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Comment by sjducb

This is a bit ridiculous. It's well known in medicine that members of different ethnic groups have different risks and complications.

This article describes how members of different ethnic groups have different complications in pregnancy. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7290488/

Here is a review about how race affects Adverse Drug Experiences (In response to commonly prescribed drugs), published in the journal of ethnic and racial health disparities.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40615-015-0101-3

Sure it would be better to sequence each person's genome to accurately place them on the spectrum of human genetic diversity, but that's not practical in a hospital or emergency setting.

parent sjducb 3 years ago

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