Behavioural intentions in response to a potential menthol cigarette sales ban: a survey examining smokers in Washington, DC public housing by Kimberly Horn, Craig T Dearfield, Ian Crandell, Debra H Bernat

“…This study examined public housing residents’ behavioural intentions if menthol-flavoured cigarettes were no longer sold.Setting 15 District of Columbia Housing Authority properties between March 2019 and March 2021.Participants 221 District of Columbia Housing Authority residents ages 18–80 years who reported smoking menthol cigarettes (83.3% African-American/black).Primary and secondary outcomes Cigarette quitting and switching intentions due to a hypothetical menthol-flavoured cigarette sales ban.Results Nearly one-half (48.0%) of residents said they intended to quit cigarette use if menthol-flavoured products were no longer sold, while 27.2% were unsure if they would quit, and 24.9% reported they would not quit. …”
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Do The Facts of Voting Rights Support Chief Justice Roberts’s Opinion in Shelby County? by Morgan Kousser

“…While acknowledging the success of the law in greatly increasing the number of African-American and Latino elected officials, Chief Justice John Roberts contended in his majority opinion in Shelby County v. …”
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A comparison of applicant and accepted student characteristics to research training programs with implications for recruitment and selection strategy by Young-Hee Cho, Young-Hee Cho, Chi-Ah Chun, Chi-Ah Chun, Hector Ramos, Paul Buonora, Paul Buonora, Paul Buonora, Vasanthy Narayanaswami, Vasanthy Narayanaswami, Kim-Phuong L. Vu, Kim-Phuong L. Vu

“…Majors were categorized as either biomedical or behavioral disciplines, while URM status was defined as students who self-identified their race and ethnicity as African American/Black, Native American, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, or Hispanic. …”
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How have interventions targeting pregnant women from refugee, migrant and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds living in high-income countries been developed or tailor... by Sweekriti Sharma, Gayathri Jegadeesh, Camille Raynes-Greenow, Adrienne Gordon, Gayani Gunawardhana, Danielle Marie Muscat

“…Pakistani and Indian women; African American and Hispanic population groups). Approaches to tailoring included the use of interpreters and translated materials, linking women to existing community resources and networks and community outreach delivered to women outside of hospital settings. …”
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Characteristics Associated with Successful Residency Match in General Surgery by Reagan A. Collins, BA, Kaitlyn Nimmer, BA, Salma A. Sheriff, BS, Tania K. Arora, MD, Anai N. Kothari, MD, MS, Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH, Callisia N. Clarke, MD, MS

“…The proportion of active general surgery residents versus applicants was lower for Asians (12.3% vs 20.9%, P < 0.001), Black/African American (5.0% vs 8.8%, P < 0.001), Hispanic/Latino (5.0% vs 9.4%, P = 0.001), and underrepresented in medicine students (10.3% vs 19.1%, P < 0.001). …”
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The Exposure Assessment in Current Time Study: Implementation, Feasibility, and Acceptability of Real-Time Data Collection in a Community Cohort of Illicit Drug Users by Gregory D. Kirk, Beth S. Linas, Ryan P. Westergaard, Damani Piggott, Robert C. Bollinger, Larry W. Chang, Andrew Genz

“…Study participants were a median of 48.5 years old, 90% African American, 52% male, and 59% HIV-infected with limited income and educational attainment. …”
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Dissemination through trusted credible messengers: 133 weeks of the Flint Community Webinar on COVID-19 by Heatherlun Uphold, E. Yvonne Lewis, Amy Drahota, Blair Warren, Jennifer Edwards-Johnson, Mary Katherine Crawford, Richard Sadler, Susan J. Woolford, Roni Ellington, Marc Zimmerman, Alison Grodzinski, C. Debra Furr-Holden

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Mini Worldlit: A Dataset of Contemporary Fiction from 13 Countries, Nine Languages, and Five Continents by Andrew Piper, David Bamman, Christina Han, Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Hoyt Long, Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky, Tom McEnaney, Mathias Iroro Orhero, Emrah Peksoy, Pallavi Rastogi, Sebastian Rasmussen, Roel Smeets, Alexandra Stuart, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

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Interdisciplinary Team Pilot to Reduce Time to Administration of Piperacillin/Tazobactam in the Emergency Department at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center by DiVittorio MM, Fisher T, Steadman B, Cone B, Elfessi Z

