706110login-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.
706110login-checkBlack, Hispanic Liver Disease Patients Face Transplant Disparities, Study Says |