologics among pediatric populations

EM Wohlford, PF Huang, JR Elhawary… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Asthma is a heterogeneous disease. Clinical blood parameters differ by
race/ethnicity and are used to distinguish asthma subtypes and inform therapies. Differences …

Diversity, equity, and inclusion: a decade of progress?

BL Jones, MC Carter, CM Davis, J Wang - The Journal of Allergy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental and more recently heavily
discussed within medicine, research, and the larger society. There is increasing awareness …

Secondhand smoke exposure and asthma outcomes among African-American and Latino children with asthma

AM Neophytou, SS Oh, MJ White, ACY Mak, D Hu… - Thorax, 2018 - thorax.bmj.com
Background Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposures have been linked to asthma-related
outcomes but quantitative dose–responses using biomarkers of exposure have not been …