Breaking down silos: the multifaceted nature of obesity and the future of weight management

FAN Heeren, VL Darcey… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The continued global increase in the prevalence of obesity prompted a meeting at the Royal
Society of London investigating causal mechanisms of the disease,'Causes of obesity …

[PDF][PDF] Evolving use of ancestry, ethnicity, and race in genetics research—A survey spanning seven decades

YJJ Byeon, R Islamaj, L Yeganova, WJ Wilbur… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
To inform continuous and rigorous reflection about the description of human populations in
genomics research, this study investigates the historical and contemporary use of the terms" …

Embedded racism: Inequitable niche construction as a neglected evolutionary process affecting health

P Ivey Henry, MR Spence Beaulieu… - … Medicine, and Public …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Racial health disparities are a pervasive feature of modern experience and structural racism
is increasingly recognized as a public health crisis. Yet evolutionary medicine has not …

Ancestry: How researchers use it and what they mean by it

B Dauda, SJ Molina, DS Allen, A Fuentes… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background: Ancestry is often viewed as a more objective and less objectionable population
descriptor than race or ethnicity. Perhaps reflecting this, usage of the term “ancestry” is …

Outcomes of gene panel testing for sensorineural hearing loss in a diverse patient cohort

EN Liao, E Taketa, NI Mohamad… - JAMA Network Open, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance A genetic diagnosis can help elucidate the prognosis of hearing loss, thus
significantly affecting management. Previous studies on diagnostic yield of hearing loss …

Racial disparities in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease care: differences in outcomes and health service utilization between black and white children

J Smith, C Liu, A Beck, L Fei, C Brokamp… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective To describe racial inequities in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease care and
explore potential drivers. Methods We undertook a single-center, comparative cohort study …

Epistemological allyship

S Oppong - Psychology and Developing Societies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Discussions about decolonising psychology now abound. A key perspective from which
these commentaries have been written relates to a confrontation of the gatekeepers in …

Care delivery team composition effect on hospitalization risk in African Americans with congestive heart failure

TB Williams, A Crump, MY Garza, N Parker… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The care delivery team (CDT) is critical to providing care access and equity to patients who
are disproportionately impacted by congestive heart failure (CHF). However, the specific …

Both parents matter: a national-scale analysis of parental race/ethnicity, disparities in prenatal PM2.5 exposures and related impacts on birth outcomes

DC Payne-Sturges, R Puett, DA Cory-Slechta - Environmental Health, 2022 - Springer
Background Most US studies that report racial/ethnic disparities in increased risk of low birth
weight associated with air pollution exposures have been conducted in California or …

Attitudes and beliefs regarding race‐targeted genetic testing of Black people: A systematic review

AS Iltis, L Rolf, L Yaeger, MS Goodman… - Journal of genetic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Geographical ancestry has been associated with an increased risk of various genetic
conditions. Race and ethnicity often have been used as proxies for geographical ancestry …