To the Editor

TY - JOUR

T1 - To the Editor

AU - Breathett, Khadijah K.

AU - Spatz, Erica S.

AU - Nallamothu, Brahmajee K.

N1 - Funding Information: Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Routen reported receiving grants from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands. Dr Pareek reported receiving personal fees from Gilead Sciences and QIAGEN and grants from Sanofi. Dr Pareek reported being supported by a NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Award and receiving funding from UK Research and Innovation and the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre. Dr Khunti reported receiving grants from NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands and NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre. Dr Khunti is director of the Centre for Black and Minority Ethnic Health at the University of Leicester, is a trustee of the charity South Asian Health Foundation and cochair of its diabetes working group, and is chair of the SAGE ethnicity subgroup and member of Independent SAGE. Funding Information: Corresponding Author: Khadijah K. Breathett, MD, MS, University of Arizona, Sarver Heart Center, 1501 N Campbell Ave, PO Box 245046, Tucson, AZ 85724 ([email protected]). Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Breathett reported receiving grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and Women as One and serving as associate editor at Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Dr Nallamothu reported receiving personal fees from the American Heart Association (editor in chief, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes) and being a principal investigator or coinvestigator on research grants from the NIH, VA Health Services Research & Development, and American Heart Association. Dr Nallamothu is a coinventor on US utility patent US 9,962,124 and a provisional patent application (54423) that use software technology with signal processing and machine learning to automate the reading of coronary angiograms, held by the University of Michigan. The patent is licensed to AngioInsight Inc, in which Dr Nallamothu holds ownership shares and receives consultancy fees. The University of Michigan also has filed patents on his behalf related to the use of computer vision for imaging applications in gastroenterology, with technology elements licensed to Applied Morphomics Inc, in which he has no relationship or stake. No other disclosures were reported. 1. Flanagin A, Frey T, Christiansen SL, Bauchner H. The reporting of race and ethnicity in medical and science journals: comments invited. JAMA. 2021;325 (11):1049-1052. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.2104 2. Boyd RW, Lindo EG, Weeks LD, McLemore MR. On racism: a new standard for publishing on racial health inequities. Health Affairs blog. Published July 2, 2020. Accessed January 3, 2021. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/ hblog20200630.939347/full/ 3. Breathett K, Spatz ES, Kramer DB, et al. The groundwater of racial and ethnic disparities research: a statement from Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2021;14(2):e007868. doi:10.1161/ CIRCOUTCOMES.121.007868 4. AHA/ASA Journals. Disparities research guidelines. Accessed March 11, 2021. https://www.ahajournals.org/disparities-research-guidelines 5. Churchwell K, Elkind MSV, Benjamin RM, et al; American Heart Association. Call to action: structural racism as a fundamental driver of health disparities: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association. Circulation.2020; 142(24):e454-e468. doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000000936

PY - 2021/8/17

Y1 - 2021/8/17

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U2 - 10.1001/jama.2021.9271

DO - 10.1001/jama.2021.9271

M3 - Letter

C2 - 34402835

AN - SCOPUS:85113190489

SN - 0098-7484

VL - 326

SP - 673

EP - 674

JO - JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

JF - JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

IS - 7

ER -