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Patients of Asian and black backgrounds suffered disproportionate rates of premature death from COVID-19, according to a study of 1,737 patients by Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust.
The study, published in
BMJ Open, is one of the most comprehensive studies exploring COVID-19 outcomes in black, Asian and minority ethnic populations so far reported, from one of the largest and most diverse UK hospital COVID-19 cohorts, representing a majority ethnically diverse population (only 35.2 per cent of patients identified as White ethnicity).
The work resulted from a new interdisciplinary collaboration between intensive care physicians and HIV physicians. The researchers looked at data from all patients aged 16 years or over with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and admitted to the five acute hospitals within Barts Health NHS Trust, between 1 January and 13 May 2020.
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Barts Life Sciences is harnessing the untapped resource of patient data to discover new ways of improving patient care.
Specific health data collected from Barts Health NHS Trust patients over the course of their care will be securely analysed as part of new research that will directly benefit the 2.5 million patients the Trust cares for, as well as patients across the UK and beyond.
The £6.7m investment by Barts Charity marks a significant commitment to deliver advanced disease prevention and treatment to a population with some of the highest rates of illness and disadvantage in the UK, and to support east London s growing life and health data sciences sector.
04:05 EDT, 13 December 2020 Gavin Owen Samer is the main suspect in the 1994 disappearance of model turned escort Revelle Balmain. He is pictured in 2018
A chef with no history of violence was unfortunate to be publicly linked to the disappearance of a prostitute and the death of his flatmate in a house fire.
Gavin Owen Samer was named two decades ago as a suspect in the 1994 presumed murder of 22-year-old Sydney model and escort Revelle Balmain.
He had also shared an apartment with pensioner Rosa Rosenberg, 52, before she was killed in an explosion in their former home in January.
Samer has never been charged in relation to Ms Balmain s disappearance but was convicted of assaulting Ms Rosenberg late last year.