A survey of skin tone assessment in prospective research.

Increasing evidence supports reduced accuracy of noninvasive assessment tools, such as pulse oximetry, temperature probes, and AI skin diagnosis benchmarks, in patients with darker skin tones. The FDA is exploring potential strategies for device regulation to improve performance across diverse skin tones by including skin tone criteria. However, there is no consensus about how prospective studies should perform skin tone assessment in order to take this bias into account.

Characterization of patient dose distributions and probabilistic risk analysis in cardiovascular catheterization laboratories.

: Patient radiation doses in cardiovascular and interventional radiology are highly variable for similar procedures. This random nature may be better described by a distribution function, compared to a linear regression. This study develops a distribution function to characterize patient dose distributions and estimate probabilistic risk.

Socioeconomic Status, Biological Aging, and Memory in a Diverse National Sample of Older US Men and Women.

Background And Objectives: Exposure to socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with early-onset cognitive aging. Biological aging, the progressive loss of system integrity that occurs as we age, is proposed as a modifiable process mediating this health inequality. We examined whether socioeconomic disparities in cognitive aging in mid-to late-life adults is explained by accelerated biological aging similarly across race, ethnicity, and sex/gender.