Black-White Racial Disparity Found in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm ...

Courtesy MedPage Today Surgery  Fri, 05/23/2008 - 12:20

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. -- African Americans who have an abdominal aortic aneurysm are less likely than Caucasians with the condition to have an elective repair, researchers here found.


 

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