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Dr. Kevin Williams Issues Caution to African Americans About Rare Heart Disease

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“About 3-to-4-percent of the African American population are thought to be carriers of the mutation,” according to Dr. Kevin Williams, Pfizer Rare Disease Chief Medical Officer. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

NNPA NEWSWIRE — With the most recent collaboration between Pfizer Rare Disease and the Black Press, the organizations embarked on a mission to educate and raise awareness to transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy – or ATTR-CM. “ATTR-CM is a rare, life-threatening, underrecognized, and underdiagnosed type of amyloidosis that affects the heart and it is associated with heart failure,” Dr. Kevin Williams, Pfizer’s chief medical officer, told the NNPA in a live interview.

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