racial disparity

WebMD reports on the American Heart Association's new statement on racial disparity in stroke prevalence and stroke care.

New research on racial disparity in stroke statistics between African-Americans and whites in the U.S.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) HIV prevalence among African-Americans is 10 times greater than the prevalence among whites.

This racial disparity in HIV prevalence has persisted in the face of both governmental and private actions, involving many billions of dollars.

In the November 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill examine factors responsible for the stark racial disparities in HIV infection in the US and the now concentrated epidemic among African-Americans.

DURHAM, N.C. (MedPage Today) -- The objective scoring system adopted in 2002 for allocating livers for transplantation has put women at a disadvantage, even as it appears to have eliminated an earlier racial disparity, researchers here said.

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.