Study: Black, white patients treated differently

According to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, doctors treat black diabetes patients differently than they do white diabetes patients. Researchers looked at electronic medical records from 4,556 white diabetes patients and 2,258 black diabetes patients and found that black patients are less likely to achieve long-term control of their blood glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure levels than their white counterparts. This was true even if the same physician was overseeing the patients' treatment.

(Medical News Today) UPDATED 06/10/2008
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