Disease relevance of Minority Groups

• PHS grants for minority group HIV infection education and prevention efforts [1].

High impact information on Minority Groups

• Relying on biochemical tests such as random plasma glucose, changing the criteria for a positive plasma glucose test, targeting racial and ethnic minority groups, and targeting medically underserved individuals might improve the yield of community-based diabetes screening [2].
• BACKGROUND: Latino individuals are the largest minority group and the fastest growing population group in the United States, yet there are few studies comparing the clinical features of Alzheimer disease (AD) in this population with those found in Anglo (white non-Latino) patients [3].
• The CFTR analysis proposed for the screening programme would detect 96% of patients registered in the database, but is unlikely to achieve the desired >80% detection rates in the ethnic minority groups [4].
• This commentary analyzes the issue from the perspective of the epidemiology of the health of minority ethnic and racial groups in Europe and the United States. Minority groups are usually compared with populations described as White, Caucasian, European, Europid, Western, Occidental, indigenous, native, and majority [5].
• This observation reflects the fact that the minority groups, previously under-represented in the HLA research pools subjected to SBT, now begin to emerge as a main source of new HLA-C alleles [6].

Biological context of Minority Groups

• C2 and C4 allele frequencies are notable in these minority groups [7].

Anatomical context of Minority Groups

• Flow cytometry using CD19 and surface IgM showed that the "non-T" preparations from the peripheral blood of CVH patients either contained B cells within the normal range (30-40% of the cells) or in a minority group no B cells (less than 3% of the cells) [8].

Associations of Minority Groups with chemical compounds

• The Centers for Disease Control, through its National Center for Prevention Services, provides financial and technical assistance to state and local health departments to develop approaches that are culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate to reach persons in racial and ethnic minority groups [9].
• These suggested a difference in response to zidovudine in white and minority groups [10].
• In Denmark, misuse of paracetamol is suspected in some foreign-born minority groups, although no data have been produced to substantiate this suspicion [11].
• The differences noted were in larger phytate and fibre intakes in the ethnic minority groups [12].
• These findings suggest that when family environments are examined in patients from ethnic minority groups, the patients' perspective may be a more potent predictor of outcome than traditional measures of EE [13].

Gene context of Minority Groups

• A total of 296 healthy males belonging to three national minority groups, Li, Miao and Hui, in Hainan Island, China, were screened for G6PD deficiency [14].
• The NNAT was moderately correlated with achievement for the total sample and correlated similarly with achievement for the White and ethnic minority groups [15].
• Predicting WAIS-R scores from the Revised Beta for low functioning minority group offenders [16].
• Spatial variations in ethnic minority group populations in Great Britain [17].
• There is no evidence that the propensity to intermarry is influenced by 'minority group' effects." (SUMMARY IN FRE)[18]

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Minority Groups

• This two-part article aims to clarify some of the issues relating to dental care of minority groups, with particular reference to Asian communities. part 1 identified dental health problems characteristic of British Asians, Part 2 now examines some of the barriers to care [19].

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