STAT March 25, 2024
When a patient is going through end-stage heart failure, the best treatment is to get a heart transplant. The basic steps are familiar: First a patient gets on the waiting list, and then the wait begins for the offers. In recent years, access to donor hearts has gone up thanks to a change in heart allocation policy, but there are still gender- and race-based disparities in the acceptance rate of a donor heart offer by transplant teams, according to new research published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. While both white and Black women were more likely to have an offered heart accepted by their transplant team, Black men had the longest wait for a transplant, as...
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