This editorial highlights a study investigating socioeconomic and demographic disparities in the utilization and outcomes of intracoronary imaging during PCI.
It is fashionable to look for sex- and race-based disparities in everything from cardiology journal editorial boards1 to cardiac complications of COVID-19.2 In that vein, in this issue of JSCAI, Ismayl et al3 report on disparities in sex, race/ethnicity, and economics in utilization and outcomes of intracoronary imaging. The authors used the National Inpatient Sample database to analyze 2,212,595 weighted hospitalizations with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) from 2016 to 2020, of which 204,735 included intracoronary imaging with intravascular ultrasound or optical coherence tomography.
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