A large study published in the June 13 issue of JAMA has found that black Medicare patients are less likely than white patients to receive blood vessel opening procedures following a heart attack, whether they are admitted to hospitals that provide or do not provide these procedures, but also have higher mortality rates after 1 year.
The authors suggest that "efforts to standardize post-AMI treatment with evidence-based protocols and aggressive risk-factor management are essential to eliminating racial differences in care for AMI and other coronary syndromes."
Read the press release "Black patients less likely to receive certain coronary procedures following heart attack and have higher mortality rates one year later"
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