Brittany L Morgan, Mariana C Stern ... Laura Fejerman
Adding a One Health approach to a research framework for minority health and health disparities encourages the exploration of new avenues of inquiry, multidisciplinary collaboration, and the consideration of new determinants of health.
The gut microbiota of East Asians is distinct, dissociated from body mass, and self-sustains compared to White subjects from the same region, and therein may underpin a key health disparity.
Michael S Lauer, Jamie Doyle ... Deepshikha Roychowdhury
An analysis of peer review and funding outcomes of NIH research applications shows that funding disparities of topics preferred by African American Black investigators are not due to peer review preferences or biases.
Daniel Shriner, Amy R Bentley ... Charles N Rotimi
Despite health disparities among groups, the lifetime risk of hypertension approaches 100% for African Americans, European Americans, and Mexican Americans.
Tim K Tsang, Xiaotong Huang ... Benjamin John Cowling
Household transmission modeling qualified variation of individual infectiousness among infected persons, which could be caused by both biological factors and host behaviors.
There is a disparity in temporal and spatial relationships between resting-state electrophysiological and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals, suggesting the electrophysiological signal alone cannot fully explain the effects observed in the resting-state fMRI signal.
Kia L Davis, Nicole Ackermann ... Vetta L Sanders Thompson
Many people canceled cancer screening and cancer care appointments during the pandemic, but cancer prevention and control practitioners must proactively facilitate their return to care to avoid widening cancer health disparities.
Grant applications submitted to the NIH by African-American/Black PIs are less likely to be funded than applications from white PIs, and the NIH must find a solution that eliminates this racial disparity.