Update on hypertension in African-Americans

C Maraboto, KC Ferdinand - Progress in cardiovascular diseases, 2020 - Elsevier
Uncontrolled hypertension (HTN) in the US is particularly prevalent and devastating among
black individuals, who disproportionately suffer the consequences of this condition to a …

[HTML][HTML] Back to the future: achieving health equity through health informatics and digital health

LPC Brewer, KL Fortuna, C Jones… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2020 - mhealth.jmir.org
The rapid proliferation of health informatics and digital health innovations has revolutionized
clinical and research practices. There is no doubt that these fields will continue to have …

An anti-racist approach to achieving mental health equity in clinical care

RK Legha, J Miranda - Psychiatric Clinics, 2020 - psych.theclinics.com
Racial minorities in the United States experience higher rates of mortality, greater severity
and progression of disease, and higher levels of comorbidity and impairment than do their …

Stress and achievement of cardiovascular health metrics: the American heart association life's simple 7 in blacks of the Jackson heart study

LPC Brewer, N Redmond, JP Slusser… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Ideal cardiovascular health metrics (defined by the American Heart Association
Life's Simple 7 [LS7]) are suboptimal among blacks, which results in high risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Intersectional effects of racial and gender discrimination on cardiovascular health vary among black and white women and men in the CARDIA study

GS Bey, B Jesdale, S Forrester, SD Person… - SSM-population health, 2019 - Elsevier
Testing hypotheses from the emerging Identity Pathology (IP) framework, we assessed race-
gender differences in the effects of reporting experiences of racial and gender discrimination …

Getting off the racist sidelines: An antiracist approach to mental health supervision and training

RK Legha - The Clinical Supervisor, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Few codified strategies exist for antiracist supervision practices that prepare mental health
providers to challenge racism during clinical care. In this paper, the author articulates an …

A mixed-method analysis of community-engaged theatre illuminates black women's experiences of racism and addresses healthcare inequities by targeting provider …

S Wasmuth, K Pritchard, C Milton… - INQUIRY: The Journal …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Theatre has been a powerful means of eliciting social change. This paper describes
methods and outcomes of a theatre project to reduce healthcare inequities experienced by …

[HTML][HTML] Health disparities at the intersection of gender and race: beyond intersectionality theory in epidemiologic research

G Bey - Quality of Life-Biopsychosocial Perspectives, 2020 - intechopen.com
Racial disparities in health have long been one of the primary foci of health inequity
research in the United States, yet the use of theoretical frameworks outside of biological …

Discrimination, high-effort coping, and cardiovascular risk Profiles in the Jackson heart study: A latent profile Analysis

AJ Johnson, K McCloyn, M Sims - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health …, 2022 - Springer
African Americans exhibit heightened risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) necessitating
further examination of biological pathways contributing to CVD incidence. An integrated …

The impact of a plant-based diet on indices of cardiovascular health in African Americans: a cross-sectional study

ZT Martin, G Olvera, CA Villegas… - Applied Physiology …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
African-American (AA) individuals are disproportionately affected by cardiovascular
diseases. Plant-based diets (PBD) may be cardioprotective in part through their high …