Tag: Race

Black patients face higher mortality with melanoma independent of insurance status and severity at diagnosis

Vitiligo most commonly diagnosed in older adults and in Hispanic/Latino and Asian American patients

For some race-ethnicity-gender groups, disparities not explained by differences in medical appropriateness of tx, structural factors

Neighborhood socioeconomic status was strongest mediator, with insurance ranking second

Relationship between redlining and heart failure risk strongest in most socioeconomically disadvantaged communities

Reduced decision-to-incision time seen for Black non-Hispanic and Hispanic patients

Black patients face higher disease severity at time of diagnosis and more adverse limb events and cardiovascular events following diagnosis

One-third reported having no comorbidities despite cardiometabolic markers classifying half to 80 percent

However, all Latino subgroups overrepresented in health care occupations requiring less than a bachelor's degree

High frequency of discrimination, microaggressions in health care settings reported by seriously ill Black patients