Religiosity prevalence and its association with depression and anxiety symptoms among Hispanic/Latino adults.

Objectives: Religion plays an important role in the lives of people in the United States. We examined the prevalence of religiosity among Hispanic/Latinos in four regions of the United States and looked at its correlation to depression and anxiety symptoms.

Design: The population-based Hispanic Community Health Study/ Study of Latinos enrolled a cohort of Hispanic/Latino adults (N = 16,415) ages 18-74 in four US cities from June 2008 to June 2011.

Periodontitis and Sleep Disordered Breathing in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.

Study Objectives: To investigate the association between sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and severe chronic periodontitis.

Design: Cross-sectional data analysis from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.

Setting: Community-based setting with probability sampling from four urban US communities.

Smoking among U.S. Hispanic/Latino adults: the Hispanic community health study/study of Latinos.

Background: Prior national surveys capture smoking behaviors of the aggregated U.S. Hispanic/Latino population, possibly obscuring subgroup variation.

Risk perception and its association with cardiac risk and health behaviors among urban minority adults: the Bronx Coronary Risk Perception study.

Purpose: Examine the relationship among risk perceptions, health behaviors, and a measure for actual risk of coronary heart disease (CHD).

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Setting/subjects: Adults from three outpatient medical clinics with at least one CHD risk factor.

Clinical risk factors for fractures in multi-ethnic women: the Women's Health Initiative.

Unlabelled: To identify risk factors for fractures in multi-ethnic women, we studied 159,579 women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative. In general, risk factors for fractures were similar across ethnic groups. However, irrespective of their ethnicity, women with multiple risk factors have a high risk of fracture.

Can non-medical factors contribute to disparities in coronary heart disease treatments?

Racial/ethnic and sex disparities in coronary heart disease treatment exist. We previously reported that physicians perceive non-clinical variables, such as a patient's desire for a second opinion, as affecting revascularization decisions. The results of that study are further examined here, using factor analysis to identify significant interrelationships among the non-clinical variables, which could contribute to disparities in coronary revascularization (i.

The effect of race/ethnicity, sex, and social circumstances on coronary revascularization preferences: a vignette comparison.

Disparities in cardiac care cannot be explained by clinical factors alone. We previously found that physicians' perceived nonclinical factors such as patient preferences influenced decisions for coronary revascularization. For this study, we mailed a questionnaire to a random sample of family medicine physicians, internists, cardiologists, and cardiothoracic surgeons to examine whether the patient's sex, race/ethnicity, and social circumstances impacted treatment preferences for different physician subgroups.

Awareness of heart attack symptoms and lifesaving actions among New York City area residents.

The American Heart Association has a national network of community-based programs designed to reduce response times to cardiac emergencies by improving access to automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) among laypersons. Success of these Operation Heartbeat programs depends in part on the public's knowledge of the warning signs of a myocardial infarction (MI) and appropriate response to cardiac arrest victims. In May 2000, a 7-minute telephone survey was administered to a random sample of adults residing within the American Heart Association affiliate territories of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to determine the knowledge of MI symptoms, confidence in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) use, and the awareness of AEDs.

Differential use of coronary revascularization and hospital mortality following acute myocardial infarction.

Background: The effect of racial/ethnic disparity in the use of cardiac procedures on short-term outcomes, such as hospital mortality, is limited. We sought to determine the association of revascularization procedures (percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass graft) to hospital mortality in non-Hispanic black and white patients and Hispanic patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Methods: Analysis of the New York State Department of Health Statewide Planning and Research Cooperate System (SPARCS) data for 12 555 patients admitted to New York City hospitals with acute myocardial infarction in 1996.