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- Black and Hispanic patients are less likely to receive cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) compared to White patients, despite Medicaid expansion improving access to cardiovascular care for underinsured racial and ethnic groups.
- A study analyzed data from 19 states to see how Medicaid expansion affected CRT rates, finding no significant change for Black or Hispanic patients, but a notable 34% increase in CRT rates among White individuals in states that adopted Medicaid expansion.
- The findings suggest that Medicaid expansion successfully improved CRT access for White patients but did not alleviate disparities faced by Black and Hispanic patients, indicating a need for further research to tackle these inequities.
Background The majority of living organ donors are women, but few are deceased organ donors, which increases risks associated with sex mismatched organs. We sought to identify reasons for sex disparities in organ donation and strategies for equity. Methods and Results Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, we examined US adults' perceptions regarding donation in a mixed-methods survey study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground Coronary artery disease is the primary etiology for sudden cardiac arrest in adults, but potential differences in the incidence and utility of invasive coronary testing between resuscitated men and women have not been extensively evaluated. Our aim was to characterize angiographic similarities and differences between men and women after cardiac arrest. Methods and Results Data from the International Cardiac Arrest Registry-Cardiology database included patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of presumed cardiac origin, admitted to 7 academic cardiology/resuscitation centers during 2006 to 2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground Race influences medical decision making, but its impact on advanced heart failure therapy allocation is unknown. We sought to determine whether patient race influences allocation of advanced heart failure therapies. Methods and Results Members of a national heart failure organization were randomized to clinical vignettes that varied by patient race (black or white man) and were blinded to study objectives.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground The transplantation of hearts from traumatically brain-injured (TBI) donors has been associated with inferior long-term survival in single-center analyses. However, in a more recent analysis, death caused by cerebrovascular accident was associated with worse posttransplant survival in recipients. The purpose of this study was to explore the outcomes of heart transplantation in recipients receiving donor hearts from TBI and non-TBI donors in a large national registry.
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