Use of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Among Black and White Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Background Racial disparities in invasive cardiac procedures such as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the general population are well documented; however, national-level data on such disparities in the end-stage renal disease (ESRD) population are lacking. We assessed racial differences in PCI between black and white patients with ESRD on maintenance dialysis. Methods and Results Using the US Renal Data System database, we abstracted Medicare inpatient procedure claims for PCI in a cohort of 268 575 Medicare-primary patients who initiated treatment on maintenance dialysis from January 1, 2009, through June 1, 2013. We conducted Cox regression analyses with PCI being the event, adjusted for demographic characteristics, Hispanic ethnicity, cause of ESRD, comorbidities, and socioec

SUBMITTER: Nee R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6761629 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature