Sentences with phrase «many black patients»

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.

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

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.

«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.»

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

«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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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-.

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.

Readmission rates were 83.5 per thousand for black patients, 78.9 for Hispanic patients and 53.3 for white patients.

Black patients remained significantly more likely than white patients to be readmitted following surgery, after controlling for comorbidities.

When controlling for comorbidities and type of insurance coverage, the readmission rate for Hispanic patients dropped 44 percent, and for black patients, 38 percent.

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 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.

Among those undergoing SLN biopsy, the rates were 8.8 % for black patients and 6.8 % for white patients.

Over the full study period, 62 % of black patients and 74 % of white patients underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy (P <.001).

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

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.

CRISPR could end sickle cell disease, but signing up black patients for clinical trials will be a hard sell

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

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.

In this regard, Roberts indicates that «In 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first race - specific drug, a heart failure therapy that was targeted to black patients for marketing reasons.»

Overall, black patients waited twice as long as white patients to begin treatment after breast cancer diagnosis.

Earlier results had also found that diuretics were as good or better than other blood pressure - lowering drugs for treating hypertension in patients with metabolic syndrome (a collection of factors that put people at risk of heart disease), especially black patients.

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

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

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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.

Black Medicare patients are being readmitted to hospitals at a much higher rate than white patients, according to a recent study.

They include — and you should skip to the next paragraph if descriptions of medical injuries will nauseate you — a swollen bloody thumb, recently reconstructed after a fireworks injury; a 17 year - old's foot charred black by an electrical burn; and a worm pulled from a patient's anus.

Then there's Proteus Digital Health's ingestible sensor, which — with a technology worthy of an episode of Black Mirror — helps patients (and, if they want, their doctors and family members) keep tabs on whether or not they're taking their meds.

«Patients aren't the only ones whose lives will be improved by precision medicine,» writes Black.

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.

The patient's hard, black tongue is scarified and treated with a mixture of chile powder, natron, and soot.

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.

This cash should be used for caring for patients - instead it is pouring into the black hole of the government's supercomputer.»

Watershed poll reveals two - thirds of patients say they would PAY to see an NHS doctor to help plug # 30 billion black hole 15 November 2015

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.

«Using a black light allows us to assess the extent of the disease and counsel patients on sun protection measures and treatment options.»