ARTICLE: Race/Ethnicity and Prevalence of Aortic Stenosis by Echocardiography in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
AUTHORS: Matthew J Czarny, Sanjiv J Shah, Seamus P Whelton, Michael J Blaha, Michael Y Tsai, Rimsky Denis, Alain Bertoni, Wendy S Post
JOURNAL: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 Jul 13;78(2):195-197. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2021.04.078. Epub 2021 May 11.
Although long present, racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular care are increasingly recognized. A study of >32,000 patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS) found that Black patients were less likely than White patients to undergo aortic valve replacement (AVR) (1). In their study utilizing a large clinical echocardiographic database, Patel et al. (2) found an overall prevalence of severe AS of 0.29% in Black patients and 0.91% in White patients (2). However, these and other studies are limited by selection bias and a lack of data/power for races/ethnicities other than Black and White. Understanding and addressing inequities in the treatment of AS requires an understanding of possible racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of AS.
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