Describing race, ethnicity, and culture in medical research
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Race and ethnicity in medical research.
To the Editor—Racial and ethnic differences in health and disease are real. For example, in the field of neurology, intracranial stenoses are more common among the Chinese population, and multiple sclerosis is uncommon, when compared with whites from Europe and North America. Studying various subgroups is important to detect different patterns of disease and to obtain aetiological clues; race a...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.313.7054.425a