Sentences with phrase «in minority populations»

With the growth in minority populations, more minorities are being included in the patient population with acquired brain injury.

I also have interests in working with grief, self - injury, and issues related to identity in a minority population (racial / ethnic, sexual orientation, religious).

The rate of skin cancer diagnosis is rising in minority populations; among Hispanics it has increased by 22 % since 1992, according to one estimate.

Previous genome - wide association studies (GWAS) by the group have identified new genetic risk factors for the higher rates of asthma and poor response to bronchodilator medications seen in these minority populations — in many cases different from risk factors seen in prior studies conducted in European Americans.

These results reveal new risk markers in the genome that could be used to predict which children are likely to respond poorly to albuterol and other current first - line anti-asthma drugs, and to guide the development of new therapies that will be more effective and reduce the outsize burden of mortality in minority populations.

Researchers in the UCSF Asthma Collaboratory, directed by Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH, a physician - scientist in the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine at UCSF, have been studying the genetics of asthma in minority populations for two decades.

The CDC said Thursday that some of the increase comes from better identification of autism cases in minority populations.

«But we have a lot of children in our minority population that are not graduating.»

DOT Order 5610.2 «Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations» provides guidance to DOT's Operating Administrations (OAs) for integrating EJ principles into existing programs, policies, and activities.

Seven districts saw a growth in their minority population of 10 percentage points or more: Amherst, Lockport, Williamsville, Cheektowaga - Maryvale, Sweet Home, Cleveland Hill and Cheektowaga.

Logically, if efforts are made to maintain the Rangel and Serrano districts as majority black and Hispanic, respectively, the same VRA imperative pertains in the Engel district which experienced growth in its minority population.

Executive Order 12898, «Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), (E.O. 12898 or E.O.) requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies and activities on minority populations and low - income populations.»

Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low Income Populations, Executive Order 12898;

Executive Order (EO) 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low - income populations.»

Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations