Sentences with phrase «american men»

«Family structure linked to high blood pressure in African - American men.»

This is the first population - based study to compare the follow - up intensity of American men with prostate cancer who have not undergone aggressive treatment with those who opted to undergo various forms of aggressive therapy, such as surgery and radiation.

Visually, that distribution forms a bell curve, a shape that represents everything from height (some very short people, some very tall, most American men about 5» 10») to rolls of the dice (the occasional 2 or 12, but a lot of 6s, 7s, and 8s).

Additionally, a smaller proportion of African American men had health insurance, identified as current drinkers and reported heart disease than their white counterparts, while a larger proportion of African American men in the national sample were physically inactive, obese, and reported fair / poor health, hypertension and diabetes.

According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer in American men (behind skin cancer), and the second - leading cause of cancer death in men (after lung cancer).

By contrast, in the EHDIC sample, a larger proportion of African American men than white men had health insurance, and there were no differences between African American and white men with respect to being physically inactive, being a current smoker, being a current drinker, being obese or reporting fair / poor health, hypertension, diabetes or heart disease.

For the first time, more American men are ex-smokers than are still smoking, the National Cancer Institute has announced.

The new study provides substantial evidence of significant reduction of risk of onset of dementia for African American men and women age 65 and older with hypertension when they take any of a variety of drug classes for their high blood pressure.

Its mortality rate in African American men is the highest in the world — at least twice that for white males with prostate cancer.

Nearly 3 percent of American men aged 40 and older are thought to have received such scripts in 2011 — three times the percentage in 2001.

In Macon County, Alabama, scientists left hundreds of African American men with syphilis go untreated so they could watch the disease progress.

As the report stresses, African American men who have sex with men (MSM), particularly in the South and Northeast, account for a disproportionate percentage of the new infections.

American men much more readily acknowledge that they are the legal father of a child born out of wedlock when the woman involved is more affluent, educated, and healthy.

And prostate cancer was a particularly dramatic example that has led literally millions of American men to be treated for a disease that they were not going to die from or even have symptoms from.

One study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that the number of American men who started testosterone therapy has nearly quadrupled since 2000, despite concerns about potential cardiovascular risks.

The unique study tracked a diverse group of over 300 American men from first grade through their early thirties and the findings indicate that being a victim of bullying and being a bully were both linked to negative outcomes in adulthood.

But, when these predictors are part of the analyses, it demonstrates that African - American men and women attain higher educational levels than white students with the same high school GPA and background characteristics.

«Prostate cancer occurs 1.5 to 2 times more often in African American men than in European men,» Reich says.

The results also show that if GPA and other measures of performance are excluded from the analysis model, it gives the impression that African - American men achieve lower educational levels than their white counterparts.

A new book curates pages from a series of mail - order prank catalogues published between 1896 and 1930, when American men played hair - raising jokes on initiates of their fraternal lodges

Very low income African American men encountered the highest risk for problematic drinking and faced the most problems.

The highest rate for blacks and African American men occurred in Riverside County, Calif., with the lowest rate occurring in Kings County (Brooklyn), N.Y.

The American Cancer Society reports that prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind lung cancer, with about 220,800 new cases estimated in 2015.

Similarly, companies that establish a diversity task force of employees who are held accountable for increasing diversity experience significant increases in black, Latino, and Asian - American men and women and white women in management.

To see if there is a difference in the time from cancer diagnosis to initiation of treatment for African American men compared with Caucasian men with prostate cancer, Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his colleagues analyzed data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)- Medicare registry, which links cancer diagnosis data to a master file of Medicare records.

European and Native American men also have M45, but in Central Asia there are men, like Wells's Kazakh dinner companion, who have M45 but neither of the two later mutations — they have a large range of different ones instead.

Prostate cancer — which, according to the American Cancer Society, affects one in six American men — is the second - leading cause of death after lung cancer in American men.

Take one example, the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT), which involved over 12,000 middle - aged American men with high cholesterol.

Hammer estimates that 17 percent of Native American men today have Y chromosomes inherited from Europeans.

(In African American men the European admixture may be from 5 to 30 percent.)

An estimated 25 percent of American men and 43 percent of women attempt to lose weight each year; of those who succeed in their diets, between 5 and 20 percent (and it is closer to 5 percent) manage to keep it off for the long haul.

According to the report, cancer incidence is 15 % higher among African - American men than among white, non-Hispanic men; all minority groups have higher rates of stomach cancer than white Americans; and the 5 - year cancer survival rate of Native Americans is only about two - thirds that of whites.

8 Surgeon General Hugh Cumming is remembered for the notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, begun under his watch in 1930, to study the effects of untreated syphilis in African American men.

However, I recently read that African American men have a 150 percent greater incidence of prostate cancer than white American men.

A second online study with Latino and African American men showed that perceived prejudice also transfers from gender to race.

Prostate cancer is the second - leading cause of cancer deaths in American men, but doctors also say it is often overdiagnosed and overtreated.

For this study, researchers looked at Level 1 and Level 2 details of right index - finger fingerprints for 243 individuals: 61 African American women; 61 African American men; 61 European American women; and 60 European American men.

Approximately 1 out of every 6 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and this year alone there are expected to be nearly a quarter of a million new cases diagnosed, making prostate cancer the most common malignancy among men in the United States.

African - American men earned less than half of the S&E doctorates awarded to African - Americans in 1999.1 However, Hispanic men earned half their share and Native American men slightly more than half of the S&E doctorates awarded to their respective racial groups.1 The dearth of minority males contrasts with the overrepresentation of males among whites and Asians in S&E, especially in engineering, mathematics, computer science, and the natural sciences.1, 3 Overall, nearly twice the total S&E doctorates awarded were earned by men in 1999.1 The lack of minority males goes beyond the S&E community, but does this shortage extend beyond minority populations as some contend?

Collegiate - level African - American women outnumber men at every economic level.6, 7 The chairwoman of Georgia's African American Male Initiative (AAMI), Arlethia Perry - Johnson, cites the disproportionate labeling of African - American men as discipline and behavioral problems at a young age as possible causes for such problems regardless of socioeconomic status.6

Whereas 59 % of white men who entered NCAA Division I colleges in 1996 graduated within 6 years, only 46 % of Hispanic men, 41 % of Native American, and 35 % of African - American men graduated.

African - American men, both students and professors, filled my science classes at all - male, historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

This preference may explain why American men, who, unlike foreigners, have full access to the nation's job market, appear especially likely to pursue other, presumably more lucrative and promising, possibilities.

African - American men also were more likely than their Caucasian counterparts to experience a progression from MGUS to multiple myeloma.

The fact that American men, long the demographic backbone of U.S. science faculties, are leading the way out of the postdoc is also suggestive.

«Genes may cause tumor aggressiveness, drug resistance in African - American prostate cancer: Research found many targeted therapies for prostate cancer may not be effective against tumors in African - American men.»

The experience of African - American men is not uniform, though: The earnings gap between black men with a college education and those with less education is at an all - time high, the authors say.

A form of genetic variation, called differential RNA splicing, may have a role in tumor aggressiveness and drug resistance in African American men with prostate cancer.

As many as one out of every seven American men are expected to be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lifetime, according to 2015 statistics from the American Cancer Society.

Surgery may offer other options to the estimated 1 percent of American men who don't seem to produce any sperm at all.