Sentences with phrase «non-hispanic 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 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.

«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.

Overall, most Asian subgroups were less likely to die from cancer than non-Hispanic white patients.

This difference in treatment explains a large part of the 15 percent higher mortality experienced by African - American patients than non-Hispanic white patients.

A new study from Quoc - Dien Trinh, MD and colleagues at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) examined cancer patients in eight different Asian American subgroups and found their cancer - specific mortality (CSM) was substantially lower than that of non-Hispanic white patients.

Non-Hispanic white patients were significantly more likely (77.8 percent) than other racial - ethnic groups to receive medication

Not exact matches

Previous studies in the area had sample sizes of 50 to 200 patients, most of whom were non-Hispanic white.

These rare variants were found through the sequencing of DNA from blood samples of 191 non-Hispanic white, 197 African - American and 73 Puerto Rican asthma patients.