Racial Disparities in Prescriptions for Cardioprotective Drugs and Cardiac Outcomes in Veterans Affairs Hospitals

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1019-1023

  Mehta, Jawahar L ^a   Bursac, Zoran ^a   Mehta, Paulette ^a   Bansal, Darpan ^a   Fink, Louis ^b   Marsh, James ^a   Sukhija, Rishi ^a   Sachdeva, Rajesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NEVADA CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART PROTECTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERAN;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ASPIRIN; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949567461     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.11.031     Document Type: Article

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