The reading really interested me because it relates quite closely to a topic we've been discussing in my social and cultural Anthro class, which is Biological Determinism in the study of race. The article states: "Early research on racial differences in health in the United States viewed racial categories as capturing biological homogeneity and racial disparities in health as genetically determined." It goes on to say how race should not be viewed in this way and I thought I should add what I have learned thus far from our discussions in Anthro. The main problem with classifying race in terms of "biological differences" is that it distorts people's views of health disparities as well as their views of people of other races, suggesting that race indicates a critical difference in human analysis, which is false. Although the article does show several differences in the trends of how health disparities have affected different racial groups I think it's an important point to stress that this data does not indicate that race can be determined by a biological category difference between people.