Artman, Alexis Huang, Annie Bowker, Rakhee Cerwinske, Leah Cooper, Shaun Johnson, Tricia Patel, Aloka L
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JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition
In 2017, the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) implemented a protocol to provide individualized vitamin D supplementation dosing for very low-birth-weight (VLBW) and very preterm infants. This study evaluated the association of demographic and socioeconomic factors, vitamin D dose, and health indicators, i...
Daley, Angela Rahman, Muntasir Watson, Barry
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Population health management
This study estimates racial/ethnic differences in the association between 100% smoke-free state laws and smoking, as well as self-reported health, to facilitate policy aimed at reducing disparities. Data pertain to adults aged 18 years and older, obtained from the public-use Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2002-2014). The authors exploi...
Duarte, Cristiane S Canino, Glorisa J Wall, Melanie Ramos-Olazagasti, Maria Elkington, Katherine S Bird, Hector Choi, C Jean Adams, Christopher Klotz, Jaimie Carliner, Hannah
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Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
To estimate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and their continuity since childhood among young adults from the same ethnic group living in 2 low-income contexts. Young adults (N = 2,004; ages 15-29) were followed (82.8% retention) as part of the Boricua Youth Study, a study of Puerto Rican youths recruited at ages 5-13 in the South Bronx (SBx...
Wang, Meizi Ying, Jianhua Ugbolue, Ukadike Chris Buchan, Duncan S Gu, Yaodong Baker, Julien S
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International journal of environmental research and public health
(1) Background: Scotland has one of the highest rates of obesity in the Western World, it is well established that poor weight profiles, and particularly abdominal obesity, is strongly associated with Type II diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Whether these associations are apparent in ethnic population groups in Scotland is unclear. The purpose...
Halvorsrud, Kristoffer Kucharska, Justyna Adlington, Katherine Rüdell, Katja Brown Hajdukova, Eva Nazroo, James Haarmans, Maria Rhodes, James Bhui, Kamaldeep
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Journal of public health (Oxford, England)
To investigate and address the evidence gap on the effectiveness of co-creation/production in international health research. An initial systematic search of previous reviews published by 22 July 2017 in Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Scopus and Web of Science. We extracted reported aims, elements and outcomes of co-creation/production from 50 reviews; ...
Montoya, Morgan Grennan, Gillan Mishra, Jyoti
Neuro-cognition is our brain’s ability to perform context-appropriate cognitive functions, such as paying attention and maintaining information in working memory, which are associated with specific neural activations. The ability to generate context-appropriate, neuro-cognitively optimal responses to stressful life hardships is a shared aspect of r...
Mallik, I Umaipalan, A Badhwar, V Rashid, T Dhairyawan, R
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AIDS care
To our knowledge, no published literature has focused on South Asians living with HIV in the U.K. since 2004. We reviewed the case-notes of all patients self-identifying as South Asian attending two HIV centres in North East London between 1st January and 31st December 2017.Of 131 patients, 107 were male, median age 43 (range 24-72). Most (73.3%) w...
Green, Brittany Howat, Paul Hui, Lisa
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The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology
Stillbirth increases steeply after 42 weeks gestation; hence, induction of labour (IOL) is recommended after 41 weeks. Recent Victorian data demonstrate that term stillbirth risk rises at an earlier gestation in south Asian mothers (SAM). To determine the impact on a non-tertiary hospital in Melbourne, Australia, if post-dates IOL were recommended ...
Fry, Gary Gilgallon, Kathryn Khan, Wajid Reynolds, Damian Spencer, Graham Wright, Alice Parveen, Sahdia
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Dementia (London, England)
Because of challenges involved in recruitment, little research has focused on care needs of minority ethnic groups. This article reports on a study that recruited 186 British south Asian carers of people with dementia. Four obstacles were faced: language barriers, confusion over research, feelings of shame/stigma, and mistrust. Researchers drew on ...
Nielsen, T Rune Waldemar, Gunhild Nielsen, Dorthe S
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Dementia (London, England)
Although minority ethnic families have a lower uptake of dementia care services, little research has explored how minority ethnic carers cope with and manage dementia care in their everyday lives. The aim of this study was to investigate organization of family dementia care in Turkish, Pakistani, and Arabic speaking minority ethnic families from th...
