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Podcast: Perspectives with Condace Pressley
Episode: Perspectives S35/Ep53 The Importance of a diverse patient population in clinical trials
Description: There is simply not enough diversity among the patient population when it comes to clinical trials in health care. It's a problem that's been around for many decades. Morehouse School of Medicine is working to make a difference. The African American Heart Study is a collaboration between Amgen, the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) and the Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Elizabeth Ofili, a professor of medicine at MSM and practicing cardiologist joins me to explain the new research and discuss the goal of the studio - to measure the association between Lipoprotein(a), and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in 5,000...