{"id":6930,"date":"2023-06-28T07:32:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T14:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2023-06-28T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T14:33:00","slug":"race-neutral-testing-could-have-given-access-to-life-saving-lung-transplants-for-more-black-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/06\/28\/race-neutral-testing-could-have-given-access-to-life-saving-lung-transplants-for-more-black-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Race-neutral testing could have given access to life-saving lung transplants for more black patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6930\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Peer-Reviewed Publication<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 21, 2023 \u2013 NEW YORK, NY\u2014 Race-neutral lung function interpretation could increase access to lung transplants for Black patients with respiratory disease, according to new research published in the&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atsjournals.org\/journal\/annalsats\">Annals of the American Thoracic Society<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;online ahead of print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoracic.org\/about\/newsroom\/press-releases\/resources\/race-neutral-testing-and-lung-transplants-final.pdf\">\u201cRace-Specific Interpretation of Spirometry: Impact on the Lung Allocation Score,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0lead researcher J. Henry Brems, MD, MBE of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and colleagues investigated how race-specific versus race-neutral equations alter the lung allocation score (LAS) and the priority for lung transplant across races. The lung allocation score determines which patients get priority on the lung transplant listing.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/993164\">Read the full article<\/a> from the American Thoracic Society.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6930\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Peer-Reviewed Publication June 21, 2023 \u2013 NEW YORK, NY\u2014 Race-neutral lung function interpretation could increase access to lung transplants for Black patients with respiratory disease, according to new research &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/06\/28\/race-neutral-testing-could-have-given-access-to-life-saving-lung-transplants-for-more-black-patients\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Race-neutral testing could have given access to life-saving lung transplants for more black patients&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,368,8],"tags":[2079,2080,2078],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1203","post_likes_plusCounter":"1","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6931,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions\/6931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}