Medical Xpress July 29, 2025
Precision medicine promises to tailor health care to the individual. But what happens when entire communities are left out of the data that drives that tailoring?
When I embarked on cardiovascular epidemiology research, I never expected that my findings would cross the border of precision medicine. Let alone did I expect a rare heart mutation to show up so clearly in the community I belong to: Hispanic/Latinos of Dominican background.
What came initially as a shock quickly became an anchor for my commitment to advancing precision medicine in communities like my own, where risk is real, but recognition has been absent.
As a Latina physician scientist in training, I’ve spent the past couple of years studying the intersection of cardiovascular...
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