Racial Differences in the Outcome of Left Ventricular Dysfunction

There are approximately 2 million Americans with congestive heart failure, and about 400,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. 1 The population-based mortality rate from congestive heart failure is 1.8 times as high for black men as for white men and 2.4 times as high for black women as for white w...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 340; no. 8; pp. 609 - 616
Main Authors Dries, Daniel L, Exner, Derek V, Gersh, Bernard J, Cooper, Howard A, Carson, Peter E, Domanski, Michael J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston, MA Massachusetts Medical Society 25.02.1999
Subjects
African Continental Ancestry Group
Analysis of Variance
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors - therapeutic use
Biological and medical sciences
Cardiology. Vascular system
Enalapril - therapeutic use
European Continental Ancestry Group
Female
Heart
Heart Failure - drug therapy
Heart Failure - ethnology
Heart Failure - mortality
Heart failure, cardiogenic pulmonary edema, cardiac enlargement
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Retrospective Studies
Socioeconomic Factors
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - drug therapy
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - ethnology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - mortality
United States
North America
America
Human
Statistical analysis
Prevalence
Mortality
Etiopathogenesis
Cardiovascular disease
Heart ventricle
Left ventricular failure
Multivariate analysis
Ethnic group
Randomization
Heart disease
Black American
Caucasoid
Public health
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Summary:There are approximately 2 million Americans with congestive heart failure, and about 400,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. 1 The population-based mortality rate from congestive heart failure is 1.8 times as high for black men as for white men and 2.4 times as high for black women as for white women. 2 , 3 The higher mortality among blacks has been attributed to differences between blacks and whites in the severity and causes of heart failure, the prevalence of coexisting conditions, socioeconomic and cultural factors, and access to high-quality medical care. 4 – 6 Not all studies, however, have found a higher mortality among . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM199902253400804