Gender Disparity
Study finds racial, gender disparities in access to outpatient TKR for Medicare patients
Results showed older, Black and female patients have been less likely to undergo outpatient total knee replacement after the removal of TKR from the Medicare inpatient-only list in 2018.
Women with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome have worse airway structure than men
WASHINGTON — Three months after a COVID-19 infection, women with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome had worse airway measurements on CT scans than men, according to an abstract presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.
Scientific statement calls for more diversity in pediatric endocrine, gender care research
Health care professionals must collect more detailed and accurate demographic data and identify factors contributing to health disparities in pediatric endocrinology and gender care, according to a scientific statement.
In STEMI, women less likely than men to receive PCI, survive to 1 year in India
Among patients with STEMI in India, women were less likely to receive PCI and more likely to die at 1 year than men, researchers reported in JACC: Asia.
Fewer senior authors of non-COVID-19 research accepted by journals are women
Acceptance rates of research unrelated to COVID-19 during the pandemic differed between men and women senior authors, according to study results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
OSA traits, severity differ according to common demographic factors
The prevalence of three pathophysiological traits used to identify patients with sleep apnea differs according to BMI, sex, age and race/ethnicity, according to study results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
VIDEO: Achieving health equity in cardiovascular care will ‘take all of us as a community’
In this Healio video exclusive, Healio | Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Paul L. Douglass, MD, MACC, FSCAI, highlights his takeaways from the 2023 American College of Cardiology Health Equity Summit.
Women, Medicaid users less likely to receive ECMO treatment
Low chances for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation treatment were found in women, those with Medicaid insurance and those residing in low-income areas, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
Rehospitalization more common for young women vs. men after heart attack
Young women who survive an acute MI are more likely to be readmitted during the year after discharge compared with similarly aged men, researchers reported.
ACP keynote speaker on advocacy: 'This is the way'
SAN DIEGO — “Advocacy is just needed to persist in life,” Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP, MACP, said in her keynote address at the 2023 ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.