Black Men Less Likely to Choose Elective Stomach Aorta Surgery

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"What seems clear is that the racial disparity in abdominal aortic aneurysm repair rate is not simply because of differences in disease prevalence," the authors concluded. "The fact that black men seem to need more urgent abdominal aortic aneurysm repairs than white men given their disease prevalence suggests that the racial disparity in the use of elective repair merits further investigation."

The study was published in the May issue of the Archives of Surgery.

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