Health Disparity

In 2020, CMS made a policy change to increase access to left ventricular assist devices. It could have unintended consequences in increasing disparities in who receives a heart transplant, according to a research team.

All-cause maternal mortality rates increased nearly 30% in the United States from 2019 to 2020, with racial and ethnic disparities evident across the board, according to the results of a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

An ED screening program identified patients with undiagnosed prediabetes and type 2 diabetes or undermanaged disease, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities and patients with low income, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

The ECHO-Chicago program — the first urban-centered ECHO program — improved self-efficacy across multiple clinical topics, ranging from behavioral health to hypertension, according to researchers.

NEW ORLEANS — Since war started in Ukraine, tertiary care centers focused on treating cancers saw a 56% decline in patients with lymphoma, a presenter said.

Approximately 27% of women in the workplace experience difficulties at work caused by symptomatic menopause, according to a cross-sectional analysis of the Health and Employment After Fifty study.

KOLOA, Hawaii — Socioeconomic factors have led to disparities in access to retinopathy of prematurity care, according to a speaker at Retina 2023.

Men and women admitted to the ICU with diagnoses uncommon for their sex faced poorer outcomes, according to study results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Obesity, cancer and health equity are all interrelated, according to experts, and more must be done to address the obesity epidemic and, by extension, cancer and health inequities.

Among California patients with cervical cancer, women aged 65 years and older had a greater disease burden compared with younger women, researchers reported.