Health Disparity

Rates of optimal CV health as determined by the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 among gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals vary by sex and sexual identity, researchers reported.

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and end-stage kidney disease are less likely to be evaluated to kidney transplantation compared to peers without disabilities, according to data published in JAMA Surgery.

The incidence of pancreatic cancer increased at a faster rate over time among women aged younger than 55 years compared with their male counterparts, according to research published in Gastroenterology.

Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, men were more likely than women to have CV complications, but the difference was not explained by lower rates of past CVD in women, researchers reported in BMJ Medicine.

The belief among some physicians that patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups will have poorer health outcomes because of cultural attitudes or genetics inadvertently reinforces the disparities, according to researchers.

Social and economic determinants of health contribute to higher burden of HPV and HIV as well as lower likelihood of cancer screening among transgender and gender-diverse people, according to a review published in JAMA Oncology.

Adults on dialysis for end-stage kidney disease are 100 times more likely to have a Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection than those not on dialysis, according to a new report, which uncovered disparities in the rates of infection.

World Cancer Day is observed annually on Feb. 4.

In these videos, Preeya K. Gupta, MD, FACS, associate professor of ophthalmology at Duke University, talks about the various treatment options for dry eye, both approved and in the pipeline, as well as challenges in diagnosis.

Healio spoke with Rishi P. Singh, MD, about the impact of health care access on diabetic macular edema care.