Maria Fabrizio for STAT
Weeks after it was scrubbed from the Journal of the American Medical Association’s website, a disastrous podcast whose host, a white editor and physician, questioned whether racism even exists in medicine is surfacing complaints that JAMA and other elite medical journals have routinely excluded, minimized, and mishandled issues of race.
Recent examples include research blaming higher death rates from Covid-19 in African Americans on a single gene in their nasal passages; a letter claiming structural racism doesn’t play a role in pulse oximeters working less well on patients with dark skin because machines can’t exhibit bias; and an article claiming that students of programs designed to increase diversity in medicine won’t make good doctors.
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Efforts to raise awareness of heart disease and promote âHealthy Heartâ lifestyles are essential.
Heart disease is the number one global public health problem. Indian Americans and South Asians are at a four-times greater risk of heart disease than their western counterparts and have a greater chance of having a heart attack before 50 years of age.
Heart attacks strike South Asian men and women at younger ages, and as a result, both morbidity and mortality are higher among them compared to any other ethnic group. They tend to develop heart disease ten years earlier than other groups.
Almost one in three in this group may die from heart disease before 65 years of age. In India, heart disease remains the number one cause of death. Common risk factors are smoking and a diet high in sugar, salt, refined grains, and fat.