Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic Patients Have Worse Outcomes Than White Patients Within Similar Stages of Peripheral Artery Disease.

ABSTRACT: Background Racial and ethnic disparities in outcomes following lower limb revascularization for peripheral artery disease have been ascribed to disease severity at presentation for surgery. Methods and Results We calculated 1-year risk of major adverse limb events (MALEs), major amputation, and death for patients undergoing elective revascularization for claudication or chronic limb-threatening ischemia in the Vascular Quality Initiative data (2011-2018). We report hazard ratios according to race and ethnicity using Cox (death) or Fine and Gray subdistribution hazards models (MALE and major amputation, treating death as a competing event), adjusted for patient, treatment, and anatomic factors associated with disease severity. Among 88 599 patients (age, 69 years; 37% women), 1-year risk of

SUBMITTER: Kalbaugh CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9075215 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature