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September 23, 2023

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60 Years Later, High School Quality May Have a Long-Term Impact on Cognition

May 2, 2023 — Attending a high school with a high number of teachers with graduate training was the clearest predictor of the impact of school quality on late-life cognition, researchers ...

High Blood Pressure in Your 30s Is Associated With Worse Brain Health in Your 70s

Apr. 7, 2023 — High blood pressure in early adulthood is associated with worse brain health in late life, according to a new study. Men, compared to women, may be more vulnerable to the detrimental effects of high ...

Feeling Loved, Optimistic or Happy as a Teen May Lead to Better Health in Adulthood

Jan. 11, 2023 — Teens who reported feeling optimism, happiness, self-esteem, belongingness and loved were more likely to reach their 20s and 30s in good cardiometabolic health compared to teens with fewer of these ...

High Optimism Linked With Longer Life and Living Past 90 in Women Across Racial, Ethnic Groups

June 8, 2022 — Higher levels of optimism were associated with longer lifespan and living beyond age 90 in women across racial and ethnic ...

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Non-Biological Factors and Social Determinants of Health Important in Women's CVD Risk Assessment

Apr. 10, 2023 — A new scientific statement reviews research about racial and ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factors among women in the U.S. In addition to ...

Racism Takes Its Toll on Brain and Body

Dec. 13, 2022 — Structural racism has not only psychosocial but also biological consequences. Discrimination has been shown to contribute to mental and physical disorders including obesity, depression, and ...

Study Challenges 'Good' Cholesterol's Role in Universally Predicting Heart Disease Risk

Nov. 21, 2022 — A study found that high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, often called the 'good cholesterol,' may not be as effective as scientists once ...

Certain Type of Stroke on the Rise, With Higher Rates Among Black People

Oct. 27, 2022 — Rates of one type of stroke called subarachnoid hemorrhage have increased in older people and men in recent years, and such strokes occur in Black people at a disproportionately higher rate compared ...

Liking Another Group Doesn't Mean You Dislike Your Own

Sep. 29, 2022 — A new study involving more than 879,000 participants published this week challenges the assumption that liking an outgroup means disliking your ingroup. It sheds light on a 1940s study in which Black ...

Low Physical Function After Age 65 Associated With Future Cardiovascular Disease

Aug. 31, 2022 — Having lower physical function was associated with a higher risk of heart attack, stroke and heart failure among older adults assessed with a short ...

Racial Discrimination Affects Brain Microstructure, Study Finds

July 20, 2022 — A new study shows that the experience of racial discrimination affects the microstructure of the brain, as well as increasing the risk for health ...

Only 1 in 5 People in the U.S. Has Optimal Heart Health

June 29, 2022 — Researchers found the U.S. population is well below optimal levels of cardiovascular health after applying the Life's Essential 8™ cardiovascular health scoring, the American Heart Association's ...

People Less Outraged by Gender Discrimination Caused by Algorithms

June 27, 2022 — People are less morally outraged when gender discrimination occurs because of an algorithm rather than direct human involvement, according to new ...

Physician Mistreatment Emerges as Crisis That Can Ripple Through U.S. Health Care

May 19, 2022 — In a recent survey of more than 6,500 physicians from across the United States representing a broad spectrum of racial and ethnic diversity, nearly ...

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Remember Me? Gender, Race May Make You Forgettable

Apr. 3, 2023 — Being a woman or racial minority can help someone stand out and be remembered when few others look like them. But they are more likely to be confused in settings where others share the same ...

Think You're Good at Math? Study Shows It May Be Because You Had Equitable Math Teachers

Mar. 3, 2023 — A new study finds that high school students identify more with math if they see their math teacher treating everyone in the class equitably, especially in racially diverse schools. While the ...

Racial Disparities in Childhood Adversity Linked to Brain Structural Differences in U.S. Children

Feb. 1, 2023 — A new study used MRI and survey data to identify structural differences in regions of the brain linked to threat processing in 9- and 10-year-olds that the researchers linked to disparities in ...

