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The reason for which few scientists advocate abandoning the use of racial terminology in research and clinical practice is which of the following?
 
  a) Most diseases have a genetic component that is race-linked.
  b) Categories of race have a profound impact on people's lives and health.
  c) African Americans have been systematically discriminated against and this situation needs to be addressed by leaving out the use of racial terminology.
  d) All of these choices.

Question 2

Richard Cooper's research on hypertension rates suggests which of the following?
 
  a) Race should be used as a medical proxy.
  b) Hypertension rates are genetically based.
  c) The racial gap in rates of hypertension in the United States is the result of environmental factors.
  d) All of these choices



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Answer to Question 1

b) Categories of race have a profound impact on people's lives and health.

Answer to Question 2

c) The racial gap in rates of hypertension in the United States is the result of environmental factors.





 

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