The DASH Diet and Diet Costs Among Ethnic and Racial Groups in the United States
The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet is perhaps the best example of how a nutrient-dense dietary pattern can prevent chronic disease. In randomized trials, DASH dietary patterns...
View ArticleDASH for Less Cash?
It is well established that the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan, which emphasizes increased consumption of fruits, vegetables, and reduced dietary saturated fat, cholesterol,...
View ArticleThe New 2015 MCAT Testing Competencies
In the spring of 2015, prospective medical students for the 2016 class and beyond will sit for a newly revised Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)—the most extensive redesign of the test in its...
View ArticleStress Affects Expression of Inflammatory Genes in Immune Cells
Immune cells in humans and mice under stress demonstrate increased expression of genes that activate inflammation and decreased expression of genes that suppress inflammation, reports a team led by...
View ArticleTrends in Smoking Among Adults With Mental Illness and Association Between...
ImportanceSignificant progress has been made in reducing the prevalence of tobacco use in the United States. However, tobacco cessation efforts have focused on the general population rather than...
View ArticleThe Silent Crisis Children Hurt by Current Immigration Enforcement Policies
“My father went into that house and never came out. Now my mother went into that house. If she doesn’t come out, who will take care of me? Will you take care of me?” 4-year-old Jessie asked a woman she...
View ArticleEffects of Home Visits by Paraprofessionals and by Nurses on Children...
ImportanceThe Nurse-Family Partnership delivered by nurses has been found to produce long-term effects on maternal and child health in replicated randomized trials. A persistent question is whether...
View ArticleSocioeconomic Disparities in Mortality After Cancer Surgery Failure to Rescue
ImportanceDisparities in operative mortality due to socioeconomic status (SES) have been consistently demonstrated, but the mechanisms underlying this disparity are not well understood.ObjectiveTo...
View ArticlePredictors of Suicide and Accident Death in the Army Study to Assess Risk and...
ImportanceThe Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) is a multicomponent study designed to generate actionable recommendations to reduce Army suicides and increase...
View ArticleMore Work Needed to Protect Children but Promising Trend Data on Exposure to...
Finkelhor and colleagues continue their leadership in providing trend data on maltreatment of children. Their previous work has shown that within child maltreatment there has been a 20-year decline in...
View ArticleFinancial Barriers to Care Among Low-Income Children With Asthma Health Care...
ImportanceThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes subsidies that reduce patient cost sharing for low-income families. Limited information on the effects of cost sharing among...
View ArticleThe Downside of Increased Cost Sharing
From 1971 through 1982, the RAND Corporation conducted the most comprehensive randomized clinical trial of health insurance ever performed. The investigators randomized more than 2700 families and 7700...
View ArticleQuality Reporting That Addresses Disparities in Health Care
More than a decade has passed since the landmark Institute of Medicine report Unequal Treatment documented the sizeable and pervasive disparities that affect the US health care system. Yet there has...
View Article“BeneFITs” to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in Priority Populations
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Many CRC deaths could be averted by screening because screening decreases both CRC incidence and mortality by 30% to...
View ArticleAssociation of Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Ethnicity With Outcomes of...
ImportanceFor the management of thyroid diseases, there have been few studies aimed at examining the association between disparities and outcomes.ObjectiveTo measure the effects of race, ethnicity, and...
View ArticleNeglected Infections of Poverty in the United States and Their Effects on the...
A group of neglected infections are emerging as important causes of psychiatric and mental illness among vulnerable populations living in extreme poverty in the United States. These chronic infections...
View ArticleChildren and US Federal Policy on Health and Health Care Seen but Not Heard
Children account for 73.5 million Americans (24%), but 8% of federal expenditures. Data on health and health care indicate that child well-being in the United States has been in decline since the most...
View ArticleAssociations Between Subjective Social Status and DSM-IV Mental Disorders...
ImportanceThe inverse social gradient in mental disorders is a well-established research finding with important implications for causal models and policy. This research has used traditional objective...
View ArticleAssociations of Tobacco Control Policies With Birth Outcomes
ImportanceIt is unclear whether the benefits of tobacco control policies extend to pregnant women and infants, especially among racial/ethnic minority and low socioeconomic populations that are at...
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