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Little Improvement Seen Over Two Decades in US Racial Health Disparities

March 15, 2021 Black adults continue to have significantly higher rates of death due to diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke compared with white adults, and these disparities are magnified in rural areas of the United States, a contemporary analysis shows. Death related to hypertension and diabetes were found to be two to three times higher among Black adults compared with white adults in rural parts of the US, senior author Rishi Wadhera, MD (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA), told TCTMD. “What s really concerning is our finding that those striking racial disparities have not meaningfully improved over the last two decades,” he added.

The Hope Dealers: How Clinicians and New Tech Could End Unnecessary PAD Amputations

December 24, 2020 From the heart of the Mississippi Delta, where rates of diabetes and major amputations are among the highest in the nation, to laboratories where researchers ply cutting-edge technologies aimed at minimizing and repairing tissue loss, an unexpected tone has entered the conversation around limb disease: hope. “They call me a hope dealer,” said Foluso A. Fakorede, MD (Cardiovascular Solutions of Central Mississippi, Cleveland). Born in Nigeria and educated in New Jersey, he felt drawn to work in the Delta by the disproportionately high rates of unnecessary amputations among the community of largely poor people of color. As a Black cardiologist, he also felt an urgency to step up and use his knowledge and connections within the medical community to be perhaps the only health advocate some of his patients had ever encountered.

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