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The Astounding Breadth of Health Disparity: Phenome-Wide Effects of Race on Disease Risk.
Journal of the National Medical Association - 1 Apr 2021
Pulley Jill M, Jerome Rebecca N, Bernard Gordon R, Shirey-Rice Jana K, Xu Yaomin, Wilkins Consuelo H
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: We conducted a phenotype-wide association study (PheWAS) to compare diagnoses among Blacks with those of Whites in one health center in Tennessee using data from 1,883,369 patients. METHODS: We used our deidentified EHR, the Synthetic Derivative, to assess risk of diagnoses associated with Black as compared with White race using Firth logistic regression with covariates including age, sex, and density...
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