Furthermore, Black patients more likely to experience major complications, death than White patients
By Lori Solomon HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Dec. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Non-Hispanic Black patients are less likely to undergo minimally invasive mitral valve surgery (MIMVS) and are more likely to die or experience a major complication than non-Hispanic White patients, according to a study published online Dec. 21 in JAMA Network Open.
Laurent G. Glance, M.D., from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, and colleagues used data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database to identify 103,753 patients who underwent mitral valve surgery between 2014 and 2019. Racial and ethnic disparities in use of MIMVS were evaluated.
The researchers found that non-Hispanic Black individuals were less likely to undergo MIMVS (odds ratio [OR], 0.65; 95 percent confidence interval [CI], 0.58 to 0.73; P
“These findings suggest that efforts to reduce inequity in cardiovascular medicine may need to include increasing access to private insurance and high-volume surgeons,” the authors write.
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