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Race and the decision to refer for coronary revascularization

The effect of physician awareness of patient ethnicity

Sande Okelo, MD, Anne L. Taylor, MD^*, Jackson T. Wright, Jr, MD, PhD^*, Nahida Gordon, PhD , Geetha Mohan, MD^* and Edward Lesnefsky, MD, FACC^*

^* Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 (A) The percentage of African American and white patients recommended for revascularization by either PTCA or CABG. (B) Percentage of patients referred for CABG. (C) Percentage of patients referred for PTCA.

View larger version (29K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 (A) The percentage of African American and white patients with significant stenosis in zero, one, two or three or more coronary arteries. (B) The distribution of coronary artery stenoses in African American and white patients. LAD = left anterior descending coronary artery; Diag = diagonal coronary artery; LCx = left circumflex coronary artery; OM = obtuse marginal artery; RCA = right coronary artery.