Poverty, process of care, and outcome in acute coronary syndromes
Sunil V. Rao, MD*,*,
Padma Kaul, PhD*,
L. Kristin Newby, MD, FACC*,
A. Michael Lincoff, MD, FACC
,
Judith Hochman, MD, FACC
,
Robert A. Harrington, MD, FACC*,
Daniel B. Mark, MD, FACC* and
Eric D. Peterson, MD, FACC*
* Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, USA
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
St. LukesRoosevelt Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

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Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier curves of myocardial infarction-free survival at six months for the three income groups. The p values are: p < 0.01 by the log-rank test for comparison between the high-income and low-income groups; p = 0.08 by the log-rank test for comparison between the middle-income and low-income groups; p = 0.10 for comparison between the high-income and middle-income groups.
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