SEXUAL MINORITIES ARE NOT A HOMOGENEOUS POPULATION: HEALTH DISPARITY DIFFERENCES BASED ON RESIDENCE IN RURAL VERSUS URBAN SETTINGS

Sexual minorities are not a homogeneous population: health disparity differences based on residence in rural versus urban settings

Introduction: Past research has demonstrated that, separately, sexual minorities (SMs) and rural-dwelling populations are each at elevated risk for chronic diseases relative to heterosexuals and urban-dwelling populations, Party Pack respectively.Little research, however, has assessed whether rural SM populations may experience even further chronic

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Germline variants in ETV6 underlie reduced platelet formation, platelet dysfunction and increased levels of circulating CD34+ progenitors

Variants in ETV6, which encodes a transcription repressor of the E26 transformation-specific family, have recently been reported to be responsible for inherited thrombocytopenia and hematologic malignancy.We sequenced the DNA from cases with unexplained dominant thrombocytopenia and identified six likely pathogenic variants in ETV6, of which five a

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SCRUB TYPHUS PRESENTING AS ACUTE PANCREATITIS: A RARE CASE

Scrub typhus is an insect-borne disease caused by Orientia sutsugamushi Tea which may cause disseminated vasculitis and perivascular inflammatory lesions resulting in significant vascular leakage and cause end organ damage.Scrub typhus can lead to severe complications such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), myocarditis, hepatitis and me

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