{"id":7061,"date":"2023-07-24T08:19:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=7061"},"modified":"2023-07-24T08:19:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:19:47","slug":"black-hispanic-liver-disease-patients-face-transplant-disparities-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/07\/24\/black-hispanic-liver-disease-patients-face-transplant-disparities-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Black, Hispanic Liver Disease Patients Face Transplant Disparities, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7061\" 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>By Matthew Griffin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/black-hispanic-liver-disease-patients-face-transplant-disparities-study-says-1.1948424\">Read more in BNN Bloomberg.<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7061\" 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 By Matthew Griffin (Bloomberg) &#8212; 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