Sentences with phrase «black patients»

Overall the risk of these dangerous reactions was 12 times higher for Asian patients and 5 times higher for black patients compared with white patients.

One drug for heart failure works very well in black patients but not in white patients.

And 64 percent of black patients in the study group were treated at these high - mortality centers compared to only 41 percent of white patients.

The researchers noted that black patients typically received chemotherapy four days later than white patients.

This harmful legislation wouldn't just keep Black patients from getting care — it would undermine their ability to obtain full reproductive freedom.

Over the past decade, death rates for black patients were approximately 40 % higher than white patients.

In recent years reports have mounted that many drugs work better in white patients than in black patients, and vice versa.

For black patients with this form of unmet nursing care, the odds of readmission were increased by 26 percent.

There has been a substantial reduction in racial differences in survival after in - hospital cardiac arrest, with a greater improvement in survival among black patients compared with white patients, according to a study published by JAMA Cardiology.

The analysis by researchers at UC San Francisco, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley found that discrimination reported by Black patients declined significantly over the six - year study period, reducing the difference between Blacks and Whites from 8.2 percent to 2.5 percent.

Yet we have a medical system that, due to high costs and doctors who treat black patients differently, presents important advances in medical care — like genetic tests — as something optional for African Americans.

Among patients with that diagnosis, there was a significant over-representation of Asian and black patients compared with whites.

The cumulative incidence among black patients undergoing ALND was 18 %, compared with 12.2 % for white patients undergoing that procedure.

The authors also concluded that there was no evidence of a lower likelihood of black patients receiving a cardiac stress test with imaging (odds ratio, 0.91 [95 % CI, 0.69 to 1.21]-RRB- than their white counterparts — although some modest evidence of disparity in Hispanic patients was found (odds ratio, 0.75 [CI, 0.55 to 1.02]-RRB-.

They had inevitably treated other black patients, but this time, perhaps persuaded by Trice downplaying the severity so he could return to Ames with his teammates, they did not provide adequate care.

Black patients represented 13 percent of allopurinol users and 26 percent of hospitalizations, while white patients represented 81 percent of allopurinol users but only 29 percent of hospitalizations.

The study, published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, noted there was no difference in risk of death when black patients received the same treatments, such as chemotherapy and surgery, as non-Hispanic white patients.

This disease disproportionally affects black patients, with higher incidence rates, more advanced stage at diagnosis and decreased survival rates compared to other ethnic groups.

So he designed a study of 1,050 self - identified black patients and found in 2004 that the medication decreased their death rates by 43 percent.

«In general, older black patients were more often in hospitals where necessary care was omitted, and less often in the hospitals where care was rarely missed,» says Dr. Brooks - Carthon.

Also, because black patients and white patients tended to see different oncologists, the researchers also tried to figure out whether differences in the doctors» age, training, or attitude toward genetic testing were important.

The researchers looked at several factors that might explain this racial difference, such as whether there were differences in tumor characteristics between black patients and white patients, or differences in a family history of breast cancer — both factors that a doctor must consider before deciding whether a genetic test will likely benefit a particular patient.

As St. Ange discovered during her online search, 52 % of non-Hispanic black patients and 26 % of Hispanic patients receive an initial diagnosis of advanced stage melanoma, versus 16 % of non-Hispanic white patients, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.

If they were prevented from accessing Planned Parenthood, many Black patients would have no other place to go for the services Planned Parenthood provides.

Numerous studies have documented poorer health care and outcomes for black patients in the U.S., but few have asked why or compared racial bias across nations.

Consistent with previous studies, the 30 - day readmission rate was higher in black patients: 23.5 percent, compared to 18.8 percent in white patients.

In the 1980s she investigated why kidney transplants were being rejected at higher rates by black patients.

Mental health charity MIND said the results confirmed its concerns about the treatment of black patients, and highlighted in particular the finding that black men were 29 per cent more likely to be subject to control and restraint.

Risk - adjusted survival improved over time in black (11.3 percent in 2000 and 21.4 percent in 2014) and white patients (15.8 percent in 2000 and 23.2 percent in 2014, with greater survival improvement among black patients.

«Gene variant explains racial disparities in adverse reactions to urate - lowering drug: Findings support screening for risk - associated variant in Asian, black patients with gout.»

In fact, black patients were nearly three times more likely than white patients to develop 12 of the 13 complications identified by researchers.

But it is equally possible that black patients were more ill at the time of hospital admissions due to delays in seeking care or impaired access to care, and thus required more intensive therapy, she said.

«Since no other urate - lowering drug is an established cause for these severe adverse reactions, our findings support the use of vigilance when considering allopurinol for Asian and black patients with gout,» says Choi, who is a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

«We found that Asian and black patients have a substantially higher risk of severe cutaneous adverse reactions to urate - lowering drugs than do white or Hispanic patients, which correlates with the frequency of the HLA - B * 5801 gene in their U.S. populations,» says Hyon K. Choi, MD, DrPH, of the MGH Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, senior author of the report that has been published online in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

The analysis compared patient consultation rates with cancer specialists as well as treatment with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy for white and black patients.

The study concluded that black patients were 10 percent less likely to have primary tumor surgery, 17 percent less likely to receive chemotherapy and 30 percent less likely to receive radiotherapy.

The study analyzed blood samples for suPAR levels, screened for APOL1 gene mutations and measured kidney function from two separate cohorts of black patients — 487 people from the Emory Cardiovascular Biobank, 15 percent of whom had a high - risk APOL1 genotype; and 607 from the multi-center African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension, including 24 percent with the high - risk mutation.

But Jay Cohn, the University of Minnesota cardiologist who developed the drug, had observed that BiDil appeared to be more effective for black patients.

But the others caused less dilation in the black patients» veins than in the whites».

«Black patients have higher rates of not receiving treatment,» said lead author Dr. Adam Olszewski, associate professor of medicine in the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a physician in the Cancer Center of Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket, R.I. «Hodgkin lymphoma is generally believed to be highly curable.

Compared with hospitals with fewer black patients, hospitals with a higher proportion of black patients with in - hospital cardiac arrest achieved larger survival gains over time.

One possible explanation for the racial disparities, say the authors, is that black patients may be more likely than white patients to be treated at hospitals with fewer resources.