African-Americans have more non-calcified plaque than others

CHARLOTTE, S.C., Nov. 30 (UPI) -- African-Americans have more non-calcified plaque than others, which may increase their heart attack risks, U.S. researchers say.

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2010/11/30/African-Americans-have-different-plaque/UPI-18731291171410/

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston say whites had more calcified plaque but African-Americans had non-calcified soft deposits deep in the walls of the arteries.

"The African-Americans and Caucasians we studied had approximately the same amount of plaque in their arteries, but different kinds of plaque," Dr. John Nance Jr. says in a statement.

Nance and colleagues compared 301 male and female patients, half African-American and half white, who underwent two types of imaging for acute chest pain -- calcium scoring to measure calcified plaque and contrast-enhanced coronary CT angiography to reveal non-calcified and mixed plaques.

"This study confirms that the coronary artery disease pathways that lead to acute cardiovascular events are different for Caucasians and African Americans," study co-author Dr. U. Joseph Schoepf says in a statement. "For African-American patients, coronary CT angiography may be a more appropriate screening tool for cardiovascular risk."

The effective dose of ionizing radiation has been considerably reduced, says Schoepf, making it a viable screening option.

The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago.

ATC Says - As they already have a kind of plaque that increases their risk of heart attack to begin with, it's no doubt their penchant for fried chicken and other fried foods (If you could call it that) goes along way towards insuring a shorter life span - well that and their higher susceptibility to AIDS and other diseases and physical ailments covered on this blog.



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Blacks and Whites Differ in Brain Size and Intelligence

Scientists have known for a long, long time that Blacks have smaller brains on average. If you can find a 1959 Encyclopedia Britannica, the section on races will mention that Whites have a larger average brain size than Blacks. The liberals and Jews apparently got this important racial information scrubbed out of most books published after 1959. About every ten years since 1960, some brave White academic will publish a book talking about these significant differences. Just off hand I remember the authors, Carleton Coon, Murray and Herrnstein and Arthur Jensen. The “Bell Curve” is perhaps the most famous of these racial reality books.

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The latest data from J. Philippe Rushton states that Blacks have brains that are 80cc smaller on average. This data may be based on African-American Blacks, who tend to have about 25% White genes mixed in with IQs around 85. Their primitive all-Black cousins in west Africa have IQs down around 70 (with even smaller brains).

One source notes “The black-white gap is 15 points when measured on the Wechsler tests, 18 on the Stanford-Binet. Both tests are, of course, normed so as to produce an average of 100, but the white average is a bit higher. On the Wechsler metric, whites and blacks average 102 and 87, respectively. On both tests, the gap between the races is almost exactly 1 SD (standard deviation). The gap of 1 SD has been observed since the earliest days of intelligence testing.”

Liberals often respond with a flurry of hysterical gibberish and everything unscientific when confronted with solid scientific information about racial differences. Some liberals will even claim that there is no relationship between intelligence and brain size even though the history of evolution has been a steady march toward larger brain sizes and taller foreheads. The earliest hominids had brain sizes about the same as modern day apes.

According to J. Philippe Rushton, the White average brain size is about 1347cc’s and the Black average brain size is 1267cc’s. In contrast, the largest brain size recorded for an individual ape is 700cc’s. Anther important difference is the shape of the brain. The Neanderthal for example had a slightly larger brain size than modern humans, but almost no forehead. The frontal region of the brain is where creativity resides.

Liberals respond to racial facts with emotional rhetoric. According to them, all the races are equal in mental ability regardless of differing test scores, genes or brain sizes. Never mind the fact that White men were walking on the moon forty years ago, while most natives in Africa were still squatting in mud huts. One famous Jewish propagandist Ashley Montagu could be called the king of egalitarian propaganda. If it weren’t for Jewish and liberal connections, he would have likely been a village idiot gibbering away crazy things on a street corner. He has consistently denied that the races are different in intelligence despite test scores that date back over generations that show a significant 15 percent IQ gap between Blacks and Whites.

East Asians reportedly have a brain size average 17cc’s bigger than the White average, but their societies tend to be less prosperous, mired in bureaucracy and corruption lacking the creativity found in White nations. Perhaps this lack of prosperity is tied to a lack of creativity which may be linked to the shape of the head. Asians typically have rounder heads. Asians seem to do best perfecting Western engineering. The small extra brain capacity of east Asians may give them better memories, but not creativity due to a different head shape.

