Culturally responsive strategies and practical considerations for live tissue studies in Māori participant cohorts.

Introduction: Indigenous communities globally are inequitably affected by non-communicable diseases such as cancer and coronary artery disease. Increased focus on personalized medicine approaches for the treatment of these diseases offers opportunities to improve the health of Indigenous people. Conversely, poorly implemented approaches pose increased risk of further exacerbating current inequities in health outcomes for Indigenous peoples.

Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage in Māori and European New Zealanders - A comparative study.

A retrospective analysis of 358 patients admitted to the neurosurgical unit at a tertiary referral centre in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2010 and 2017 was undertaken to describe the relationship of ethnicity to demographic, disease characteristic and outcome data in Māori and European New Zealanders experiencing aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH). Māori had a higher incidence (RR 1.38, p = 0.