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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Black Patients Less Likely Than Whites to Have Surgery for Diverticulitis

By Chase Doyle

Access to healthcare has been a hot topic recently. A new study, presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Surgical Infection Society, has identified racial disparities in the management of diverticulitis.

According to the propensity-matched cohort analysis, Black or African American patients were significantly less likely to undergo operative interventions for diverticulitis than their white counterparts.

The presenting author Andrew Tran, MD, a research resident with the General