1. Medtronic Introduces Every Patient First
(Company News/Medtronic)

... “Medtronic ’s vision is to improve overall access to life-saving therapies for everyone, regardless of age, gender, race, or ethnicity,” said H. James Dallas, senior vice president of Quality and Operations ...

2. Physiologic Factors and MDCT-scans Image Quality
(Communities/CT)

... of multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) scans, used for the noninvasive detection of coronary artery disease, can be significantly affected by patient characteristics such as ethnicity, body mass ...

3. The Nation Can Use Heath Information Technology to Reduce Care Disparities Among Poor and Minorities
(Healthcare Informatics/Healthcare Informatics)

... data collection on ethnicity, race and gender in order to better document care disparities. He insisted that the collection and analysis of data is critical to improving the quality of care for minorities ...

4. Density, Risk Factors Predict Postmenopausal Breast Cancer
(Communities/Breast Mammary Gland)

... risk factors such as age, race, ethnicity, and family history appeared to be the best approach to estimating risk, the researchers said. Those found to be at high risk should start tamoxifen or raloxifene ...

5. Experts predict high mortality rates from pulmonary fibrosis
(Communities/Pulmonary Thoracic)

... categories. "Our study is the first large-scale study to examine age-, sex-, race-, and ethnicity-stratified mortality rates in decedents with PF," said Dr. Olson. In addition to finding a large disparity ...

6. Study links education to risk of cancer death
(Imported/Imported)

... with more than 12 years. Previous studies have found that death rates are higher among people with less education, but the current study is the first to analyze mortality by race/ethnicity, and is the ...

7. American Cancer Society report finds breast cancer death rate continues to drop
(Communities/Breast Mammary Gland)

... that no American woman faces an increased risk of dying from breast cancer because of her race or ethnicity or because of lack of access to quality care." Source: American Cancer Society  ...

8. Computerized craniofacial anthropometry can help identify patients with fetal alcohol syndrome
(Communities/Neurology Brain CNS)

... unique to specific ethnic groups," said Moore. "We may find that the eyes are consistently affected in all populations, regardless of ethnicity because of the areas of the brain that are damaged or because ...

9. Breast cancer survivors lack critical information on reducing recurrence, study shows
(Communities/Breast Mammary Gland)

... or currently have Stage 0 to IIIA breast cancer (excluding those with Stage IIIB and Stage IV breast cancer). Figures for age, race/ethnicity, education, region, and household income were weighted where ...

10. Minority patients prefer optical colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening
(Imported/Imported)

... race/ethnicity as 'other' experienced the greatest embarrassment and anxiety scores. During the CT colonography, white patients experienced the least severity of abdominal pain while Hispanic participants ...

11. USC School of Dentistry researchers discover link between oral cancer and ethnicity
(Communities/Nuclear Molecular)

Clinicians from the USC School of Dentistry unravel connection between the incidence of oral cancer and race and ethnicity-- as part of first epidemiological study of oral cancer in California. Clinicians ...

12. Research highlights how race, ethnicity and socioeconomic factors affect cancer outcomes
(Radiology Conferences/RSNA 2008)

The latest biological, clinical and social research behind how cancer affects different racial and ethnic groups will be the focus of the first American Association for Cancer Research conference on the ...

13. New model for breast cancer risk assessment in multiple ethnic groups
(Communities/Breast Mammary Gland)

... age and ethnicity. The estimates are then adjusted for family history of breast cancer and history of breast biopsy (whether or not a woman had undergone a previous biopsy for a suspect lump or lesion). ...

14. UK South Asian population less likely to attend cancer screening than non-Asian
(Imported/Imported)

... of ethnicity. The research eliminated socio-economic status, age and gender as reasons for the differences in uptake between different groups. Commenting on the findings Julietta Patnick, Director ...

15. Social factors, not genetics, drive racial disparities in colorectal cancer survival
(Imported/Imported)

... the association between CRC survival and race/ethnicity after controlling for SES and treatment. The meta-analysis approach aims to effectively increase sample size and therefore the statistical validity ...

16. Coronary calcification independently predicts all-cause mortality
(Imported/Imported)

... a multivariable model controlling for age, gender, ethnicity, and cardiac risk factors, the investigators found. Compared to a CAC of 0, adjusted relative mortality risk ratios ranged from 2.2 for a ...

17. Immigrant patients less likely to report family history of cancer
(Imported/Imported)

... to examine whether an individual's immigrant status, in conjunction with race/ethnicity, plays a role in this under-reporting. Dr. Orom and co-investigators studied data from 5,010 respondents to the ...

18. Factors identified to help predict risk of hip fracture in postmenopausal women
(Imported/Imported)

... within five years. These factors were age, self-reported health, weight, height, race/ethnicity, self-reported physical activity, history of fracture after age 54 years, parental hip fracture, current ...

19. Breast cancer diagnosis comes late for women in gentrifying neighborhoods
(Communities/Breast Mammary Gland)

...  The researchers analyzed Illinois State Cancer Registry data in conjunction with Cook County census tract data. The cancer data included information on age, race, ethnicity and stage at diagnosis for ...

20. Short fetal nasal bone predicts increased likelihood of Down syndrome
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... race and ethnicity and week of gestation. They then converted nasal bone length of the 10 fetuses with Down syndrome into race or ethnicity-adjusted MoM using the same method. To confirm their analysis, ...