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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:1178-1179.

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We, the Latino Consortium of the Center for Child Health Research, wish to stress the fundamental importance of ethnicity and race in child health research, a perspective that contrasts with a recent ARCHIVES editorial.¹ This editorial states that the attempt to improve child and adolescent health "is often ill served by many of the analyses of race and ethnicity in published studies," and concludes that authors will be asked to limit their use of ethnicity and race as variables to "select issues and questions" in future ARCHIVES issues.

We applaud this editorial for directing greater attention to ethnicity and race in child health research and for rightfully calling for adjustment of these variables using family income, parental educational attainment, family structure, and other relevant covariates. We are deeply distressed, however, by the journal policy of restricting the use of ethnicity and race in future research, a position that could set . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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