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Black patients with sarcoidosis were far and away the most likely to be hospitalized - 677 per 100,000 hospitalizations, versus 171 White patients per 100,000.
NEW YORK, May 8 (Xinhua) -- A new retrospective analysis showed key sex- and race-related disparities in outcomes among patients hospitalized with sarcoidosis, reported HCPLive, clinical news for connected physicians, on Sunday.
More pertinently, the new data presented at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology (CCR) East 2023 Annual Meeting in Destin, Florida, last week showed Black patients are more likely to present to the hospital with sarcoidosis than other races, while men are at greater risk than women of sarcoidosis mortality.
As sarcoidosis has historically been linked to middle-aged African American patients, even more specifically, female patients, the data was expected to fill gaps in knowledge regarding hospitalization outcomes and differences in length of stay and mortality based on patient demographics, according to the report.
Black patients with sarcoidosis were far and away the most likely to be hospitalized - 677 per 100,000 hospitalizations, versus 171 White patients per 100,000; 76 Hispanic patients per 100,000; and 54 Asian patients per 100,000, it said.
Despite the significantly greater prevalence, Black patients with sarcoidosis were generally younger than the other populations at time of hospitalization: 57.3 years, versus 64.0 years among White patients; 57.8 years among Hispanic patients and 62.2 years among Asian patients, it added. ■
