Racial health disparities continue to disproportionately affect Black persons in the United
States. Black individuals also have increased risk of worse outcomes associated with social …

Background Our goal was to systematically review the literature on racial/ethnic, insurance,
and socioeconomic disparities in adult spine surgery in the United States and analyze …

Importance Cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) causes devastating loss of upper extremity
function and independence. Nerve transfers are a promising approach to reanimate upper …

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. Objectives: Racial disparities in postoperative
outcomes are unfortunately common. We present data assessing race as an independent …

Background. Given individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) approaching 2 million, viable
options for regenerative repair are desperately needed. Human central nervous system stem …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects between 250,000–500,000 people globally each year. While
the medical aspects of SCI have received considerable attention in the academic literature …

Racial and ethnic disparities exist for many nervous system disorders that are intervention
targets for neuromodulation investigators. Yet, to date, there has been both a lack of racial …

Background and purpose Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage occurs in approximately
30,000 patients annually in the United States. Uncontrolled blood pressure is a major risk …

Objectives To examine predictors of initiation and adherence, identify racial disparities, and
compare the survival benefit of cardiac rehabilitation between a white and a unique …

BACKGROUND Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a serious public health problem.
Outcomes are determined by severity of immediate injury, mitigation of secondary …