Health Disparity

In a Healio video exclusive, Mark B. Pochapin, MD, winner of the 2022 Healio Lifetime Disruptor Award, shares his perspective about advances in gastroenterology over the past few decades and how the field will progress in years to come.

Insurance status substantially mediated racial and ethnic inequities among women with advanced-stage cervical cancer, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Dietary choices during Ramadan may moderate the associations between intermittent fasting during pregnancy and newborn health, according to study results published in PLOS ONE.

Lower socioeconomic status was associated with increased risk for cardiogenic shock, decreased likelihood of transfer to cardiac catheterization and increased odds of 30-day all-cause death, researchers reported.

A cohort study published in JAMA Oncology found substantial state variations in racial and ethnic disparities in triple-negative breast cancer incidence, with Black women in four states having the highest rates.

About half of all adults with obesity have controlled or uncontrolled hypertension and a significantly higher mortality rate compared with normotensive counterparts, researchers reported in Obesity.

Just in time for National Kidney Month, the American Kidney Fund has launched a new website to improve health equity especially among patients from underrepresented groups, according to the press release.

People from low socioeconomic status areas who also had low levels of physical activity had worse health outcomes than those with low levels of physical activity from more affluent areas, according to researchers.

Before the emergence of the heart team in transcatheter aortic valve repair, the collaboration of an interventionalist and cardiac surgeon for the treatment of a single patient with CVD was a decidedly less common occurrence in cardiology.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Transparency and collaboration are key in helping kidney specialists improve processes for selection of patients for transplantation, according to a presenter at the Cutting Edge of Transplantation Summit.