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Bias may explain disparity in leg amputations | Reuters : (Reuters Health) – Although differences in cultural preferences, wealth or access to top hospitals are blamed for many healthcare disparities, a new study concludes those are not the main reasons that blacks with poor leg circulation are almost twice as likely to be amputated as whites with the same condition.  “The main take home point of the article is that a large disparity exists between the treatment that white and non-white patients receive, and this disparity appears to go beyond simple differences in insurance status and other variables that are often cited as the cause,” wrote the study’s lead author Dr. Tyler Durazzo, from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in an email to Reuters Health