Excessive Daytime Sleepiness among Hypertensive US-Born Blacks and Foreign-Born Blacks: Analysis of the CAATCH Data by N. Williams, O. Abo Al Haija, A. Workneh, D. Sarpong, E. Keku, G. Ogedegbe, S. I. McFarlane, G. Jean-Louis

“…Findings demonstrate the importance of considering individuals’ country of origin, in addition to their race and ethnicity, when analyzing epidemiologic sleep data.…”
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Real-world clinical validation of the Qatar pre-diabetes risk score: a cross-sectional study by Mohamed Ahmed Syed, Narjiss Sallahi, Abduljaleel Abdullatif Zainel, Halima None Bensmail, Abdelilah Arredouani

“…Using a PRISQ cut-off of 16, PRISQ sensitivity exceeded 90% in all subgroups of individuals aged 40 years and above, regardless of ethnicity. We did not see any significant improvement in PRISQ sensitivity when we considered the family history of diabetes.Conclusions We confirmed a good PRISQ diagnostic rate for pre-diabetes from a representative sample of the Qatar population recruited in a real-world clinical setting. …”
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Acute Abdomen as a Clinical Presentation of COVID-19-Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children by Elmira Hajiesmaeil Memar, Fatemeh Tahghighi, Sedigheh Yousefzadegan, Parisa Sadeghirad, Ashraf Mousavi, Ramin Zare Mahmoudabadi, Hossein Saeidi, Mehri Ayati, Sahar Naderi, Sara Memarian, Seyedmusa Zeinalabedin, Bahar Ashjaei, Hojatollah Raji, Leila Tahernia, Hosein Alimadadi, Vahid Ziaee

“…All patients were of Iranian nationality (Caucasian ethnicity), with a mean age of 8.9 years (range 3.5–14). …”
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MAO-B Polymorphism Associated with Progression in a Chinese Parkinson’s Disease Cohort but Not in the PPMI Cohort by Shi-Shuang Cui, Ling-Yu Wu, Gen Li, Juan-Juan Du, Pei Huang, Jin Liu, Yun Ling, Kang Ren, Zhong-Lue Chen, Sheng-Di Chen

“…The PARK16 haplotype was associated with Geriatric Depression Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Adults progression, and the SNCA haplotype was associated with the Hoehn-Yahr staging progression and motor PC1 progression. Ethnicity-stratified analysis showed that the association between MAOB rs1799836 and PD progression may be specific to Asian or Chinese patients. …”
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Inadequate toothbrushing practice and associated factors among in-school adolescents in Malaysia: Findings from Global School Health Survey (GSHS) 2017. by Mohamad Fuad Mohamad Anuar, Nurulasmak Mohamed, S Maria Awaluddin, Habibah Yacob

“…Adolescents who had inadequate toothbrushing were significantly higher odd among males, Indian ethnic, ever drug use, inadequate hand hygiene practices and adolescents who had three or more lack of peer and parental/guardian support.…”
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Tone or tissue? A comparison of trends and risk factors of severe postpartum hemorrhage according to uterine atony or retained tissue in a hospital setting. by Silje Pettersen, Ragnhild Sørum Falk, Siri Vangen, Lill Trine Nyfløt

“…Risk factors associated only with uterine atony were multiple pregnancy, macrosomia, Asian ethnicity and operative delivery, while induction of labor, augmentation of labor, use of anticoagulants and assisted reproduction were associated with both uterine atony and retained tissue.…”
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A Novel Nonsense Mutation of POU4F3 Gene Causes Autosomal Dominant Hearing Loss by Chi Zhang, Mingming Wang, Yun Xiao, Fengguo Zhang, Yicui Zhou, Jianfeng Li, Qingyin Zheng, Xiaohui Bai, Haibo Wang

“…The novel mutation cosegregated with hearing loss in this family and was absent in 200 ethnicity-matched controls. The mutation led to a stop codon and thus a truncated protein with no functional domains remained. …”
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The distribution and spectrum of thalassemia variants in GUIYANG region, southern China by Xuanyin Zhao, Zhiyu You, Yunyan Deng, Yi Zhou, Dongyang Deng, Jian Quan, Fang Chen, Zhimei Yan, Ya Qi, Leilei Chen, Fang Xiang, Weixian Zheng, Ruyi Zhang

“…The study highlighted the prevalence of thalassemia among different ethnic groups, with individuals of Han ethnicity being the most affected. …”
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Initiation and sustenance of small portion size consumption behavior in rural Appalachia, USA: Application of multi-theory model (MTM) by Ram Lakhan, Sierra Turner, Sangyal Dorjee, Manoj Sharma

“…Sociodemographic factors including age, gender, education, and ethnicity did not significantly contribute towards initiation and sustenance of small portion size consumption behavior in rural Appalachia (P > 0.05). …”
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Unhealthy alcohol use and risk of coronary heart disease among young and middle-aged adults by Jamal S. Rana, Felicia W. Chi, Isaac Acquah, Stacy A. Sterling

“…Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, body mass index, physical activity, smoking, hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. …”
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Exploration of Cosmetic Factors Contributing to Rhinoplasty among Both Genders in Iraqi Kurdistan by Aram Salih Mohammed Amin Kamali, Hedi Hassan Rostam, Awat Alla Khdir, Omer Aula Mina

