After Heart Failure Blacks are 45 percent more likely to re-enter the hospital in a month

The socioeconomic revolving door of 30-day heart failure readmissions

• “In a retrospective cohort study, Blacks had a 45% higher risk of 30-day readmission than Whites (P < .001) independent of cardiovascular risk factors, clinical history, comorbidities, type and location of hospital, and type of third-party payer coverage. The analysis included more than 30,000 patients with at least one HF hospitalization at centers in a major metropolitan health system.”

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Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D contains the following summary

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Blacks die more often than whites of many diseases (they have less vitamin D) – 2012 contains: summary

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