Recent research presented at #PAS2024 highlights significant racial and ethnic disparities in youth mortality rates in the U.S. Pediatric mortality rates saw the largest increases in at least 50 years, with Black and Native American youths experiencing the highest death rate spikes. The study emphasizes the urgent need to address firearm injuries using public health principles. Youth diagnosed with hypertension are also at higher risk of long-term cardiovascular disease.
Youth diagnosed with hypertension are at higher risk of long-term cardiovascular disease, justifying improving blood pressure follow-up and control strategies among hypertensive youth. https://t.co/WJanRpO4mm #PAS2024 https://t.co/69DUHmKRDU
New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths. https://t.co/iLxu8j5Y0G
Widening Racial Disparities Underlie Rise in Child Deaths in the U.S. - “New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37%, and among Native American youths by 22%, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5% for white youths.” https://t.co/0cHRIjW9NZ
“All-cause mortality ratios compared with White youth were 2.03 among American Indian or Alaska Native youth, 0.63 among Asian or Pacific Islander youth, 1.76 among Black youth, and 0.89 among Hispanic youth.” https://t.co/5jM8fevoiw
Attending #PAS2024? Supplement your schedule with Youth Experiencing Parental Death due to Drug Poisoning and Firearm Violence in the United States, 1999 - 2020: A Modeling Analysis, from JAMA. Free to read online during the meeting https://t.co/TxsuFvdImJ https://t.co/Co5sxWqOSC
Between 2019–2021, pediatric mortality rates had the largest increases in at least half a century. Steven Woolf of @VCUHealth joins JAMA Associate Editor Tracy Lieu to discuss how racial & ethnic disparities have factored into these increases. https://t.co/tDRPOtsUrg #PAS2024 https://t.co/x6afkuFNgn
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality among U.S. Youth, presented today at #PAS2024, is free to read online from JAMA https://t.co/Yh3oPWxroP https://t.co/RmhrSJkeKf
Editorial: "Findings spotlight the critical and urgent need for our nation to address firearm injury using established public health principles and science that parallel those we have applied for other leading causes of death." https://t.co/Z5Hk55j3gq #PAS2024 https://t.co/0QqM289LZj
US youth are at high and increasing risk of experiencing parental death by drugs or firearms, suggest findings from modeling study. https://t.co/ElPwqIk5b7 #PAS2024 https://t.co/ZxXfHX8BLb
Racial and ethnic disparities were observed for almost all leading causes of injury and disease that were associated with recent increases in youth mortality. https://t.co/EbcEASajXe #PAS2024 https://t.co/CG0ymKWWWw