Racial Issues News
June 12, 2024
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May 29, 2024 The average age at menarche -- the first menstrual period -- has been decreasing among younger generations in the U.S., especially those belonging to racial minorities and lower socioeconomic ...
May 9, 2024 Discrimination may speed up the biological processes of aging, according to a new ...
May 8, 2024 An estimated 321,566 children in the United States lost a parent to drug overdose from 2011 to 2021, according to a new study. The rate of children who experienced this loss more than doubled during ...
Feb. 6, 2024 A new study presents data and a mathematical model to explain why there is more unconscious, or implicit, racial bias in some cities than others. The study, which brings together the math of cities with the psychology of how individuals develop ...
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Apr. 24, 2024 Cognitive decline among Black women linked to poor heart health in middle ...
Feb. 1, 2024 Both liberals and conservatives are more likely to believe that merit-based hiring is unfair after learning about the impacts of socioeconomic disparities, according to a new ...
Dec. 7, 2023 Racial discrimination and bias are painful realities and increasingly recognized as detrimental to the health of adults and children. These stressful experiences also appear to be transmitted from ...
Nov. 10, 2023 The new American Heart Association PREVENTTM risk calculator estimates the 10- and 30-year risk of total cardiovascular disease for people aged 30 years and older. The calculator estimates the risk ...
Oct. 12, 2023 An American born in 2019 will spend a larger share of their lifetime taking prescription drugs than being in their first marriage or receiving an ...
Oct. 11, 2023 Modifiable risk factors -- including hypertension, obesity, diabetes, low HDL cholesterol and sleep disorders -- confer a higher risk of dementia for people in some minority ethnic groups compared to ...
Sep. 27, 2023 An ecological theory may help to explain why segregation is so widespread and persistent in US cities, according to a new article. The new way of framing segregation's endurance may provide a useful ...
Oct. 2, 2023 People frequently exposed to racial or ethnic discrimination may be more susceptible to obesity and related health risks in part because of a stress ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Apr. 8, 2024 Children and teens from racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by persistent insomnia symptoms that begin in childhood and continue through young adulthood, according to a ...
Mar. 20, 2024 A study of nearly 95,000 Washington state residents found that people living outside of urban areas as well as Native American and Hispanic people face longer travel distances to be seen by ...
Mar. 11, 2024 A new study of how high school students respond to a program designed to increase the frequency and quality of conversations about race in school finds that the anti-racist intervention did not cause ...
Mar. 6, 2024 Living in neighborhoods with more white residents and greater lifetime experiences of racial discrimination are linked to increased systemic inflammation during pregnancy among Black women, according ...
Jan. 4, 2024 When youth thrive despite difficult circumstances, they are usually lauded for their accomplishments. However, overcoming adversity may have a hidden physiological cost, especially for minority ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dec. 2, 2022 Does stress during pregnancy impact children's cell aging, and does race matter? The answer is yes, according to a new ...
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 ...
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 believed in uniformly predicting ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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