R Witzig - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1996 - Am Coll Physicians The term “race” has many definitions, ranging from a family unit to a species, but in common
and medical usage, defining “race” has meant separating Homo sapiens into three to six
groups.This division of Homo sapiens into race taxons started in the 18th century, when ... Cited by 156 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►kfshrc.edu.sa [DOC] RS Schwartz - The New England journal of medicine, 2001 - nejm.highwire.org Two articles in this issue of the Journal deal with the treatment of heart failure in white and black
patients. One, concerning carvedilol, reports that the benefit of this beta-blocker is similar in nonblacks
and blacks with chronic heart failure. 1 The other contends that enalapril, an angiotensin- ... Cited by 274 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
NG Osborne, MD Feit - Jama, 1992 - Am Med Assoc You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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- ►annals.org SH Caldwell, R Popenoe - Annals of internal medicine, 1995 - Am Coll Physicians Case presentations are part of many clinicians' daily routines.The format for such presentations
often involves stating the age, sex, and race of the patient in the opening description.
However, although single-word racial labels such as "black" or "white" are of occasional ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - All 3 versions
EJ Huth - Annals of internal medicine, 1995 - Am Coll Physicians "Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Pope aimed
his couplet [1] at literary criticism in the 18th century, but it makes sense for medicine in the 20th
century. Be not the first to recommend to patients a new treatment with value not ... Cited by 21 - Related articles - All 3 versions
- ►bmj.com PA Senior, R Bhopal - British Medical Journal, 1994 - bmj.com Ethnicity is used increasingly as a key variable to describe health data, and ethnic monitoring
in the NHS will further stimulate this trend. We identify four fundamental problems with ethnicity
in this type of research: the difficulties of measurement, the heterogeneity of the ... Cited by 330 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org JS Kaufman, RS Cooper - American Journal of Epidemiology, 2001 - Oxford Univ Press Numerous authors have critiqued the use of race as an etiologic quantity in medical
research. Despite this criticism, the use of variables encoding racial/ethnic categorization has
increased in epidemiology, and most researchers agree that important variation in ... Cited by 166 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 14 versions
- ►bmj.com R Bhopal - British Medical Journal, 1997 - bmj.com Much historical research on race, intelligence, and health was racist, unethical, and
ineffective. The concepts of race and ethnicity are difficult to define but continue to be applied
to the study of the health of immigrant and ethnic minority groups in the hope of ... Cited by 227 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
- ►ajph.org [PDF] AH Goodman - American Journal of Public Health, 2000 - Am Public Health Assoc There is a paradoxical relationship between “race” and genetics. Whereas genetic data were
first used to prove the validity of race, since the early 1970s they have been used to illustrate
the in- validity of biological races. Indeed, race does not account for human genetic vari- ... Cited by 169 - Related articles - All 9 versions
- ►bmj.com KJ McKenzie, NS Crowcroft - British Medical Journal, 1994 - bmj.com However, substantial problems exist with this burgeoning literature. The categories of race or
ethnic group are rarely defined, the use of terms is inconsistent, and people are often allocated
to racial or ethnic groups, arbitrarily. 2 Some researchers use the original Blumenbach ... Cited by 94 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