It’s a bit unfair comparing east Asians (typically just the Japanese and Koreans) to the average of the whole White race. I suspect the Swedes -for example- might have a brain size average bigger than certain east Asian groups. You never hear anyone comparing Scandinavians to Asians, but you often hear of east Asians compared to Whites. Some of the data on Asians may be skewed in their favor –especially if Asian Americans are being used to represent their homelands. It could make a big difference if the east Asians are immigrants to the US, who might be a little smarter than the east Asians who didn’t have the initiative to leave their over-crowded homelands.

China has 1.3 billion people and it’s only started to do well as American companies outsourced manufacturing to them. I suspect if all the ordinary Chinese peasants were included as east Asians, the “east Asian” average brain size would be less than the White average.

The reluctance of most Americans to admit that the races are not equal results from decades of propaganda from politicians and the liberal media. Curiously, most people will admit that certain breeds of dogs have different personalities. The border collie is a workaholic. The Irish setter is a gentle dog. The German shepherd is a good watch dog, and the Chihuahua is a nervous shaky dog. Now if a simple animal like a dog can have a personality for each breed, then why is it that people won’t admit certain personalities are associated with certain races? Studies of identical twins, who were separated at birth, also suggest that a wide range of personality traits are rooted in our genes.

ATC Says - Racial equality is just another lie perpetrated by the the multicultural liberals and the ruling elite upon us by insisting that there is no such thing as race or differences between them........There are many differences as you the reader have been shown on this blog.......these articles are not just crackpot assertions by racist loons, but the results of scientific research which is not widely disseminated to the masses in order to perpetuate the propaganda of equality.......ALL men are in FACT, NOT CREATED EQUAL!


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Alzheimer's exacts a heavy toll among Latinos

Research shows that Latinos tend to get the condition almost seven years earlier than white Americans. The Alzheimer's Assn. calls the situation 'a looming but unrecognized public health crisis.'

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-na-adv-latino-alzheimers-20101121,0,7488446.story



Angelica Reyes-Servin with her father, Arturo Reyes, 69, who has Alzheimer's. The family lives in Chicago. (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune / November 11, 2010)
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Reporting from Chicago —Arturo Reyes sat quietly as his family talked about traveling to Mexico over the holidays.

Suddenly, he broke into the conversation. "We cannot do it; we are illegal," his daughter Angelica Reyes-Servin remembers him saying. "If we leave, we may never get back again."

The room fell silent. Reyes and his family, who crossed the border from Mexico to Arizona more than three decades ago, have been U.S. citizens for more than 20 years.

"It was then I realized my father is sick," Reyes-Servin said. "He's not himself anymore."

Reyes, 69, has Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's exacts a heavy toll among Latino Americans, who tend to get the condition almost seven years earlier than white Americans, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania and UC San Francisco.

Limited access to medical care and health insurance, lower levels of education and income, and higher rates of high blood pressure and diabetes contribute to above-average risks for Alzheimer's among Latino seniors, experts say.

The Alzheimer's Assn. calls the situation "a looming but unrecognized public health crisis" and predicts that Alzheimer's and related dementias could afflict 1.3 million older Latinos by 2050, up from about 200,000 currently.

In Chicago, a push to respond is being led by Constantina Mizis, a Mexican immigrant who founded the Latino Alzheimer's & Memory Disorders Alliance, one of the few organizations of its kind in the country.

With a Mexican mother and a Greek father, Mizis says she has always lived between two cultures, aware of differences in traditions and beliefs. It's a lesson she's bringing to medical professionals who reach out to Latinos with memory problems.

Such efforts have to be undertaken with sensitivity, says Mizis, explaining that some Mexicans from rural areas believe Alzheimer's is punishment for sins of youth. Others think of cognitive difficulties as "just part of age" — something that families have to accept without asking for assistance.

But cognitive lapses can occur because of treatable medical issues, including depression, thyroid problems and the side effects of medication, according to Freddy Ortiz, coordinator of the memory disorders clinic at Olive View- UCLA Medical Center.

Although no medication can reverse Alzheimer's, some drugs can offer short-term relief of symptoms, and some services, such as adult day care, can ease caregivers' stress.

In many Latino families, however, adult day care is considered a type of warehouse. "They believe that if you leave someone there you have abandoned this person," Mizis said.

For Luisa Echevarria's Cuban mother, Nora, dementia was associated with mental illness and a source of shame.

"We had to be very careful not to use the words 'Alzheimer's' or 'dementia' around her," said Luisa Echevarria, community relations director for Univision and its TeleFutura TV network in Chicago. "If we did, she would scream and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me; it's you who are crazy.' "

Echevarria remembers a lunch with her parents when her mother suddenly started speaking in gibberish, her eyes dark with panic. Soon after, Nora began picking fights with her husband.

