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Nov 3, 2021 15 tweets 22 min read
Our paper, Racism & Cardiology: a global call to action published in @CJCOpen.

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As Black History month ends, we look at how racism & racial bias influence CV health of ethnic minorities with viewpoints of cardiologists from 🇬🇧🇺🇲🇨🇦@DrQuinnCapers4 There are 3 major forms of racism:
1️⃣Explicit:easily detectable,easy to condemn
2️⃣Implicit:unconscious association of positive/negative attributes w/different racial groups
3️⃣Structural:results from yrs of policy-making;gives advantage to some racial groups at expense of another