TY - JOUR
T1 - Racism and Cardiology
T2 - A Global Call to Action
AU - Banerjee, Shrilla
AU - Aaysha Cader, F.
AU - Gulati, Martha
AU - Capers, Quinn
N1 - Funding Information:
Shrilla Banerjee and F. Aaysha Cader are recepients of the WomenAsOne Escalator Award 2021. The authors have no funding sources to declare. The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Racism and racial bias influence the lives and cardiovascular health of minority individuals. The fact that minority groups tend to have a higher burden of cardiovascular disease risk factors is often a result of racist policies that restrict opportunities to live in healthy neighbourhoods and have access to high-quality education and healthcare. The fact that minorities tend to have the worst outcomes when cardiovascular disease develops is often a result of institutional or individual racial bias encountered when they interact with the healthcare system. In this review, we discuss bias, discrimination, and structural racism from the viewpoints of cardiologists in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the US, and how racial bias impacts cardiovascular care. Finally, we discuss proposals to mitigate the impact of racism in our specialty.
AB - Racism and racial bias influence the lives and cardiovascular health of minority individuals. The fact that minority groups tend to have a higher burden of cardiovascular disease risk factors is often a result of racist policies that restrict opportunities to live in healthy neighbourhoods and have access to high-quality education and healthcare. The fact that minorities tend to have the worst outcomes when cardiovascular disease develops is often a result of institutional or individual racial bias encountered when they interact with the healthcare system. In this review, we discuss bias, discrimination, and structural racism from the viewpoints of cardiologists in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the US, and how racial bias impacts cardiovascular care. Finally, we discuss proposals to mitigate the impact of racism in our specialty.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cjco.2021.09.014
DO - 10.1016/j.cjco.2021.09.014
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34993445
AN - SCOPUS:85119582895
SN - 2589-790X
VL - 3
SP - S165-S173
JO - CJC Open
JF - CJC Open
IS - 12
ER -