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Objectives: This study examined differences in major and everyday discrimination between African Americans, Black Caribbeans, and non-Latino White older adults.

Methods: Data are taken from the National Survey of American Life. Measures of major (e.

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This study examined the joint trajectories of behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol drinking, and body mass index) and their associations with cognitive function trajectories among older African Americans and white Americans. Data from the Health and Retirement Study (1998-2014) were used. Group-based mixture modeling and multinomial logistic regression analysis were performed.

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Introduction: The objectives of this investigation are to characterize the epidemiology of base of tongue adenocarcinoma utilizing a population-based database and to identify prognostic factors that may affect survival.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. Univariate Kaplan-Meier analysis and multivariate Cox-regression analysis were performed to evaluate the association of suspected prognostic factors with survival.

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