Do you think treatments and disease differs from a race to another?

Question:

I just read this article at New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/health/04opin.html?ex=1152158400&en=58f10a5aa498b181&ei=5087%0A

Please give me your opinion.

Answers:
Absolutely I believe there are genetic differences in disease. Let me turn it around. Show me a person caucasian descent that gets sickle cell anemia. It doesn't happen! This disease is a genetically linked recessive trait in people of African-American and Middle-Eastern descent. I also know that there are studies going on at the Mayo Clinic to determine the metrics for Alzheimer's disease based on the educational upbringing of blacks raised in the segregated South. So yes, I certainly believe that diseases and treatments must vary according to race, gender, and age.

Other Answers:
I think races are prone to different diseases. It is based on the genetic makeup and build up of the immune system.As far as treatment goes, I am not sure.

In diseases, of course it does! ill give you an example: tay-sachs is known to be diagnosed predominantly in Ashkenazim Jews.

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