Equity advocates see paths to increasing minority representation-but say it won't be easy.
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JAMA Netw Open
January 2025
Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, Maryland.
Importance: Cigarette companies have been introducing synthetic cooling agent menthol-mimicking cigarettes into the US marketplace as menthol cigarette bans are implemented. These cigarettes may reduce the public health benefits of menthol cigarette bans.
Objective: To examine the epidemiology of the use of synthetic cooling agent menthol-mimicking cigarettes among adults in the US.
J Clin Periodontol
December 2024
National Dental Research Institute Singapore, National Dental Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Aim: To estimate the causal effects of smoking and cessation on tooth loss using instrumental variable (IV) analysis.
Material And Methods: Data from the Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), conducted from 1995 to 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012 in 50 U.S.
Environ Sci Technol
December 2024
Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.
Energy system optimization models facilitate analyses on a national or regional scale. However, understanding the impacts of climate policy on specific populations requires a much higher spatial resolution. Here, we link an energy system optimization model to an integrated assessment model via an emission downscaling algorithm, translating air pollution emissions from nine U.
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January 2025
Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Importance: Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) polygenic risk scores (PRSs) continue to be evaluated in primarily European-ancestry populations despite higher prevalence and worse outcomes in African-ancestry populations.
Objective: To evaluate how established POAG PRSs perform in African-ancestry samples from the Genetics in Glaucoma Patients of African Descent (GIGA), Genetics of Glaucoma in Individuals of African Descent (GGLAD), and Million Veteran Program (MVP) datasets and compare these with European-ancestry samples.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This was a multicenter, cross-sectional study of POAG cases and controls from Tanzania, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, and the US.
Eat Behav
December 2024
Department of Psychology, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA.
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