Echevarria realized her mother needed medical help but felt torn. "You don't want to doubt your mother — the person you trust more than anybody, the person you go to for everything," she said. "It was a very hard time because I felt I was betraying her."

At a hospital for evaluation, Nora flirted with the doctor while joking about tasks she could not complete, such as naming her age or drawing a box. "She was a queen at disguising her disabilities," Echevarria said.

Nora now lives in a small, Latino-oriented assisted-living facility in Miami, near her husband and a large circle of family members.

"She is still my mother," Echevarria said. "Alzheimer's places you in a different reality, but it doesn't change who you are."

Education can be a complicating factor. People who have not had much education, including many Latino immigrants, tend to score lower on memory tests, and adjustments are needed to account for that, said Maria Marquine, a neuropsychologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Language, too, can be a concern even when tests are translated into Spanish. Consider that car is carro in some Latino groups but auto and automovil in others, Marquine said. If the translation used in a memory test is unfamiliar, a senior's score could be affected.

For Arturo Reyes' family, his 2002 Alzheimer's diagnosis was an introduction to a strange new world.

"We had never been around anybody who had Alzheimer's," said his daughter Laura, who lives with her parents. "We didn't know anything about it."

She remembers finding her father in the kitchen opening all the drawers in search of silverware. Then came a call from his factory supervisor. Reyes had been standing in the middle of the factory floor, unsure what to do next.

Now, Laura worries about their mother, who insists on doing everything for her husband. She is not sure whether her father knows what has happened to him.

Not long ago, her mother asked him if he realized he forgot things.

The old man shook his head. "I don't know, I don't know," he repeated. "I don't know."



ATC Says - More serious research needs to be done and the results made public on the Genetic Differences between the races and the drawbacks and risks associated with mixing. Science has shown that these differences do indeed exist and until we can have an intelligent discussion about this matter without the label of racist being hurled upon us which the multiculturalists love to label us with, our children will continue to suffer the maladies of our own feel-good political correctness!


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Latinos Are Genetically Predisposed to Fatty Liver Disease!

We know sugar is bad for you. But now a new study shows that it is even worse for many Latinos. A new study out of USC find that Latinos are genetically predisposed to have increased liver fat? when they eat sugar, Dr. Bruce Hensel reported. Rosa Angel got a good look at her liver recently? and it wasn?t a pretty picture.?My fat, is very fat on my liver. It?s 26 % fat, which is very high, she said.?Rosa has a genetic variation that makes it harder for her liver to break down fat? especially when she eats a lot of sugar.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/health/Latinos_Are_Genetically_Predisposed_to_Fatty_Liver_Disease_Los_Angeles-108294544.html



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Research shows that 49% of Latinos have this gene variation. It?s all part of a study from the USC Keck School of Medicine. Jaimie Davis, Ph.D., is one of the researchers. ?It could lead to a direct accumulation of fat in the liver. They may not be able to break it down as efficiently. Diets high in sugar could be leading directly to this fatty liver disease,? Davis said. This accumulation can lead to fatty liver disease or even cirrosis of the liver.And it is especially worrying in children.

When researchers tested more than 300 Latino youth 8 to 18 in the East and Central Los Angeles area ? they found that a third of the youth had fatty livers.?We?re seeing high amounts of fat in these children, much like if they were alcoholics. And when doctors first saw this fat in the liver. They questioned parents if these kids were drinking alcohol. Which they weren?t, Davis said.The main culprit is sugary beverages.

More than 40% of the sugar in the latino children?s diets come from sugary drinks. And not only that, the sugar that is in beverages such as soda and some juices are from high fructose corn syrup, which goes straight to the liver for breakdown. ?So not only does the highest amount of sugar comes from sugar sweetened beverages, but the type of sugar may also be detrimental. You don?t want to nag your child but you want to make sure, having a little pushing them to eat healthier will reduce risk of obesity.

It's a battle worth having early.After she saw her liver, Rosa changed her habits immediately. She started reducing the fat in her meals, and drinking water or tea much more often.To me, it was like a wakeup call I saw my liver and said omg I'm 44, I don't want to die in 5 or 10 years, I already know, why not do something about it, she said. So you can be proactive. You can?t change your genetic disposition but you can change your family's diet. Some healthy things that everyone can do ? switching to milk or water flavored with lemon or lime. Watering down the juices. Also look out for those sugary cereals, which is the second highest source of sugar after the soft drinks, Dr. Hensel said.



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