Social Determinants Of Health

Randomized controlled trials for rheumatoid arthritis in Canada often fail to report determinants of health inequity among their participants, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Social, economic and environmental factors at individual and neighborhood levels mediated racial disparities in pediatric visits to the ED related to asthma, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Black adults showed a higher prevalence for gout than white adults during a 10-year period, even after adjusting for diet, social determinants of health and chronic kidney disease, according to data published in JAMA Network.

Members of racial and ethnic communities that have been oppressed structurally may face increased burdens of allergic and atopic disease, according to a review published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Early subclinical atherosclerosis among Black vs. Hispanic adults in a socially disadvantaged community.

The American Heart Association in July installed Michelle A. Albert, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, as its 86th president, the first woman of color and Black woman to serve as its highest volunteer medical officer.

Social isolation and loneliness are common and underrecognized determinants of CV and brain health, and more research is needed to understand causal pathways and interventions, according to a new scientific statement.

Obesity is a dysregulation of the energy balance pathways in the human body. People with obesity are defending an abnormal body weight set point, and we can recognize and start to address that with the easiest tool we have, BMI. You just need height and weight, and you can calculate it. However, in certain populations, the standard cutoff values do not accurately correspond to risks. Someone who is Asian and has a BMI of 23 kg/m2 or 24 kg/m2, may have a “normal” BMI, but in reality, patients of Asian descent have a higher risk at a lower BMI. It’s the same thing for African Americans at higher BMI cutoff values.

Obesity prevalence is on the rise across the U.S., but some groups are at a greater risk for the disease than others.

Use of catheter ablation after diagnosis of incident atrial fibrillation was low among Danish patients with low level of education, low income and those who lived alone, researchers reported.