“…The two groups were similar in age, sex, and African-American race. There was a statistically significant reduction in the average time from EM pharmacist verification to nurse administration when comparing the groups (46.5± 49.8 vs 30.6± 28.7 minutes, p=0.004). …”
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Divergent paths of mammary gland involution: unveiling the cellular dynamics in abruptly and gradually involuted mouse models by Sarmila Majumder, Sanjay Mishra, Neelam Shinde, Maria C. Cuitino, Morgan Bauer, Dinesh Ahirwar, Mustafa M. Basree, Vijaya Bharti, Kate Ormiston, Resham Mawalkar, Sara Alsammerai, Gautam Sarathy, Anna E. Vilgelm, Xiaoli Zhang, Ramesh K. Ganju, Bhuvaneswari Ramaswamy

“…This is more prevalent in African American women, with significantly lower rate of breastfeeding compared to Caucasian women. …”
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An Updated Demographic Profile of Orthopaedic Surgery Using a New ABOS Data Set by Lindsey S. Caldwell, MD, Natalie Glass, PhD, Gregory P. Guyton, MD, David W. Elstein, BA, Charles L. Nelson, MD, FAOA

“…Underrepresented minority (URM) was defined as a group that is less well represented in orthopaedic surgery than in US census data and includes female, American Indian or Alaska Native, Black or African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander categories. …”
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Reciprocal regulation between DNMT3A/3B and microRNAs miRs-299-3p/-30e is a causal factor for the downregulation of microRNAs targeting androgen receptor in prostate cancer by Kavya Ganapathy, Christian F. Harrs, Samuel Harris, Stephen J. Staklinski, Ayman Khatib, Jong Y. Park, Ratna Chakrabarti

“…Here we report that miR-34c, an AR targeting miRNA and miR-299-3p, both are differentially downregulated in PCa cells from African American (AA) and Caucasian American (CA) patients due to disparate promoter hypermethylation in these miRNA genes. …”
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Adolescent Youth Survey on HIV Prevention and Sexual Health Education in Alabama: Protocol for a Web-Based Survey With Fraud Protection Study by Henna Budhwani, Ibrahim Yigit, Josh Bruce, Christyenne Lily Bond, Andrea Johnson

“…A total of 30% self-reported their race as African American or Black; 12% were Hispanic or Latinx. …”
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Nowcasting to Monitor Real-Time Mpox Trends During the 2022 Outbreak in New York City: Evaluation Using Reportable Disease Data Stratified by Race or Ethnicity by Rebecca Rohrer, Allegra Wilson, Jennifer Baumgartner, Nicole Burton, Ray R Ortiz, Alan Dorsinville, Lucretia E Jones, Sharon K Greene

“…During the 2022 mpox outbreak in New York City, we applied Nowcasting by Bayesian Smoothing (NobBS) to estimate recent cases, citywide and stratified by race or ethnicity (Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, and White). However, in real time, it was unclear if the estimates were accurate. …”
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Testing a Web-Based Interactive Comic Tool to Decrease Obesity Risk Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Preadolescents: Randomized Controlled Trial by May May Leung, Katrina F Mateo, Marlo Dublin, Laura Harrison, Sandra Verdaguer, Katarzyna Wyka

“…MethodsA total of 89 Black or African American and Hispanic preadolescents with a mean age of 10.4 (SD 1.0) years from New York City participated in a pilot 2-group randomized study, comprising a 6-week intervention and a 3-month follow-up (T4) period. …”
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Serum NFL and neuropsychological performance over ∼8 years in women with and without HIV: a longitudinal repeated measures studyResearch in context by Deborah R. Gustafson, Xuantao Li, Alison E. Baird, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Jinbing Zhang, Amanda Blair Spence, Pauline Maki, Anjali Sharma, Kathleen Weber, Recai Yucel

“…Findings: 417 participants (290 WLWH, 127 WLWOH), African American/Black (55%), ≥high school education (69%), current/former smokers (79%), and overweight/obese (BMI ≥25.0 kg/m2, 74%) were included. …”
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Within Satisfaction and Distress: Characterizing the First Cultural Transition of Young Talented Cameroonian Footballers by Boris Tachom Waffo, Denis Hauw

“…Oatmeal is better than no meal: The career pathways of African American male professional athletes from underserved communities in the United States. …”
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