Advancing health equity: evaluating AI translations of kidney donor information for Spanish speakers by Oscar A. Garcia Valencia, Charat Thongprayoon, Caroline C. Jadlowiec, Shennen A. Mao, Napat Leeaphorn, Pooja Budhiraja, Nadeen Khoury, Justin H. Pham, Iasmina M. Craici, Maria L. Gonzalez Suarez, Wisit Cheungpasitporn

“…BackgroundHealth equity and access to essential medical information remain significant challenges, especially for the Spanish-speaking Hispanic population, which faces barriers in accessing living kidney donation opportunities. …”
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Level of and trends in women’s empowerment inequalities in antenatal care services in Ethiopia: further analysis of the Ethiopia demographic and health surveys, 2000-16 by Gebretsadik Shibre, Wubegzier Mekonnen, Damen Haile Mariam

“…We decomposed the concentration index to study the contributions of different factors to the empowerment disparities in the services in 2000 and 2016 as well as to the over-time change in the disparities. …”
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Demographics and regional trends of ischemic heart disease-related mortality in older adults in the United States, 1999-2020. by Fakhar Latif, Muhammad Moiz Nasir, Wajeeh Ur Rehman, Mohammed Hamza, Jishanth Mattumpuram, Komail Khalid Meer, Helme Silvet, Alon Yarkoni, Mouhamed Amr Sabouni, Nabil Braiteh, Keyoor Patel, Abdulqadir J Nashwan

“…Public health policies should address demographic and geographical disparities, with further research for effective strategies.…”
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Corrigendum to “Expression of Intratumoral IGF-II Is Regulated by the Gene Imprinting Status in Triple Negative Breast Cancer from Vietnamese Patients” by Vinodh Kumar Radhakrishnan, Lorraine Christine Hernandez, Kendra Anderson, Qianwei Tan, Marino De León, Daisy D. De León

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Regional differences in intercohort and intracohort trends in obesity in the USA: evidence from the National Health Interview Survey, 1982–2018 by Emma Zang, Liying Luo, Jiahui Xu

“…Socioeconomic factors explained little average regional differences or region-specific cohort variation.Conclusions Our findings highlight the interdependence of the temporal and geographical processes in shaping obesity disparities.…”
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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

“…Abstract Background People from migrant, refugee and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds experience significant disparities in pregnancy outcomes compared to the general population, including a higher risk of stillbirth. …”
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Composite cardiovascular risk factor control in US adults with diabetes and relation to social determinants of health: The All of Us research program by Frances Golden, Johnathan Tran, Nathan D. Wong

“…Notably, only 1.9 % and 6.9 % were at target for HbA1c, LDL-C, and BP together, based on current and prior recommendations, respectively. Significant disparities were observed across race/ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic lines with 43.1 % of Asian participants at control for ≥3 RFs compared to 21.1 % of non-Hispanic black participants. …”
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Effect of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) on hospitalization among adults with COVID-19: An electronic health record-based target trial emulation from N3C. by Abhishek Bhatia, Alexander J Preiss, Xuya Xiao, M Daniel Brannock, G Caleb Alexander, Robert F Chew, Hannah Davis, Megan Fitzgerald, Elaine Hill, Elizabeth P Kelly, Hemalkumar B Mehta, Charisse Madlock-Brown, Kenneth J Wilkins, Christopher G Chute, Melissa Haendel, Richard Moffitt, Emily R Pfaff, N3C Consortium

“…Absolute risk reduction for hospitalization was similar among patients that were vaccinated and unvaccinate, but was much greater among patients aged 65+ years than among younger patients. We observed disparities in Paxlovid treatment, with lower rates among black and Hispanic or Latino patients, and within socially vulnerable communities. …”
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Binocular contributions to motion detection and motion discrimination during locomotion. by Hongyi Guo, Robert S Allison

“…To separate the binocular disparity and binocular summation and analyse how they affect flow parsing, we tested detection and discrimination thresholds under three viewing conditions: stereoscopic, synoptic (binocular but without disparity) and monocular. …”
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Prevalence of hearing loss and factors associated with hearing loss in Ethiopia: findings from the 2023 National Ethiopia Hearing Survey by Tolesa Diriba Biratu, Alene Meshesha, Uta Fröschl, Michael Kebede, Yoseph Worku, Fufa Hunduma

