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Affirmative action in Medicine : A forbidden debate?

Dr. Anish Koka

The article asserted that the medical profession had not been successful in its overarching goal of increasing the percentages of underrepresented races and ethnicities in the medical profession, and particularly in cardiology. The article went through the usual academic peer review process and was published online on March 24, 2020.,

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Feature | Ten Americas: Growing Disparities Creating Demographic Chasms

American College of Cardiology

They also note that reliance on death certificate data, with adjustments for racial/ethnic misclassification, could introduce bias. The College has acknowledged that much of the adverse outcomes seen in people who are most vulnerable revolve around cardiovascular care. This article was authored by Debra L. Dwyer-Lindgren, et al.,

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Mortality trends, disparities, and social vulnerability in cardiac arrest mortality in the young: A cross?sectional analysis

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Social determinants of health may impact CA outcomes. We aimed to assess mortality trends, disparities, and the influence of the social vulnerability index (SVI) on CA outcomes in the young. Data were obtained from death certificates and analyzed using log-linear regression models.

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The Florida Study and the public health hypocrites

Dr. Anish Koka

There is also the issue of the small number of events that occurred in the defined at risk period - 7 total deaths in 18-24 year olds, 5 of which that were judged to be cardiac related based on ICD 10 codes on a death certificate. that actual journalist Paul Thacker chronicles well. Numbers this small make for fragile conclusions.

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The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER

Dr. Anish Koka

It contains information about the trial’s protocol, amendments, inclusion and exclusion criteria, outcome definitions and measurement, efficacy and safety results and statistical analysis plan. The article by Erviti et al. The main FOURIER CSR is over 25,000 pages.

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Returning to COVID19

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

The only outcome that really matters. Or those who read an article on Covid and then, overwhelmed with fear, stepped out in front of a bus. I should know, I wrote some of the death certificates myself. Here is the abstract of an article from 2022. Here from an article written in January 2021: ‘…Sunetra Gupta.