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Figure 1 Percentage of patients admitted to the hospital with a primary diagnosis of ventricular flutter, ventricular fibrillation, or cardiac arrest and surviving to discharge, who received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) stratified by race. Note the significantly lower utilization rate in black patients (broken line) compared with white patients (solid line). In 2001, even though closing, the racial gap does not seem to have disappeared.
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