Frequency of benign neutropenia among Black versus White individuals undergoing a bone marrow assessment.

ABSTRACT: Healthy individuals in the United States identified as having Black race have lower neutrophil counts, on average, than individuals identified as having White race, which could result in more negative diagnostic evaluations for neutropenia. To test this hypothesis, the proportion of evaluations where the final diagnosis was clinically insignificant neutropenia for Black and White individuals who underwent an evaluation by a haematologist that included a bone marrow (BM) biopsy to investigate neutropenia was assessed. 172 individuals without prior haematological diagnoses who underwent a haematological evaluation to investigate neutropenia. Individuals diagnosed with clinically insignificant neutropenia between Black and White individuals were compared using a propensity-score-adjusted logi

SUBMITTER: Borinstein SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9258701 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature