Although breast cancer is somewhat more aggressive in South Asian and Black women than in White women, this is largely due to
age differences between ethnic groups in the UK, according to new research.
Not exact matches
Moreover, Wyatt (1985) found a
difference between the
age of onset for blacks and whites, but the
age for both
ethnic groups was prepubescent.
The last link addressed the issue best, I thought: «The increase in risk of severe maternal morbidities in non-white women seems to be independent of
differences in
age, socioeconomic and smoking status, body mass index, and parity
between ethnic groups.»
But most
differences between the six partitions are not explained by an obvious label such as
age,
ethnic group or economic status.
In addition, the researchers discovered stark
differences between racial and
ethnic groups and
age groups.
Although South Asian and Black women were more likely to have biologically aggressive tumours, such as higher - grade tumours and more lymph node involvement, little
difference remained
between the
ethnic groups after adjustment for factors that could affect the findings, particularly
age.
The size of
between - group
differences did not vary by
age and race /
ethnic minority status.
We entered the number of patients and control group members, mean
age, percentage of girls and of members of
ethnic minorities, the country of data collection, year of publication, type of illness, duration of illness, the sampling procedure (1 = probability samples, 0 = convenience samples), the use of a control group (0 = yes, 1 = comparison with test norms), equivalence of patients and control group (1 = yes, 2 = not tested, 3 = no), the rater of depressive symptoms (1 = child, 2 = parent, 3 = teacher, 4 = clinician), the measurement of the variables, and the standardized size of
between - group
differences in depressive symptoms.
Second, future work would benefit from investigating the dynamics of racial and
ethnic differences in the link
between widowhood,
age heterogamy, and health of the surviving spouse.
As displayed in Table II, there were no significant
differences between ethnic groups on
age, sex, time since diagnosis, and insulin pump usage, p >.05.
Past research has found a significant correlation
between overall cognitive ability and individual
differences in brain size,
age, sex, social class, and
ethnic background.