Clinical Conversations

September 27th, 2021

Podcast 279: Age-specific data do better than age-adjusted data in revealing health inequities

Kiarri Kershaw has written a simple letter in JACC — the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The letter conveys a strong message: health inequities don’t act uniformly across one’s lifetime. Her examination of Black versus white mortality from all causes and from cardiovascular causes with the use of age-specific data shows places in […]

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April 18th, 2021

Podcast 276: Pay attention to the structural barriers that contribute to clinical inequity — Karol Watson

In this, our second conversation on race and clinical equity, Dr. Karol Watson of UCLA offers her observations on what she’s observed as a cardiologist trying to deal with treatment plans for patients who’ve lost their health insurance or have had to go to a plan that doesn’t cover what’s needed. She reminds us that tagging […]

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