Why is COVID-19 especially impacting the African American population?

Fabian Sanchis-Gomar; Giuseppe Lippi; Carl J Lavie

doi:10.1080/07853890.2020.1808695

Why is COVID-19 especially impacting the African American population?

Ann Med. 2020 Nov;52(7):331-333. doi: 10.1080/07853890.2020.1808695. Epub 2020 Aug 18.

Authors

Fabian Sanchis-Gomar¹, Giuseppe Lippi², Carl J Lavie³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia and INCLIVA Biomedical Research Institute, Valencia, Spain.
² Section of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
³ John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Black or African American / statistics & numerical data*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / ethnology
Health Status Disparities*
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / ethnology
United States / epidemiology

Grants and funding

Fabian Sanchis-Gomar is supported by a postdoctoral contract granted by “Subprograma Atracció de Talent – Contractes Postdoctorals de la Universitat de València.”