Black, Hispanic Liver Disease Patients Face Transplant Disparities, Study Says

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70610login-checkBlack, Hispanic Liver Disease Patients Face Transplant Disparities, Study Says

By Matthew Griffin

(Bloomberg) — Black and Hispanic patients with a serious liver-scarring condition are less likely to receive transplants than their White peers in the US, according to researchers arguing for greater equity in providing the life-saving procedure.

Even after improvements from 2009 to 2018, Black people hospitalized for the liver ailment, cirrhosis, were only about two-thirds as likely to get transplants as White patients, according to the analysis of a national database of hospital stays. Read more in BNN Bloomberg.

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