Hispanic ethnicity was not associated with survival differences in pulmonary arterial hypertension despite a “disadvantageous social determinants of health profile,” researchers reported in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
“While recent studies describing the association between race, ethnicity and clinical outcomes in PAH have suggested that Hispanic ethnicity was associated with a lower risk of mortality, these studies did not account for sociocultural factors or social determinants of health,” Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MD, associate professor of medicine in