Understanding racial differences in cardiovascular care and outcomes: Issues for the new millennium

American Heart Journal

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 764-766

  East, M A ^a   Peterson, E D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034108125     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(00)90004-8     Document Type: Editorial

References (36)

1. A. Oberman G. Cutter Issues in the natural history and treatment of coronary heart disease in black populations: surgical treatment Am Heart J 108 1984 688 694
2. L.J. Haywood Coronary heart disease mortality/morbidity and risk in blacks. I: Clinical manifestations and diagnostic criteria: the experience with the Beta Blocker Heart Attack Trial Am Heart J 108 1984 787 793
3. R.S. Zucker Racial differences in cardiac procedure use [letter] JAMA 272 1994 1251 1252
4. E.D. Peterson L.K. Shaw E.R. DeLong Racial variation in the use of coronary-revascularization procedures. Are the differences real? Do they matter? N Engl J Med 336 1997 480 486
5. E.D. Peterson S.M. Wright J. Daley Racial variation in cardiac procedure use and survival following acute myocardial infarction in the Department of Veterans Affairs JAMA 271 1994 1175 1180
6. N.A. Scott S.F. Kelsey K. Detre Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in African-American patients (the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 1985–1986 Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty Registry) Am J Cardiol 73 1994 1141 1146
7. C. Maynard P.E. Litwin J.S. Martin Characteristics of black patients admitted to coronary care units in metropolitan Seattle: results from the Myocardial Infarction Triage and Intervention Registry (MITI) Am J Cardiol 67 1991 18 23
8. E. Ford R. Cooper A. Castaner Coronary arteriography and coronary bypass survey among whites and other racial groups relative to hospital-based incidence rates for coronary artery disease: findings from NHDS Am J Public Health 79 1989 437 440
9. D.M. Carlisle B.D. Leake M.F. Shapiro Racial and ethnic differences in the use of invasive cardiac procedures among cardiac patients in Los Angeles County, 1986 through 1988 Am J Public Health 85 1995 352 356
10. M.B. Wenneker A.M. Epstein Racial inequalities in the use of procedures for patients with ischemic heart disease in Massachusetts JAMA 261 1989 253 257
11. W.H. Giles R.F. Ando M.L. Casper Race and sex differences in rates of invasive cardiac procedures in US hospitals. Data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey Arch Intern Med 155 1995 318 324
12. I.S. Udvarhelyi C. Gatsonis A.M. Epstein Acute myocardial infarction in the Medicare population. Process of care and clinical outcomes JAMA 268 1992 2530 2536
13. E.L. Hannan H. Kilbum Jr J.F. O'Donnell Interracial access to selected cardiac procedures for patients hospitalized with coronary artery disease in New York State Med Care 29 1991 430 441
14. S. Weitzman L. Cooper L. Chambless Gender, racial, and geographic differences in the performance of cardiac diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for hospitalized acute myocardial infarction in four states Am J Cardiol 79 1997 722 726
15. R.F. Gillum B.S. Gillum C.K. Francis Coronary revascularization and cardiac catheterization in the United States: trends in racial differences J Am Coll Cardiol 29 1997 1557 1562
16. P.H. Stone B. Thompson H.V. Anderson Influence of race, sex, and age on management of unstable angina and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction: The TIMI III registry JAMA 275 1996 1104 1112
17. C. Maynard L.D. Fisher E.R. Passamani Blacks in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study: risk factors and coronary artery disease Circulation 74 1986 64 71
18. S.P. Sedlis V.J. Fisher D. Tice Racial differences in performance of invasive cardiac procedures in a Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center J Clin Epidemiol 50 1997 899 901
19. A.M. McBean J.L. Warren J.D. Babish Continuing differences in the rates of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary artery bypass graft surgery between elderly black and white Medicare beneficiaries Am Heart J 127 1994 287 295
20. A.L. Franks D.S. May N.K. Wenger Racial differences in the use of invasive coronary procedures after acute myocardial infarction in Medicare beneficiaries Ethn Dis 3 1993 213 220
21. H.A. Taylor Jr J.G. Canto B. Sanderson Management and outcomes for black patients with acute myocardial infarction in the reperfusion era. National Registry of Myocardial Infarction 2 Investigators Am J Cardiol 82 1998 1019 1023
22. P.A. Johnson T.H. Lee E.F. Cook Effect of race on the presentation and management of patients with acute chest pain Ann Intern Med 118 1993 593 601
23. J.Z. Ayanian I.S. Udvarhelyi C.A. Gatsonis Racial differences in the use of revascularization procedures after coronary angiography JAMA 269 1993 2642 2646
24. R.J. Gray S. Nessim S.S. Khan Adverse 5-year outcome after coronary artery bypass surgery in blacks Arch Intern Med 156 1996 769 773
25. C. Maynard N.R. Every J.S. Martin Long-term implications of racial differences in the use of revascularization procedures (the Myocardial Infarction Triage and Intervention registry) Am Heart J 133 1997 656 662
26. D.M. Mirvis R. Bums L. Garchen Variation in utilization of cardiac procedures in the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system: effect of race J Am Coll Cardiol 24 1994 1297 1304
27. J. Whittle J. Conigliaro C.B. Good Racial differences in the use of invasive cardiovascular procedures in the Department of Veterans Affairs medical system N Engl J Med 329 1993 621 627
28. J. Whittle J. Conigliaro C.B. Good Do patient preferences contribute to racial differences in cardiovascular procedure use? J Gen Intern Med 12 1997 267 273
29. R.L. Peniston D.Y. Lu V. Papademetriou Severity of coronary artery disease in black and white male veterans and the likelihood of revascularization Am Heart J 139 2000 840 847
30. D.B. Pryor L. Shaw F.E. Harrell Jr Estimating the likelihood of severe coronary artery disease Am J Med 90 1991 553 562
31. D.B. Pryor F.E. Harrell Jr K.L. Lee Estimating the likelihood of significant coronary artery disease Am J Med 75 1983 771 780
32. J. Truett J. Cornfield W. Kannel A multivariate analysis of the risk of coronary heart disease in Framingham J Chron Dis 20 1967 511 524
33. K.A. Schulman J.A. Berlin W. Harless The effect of race and sex on physicians' recommendations for cardiac catheterization published erratum appears in N Engl J Med 340 1999 1130
34. K.A. Schulman J.A. Berlin W. Harless The effect of race and sex on physicians' recommendations for cardiac catheterization N Engl J Med 340 1999 618 626
35. Quality AfHRa. Understanding and eliminating minority health disparities 1999 National Institutes of Health
36. L. Liao J.G. Jollis E.R. DeLong Impact of an interactive video on decision making of patients with ischemic heart disease J Gen Intern Med 11 1996 373 376