In Minnesota, COVID Widened Already Large Racial Gap in Health Care

Governing: Black Americans have about twice the risk as whites of developing a medical problem called peripheral artery disease (PAD), in which blood vessels in the legs become narrowed or blocked off. Severe untreated PAD can lead to amputation.

Yet white people are more likely than Blacks to get a medical procedure for a severe form of PAD called critical limb ischemia. In Hennepin County, Minn., white men get procedures to clear the leg-vessel blockages or place stents there five times more often than Black men. And Black women are 20 times less likely to get a revascularization, or unblocking of the vessels, according to public and proprietary data.

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