To Solve Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes, Look Upstream for Solutions

Yvonne Commodore-Mensah^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD (Y.C.-M.).
² Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD (Y.C.-M.).
³ Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity (Y.C.-M., D.C.C.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD.
⁴ Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research (Y.C.-M., D.C.C.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD.
⁵ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (D.C.C.).

Editorial

Yvonne Commodore-Mensah et al. Circulation. 2021.

. 2021 Jun 15;143(24):2343-2345.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.052713. Epub 2021 Jun 14.

Yvonne Commodore-Mensah^{1

2

3

4}, Deidra C Crews^{3

4

5}

¹ Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD (Y.C.-M.).
² Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD (Y.C.-M.).
³ Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity (Y.C.-M., D.C.C.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD.
⁴ Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research (Y.C.-M., D.C.C.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD.
⁵ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (D.C.C.).

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Keywords: COVID-19; Editorials; cardiovascular diseases; ethnology; health status disparities; race factors; social determinants of health.

Comment on

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Presentation and Outcomes for Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19: Findings From the American Heart Association's COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry.
Rodriguez F, Solomon N, de Lemos JA, Das SR, Morrow DA, Bradley SM, Elkind MSV, Williams JH, Holmes D, Matsouaka RA, Gupta D, Gluckman TJ, Abdalla M, Albert MA, Yancy CW, Wang TY. Rodriguez F, et al. Circulation. 2021 Jun 15;143(24):2332-2342. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.052278. Epub 2020 Nov 17. Circulation. 2021. PMID: 33200953 Free PMC article.

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