Racial Context and Health Behaviors Among Black Immigrants

Miller, Gabe H.; Márquez-Velarde, Guadalupe; Emoruwa, Oluwaseun T.; Jones, Nicole E.; Ma, Guizhen; Keith, Verna M.; Elufisan, Gbenga I.; Hernandez, Stephanie M.

doi:10.1007/s40615-022-01401-8

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“…It is important to note that Add Health lacks information on national origin for Black Americans. Given documented drinking heterogeneity and increased risk for alcohol‐related harms despite lower overall drinking levels in this demographic (Delker et al., 2016; Miller et al., 2023; Zapolski et al., 2014), research for Black subgroups is needed.…”

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Drinking patterns among US men and women: Racial and ethnic differences from adolescence to early midlife

Tam,

Li,

Lui

et al. 2024

Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research

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BackgroundDrinking patterns among young adult men and women in the United States have been understudied, especially among racial and ethnic groups such as Asian Americans and Hispanics. Because alcohol‐related racial and ethnic health disparities persist or increase in midlife, identifying peak ages of hazardous drinking could help to reduce disparities.MethodsWe used the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to examine: (1) past 12‐month heavy episodic drinking (HED) and total alcohol volume consumption among non‐Hispanic White (NHW), Black, Hispanic, and Asian men and women from ages 12 through 41, and (2) age‐varying associations of race and ethnicity with drinking. Hispanic and Asian ethnic groups were disaggregated by historical drinking patterns. Time‐varying effect models accounted for major demographic confounders.ResultsNHW men and women experienced elevated drinking rates in their early 20s, with a second elevation in their 30s. Black men and women did not have elevated drinking until their 30s. Among Hispanic men and women, peak drinking periods varied by gender and subgroup drinking pattern. Peak HED and total consumption emerged in the early 30s for Asian men, while peak HED occurred in the early 20s for Asian women. Drinking at certain ages for some racial and ethnic minoritized men and women did not differ from that in their NHW counterparts.ConclusionsAge periods during which subgroups in the U.S. population experience elevated alcohol consumption vary by ethnicity and gender. Recognition of these group differences could enhance our understanding of intervention timing.

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Drinking patterns among US men and women: Racial and ethnic differences from adolescence to early midlife

Tam,

Li,

Lui

et al. 2024

Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research

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“…Incidence studies are rarer, as incomplete knowledge on birthplace is problematic and a source of considerable bias in population rates [ 10 ], a problem that extends to incidence studies on Hispanic groups because the collected ethnic group variable is often equally incomplete [ 5 , 10 , 11 ]. As the US population continues to diversify, the characterization of lung cancer incidence rates by Black and Hispanic detailed race–ethnicity is critical for furthering public health advances in cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention tailored to distinct groups with varying smoking prevalence, environmental exposures, and other lung cancer risk factors [ 4 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 ].…”

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Lung Cancer Incidence by Detailed Race–Ethnicity

Cranford

Koru‐Sengul

Lopes

et al. 2023

Cancers

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Lung cancer (LC) incidence rates and tumor characteristics among (non-Hispanic) Black and Hispanic detailed groups, normally characterized in aggregate, have been overlooked in the US. We used LC data from the Florida state cancer registry, 2012–2018, to compute LC age-adjusted incidence rates (AAIR) for US-born Black, Caribbean-born Black, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and Central and South American populations. We analyzed 120,550 total LC cases. Among Hispanics, Cuban males had the highest AAIR (65.6 per 100,000; 95%CI: 63.6–67.6), only 8% [Incidence Rate Ratio (IRR): 0.92; 95%CI: 0.89–0.95] lower than Whites, but 2.7 (IRR 95%CI: 2.31-3.19) times higher than Central Americans. Among Blacks, the AAIR for US-born Black males was over three times that of those Caribbean-born (IRR: 3.12; 95%CI: 2.80–3.40) and 14% higher than White males (IRR: 1.14; 95%CI: 1.11–1.18). Among women, US-born Blacks (46.4 per 100,000) and foreign-born Mexicans (12.2 per 100,000) had the highest and lowest rates. Aggregation of non-Hispanic Blacks or Hispanics obscures inherent disparities within groups. Understanding the distinct LC rates in US populations is crucial for targeting public health measures for LC diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. Further LC research exploring detailed race–ethnicity regarding LC in never-smokers is necessary, particularly among females and considering pertinent environmental factors.

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Stress Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease Risk among US Black Women: Ethnicity and Nativity Intersections

Erving

2024

Popul Res Policy Rev

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Racial Context and Health Behaviors Among Black Immigrants

Cited by 4 publications

References 73 publications

Drinking patterns among US men and women: Racial and ethnic differences from adolescence to early midlife

Drinking patterns among US men and women: Racial and ethnic differences from adolescence to early midlife

Lung Cancer Incidence by Detailed Race–Ethnicity

Stress Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease Risk among US Black Women: Ethnicity and Nativity Intersections

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