The Role Of Ethnicity In Heart Failure Outcomes Post Intervention

Heart failure is a continuing epidemic which has become a growing health care burden. Additionally, racial disparities continue to pose a major issue in healthcare with African-Americans being 1.5 times more likely to develop heart failure than their Caucasian counterparts. Considering differences i...

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Published in:Journal of cardiac failure 2022-04, Vol.28 (5), p.S36-S36
Main Authors: Nair, Nandini, Agusala, Veena
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Heart failure is a continuing epidemic which has become a growing health care burden. Additionally, racial disparities continue to pose a major issue in healthcare with African-Americans being 1.5 times more likely to develop heart failure than their Caucasian counterparts. Considering differences in ethnically-based determinants of health, this study was undertaken to assess outcomes in ethnically different heart failure patients post discharge with respect to hypertension, diabetes, COPD, and renal insufficiency. This is a single center retrospective analyses of data collected from heart failure patients of different ethnic groups in the preceding 24 months. The data collected included survival, left ventricular ejection fraction, BMI, age, gender, renal function, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and diabetes. The outcomes assessed included development of significant comorbidities: hypertension, diabetes, COPD, and renal insufficiency. The study population was 46.8% female and 53.2% male, with a mean BMI of 31.1 (obese). Hispanic patients tend to develop diabetes more than their white counterparts post intervention/discharge (p
ISSN:1071-9164
1532-8414
DOI:10.1016/j.cardfail.2022.03.097