Blacks more likely to opt for life-sustaining measures at end of life

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 11:28 in Health & Medicine

When faced with a terminal illness, African-American seniors were two times more likely than whites to say they would want life-prolonging treatments, according to a University of Pittsburgh study available online and published in the June issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine...

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