National Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality from Mechanical Complications of Cardiac Valves and Grafts (1999-2020).

ABSTRACT: Background: The volume of cardiac valve and coronary artery revascularization procedures is rising in the United States. This cross-sectional study explores ethnic disparities in mortality in cardiac surgery attributed to mechanical failures of implantable heart valves and coronary artery grafts. Methods: We used the CDC Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research Multiple Causes of Death database to identify patients whose single cause of death was categorized by complications of cardiovascular prosthetic devices, implants, and grafts (ICD-10 code T82) between 1999 and 2020. The Joinpoint software (version 5.2.0, National Cancer Institute) was used to construct log-linear regression models to estimate the average annual percent changes in age-adjusted mortality (per

SUBMITTER: Kwon YIC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11765941 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature