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ReviewOpen forum infectious diseases2021

Disentangling the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Health Disparities in African Americans: Biological, Environmental, and Social Factors.

Geetanjali Saini, Monica H Swahn, Ritu Aneja

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Review in Open forum infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. Emergent Social Capital during the Coronavirus Pandemic in the United States in Hispanics/Latinos.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  10. Environment and COVID-19 incidence: A critical review.Journal of environmental sciences (China) · 2023
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  13. Risk management and communication plans from SARS to COVID-19 and beyond.The International journal of health planning and management · 2022
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  14. Lockdown Amid COVID-19 Ascendancy over Ambient Particulate Matter Pollution Anomaly.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  18. Diversity's Pandemic Distractions.Health matrix (Cleveland, Ohio : 1991) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Geetanjali SainiDepartment of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-2491
Monica H SwahnDepartment of Population Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6663-3885
Ritu AnejaDepartment of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4489-5320

Funding

Evaluation of HSET as a Novel Theranostic Target for Breast Cancer TherapyR01CA169127 · NCI · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ANEJA, RITU · 2012 to 2016
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA169127
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The stark racial disparities related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States, wherein minority populations are disproportionately getting infected and succumbing to the disease, is of grave concern. It is critical to understand and address the underlying causes of these disparities that are complex and driven by interacting environmental, social and biological factors. In this article we focus on the African American community and examine how social and environmental determinants of health intersect with biological factors (comorbidities, underlying genetics, host immunity, vitamin D levels, epigenetics) to exacerbate risk for morbidity and mortality.

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African AmericanscomorbiditiesCOVID-19epigeneticshealth disparities

Identifiers

PMID33732752
PMCPMC7928626

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