Race, racism, and cardiovascular health: applying a social determinants of health framework to racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease

Z Javed, M Haisum Maqsood, T Yahya… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Health care in the United States has seen many great innovations and successes in the past
decades. However, to this day, the color of a person's skin determines—to a considerable …

Social determinants of health and diabetes: a scientific review

F Hill-Briggs, NE Adler, SA Berkowitz, MH Chin… - Diabetes …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Decades of research have demonstrated that diabetes affects racial and ethnic minority and
low-income adult populations in the US disproportionately, with relatively intractable …

PM2.5 polluters disproportionately and systemically affect people of color in the United States

CW Tessum, DA Paolella, SE Chambliss, JS Apte… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Racial-ethnic minorities in the United States are exposed to disproportionately high levels of
ambient fine particulate air pollution (PM2. 5), the largest environmental cause of human …

Disparities in air pollution exposure in the United States by race/ethnicity and income, 1990–2010

J Liu, LP Clark, MJ Bechle, A Hajat… - Environmental …, 2021 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Few studies have investigated air pollution exposure disparities by
race/ethnicity and income across criteria air pollutants, locations, or time. Objective: The …

Associations between wildfire smoke exposure during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth in California

S Heft-Neal, A Driscoll, W Yang, G Shaw… - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
There is limited population-scale evidence on the burden of exposure to wildfire smoke
during pregnancy and its impacts on birth outcomes. In order to investigate this relationship …

Cardiovascular disease risk factors in women: the impact of race and ethnicity: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

LS Mehta, GP Velarde, J Lewey, G Sharma, RM Bond… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women, yet differences exist among
certain racial and ethnic groups. Aside from traditional risk factors, behavioral and …

Local-and regional-scale racial and ethnic disparities in air pollution determined by long-term mobile monitoring

SE Chambliss, CPR Pinon… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Disparity in air pollution exposure arises from variation at multiple spatial scales: along
urban-to-rural gradients, between individual cities within a metropolitan region, within …

Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, residential segregation, and spatial variation in noise exposure in the contiguous United States

JA Casey, R Morello-Frosch, DJ Mennitt… - Environmental …, 2017 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Prior research has reported disparities in environmental exposures in the
United States, but, to our knowledge, no nationwide studies have assessed inequality in …

The impact of neighborhoods on CV risk

AVD Roux, MS Mujahid, JA Hirsch, K Moore, LV Moore - Global heart, 2016 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the leading cause of death and a major
source of health disparities in the Unites States and globally. Efforts to reduce CVD risk and …

Racial disparities in prostate cancer among black men: epidemiology and outcomes

IM Chowdhury-Paulino, C Ericsson… - Prostate cancer and …, 2022 - nature.com
Prostate cancer has the widest racial disparities of any cancer, and these disparities appear
at every stage of the cancer continuum. This review focuses on the disparities in prostate …