“…A non-probability purposive sample of this cross - sectional descriptive study was consisted of 100 young male and female in Kurdish ethnicity, their ages ranged between 21-25 years. The main objective of the study is conducted to assess the cosmetic factors, contribute to Rhinoplasty among both genders at Raparin District. …”
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Exploring female otolaryngologists’ experiences with gender bias and microaggressions: a cross sectional Canadian survey by Amanda C. Hu, Kelly Nguyen, Tanya K. Meyer

“…Sexist MESS score was not associated with age, ethnicity, fellowship-training, having children, years of practice, or GSES. …”
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Revisiting the Link Between HLA‐DRB1 Alleles and Autoantibodies in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Association of non‐Shared Epitope Alleles *09 and *15 With High Levels of Anti–Citrullinate... by Denis Lagutkin, Luis Panaifo, Ahmad‐Fauzi Nurul‐Aain, Lena Israelsson, Monika Hansson, Karin Lundberg, Lars Alfredsson, Johan Askling, RACI consortium, Lars Klareskog, Chun‐Lai Too, Leonid Padyukov

“…Notably, these novel associations were independent of ethnicity. To validate our findings, we conducted an additional replication study in an independent pool of 4,109 patients with RA of White European origin. …”
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Association Between Cardiometabolic Comorbidity Burden and Outcomes in Heart Failure by Carine E. Hamo, Xiyue Li, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Amrita Mukhopadhyay, Samrachana Adhikari, Saul Blecker

“…Cox regression models were used to assess the association between cardiometabolic comorbidity burden and time to all‐cause and HF hospitalization at 1 year, adjusting for age, sex, race or ethnicity, and insurance status, smoking, prior hospitalization, and Elixhauser comorbidity index. …”
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Charming e-cigarette users with distorted science: a survey examining social media platform use, nicotine-related misinformation and attitudes towards the tobacco industry by Elexis C Kierstead, Barbara Schillo, Jodie Briggs, Nathan A Silver

“…Ordinal logistic regression with robust standard errors controlling for gender, race/ethnicity, education, current e-cigarette use and age was used to examine relationships between variables.Results Twitter use was associated with higher odds of recall (OR=1.21, 95% CI=1.01 to 1.44) and belief (OR=1.26, 95% CI=1.04 to 1.52) in COVID-19-specific distorted science. …”
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Hypnotics' association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study by Daniel F Kripke, Lawrence E Kline, Robert D Langer

“…This study extends previous reports associating hypnotics with excess mortality.Setting A large integrated health system in the USA.Design Longitudinal electronic medical records were extracted for a one-to-two matched cohort survival analysis.Subjects Subjects (mean age 54 years) were 10 529 patients who received hypnotic prescriptions and 23 676 matched controls with no hypnotic prescriptions, followed for an average of 2.5 years between January 2002 and January 2007.Main outcome measures Data were adjusted for age, gender, smoking, body mass index, ethnicity, marital status, alcohol use and prior cancer. …”
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Do pregnant women living in higher well-being populations in the USA experience lower risk of preterm delivery? A cross-sectional study by Jeph Herrin, Harlan M Krumholz, Carley Riley, Brita Roy, Erica Spatz, Mark T Silvestri, Anita Arora, Kenneth P Kell, Elizabeth Y Rula

“…In the model adjusted for maternal risk factors (age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, smoking status, timing of initiation of prenatal visits, multiparity, maternal insurance payer), the association was slightly attenuated with an absolute difference of 1.9% (95% CI 1.7% to 2.1%; p<0.001).Conclusions Pregnant women who live in areas with higher population well-being have lower risk of preterm birth, even after accounting for individual risk factors.…”
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What are the lived healthcare experiences of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis? A community-based qualitative interview study by Sheila Greenfield, Gideon Hirschfield, Jayne Parry, Katherine Arndtz, Madeline Cameron

“…This study aimed to explore the experiences of patients with PSC regarding their disease and healthcare.Design A series of semi-structured interviews was completed with patients with PSC, including questioning their experiences of living with PSC and its related healthcare.Setting Participants were recruited from communities in England, Scotland and Wales, with advertisement via PSC Support (UK disease-specific charity support group).Participants 18 patients aged between 21 and 72 years were interviewed; 10 were male (56%), and all were of Caucasian ethnicity. Inclusion criteria were as follows: adults, self-identifying as having a diagnosis of PSC, and currently under National Health Service treatment for this disease. …”
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Cardiovascular risk profiles and the uptake of the NHS Healthcheck programme in male prisoners in six UK prisons: an observational cross-sectional survey by Kamlesh Khunti, Richard Morriss, Christopher Packham, Elizabeth Butcher, Marie Williams, Joanne Miksza

“…An association was found between ethnicity and those invited (p=0.023, φ=0.1) and accepting (p=0.008, φ=0.1) a Healthcheck. 9.7% of prisoners serving less than 2 years had CVD risk scores of 10% or more, and had similar CVD risk profiles but much higher levels of anxiety (p<0.001, φ=0.2) or depression (p=0.009, φ=0.2) than those serving 2 years or more.Conclusion Cardiovascular risk was comparable with community rates and in some prisons, much higher. …”
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Perinatal consequences of a category 1 caesarean section at term by Sailesh Kumar, Leah Grace, Ristan M Greer

“…Caucasian women were equally as likely to undergo a category 1 CS as a non-category 1 CS, while indigenous women and women of Asian ethnicity were more likely to undergo a category 1 CS. …”
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