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Death Rates Higher for Minority Children Awaiting Heart Transplant
Date:11/12/2008

d Medical School and a pediatric cardiologist with the Heart Failure and Transplant Service at Children's Hospital Boston, said in a heart association news release.

"It is possible non-white children deteriorated more rapidly after (transplant) listing or that those non-white parents preferred not to go to advanced therapies. The data raises these questions without providing answers," said Singh, who added that further studies are needed to determine the reasons why minority children are more likely to die while waiting for a heart transplant. Until there are clear answers, doctors taking care of children with heart failure need to be aware of these disparities, the study authors said.

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The American Heart Association has more about heart transplants in infants and children.



-- Robert Preidt



SOURCE: American Heart Association, news release, Nov. 11, 2008


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