Key result
Racial and gender disparities are linked to worse in-hospital outcomes in Takotsubo syndrome.
Why the study?
This commentary highlights important points regarding a nationwide analysis of racial and gender disparities in in-hospital outcomes among patients with Takotsubo syndrome.
Population
Patients with Takotsubo syndrome
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Disparities may warrant equity considerations in Takotsubo management; leaves open causal mechanisms and mitigation strategies.
recent issue of Clinical Cardiology, titled, "Impact of Gender on In-Hospital Outcomes in Patients with Takotsubo syndrome: A Nationwide Analysis from 2006 to 2014."The authors report important racial and gender disparities among patients with Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) from the large National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database.We wish to highlight a few important points relevant to the article.
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Khalid et al. (2018) studied this question. Racial and gender disparities significantly influence in-hospital outcomes among patients hospitalized with Takotsubo syndrome.
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