Research by Tulane University has linked the pollution to elevated cancer rates in St. James Parish.

Maeve Wallace, associate director of the Mary Amelia Center for Women's Health Equity Research at Tulane University, participating in a webinar on pregnancy-related death in the U.S., unequivocally stated that pregnancy-related mortality is a "racialized issue."

“When we adjusted for lifestyle and clinical risk factors, the Black-white disparity in cardiovascular disease mortality was diminished but still persisted,” Jiang He, chair in epidemiology at Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, says. “However, after adjusting for social risk factors, this racial difference totally disappeared.”

“It’s startling that it’s concentrated among a small minority,” said Diego Rose, a professor at Tulane University and a co-author of the paper.

For example, Chicas and co-authors from Tulane University and Boston University studied the effects of cooling bandannas and ice vests on farm and landscaping workers in Florida in 2020.

Researchers at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine said loneliness can have a significant effect on physical and emotional health.

“It’s startling that it’s concentrated among a small minority,” said Diego Rose, a professor at Tulane University and a co-author of the paper.

“Since the 1980s, researchers have proposed that different strains could be associated with different disease outcomes due to the parasite’s genetic diversity, but decades of research failed to uncover clear associations,” says lead author Eric Dumonteil, associate professor of tropical medicine at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

"Beef is an environmentally extravagant protein," Diego Rose, a coauthor of the study and professor and nutrition program director at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, said. "It's kind of like the Hummer of animal proteins."

New research from Tulane University may shed light on how parasite strain diversity can impact Chagas disease progression and severity.