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The impact of ethnicity on outcomes following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in the Veterans Health Administration

John S. Rumsfeld, MD, PhD, FACC^*,*, Mary E. Plomondon, MSPH^*, Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, FACC, Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH, Charles Maynard, PhD, Gary K. Grunwald, PhD^*, Frederick L. Grover, MD^* and A. Laurie W. Shroyer, PhD^*

^* Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA

View larger version (22K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Six-month Kaplan-Meier survival curves for Caucasian (Cauc.), African American (AA), and Hispanic American (HA) cohorts.

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Risk ratios for 30-day mortality for African-American versus Caucasian patients across deciles of preoperative risk.

View larger version (13K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Risk ratios for 30-day mortality for Hispanic American versus Caucasian patients across deciles of preoperative risk.