A new study points out an alarming racial disparity.
and lungs. Around 9 in 10 people who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital die; however, CPR can markedly improve their chances of survival. CPR involves performing chest compressions to mimic how the heart pumps and helps force blood to flow throughout the body.
“This disparity wasn’t only present in majority white communities, but also in majority Black and Hispanic communities,” Paul S. Chan, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and the Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, the study’s senior author, said.
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