Black MS patients have higher rate of disability than white counterparts

SEATTLE — Black patients with MS demonstrated a higher rate of disability throughout their disease course compared with white MS patients, according to a presenter at the 2022 American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.
“As we looked at multiple studies, [they] showed [Black] patients had worse disease outcomes than [white] patients, so our main goal was to see if that held true in our own [MS] population,” Elissa Dykes, a medical student at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, said during the presentation.
Dykes and colleagues explored potential race-based health

SEATTLE — Black patients with MS demonstrated a higher rate of disability throughout their disease course compared with white MS patients, according to a presenter at the 2022 American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.
“As we looked at multiple studies, [they] showed [Black] patients had worse disease outcomes than [white] patients, so our main goal was to see if that held true in our own [MS] population,” Elissa Dykes, a medical student at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, said during the presentation.
Dykes and colleagues explored potential race-based health