Podcast 279: Age-specific data do better than age-adjusted data in revealing health inequities

09/27/21 • 6 min

Kiarri Kershaw has written a simple letter in JACC — the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The letter conveys a strong message: health inequities don’t act uniformly across one’s lifetime. Her examination of Black versus white mortality from all causes and from cardiovascular causes with the use of age-specific data shows places in [...]

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