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Article: Coronary angiographic findings in African-American and White patients from a single institution
- Article from:
- Journal of the National Medical Association
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright National Medical Association Dec 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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No data exist comparing clinical and angiographic findings in large numbers of contemporary African-American and white patients from the same hospital. Limited angiographic data on African Americans were obtained from hospitals serving predominantly minority patients, making the valid African-American:white comparisons difficult. The study included 2,624 consecutive white and 1,793 African-American patients who had angiography for diagnostic evaluation of presumed coronary artery disease at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport between 1990 and 1997. Compared to whites of the same sex, a greater proportion of African-American patients had a history of hypertension, ...