Sentences with phrase «ethnic populations get»

Researchers and clinicians have known for many years that different racial and ethnic populations get diseases at different rates, respond differently to medications, and show very different results on standard clinical tests: «For a whole range of medical tests, whether your physician is told that your lab result is normal or abnormal depends entirely on the race / ethnicity box that you tick on an intake form,» Zaitlen said.

Not exact matches

In the US, I think that about 25 % of the population consists of racial minorities and if you include ethnic minorities you get something closer to 50 %.

However, the authors said that donor countries should ensure that vulnerable populations in middle - income countries, such as ethnic minorities who suffer discrimination, refugees and people who inject drugs, continue to get support, since it may be difficult for many countries to withstand the political pressures against helping stigmatized groups.

If you are Ashkenazi Jewish, your threshold for getting genetic counseling and testing should be much lower, Freivogel said, because BRCA defects are 10 times more common in that ethnic group than in the general population.