Racial disparity remains in heart-transplant mortality rates - Office of Communications & Public Affairs - Stanford University School of Medicine: "African-American heart transplant patients have had persistently higher mortality rates than white patients, but exactly why still remains a mystery.
In a School of Medicine study published in Circulation on April 19, researchers reported that while improvements in mortality rates in heart transplant patients have been made by all racial groups over the past decade, an unexplained gap still exists between white and African-American patients."
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