Summary
This US study, published in Pediatrics, found that even among apparently healthy children, being African American is strongly associated with a higher risk of postoperative complications and mortality. Mechanisms underlying the established racial differences in postoperative outcomes may not be fully explained by the racial variation in preoperative comorbidity.
Race, postoperative complications, and death in apparently healthy children (July 2020)
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/07/16/peds.2019-4113
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