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Race, Educational Attainment, and E-Cigarette Use.

Journal of medical research and innovation

Assari S, Mistry R, Bazargan M.
PMID: 32090188
J Med Res Innov. 2020;4(1). doi: 10.32892/jmri.185. Epub 2019 Sep 14.

BACKGROUND: Although higher educational attainment lowers high-risk behaviors such as substance use, according to the AIMS: To explore the racial differences in the link between educational attainment and electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes).METHODS: We used the Health Information National Trends Survey...

Latent class analysis of use frequencies for multiple tobacco products in US adults.

Preventive medicine

Mistry R, Bondarenko I, Jeon J, Brouwer AF, Mattingly DT, Hirschtick JL, Jimenez-Mendoza E, Levy DT, Land SR, Elliott MR, Taylor JMG, Meza R, Fleischer NL.
PMID: 34358593
Prev Med. 2021 Dec;153:106762. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106762. Epub 2021 Aug 04.

A persistent challenge is characterizing patterns of tobacco use in terms of product combinations and frequency. Using Wave 4 (2016-17) Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study adult data, we conducted latent class analyses (LCA) of past 30-day frequency...

Blacks' Diminished Health Returns of Educational Attainment: Health and Retirement Study.

Journal of medical research and innovation

Assari S.
PMID: 34966877
J Med Res Innov. 2020;4(2). doi: 10.32892/jmri.212. Epub 2020 May 31.

BACKGROUND: Education level reduces the risk of health problems such as poor self-rated health (SRH), high body mass index (BMI), and depressive symptoms (DS). Marginalization - related Diminished Returns (MDRs), however, refer to smaller health benefits of socioeconomic status...

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...

Transitions between cigarette, ENDS and dual use in adults in the PATH study (waves 1-4): multistate transition modelling accounting for complex survey design.

Tobacco control

Brouwer AF, Jeon J, Hirschtick JL, Jimenez-Mendoza E, Mistry R, Bondarenko IV, Land SR, Holford TR, Levy DT, Taylor JMG, Fleischer NL, Meza R.
PMID: 33199541
Tob Control. 2020 Nov 16; doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-055967. Epub 2020 Nov 16.

INTRODUCTION: Even prior to 2018, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) began to dramatically change the landscape of tobacco products and product use patterns in the USA.METHODS: Using a Markov multistate transition model accounting for complex survey design, transition rates...

How much of the future mortality toll of smoking can be avoided?.

Tobacco control

Warner KE, Mendez D.
PMID: 32546663
Tob Control. 2020 Jun 16; doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055530. Epub 2020 Jun 16.

OBJECTIVE: To determine how much future smoking-related mortality in the USA can be prevented, recognising that some of that future mortality results from past smoking.METHODS: Employing a dynamic population simulation model, we estimate smoking's expected mortality burden in the...

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...

Differential Association between Actual and Perceived Obesity between African Americans and Whites in the United States.

International journal of epidemiologic research

Assari S.
PMID: 32999940
Int J Epidemiol Res. 2020;7(3):107-114. Epub 2020 Sep 28.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Although actual and perceived obesity are associated, some research has shown that this association may differ across racial and ethnic groups. Accordingly, this cross-sectional study tested racial differences regarding the association between actual and perceived obesity...

Social Determinants of Hookah Smoking in the United States.

Journal of mental health & clinical psychology

Assari S, Chalian H, Bazargan M.
PMID: 32285045
J Ment Health Clin Psychol. 2020;4(1):21-27. doi: 10.29245/2578-2959/2020/1.1185. Epub 2020 Jan 17.

BACKGROUND: Educational attainment and income are two socioeconomic status indicators with strong protective effects against cigarette smoking. AIM: Borrowing data from a nationally representative study in the US, this study tested whether racial and ethnic differences exist in the...

Cingulo-opercular and Cingulo-parietal Brain Networks Functional Connectivity in Pre-adolescents: Multiplicative Effects of Race, Ethnicity, and Parental Education.

Research in health science

Assari S.
PMID: 34734154
Res Health Sci. 2021;6(2):76-99. doi: 10.22158/rhs.v6n2p76.

INTRODUCTION: A growing body of research has shown a diminished association between socioeconomic status (SES) indicators and a wide range of neuroimaging indicators for racial and ethnic minorities compared to majority groups. However, less is known about these 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...

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