Lung disease tests are failing Black patients, studies show. Experts are calling for change.

Research shows differences based on race don't reflect biology, but instead structural racism's effect on health.

Widely used lung function tests often fail to detect lung disease in Black patients, according to research — and experts are calling for new methods of testing.

But increasingly, research shows differences based on race don't reflect biology, but instead structural racism's effect on health. Rather than accounting for inherent differences in lung function, "adjusting" for race instead normalizes poor lung health, prevents diagnosis and perpetuates health disparities and, experts say, the environmental factors that contribute to them.

The authors called the practice "harmful" and said "accepting the race factor impedes the examination of other social, environmental, and genetic factors as drivers of disease.""It leads to the underdiagnosis of pulmonary disease in racial minority patients and impacting timely diagnosis, access to effective treatments, and ultimately outcomes," they wrote.Dr.

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