Health Equity

NEW ORLEANS — Incorporating artificial intelligence into diabetic eye disease testing may increase health equity by giving more patients who are at risk for poor visual outcomes access to screening, according to a poster here.

NEW ORLEANS — Racial and ethnic minorities are diagnosed with glaucoma at earlier ages, according to a poster presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

Healio spoke with Ahmed Elkhanany, MD, about racial disparities in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

Editor’s Note: Healio/Nephrology News & Issues interviewed Michele Heigle Kimball, the new executive director of the American Nephrology Nurses Association, and Cindi Calabrese, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, RN-BC, the director of education services for ANNA, about the organization’s upcoming national symposium, taking place May 7-10 in Palm Springs, California.

At the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinicals Meeting, Tanjala S. Purnell, PhD, MPH, FASN, will be presented with the Excellence in Transplantation Award to recognize her research in kidney transplantation.

SEATTLE — April is National Minority Health Month. In this video from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference, Jasmine R. Marcelin, MD, discusses the concept of “pharmaco-equity.”

Although Black individuals with chronic hepatitis B were less likely to meet treatment criteria, researchers reported no significant differences in treatment initiation between racial groups, according to data in JAMA Network Open.

Higher BMI, waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio correlated with an increased risk for diverticulitis among Hispanic and Latino American individuals, according to study results published in JAMA Surgery.

Many barriers to care persist among South Asian patients with inflammatory bowel disease; to combat the unique challenges of this population, South Asian IBD Alliance seeks to increase preventive research and access to care.

Disparities persist between men and women in physician-industry relationships, research funding and leadership positions, according to a speaker.