Sentences with phrase «non-hispanic black 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.
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Patients selected represented the three largest groups with SCI: non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and Hispanic.
«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.
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.