title: Disparities in Revascularization After ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Before and After the 2002 IOM Report.
abstract: To examine nationwide trends for racial disparities in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention after ST elevated Myocardial Infarction (STEMI).
  
  
  
  The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report published in 2002 showed that African Americans were less likely to receive coronary revascularization such as CABG and stents even after controlling for socioeconomics. It recommended increased awareness of these disparities among health professionals to reduce this. We hypothesized that increased awareness of disparities since this report would have translated to reduction in racial disparities in percutaneous coronary intervention.
  
  
  
  A retrospective analysis was conducted using data from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) National Inpatient Sample (NIS) 1998-2007. All patients with STEMI during this period were identified. The proportion that received Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) during the incident admission was compared by different ethnicities over the time period. Multivariable regression for each year was conducted using Poisson regression with robust variances. The analysis controlled for gender, insurance status, co-morbidities, hospital bed size, location and teaching status.
  
  
  
  Based on the database, about 2.04 million patients were managed for acute Myocardial Infarction from 1998 to 2007, of these 938,176 had STEMI. The primary PCI rate after STEMI among Caucasians was 29.1%, African Americans-23.3% and Hispanics-28.3% [P < 0.001] On multivariate regression, compared to Caucasians, African Americans and Hispanics respectively were 26% (IRR = 0.74) and 16% (IRR = 0.84) less likely to receive PCI (both with P < 0.001) during the entire study period.
  
  
  
  Ethnic disparities in primary PCI after STEMI persist despite the 2002 IOM report.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 956 Court Avenue, Ste. A318D, Memphis, TN 38163, USA. Electronic address: obolorun@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Oluwaseyi B
authors.initials: OB
authors.lastname: Bolorunduro
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Adekunle V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Kiladejo
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Harlem Hospital Center in Affiliation with Columbia University Medical Center, 506 Lenox avenue, NY 10030, USA.
authors.forename: Islamiyat Babs
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Animashaun
authors.affiliation: Queens Heart Institute, USA.
authors.forename: Olakunle O
authors.initials: OO
authors.lastname: Akinboboye
mesh_terms: D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / Q000379:methods*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D000072657:ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States
keywords: CABG – coronary artery bypass graft; PCI – percutaneous coronary intervention; PTCA – percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty; STEMI – ST elevated myocardial infarction