Disparities in the receipt of cardiac revascularization procedures between blacks and whites: An analysis of secular trends

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 2 SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Brown, C Perry ^a   Ross, Levi ^a   Lopez, Ivette ^a   Thornton, Angela ^a   Kiros, Gebre Egziabher ^a  

^a FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac catheterization; Coronary artery bypass craft; Coronary heart disease; Health disparity; Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSURANCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SECULARISM; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; WEIGHT CONTROL; CAUCASIAN; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEGRO; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 52149092799     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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