U.S. Firearm Death Trends Revealed Over Four Decades

Dec. 14, 2022 — A new analysis of firearm death rates from 1981 to 2020 shows that the people most heavily impacted by firearm deaths were Black men and white men, and that rates of firearm-related homicides and ...

Pregnant Moms' Stress May Accelerate Cell Aging of White, Not Black, Kids, Study Finds

Dec. 2, 2022 — Does stress during pregnancy impact children's cell aging, and does race matter? The answer is yes, according to a new ...

Managers Exhibiting Bias Based on Race, Gender, Disability and Sexual Orientation

Dec. 1, 2022 — A study that examined bias in the workplace has found that those in management positions demonstrate explicit and implicit bias toward others from marginalized groups and often express more implicit ...

Study Analyzing Often-Overlooked Racial/ethnic Groups Provides a New Understanding of Pain Disparities in the U.S.

Nov. 9, 2022 — Racial and ethnic disparities in pain prevalence in the U.S. are far larger than previously realized, according to the results of a new ...

Pandemic Escalated Teen Cyberbullying -- Asian Americans Targeted Most, Research Finds

Oct. 13, 2022 — A study of U.S. middle and high school students shows that about 17 percent were cyberbullied in 2016 and 2019, but that proportion rose to 23 percent in 2021. Notably, 19 percent of Asian American ...

Rate of Food Insecurity Skyrockets for Americans With Cardiovascular Disease

Sep. 29, 2022 — The number of Americans with cardiovascular disease who are food insecure -- having limited or uncertain access to adequate food -- has more than doubled over the last 20 years, a national study ...

COVID-19 Took Serious Toll on Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Mental and Physical Health

Sep. 19, 2022 — Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, or NH/PIs, comprising more than 20 ethnic groups hailing from Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, are understudied despite being the third fastest growing racial ...

Study Explores the Use of Telemedicine in Child Neurology in Largest Study to Date

Sep. 16, 2022 — Researchers found that across nearly 50,000 visits, patients continued to use telemedicine effectively even with the reopening of outpatient clinics a year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Which Teens Are More Likely to Vape? Research Shows Surprising Patterns Across Race and Sexuality Groups

Aug. 24, 2022 — A new study aims to examine differences in current e-cigarette use prevalence among U.S. youth at the intersections of sexual orientation with race and ...

Routine Depression Screening May Capture Underdiagnosed Patient Populations

Aug. 18, 2022 — Screening for depression at the primary care level could dramatically increase the likelihood of treatment for those who are traditionally undertreated -- racial and ethnic minority individuals, ...

Low School Test Scores Linked to Racial Segregation and Lead Exposure in North Carolina

Aug. 15, 2022 — Birth data, blood lead levels and fourth grade end-of-grade test scores for more than 25,000 children living in North Carolina show how childhood lead exposure and neighborhood racial residential ...

Minorities Bore Disproportionate Mental Health Impact of Pandemic

Aug. 10, 2022 — Racial and ethnic minorities bore a disproportionate mental health burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new ...

Discrimination Took a Toll on the Mental Health of Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Study Finds

July 27, 2022 — People who reported experiencing discrimination more than once a week early in the pandemic had seventeen-fold increased odds of moderate to severe depressive symptoms and ten-fold increased odds of ...

Implicit Bias and Concern About Appearing Racist Predict Teachers' Reluctance to Discuss Race and Racism in the Classroom

July 25, 2022 — Across the U.S., K-12 public school teachers face significant psychological barriers to discussing issues of race and racism with their students, according to new ...

Seeing Members of Minority Groups Everywhere? It's an Illusion

May 10, 2022 — Within a social setting most people significantly overestimate the presence of a minority -- and this overestimation is made not only by the majority but also by the minority themselves, researchers ...

Affirmative Action Bans Had 'Devastating Impact' on Diversity in Medical Schools, Study Finds

May 2, 2022 — In states with bans on affirmative action programs, the proportion of students from underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups in U.S. public medical schools fell by more than one-third by ...

Automated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Delivered Over the Internet Shown to Be Highly Effective in Black Women

Apr. 20, 2022 — Black women are disproportionately affected by poor sleep, which is associated with increased risk of adverse outcomes such as cardiovascular disease, depression and worse quality of life. The gold ...

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