638920login-checkDiagnosis, Death in Pulmonary Fibrosis Seen Earlier in Black Patients |
— Disparities in age pervasive, say researchers
Black patients with pulmonary fibrosis (PF) consistently experienced poor outcomes associated with their disease at earlier ages than other groups, including hospitalization and death, according to U.S. registry data spanning nearly two decades.
In an analysis from the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Registry (PFFR) from 2003 to 2021, a PF diagnosis in Black individuals occurred about 10 years earlier, on average, before their white and Hispanic counterparts (P<0.001), reported Ayodeji Adegunsoye, MD, MS, of the University of Chicago Department of Medicine, and colleagues.
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