Health Equity

Healio spoke with Peter J. Mazzone, MD, MPH, director of the Lung Cancer Program and Lung Cancer Screening Program at the Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Respiratory Institute, about how the 2021 changes to the USPSTF lung cancer screening guidelines have affected the number of patients being screened, improvements in patient outcomes and how specialists should continue to prepare for the effects of the updated guidelines.

For the first time in 2 years, the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings will take place live, organizers report. Tara I. Chang, MD, MS, said attendees are looking forward to the change.

The American Kidney Fund awarded clinical scientist in nephrology fellowships to two researchers studying disparities in kidney transplants and genetic variants in nephrotic syndrome, according to a press release.

Social determinants of health, including food insecurity, are prevalent among adults with self-reported rheumatoid arthritis, according to a study published in BMC Rheumatology.

Today is World Kidney Day, and the National Kidney Foundation is emphasizing its effort with the Coalition for Kidney Health to nominate targeted screening or case finding for chronic kidney disease based on risk conditions, like diabetes.

Medical device company Medtronic and the ASGE have collaborated to create the Medtronic Health Equity Assistance Program, which aims to improve access to colorectal cancer screening technologies in underserved U.S. communities.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement among Medicare beneficiaries grew rapidly from 2014 to 2018 with an expansion in TAVR operators, but more than one-third of operators are performing fewer than 10 procedures per year, data show.

Black women who reported having a negative net worth were 2.5 times more likely to have sustained hypertension compared with Black women reporting positive net worth, independent of education level and income, researchers reported.

Higher levels of education were associated with achieving more metrics of ideal CV health in white Americans, but not in Americans of other races and ethnicities, researchers reported.

Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, the Mary and Gordon Cain Chair and Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, spoke with Healio about exciting sessions from the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.