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Pathways from racial discrimination to cortisol/DHEA imbalance: protective role of religious involvement.

Ethnicity & health

Lee DB, Peckins MK, Miller AL, Hope MO, Neblett EW, Assari S, Muñoz-Velázquez J, Zimmerman MA.
PMID: 30198761
Ethn Health. 2021 Apr;26(3):413-430. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2018.1520815. Epub 2018 Sep 10.

No abstract available.

Positive Parenting Moderates the Effect of Socioeconomic Status on Executive Functioning: A Three-Generation Approach.

Journal of child and family studies

Lee DB, Assari S, Miller AL, Hsieh HF, Heinze JE, Zimmerman MA.
PMID: 31656391
J Child Fam Stud. 2019 Jul;28(7):1878-1885. doi: 10.1007/s10826-019-01411-x. Epub 2019 Apr 20.

OBJECTIVE: While low parental socioeconomic status (SES) has been associated with lower levels of child executive functioning (EF), few have examined the intergenerational effect of SES on child EF across three generations. We adopt a resilience framework to investigate...

Polypharmacy and Depressive Symptoms in U.S.-Born Mexican American Older Adults.

Psych

Assari S, Wisseh C, Saqib M, Helmi H, Bazargan M.
PMID: 33205042
Psych. 2019 Dec;1(1):491-503. doi: 10.3390/psych1010038. Epub 2019 Nov 01.

BACKGROUND: Although some studies have suggested a link between polypharmacy and poor mental health, less is known about the association between polypharmacy and depressive symptomology among U.S.-born older Mexican Americans.AIM: This study aimed to test the association between polypharmacy...

Race, Ethnicity, Family Socioeconomic Status, and Children's Hippocampus Volume.

Research in health science

Assari S.
PMID: 33103023
Res Health Sci. 2020;5(4):25-45. doi: 10.22158/rhs.v5n4p25. Epub 2020 Oct 14.

INTRODUCTION: The hippocampus has a significant role in memory, learning, and cognition. Although hippocampal size is highly susceptible to family socioeconomic status (SES) and associated stress, very little is known on racial and ethnic group differences in the effects...

COVID-19 Pandemic and Neurological Disease: A Critical Review of the Existing Literature.

Hospital practices and research

Assari S.
PMID: 33094214
Hosp Pract Res. 2020;5(3):81-86.

Most of what we know about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is limited to what we know about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and COVID-19's epidemiology, fatality, and acute care. However, infection with COVID-19 may also involve the central...

Youth Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Problems in the ABCD Study: Minorities' Diminished Returns of Family Income.

Journal of economics and public finance

Assari S.
PMID: 33123624
J Econ Public Financ. 2020;6(4):1-19. doi: 10.22158/jepf.v6n4p1. Epub 2020 Oct 10.

BACKGROUND: To investigate ethnic differences in the protective effects of family income against youth social, emotional, and behavioral problems in the US. As proposed by the Marginalization-related Diminished Returns (MDRs), family income may generate fewer tangible outcomes for ethnic...

Parental Educational Attainment and Academic Performance of American College Students; Blacks' Diminished Returns.

Journal of health economics and development

Assari S.
PMID: 31372601
J Health Econ Dev. 2019;1(1):21-31.

BACKGROUND: As suggested by the Minorities' Diminished Returns (MDR) theory, socioeconomic status (SES) systemically results in smaller outcomes for non-Whites compared to Whites. We still know very little about diminished trans-generational returns of SES resources such as parental educational...

Patients' age and discussion with doctors about lung cancer screening; Diminished returns of Blacks.

Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W))

Chalian H, Khoshpouri P, Assari S.
PMID: 31179418
Aging Med (Milton). 2019 Mar;2(1):35-41. doi: 10.1002/agm2.12053. Epub 2019 Feb 20.

BACKGROUND: As age is one of the main risk factors for lung cancer, older adults are expected to receive more messages for lung cancer screening (LCS). It is, however, unclear whether age similarly increases patient's chance of discussing LCS...

Family Socioeconomic Position at Birth and School Bonding at Age 15; Blacks' Diminished Returns.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

Assari S.
PMID: 30861987
Behav Sci (Basel). 2019 Mar 11;9(3). doi: 10.3390/bs9030026.

Life course epidemiological studies have documented the effects of family socioeconomic position (SEP) at birth on youth developmental processes and outcomes decades later. According to the minorities' diminished returns (MDR) theory, however, family SEP at birth generates smaller returns...

The association between early exposure to violence in emerging adulthood and substance use in early-adulthood among inner-city individuals.

Emerging adulthood (Print)

Roehler DR, Heinze JE, Stoddard SA, Bauermeister JA, Zimmerman MA.
PMID: 31656695
Emerg Adulthood. 2018 Aug;6(4):235-242. doi: 10.1177/2167696817725455. Epub 2017 Sep 04.

This study investigated whether being exposed to violence early in life is a risk factor for substance use later in life. Tenets of the stress-coping model and the self-medication hypothesis guided the analyses. Participants included 850 individuals from an...

Diminished Return of Employment on Ever Smoking Among Hispanic Whites in Los Angeles.

Health equity

Assari S, Mistry R.
PMID: 31289772
Health Equity. 2019 Apr 11;3(1):138-144. doi: 10.1089/heq.2018.0070. eCollection 2019.

No abstract available.

Education Level and Self-rated Health in the United States: Immigrants' Diminished Returns.

International journal of travel medicine and global health

Assari S, Perez MU, Johnson N, Williams NR, Carrillo E, Garcia L, Hollis XT.
PMID: 32905455
Int J Travel Med Glob Health. 2020;8(3):116-123. doi: 10.34172/ijtmgh.2020.20.

INTRODUCTION: Although education is among the major socioeconomic status (SES) resources that influence populations' and individuals' health, social marginalization may reduce the health gain that follows access to SES indicators such as education, a pattern called marginalization-related diminished return...

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