{"id":31453,"date":"2013-06-03T01:30:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T01:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31453"},"modified":"2013-06-03T01:30:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T01:30:59","slug":"defining-raceethnicity-and-explaining-difference-in-research-studies-on-lung-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31453","title":{"rendered":"Defining race\/ethnicity and explaining difference in research studies on lung function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1183\/09031936.00091612\" target=\"_blank\">Defining race\/ethnicity and explaining difference in research studies on lung function<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erj.ersjournals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">European Respiratory Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/erj.ersjournals.com\/content\/41\/6.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 41, Number 6<\/a>\u00a0 (June 1, 2013)<br \/>\npages 1362-1370<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1183\/09031936.00091612\" target=\"_blank\">10.1183\/09031936.00091612<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brown.edu\/Departments\/Africana_Studies\/people\/braun_lundy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lundy Braun<\/a><\/strong>, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies<br \/>\n<em>Brown University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Melanie Wolfgang<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Brown University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsglobalhealth.org\/researchers\/profile\/1348\/Dickersin\/Kay\" target=\"_blank\">Kay Dickersin<\/a><\/strong>, Professor, Director, Center for Clinical Trials<br \/>\n<em>Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health<br \/>\nU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 2005 guidelines of the American Thoracic Society\/European Respiratory Society recommend the use of race- and\/or ethnic-specific reference standards for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spirometry\" target=\"_blank\">spirometry<\/a>. <strong>Yet definitions of the key variables of race and ethnicity vary worldwide.<\/strong> The purpose of this study was to determine whether researchers defined race and\/or ethnicity in studies of lung function and how they explained any observed differences.<\/p>\n<p>Using the methodology of the systematic review, we searched PubMed in July 2008 and screened 10 471 titles and abstracts to identify potentially eligible articles that compared \u201cwhite\u201d to \u201cother racial and ethnic groups\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 226 eligible articles published between 1922 and 2008, race and\/or ethnicity was defined in 17.3%, with the proportion increasing to 70% in the 2000s for those using parallel controls. Most articles (83.6%) reported that \u201cother racial and ethnic groups\u201d have a lower lung capacity compared to \u201cwhite\u201d; 94% of articles failed to examine socioeconomic status. In the 189 studies that reported lower lung function in \u201cother racial and ethnic groups\u201d, 21.8% and 29.4% of explanations cited inherent factors and anthropometric differences, respectively, whereas 23.1% of explanations cited environmental and social factors.<\/p>\n<p>Even though researchers sought to determine differences in lung function by race\/ethnicity, they typically failed to define their terms and frequently assumed inherent (or genetic) differences.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/erj.ersjournals.com\/content\/41\/6\/1362.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defining race\/ethnicity and explaining difference in research studies on lung function European Respiratory Journal Volume 41, Number 6\u00a0 (June 1, 2013) pages 1362-1370 DOI: 10.1183\/09031936.00091612 Lundy Braun, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Medical Science and Africana Studies Brown University Melanie Wolfgang Brown University Kay Dickersin, Professor, Director, Center for Clinical Trials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8],"tags":[14833,14832,2083,14834],"class_list":["post-31453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-european-respiratory-journal","tag-kay-dickersin","tag-lundy-braun","tag-melanie-wolfgang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}