Sentences with phrase «in black patients»

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

Mucosal melanomas account for 5 % to 13 % of melanomas in black patients, 23 % of melanomas in Chinese patients, and only 1 % to 2 % of melanomas in white patients.

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

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

Not exact matches

Often, that translates to employees on the front lines stealing patient medical data or client social security numbers, which can then be sold on the black market or used to commit fraud like collecting someone else's social security benefits, opening new credit card accounts in another's name, or applying for health insurance by assuming the identity of someone else.

Simultaneously there arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black - haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit all day on one of the benches, or rather shelves against the wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undershirt, which was his only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure.

This journey has taken me to minister in vacation Bible schools in Appalachia, to black migrant camps in South Carolina and to patients suffering in mental hospitals.

To boost a pregnant woman's nutritional status, Harris and other experts recommend their patients limit eating processed gluten - free substitutes and instead choose foods that are naturally gluten - free — vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, beans, poultry, fish (varieties that are high in omega 3 and low in mercury, such as wild salmon and trout) and whole grains, such as quinoa, teff, buckwheat and brown and black rice.

Using their triage system, they began to place tags near patients, using green and yellow markers for those likely to survive the crash, red tags for those in critical condition and black ones for the deceased.

Researchers used stem cells to create retinal pigment epithelium cells, which were transplanted into a patient's retina (left) in an area depicted by the black circle.

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

To conduct this work, Drs. Carmen Black and Brian Miller at Georgia Regents University collected and pooled data from 18 published studies, resulting in a combined total of 583 psychiatric patients with suicidality, 315 psychiatric patients without suicidality and 845 healthy control subjects.

Researchers found that patients were less likely to undergo surgery if they were older than 50 years, black, unmarried or located in regions outside the East, among other factors.

Using data from the Pediatric Health Information System database, a large, regionally diverse system, the researchers examined racial disparities in the treatment and outcomes of hospitalized white and black pediatric patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease.

«One in 5 patients report discrimination in health care: Blacks most likely to name race; whites and Hispanics age, weight or income.»

«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.»

Meanwhile, his research teams are moving several other novel therapies toward clinical trials, each of which has potential for use in the synergistic model of cancer treatment that Black believes will offer the best hope for his patients.

«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.

«And yet more than six of every 10 black trauma patients are served each year in high - mortality hospitals, which increases their risk of death.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a «Black Box» warning about the use of sirolimus in lung transplant patients, at least when started at the time of transplantation.

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.

«Other studies have looked at racial disparities in treatment and still others have focused on racial differences in survival rates of cancer patients, but our research attempted to go further by demonstrating the impact of race - based inequalities in cancer treatment on survival rates of black colorectal cancer patients,» said James D. Murphy, MD, MS, assistant professor and chief of the Radiation Oncology Gastrointestinal Tumor Service at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

The answers, I learned, lay in the grinding poverty and entrenched corruption of India, the desperation of patients on dialysis, and the transnational nature of the black market transplant business — which, though dominated by the kidney exchange, includes livers and hearts as well.

To become ill, the patients (black) in the above group had to inherit a gene variant from both parents.

Black said the researchers will aim to replicate these findings in additional patients and determine if and how the brain regions they identified may contribute to Tourette's syndrome, with a goal of developing more effective therapies.

«Although we do not know the reasons for the racial and ethnic differences we saw, one explanation could be that the black and Hispanic patients had surgery when they are much heavier and sicker than the non-Hispanic white patients,» said study lead author, Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of the Kaiser Permanente Department of Research & Evaluation in Pasadena, Calif. «Our study highlights that surgery may be an important intervention tool for people earlier in their weight gain trajectory.

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.

The research explored how patients, who identified as Black or African American, perceived their interactions with law enforcement at a trauma center in Philadelphia.

Appropriate patients with early stage breast cancer should not opt for less than this standard in care if properly educated,» Black continues.

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 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-.

A reduction in survival differences between black and white patients was attributable to elimination of racial differences in acute resuscitation survival (black individuals: 44.7 percent in 2000 and 64.1 percent in 2014; white individuals: 47.1 percent in 2000 and 64 percent in 2014).

They found the absolute 5 - year survival difference between black and white CRC patients in the entire cohort was 9.2 % (57.3 % vs 66.5 %).

Mayo Clinic researchers conducted a statistical analysis to determine the degree of divergence in differentially expressed RNAs in patients with c9ALS (black) with those in patients with sALS (purple) or healthy individuals (green, controls).

Results published in Arthritis & Rheumatology, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), show that black and Hispanic SLE patients were more likely to be readmitted than white patients.

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.

The patient base in this study was ethnically diverse; the group of patients analyzed were 68 percent white, 15 percent black, 12 percent Hispanic, and 4 percent Asian / Pacific Islander.

The researchers analyzed data on more than 69,000 black and white patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) treated at 253 hospitals in three states during 2006 - 07.

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.

The study looked at differences in the characteristics of hospitals where black versus white patients were treated, including whether nursing care needs were unmet «rarely, sometimes, or frequently.»

While all of these factors seemed to play some role in the rates of genetic testing among black and white patients, the most important factor, by far, turned out to be something more disturbing: the doctors» behavior.

Stratified reports could also raise awareness of racial disparities in care, provide a framework for feedback and accountability of health plans and clinicians, and ideally promote effective efforts to improve care for patients who experience worse outcomes, particularly black Americans with diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease.

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.

According to a study published last year — which looked at genetic testing among 3,000 breast cancer patients in Pennsylvania and Florida — black patients were less than half as likely as white patients to undergo genetic testing.

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.

Patients with Stargardt disease often develop symptoms including difficulty reading, black spots in their central vision, or changes in color perception between the ages of 10 and 40.

Montgomery SR, Hoffman, RL, Aarons, CB, Butler PD, Kelz, RR: Racial disparities in surgical outcomes of patients with inflammatory bowel disease Society for Black Academic Surgeons, Chicago, IL: 2017.

Black arrows show the brain region responsible for producing seizures in a patient involved in a new study showing that loss of the protein CLOCK may be a key factor in severe forms of focal epilepsy.

Testing for the human leukocyte antigen HLA - B * 5801 allele before initiating allopurinol was found to be cost effective for black and Asian patients but not for white or Hispanic patients, according to results of a cost - effectiveness analysis published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

In the new Kaiser Permanente study, people who were Asian, Black, and Hispanic were 30 % less likely to start depression treatment after a diagnosis than non-Hispanic white patients.