Ethnic disparities in cardiac transplantation: opportunities to improve long-term outcomes in all cardiac transplant recipients

Ethnic disparities in cardiovascular outcomes have been increasingly recognized in the medical literature. In a recent paper in this journal, Peled et al. provide evidence that Arab Israelis may have worse outcome after cardiac transplant than their Jewish counterparts. This commentary explores poss...

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Autores principales: Kobulnik, Jeremy, Moayedi, Yasbanoo, Greig, Douglas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6558695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31186060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-019-0320-x
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description Ethnic disparities in cardiovascular outcomes have been increasingly recognized in the medical literature. In a recent paper in this journal, Peled et al. provide evidence that Arab Israelis may have worse outcome after cardiac transplant than their Jewish counterparts. This commentary explores possible explanations for the differing outcomes and suggests potential solutions that may improve outcomes for cardiac transplant recipients regardless of ethnicity.
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spelling pubmed-65586952019-06-13 Ethnic disparities in cardiac transplantation: opportunities to improve long-term outcomes in all cardiac transplant recipients Kobulnik, Jeremy Moayedi, Yasbanoo Greig, Douglas Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary Ethnic disparities in cardiovascular outcomes have been increasingly recognized in the medical literature. In a recent paper in this journal, Peled et al. provide evidence that Arab Israelis may have worse outcome after cardiac transplant than their Jewish counterparts. This commentary explores possible explanations for the differing outcomes and suggests potential solutions that may improve outcomes for cardiac transplant recipients regardless of ethnicity. BioMed Central 2019-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6558695/ /pubmed/31186060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-019-0320-x Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Ethnic disparities in cardiac transplantation: opportunities to improve long-term outcomes in all cardiac transplant recipients
title Ethnic disparities in cardiac transplantation: opportunities to improve long-term outcomes in all cardiac transplant recipients
title_full Ethnic disparities in cardiac transplantation: opportunities to improve long-term outcomes in all cardiac transplant recipients
title_fullStr Ethnic disparities in cardiac transplantation: opportunities to improve long-term outcomes in all cardiac transplant recipients
title_full_unstemmed Ethnic disparities in cardiac transplantation: opportunities to improve long-term outcomes in all cardiac transplant recipients
title_short Ethnic disparities in cardiac transplantation: opportunities to improve long-term outcomes in all cardiac transplant recipients
title_sort ethnic disparities in cardiac transplantation: opportunities to improve long-term outcomes in all cardiac transplant recipients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6558695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31186060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-019-0320-x
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