A cardiologist says embracing diversity will catalyze medical research
The Future of Everything
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Is There a Difference Between African American and European Hearts?
It's a debatable issue, because researchers like myself have done studies to see whether if you put a heart from an african american into an africana is there a difference in outcomes? And the studies are very mixed. Some say that there is less likelihood of rejection if the donor and recipient are race concordant. But we don't know any of that. That was the beauty of ythe second part of my work at n i h, where i developed a cohort of 500 patients. Forty % of whom are af African American. We are really hopeful that we will be able to get a deep understanding of why it is that afAfrican Americans are more likely to reject their
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