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Newest firstPurpose Cancer survivors in a state with no legal access to cannabis may be hesitant to discuss their cannabis use with providers, particularly in light of legal consequences which disproportionately affect certain racial groups. This study examined potential racial disparities in the relationship of cannabis use status with patient-provider discussions of and attitudes toward cannabis in a state where there is no…
Open article record in new tab ↗Brain age algorithms, which estimate biological aging from neuroimaging data, are increasingly used as biomarkers for health and disease. However, most algorithms are trained on datasets with limited racial and ethnic diversity, raising concerns about potential algorithmic bias that could exacerbate health disparities. To probe this potential, we evaluated six popular brain age algorithms using data from the Healt…
Open article record in new tab ↗Clinical decision instruments (CDIs) face an equity dilemma. On the one hand, they often reduce disparities in patient care through data-driven standardization of best practices. On the other hand, this standardization may itself inadvertently perpetuate bias and inequality within healthcare systems. Here, we quantify different measures of potential for implicit bias present in CDI development that can inform futu…
Open article record in new tab ↗Background There is uncertainty about factors associated with involuntary in-patient psychiatric care. Understanding these factors would help in reducing coercion in psychiatry. Aims To explore variables associated with involuntary care in the largest database of involuntary admissions published. Method We identified 166 102 public mental health hospital admissions over 5 years in New South Wales, Australia. Demog…
Open article record in new tab ↗Background Cannabis (CAN) use has risen significantly over the last few decades. CAN has potent immunosuppressive properties, which could antagonize the effect of immunotherapy (IO). The impact of CAN use on clinical cancer outcomes remains unclear. Objectives In this study, we evaluated the clinical effect of CAN use on clinical outcomes among patients with solid malignancies receiving IO. Design This is a retros…
Open article record in new tab ↗Background While adversities across domains of finance, race, family, and life may operate as risk factors for initiation of substance use in adolescents, the influence of these factors may vary across racial groups of youth. Unfortunately, the existing knowledge is minimal about racial differences in the types of adversities that may increase the risk of subsequent substance use initiation during the transition i…
Open article record in new tab ↗The purpose of this study was to determine the healthcare utilization patterns in a national sample of older adults across several social determinants of health factors (ethnicity, gender, race, education) with normal and dementia/impaired cognition. We used datasets from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS, 2018) to evaluate healthcare utilization, including metrics such as hospital and nursing home stays, hospi…
The objective of the study was to examine the association between lifetime arrest and marijuana-related first arrest with past-year suicide ideation among Black and White people. We used data from Wave-IV (2008-2009; N = 5114) of the publicly available National Adolescent Health Study (Add Health) data. A total of 4313 Non-Hispanic Black and White participants were selected for this study. Logistic regression was…
Open article record in new tab ↗Although the relationship between exposure to intimate partner violence and youths' psychological and other wellbeing has been widely studied, there is limited research about how youths' exposure to violence between mother and her intimate partner may be related to youth psychological wellbeing. The study used a sample of urban adolescents in Chicago Southbound to examine whether youths' exposure to verbal conflic…
Multiple studies show an increased prevalence of gambling disorder among African Americans compared to whites. However, few studies take an analytic approach to understanding differences in risk factors by race/ethnicity. Income is inversely associated with gambling disorder; we hypothesized that this association would vary by race/ethnicity. The main objective was to evaluate whether the association between incom…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundThere is growing concern that racial and ethnic minority communities around the world are experiencing a disproportionate burden of morbidity and mortality from symptomatic SARS-Cov-2 infection or coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Most studies investigating racial and ethnic disparities to date have focused on hospitalized patients or have not characterized who received testing or those who tested pos…
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