American Heart Association President, Mitchell S. V. Elkind, M.D., MS, FAHA, FAAN, professor of neurology and epidemiology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and attending neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY.
Offering perspective on AHA Scientific Sessions 2020 Presentation MP269
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"Clinicians should think carefully about their prescribing practices, in particular they should be cautious about bias prescribing behavior or perhaps even unconscious bias in their prescribing behavior, that might lead to less increasing of therapy in black people, and that may be one of the reasons why there's less good control in that group."