Health News | White Kids' Six-month Mortality Less Than Half That of Black Kids Who Underwent Heart Transplant
Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. According to new research, white children's six-month mortality was less than half that of black children who underwent heart transplant surgery for the first time.
Washington [US], July 13 (ANI): According to new research, white children's six-month mortality was less than half that of black children who underwent heart transplant surgery for the first time.
The findings of the research were published in the journal Journal of the American Heart Association'.
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The study's authors found that within six months after receiving a heart transplant, Black children who had a stroke had a similar death rate compared with white children who had a stroke.
However, after six months, Black children who had a stroke were more than three times as likely to die as white children.
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The authors analyzed data about 8,224 children who received cardiac transplants from January 1994 through September 2019.
The data came from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR), a national database of all organ transplants in the United States.
The researchers adjusted their analyses for factors including age, sex, cognitive difficulties, insurance status, transplant year and the reason for a heart transplant.
The authors found that Black children had a 32 per cent lower chance of experiencing a stroke after a heart transplant compared to white children.
However, they noted that in a recent study using the SRTR database, Black children had a 25 per cent higher mortality rate while on the transplant waitlist compared to white children, suggesting that Black children who are at a higher risk of experiencing a stroke may be less likely to survive to receive a heart transplant. (ANI)
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