Racial Disparities in Patient Characteristics and Survival After Acute Myocardial Infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Black patients experience worse outcomes than white patients following acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

Objective

To examine the degree to which nonrace characteristics explain observed survival differences between white patients and black patients following AMI.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used the extensive socioeconomic and clinical characteristics from patients recovering from an AMI that were prospectively collected at 31 hospitals across the contiguous United States between 2003 and 2008 for the Prospective Registry Evaluating Myocardial Infarction: Events and Recovery registry and the Translational Research Investigating Underlying Disparities in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients' Health Status registry. Survival was asse

SUBMITTER: Graham GN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324589 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature