May
08
2024
Despite significant decline in heart attacks since 2004, inequities in STEMI management and mortality by age, gender, income and race, speakers reported.
Two studies, one evaluating trends in STEMI incidence and mortality by age and income and one evaluating gender and racial disparities in non-STEMI management, were presented at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Scientific Sessions.
Using nationwide inpatient data from 2004 to 2020, Fares Ghanem, MD, cardiovascular disease physician at Southern Illinois University, and colleagues evaluated demographic trends in
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