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. 2021 Sep 20;46(6):1576–1581. doi: 10.1111/jcpt.13532

TABLE 4.

Racial distribution per therapeutic areas at U.S. Sites

Therapeutic area Race
White n (%) Black or African American n (%) Asian n (%) American Indian or Alaska Native n (%) Other* n (%)
Neurology (N = 13,089) 10,643 (81.31) 1,848 (14.12) 162 (1.24) 72 (0.55) 364 (2.78)
Infectious diseases (N = 12,758) 9,266 (72.63) 2,789 (21.86) 277 (2.17) 111 (0.87) 315 (2.47)
Cardiovascular diseases (N = 10,718) 9,602 (89.59) 885 (8.26) 80 (0.75) 27 (0.25) 124 (1.16)
Endocrinology and metabolism (N = 10,639) 8,453 (79.45) 1,689 (15.88) 272 (2.56) 56 (0.53) 169 (1.59)
Dermatology (N = 10,618) 8,383 (78.95) 1359 (12.80) 418 (3.94) 84 (0.79) 374 (3.52)
Gastroenterology (N = 9,265) 7,281 (78.59) 1,598 (17.25) 153 (1.65) 38 (0.41) 195 (2.10)
Oncology and haematology (N = 9,079) 7,193 (79.23) 987 (10.87) 316 (3.48) 32 (0.35) 551 (6.07)
Gynaecology (N = 6,461) 5,238 (81.07) 827 (12.80) 139 (2.15) 24 (0.37) 233 (3.61)
Psychiatry (N = 6,282) 3,211 (51.11) 2,828 (45.02) 78 (1.24) 28 (0.45) 137 (2.18)
Pulmonology and rheumatology (N = 6,169) 5,211 (84.47) 746 (12.09) 86 (1.39) 38 (0.62) 88 (1.43)
Ophthalmology (N = 5,308) 4,230 (79.69) 868 (16.35) 134 (2.52) 16 (0.30) 60 (1.13)
Anaesthesia and analgesia (N = 1,586) 1,187 (74.84) 278 (17.53) 19 (1.20) 4 (0.25) 98 (6.18)
Medical imaging (N = 624) 412 (66.03) 31 (4.97) 5 (0.80) 1 (0.16) 175 (28.04)
*

Due to small percentages, the ‘Other’ category combines ‘Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander’, ‘Unknown/Unreported/Missing’, ‘Other race’, and ‘Mixed race’.