Table 1.
Patients With Lung Cancer by Race, With or Without Disease Diagnoses, and by Lung Surgery Ratesa
| Diagnosis | No. (%) of Patients (N = 386)
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black (n = 113)
|
White (n = 273)
|
|||
| Total | Received Surgery | Total | Received Surgery | |
| Coronary artery disease | ||||
| Yes | 23 (20) | 15 (65) | 77 (28) | 49 (64) |
|
| ||||
| No | 90 (80) | 47 (52) | 195 (71) | 131 (67) |
|
| ||||
| Diabetes mellitus | ||||
| Yes | 26 (23) | 15 (58) | 60 (22) | 39 (65) |
|
| ||||
| No | 87 (77) | 47 (54) | 212 (78) | 140 (66) |
|
| ||||
| Hypertension | ||||
| Yes | 86 (76) | 47 (55) | 142 (52) | 94 (66) |
|
| ||||
| No | 27 (24) | 15 (56) | 130 (48) | 85 (65) |
a
Comparisons between presence and absence of disease are not statistically significant.