Ethnic Group

Rates of hepatocellular carcinoma caused by alcohol-related disease and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease are on the rise, especially among Hispanic individuals, according to research in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

A model developed to predict suicide attempts performed well across races and ethnicities, according to a research letter published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Medical students from historically underrepresented groups face an attrition rate that is more than three times higher than that of other students, according to a recent study in JAMA Network Open.

Analyzing clinical phenotypes of race, ethnicity and sex, as well as history of concussions and depression, were crucial in determining risk for suicide attempts among youth in the United States, a study showed in JAMA Network Open.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Retina 2022, Katherine E. Talcott, MD, discusses some of the reasons that patients with diabetic retinopathy are lost to follow-up.

In addition to being male and of older age, being Black or Hispanic can increase a patient’s risk for hyperkalemia recurrence within 1 year of a hyperkalemia event, according to data presented at ASN Kidney Week.

Suicide prevention efforts may need to account for ethnicity because of variation across underrepresented groups, according to results of an observational cohort study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

Among children of all racial and ethnic groups, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian and Asian children developed chalazion at a higher rate, and those with meibomian gland disease or blepharitis were more likely to develop chalazia on multiple occasions.

A systematic recruitment initiative in the Duke Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program improved the proportion of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic applicants, interviews and first-year fellow matriculations.

ATLANTA — Patients on Medicaid with systemic lupus erythematosus who underwent coronary revascularization procedures had 1.7 times higher 30-day mortality rates than those with diabetes who underwent the same procedures, according to a presenter here.