Significant racial and sex disparities persist in outcomes following coronary artery bypass surgery, highlighting the need for targeted research into socioeconomic and multilevel factors.
In the modern era, racial and sex disparities in mortality and postoperative morbidity after coronary bypass surgery persist with Black patients and female patients consistently experiencing worse outcomes than White male patients. Although there may be unknown or underappreciated biological mechanisms at play, future research should focus on socioeconomic, cultural, and multilevel factors.
Enumah et al. (Thu,) studied this question.