Acute respiratory disease poses significantly greater risk for black Americans

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 10:35 in Health & Medicine

Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to develop acute lung injury, or ALI, as white Americans, according to researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. The study also revealed that black patients did not have a higher risk of in-hospital death when compared to white patients...

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