A global view of hypertensive disorders and diabetes mellitus during pregnancy

L Jiang, K Tang, LA Magee, P von Dadelszen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Two important maternal cardiometabolic disorders (CMDs), hypertensive disorders in
pregnancy (HDP)(including pre-eclampsia) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), result …

Abandon “race.” Focus on racism

P Braveman, T Parker Dominguez - Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The concept of “race” emerged in the 1600s with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, justifying
slavery; it has been used to justify exploitation, denigration and decimation. Since then …

Does race or ethnicity play a role in the origin, pathophysiology, and outcomes of preeclampsia? An expert review of the literature

JD Johnson, JM Louis - American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 2022 - Elsevier
The burden of preeclampsia, a substantial contributor to perinatal morbidity and mortality, is
not born equally across the population. Although the prevalence of preeclampsia has been …

Poor awareness of liver disease among adults with NAFLD in the United States

SA Alqahtani, JM Paik, R Biswas… - Hepatology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Population‐based studies that estimate awareness of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
(NAFLD) in the United States are scant. We aimed to understand public awareness of …

Racial disparities in cardiovascular complications with pregnancy-induced hypertension in the United States

AS Minhas, SM Ogunwole, AJ Vaught, P Wu… - …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Women with pregnancy-induced hypertension, defined as gestational hypertension and
preeclampsia/eclampsia, are at increased risk of long-term cardiovascular disease, but less …

Including multiracial individuals is crucial for race, ethnicity and ancestry frameworks in genetics and genomics

DO Martschenko, H Wand, JL Young, GL Wojcik - Nature genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Current ontologies of race, ethnicity and genetic ancestry rely on categorization, but have
limitations—as exemplified by multiracial individuals. We argue that including these …

Advancing Indigenous mental health research: Ethical, conceptual and methodological challenges

JP Gone, LJ Kirmayer - Transcultural Psychiatry, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The articles in this issue of Transcultural Psychiatry point the way toward meaningful
advances in mental health research pertaining to Indigenous peoples, illuminating the …

Race against death or starvation? COVID-19 and its impact on African populations

MD Kassa, JM Grace - Public Health Reviews, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Born in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the consequences of the
coronavirus pandemic on global health and economies have been and continue to be …

National burden of injury and deaths from shootings by police in the United States, 2015‒2020

JA Ward, J Cepeda, DB Jackson… - … journal of public …, 2024 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To describe all-outcome injurious shootings by police and compare
characteristics of fatal versus nonfatal injurious shootings nationally. Methods. From July …

Relative impact of genetic ancestry and neighborhood socioeconomic status on all-cause mortality in self-identified African Americans

HS Iyer, SL Gomez, I Cheng, TR Rebbeck - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Self-identified race/ethnicity is a correlate of both genetic ancestry and socioeconomic
factors, both of which may contribute to racial disparities in mortality. Investigators often hold …