- Researchers investigated whether race is a factor in vision outcomes following surgical treatment for retinal detachment.
- They reported that Black and/or Hispanic patients tended to have worse vision following surgery than white patients.
- Experts say further research is needed to confirm the results.
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Experts say that understanding more about why non-white patients have less successful surgical outcomes could improve treatments.
Recently, researchers compared the vision outcomes of Black, Hispanic, and white patients who underwent surgery for retinal detachment.
They found that Black and Hispanic patients had worse vision results than white patients.
The study was published in the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology.
For the study, the researchers compared medical records from 124 Black and/or Hispanic participants and 71 white participants diagnosed with RRD.
All underwent surgical treatment at Boston Medical Center.
Black and Hispanic participants were an average age of 50 years old, whereas white participants were an average of 57 years old.
Whereas 65% of Black and Hispanic participants had multiple retinal breaks, the same was true for only 49% of white participants.
Black and Hispanic patients were also more likely to have
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