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Precision health could mitigate clinical biases that impact care

Shivani Misra describes how meeting a misdiagnosed patient early in her career led her to study precision diabetes in underrepresented groups.

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Correspondence to Shivani Misra.

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S.M. has received speaker fees from Sanofi and Lilly for scientific talks over which she had complete control, has a personal award from the Wellcome Trust (223024/Z/21/Z) and is supported by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre.

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Misra, S. Precision health could mitigate clinical biases that impact care. Nat Med 30, 1804 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03102-7

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