“…Evidence-based policies and strategies are essential to reduce ear diseases, improve hearing care services, and address disparities in hearing health across regions.…”
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Demographic Characteristics Associated With Adolescent Receipt of Provider E-Cigarette Screening and Advice and the Impact on Harm Perception by John S. Acosta-Peñaloza, MS, Karen W. Geletko, MPH, Jon Mills, PhD

“…Conclusions: Study findings emphasize the significance of addressing disparities in E-cigarette use and healthcare provider intervention among minority adolescents, underscoring the need for healthcare providers to be thorough in screening for E-cigarette use and providing appropriate cessation support.…”
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Examining the reach of a diabetes screening program in an urban emergency department by Ruth A. Pobee, Kirstie K. Danielson, Angela Kong, Yuval Eisenberg, Brian T. Layden, Janet Lin

“…Results: Of the 5997 individuals screened in the ED, 49 % were non-Hispanic Black, 27 % Hispanic, 15 % non-Hispanic White, 5 % non-Hispanic Asian, and 4 % non-Hispanic Other/unknown. …”
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Az Europai Unio fejlesztesi forrasai felhasznalasanak ertekelese a regionalis operativ programok kereteben (Evaluation of Using EU Funding Sources in the Regional Operational Progr... by Éva Pálmai

“…Cohesion policy should continue to play a critical role in these difficult times – when Europe need to exit from a deep crisis and reduce unemployment and poverty, while switching to a low-carbon economy – in order to deliver smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, while promoting harmonious development of the Union and its regions by reducing regional disparities. According to most of the reports have been created for the European Commission cohesion policy has made a significant contribution to spreading growth and prosperity across the Union, while reducing economic, social and territorial disparities. …”
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Les Mexicains aux Etats-Unis : tribulations d'une relation difficile by Malie Montagutelli

“…Diversity is what most characterizes the Hispanic population in the United States. If we look at one of the many subcategories making up the demographic group commonly referred to as "Hispanics", the Mexicans, again we see heterogeneity with many major differences. …”
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Expression of Intratumoral IGF-II Is Regulated by the Gene Imprinting Status in Triple Negative Breast Cancer from Vietnamese Patients by Vinodh Kumar Radhakrishnan, Lorraine Christine Hernandez, Kendra Anderson, Qianwei Tan, Marino De León, Daisy D. De León

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UnDER: Unsupervised Dense Point Cloud Extraction Routine for UAV Imagery Using Deep Learning by John Ray Bergado, Francesco Nex

“…We also developed a procedure for occlusion masking based on disparity consistency checking that uses the disparity image space rather than the object space proposed in a standard 3D reconstruction routine for UAV data. …”
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Health Indicators of US Older Adults Who Received or Did Not Receive Meals Funded by the Older Americans Act by Edgar R. Vieira, Joan A. Vaccaro, Gustavo G. Zarini, Fatma G. Huffman

“…Data were from the National Health and Nutrition Surveys 2011–2014 for 2,392 older adults ≥ 65 years of age, including 187 Mexican Americans, 212 other Hispanics, 521 non-Hispanic Blacks, 219 non-Hispanic Asians, and 1253 non-Hispanic Whites. …”
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Resistant Hypertension and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in the Primary-Care Setting by M. Demede, A. Pandey, F. Zizi, R. Bachmann, M. Donat, S. I. McFarlane, G. Jean-Louis, G. Ogedegbe

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Linking Sleep to Hypertension: Greater Risk for Blacks by A. Pandey, N. Williams, M. Donat, M. Ceide, P. Brimah, G. Ogedegbe, S. I. McFarlane, G. Jean-Louis

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Fiscal vertical imbalance and income inequality: A threshold effect analysis based on government expenditure. by Lan Mao

“…This study aims to investigate the complex relationship between vertical fiscal imbalance, public expenditure structure, and income distribution disparities, with the goal of providing policy insights for achieving shared prosperity. …”
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