Tag: racial disparities

All is not equal where US IR procedure access is concerned

Nima Kokabi (Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, USA) addressed the “uncomfortable truth” of healthcare disparities in the USA specifically within interventional radiology (IR) in a presentation...
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Interventional News’ top 10 most read items of August 2022

Interventional News' popular stories last month included acquisitions by Boston Scientific and Gore, studies of deep vein thrombosis and peripheral arterial disease treatments and,...

Peripheral vascular interventions for PAD: “Confronting the healthcare disparities”

In a study recently published in Circulation, researchers found that Black adults underwent significantly more endovascular peripheral vascular interventions (PVI), were treated for more advanced disease...