Racial/ethnic disparities in environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals and women's reproductive health outcomes: epidemiological examples across the life …

TM James-Todd, YH Chiu, AR Zota - Current epidemiology reports, 2016 - Springer
Disparities in women's reproductive health outcomes across the life course have been well-
documented. Endocrine disrupting chemicals may be one factor driving disparities, as …

[HTML][HTML] Endocrine disruptors of sex hormone activities

L Varticovski, DA Stavreva, A McGowan… - Molecular and cellular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sex hormones, such as androgens, estrogens and progestins are naturally occurring
compounds that tightly regulate endocrine systems in a variety of living organisms …

Sociodemographic factors are associated with the abundance of PFAS sources and detection in US community water systems

JM Liddie, LA Schaider… - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Drinking water contaminated by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is a widespread
public health concern, and exposure–response relationships are known to vary across …

Blacks' diminished health return of family structure and socioeconomic status; 15 years of follow-up of a national urban sample of youth

S Assari, A Thomas, CH Caldwell, RB Mincy - Journal of Urban Health, 2018 - Springer
The protective effect of family structure and socioeconomic status (SES) on physical and
mental health is well established. There are reports, however, documenting a smaller return …

High risk of depression in high-income African American boys

S Assari, CH Caldwell - Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 2018 - Springer
Background Despite the well-established literature on the protective effect of socioeconomic
status (SES) on physical and mental health, there are a few reports on poor mental health of …

Racial and ethnic residential segregation and monocyte DNA methylation age acceleration

MT Hicken, J Dou, KN Kershaw, Y Liu, A Hajat… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Neighborhood segregation and poverty may be important drivers of health
inequities. Epigenomic factors, including DNA methylation clocks that may mark underlying …

The public health exposome: a population-based, exposure science approach to health disparities research

PD Juarez, P Matthews-Juarez, DB Hood, W Im… - International journal of …, 2014 - mdpi.com
The lack of progress in reducing health disparities suggests that new approaches are
needed if we are to achieve meaningful, equitable, and lasting reductions. Current scientific …

Combined racial and gender differences in the long-term predictive role of education on depressive symptoms and chronic medical conditions

S Assari - Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 2017 - Springer
Background Despite a well-established literature on the protective effect of education on
health, less is known about group differences in the mechanisms underlying this …

Race and urbanity alter the protective effect of education but not income on mortality

S Assari, MM Lankarani - Frontiers in public health, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Background Although the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) on mortality are well
established, these effects may vary based on contextual factors such as race and place …

Maternal educational attainment at birth promotes future self-rated health of white but not black youth: a 15-year cohort of a national sample

S Assari, CH Caldwell, RB Mincy - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2018 - mdpi.com
Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) is essential for maintaining health, and self-rated
health (SRH) is not an exception to this rule. This study explored racial differences in the …