Do ethnicity and gender impact the prevalence of angiographic coronary artery disease and in-hospital mortality?
Ethnicity and gender significantly impact the likelihood of finding significant CAD at angiography and in-hospital mortality, suggesting a need for tailored clinical guidelines.
The likelihood for significant CAD at coronary angiography and for in-hospital mortality varied significantly by ethnicity and gender. Future clinical practice guidelines should be tailored to gender subsets of the population, in particular for black women, to improve the efficient use of angiographic laboratories and to target at-risk populations of women and men.
Shaw et al. (Tue,) studied this question.