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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Heart Fail. 2017 May 10;5(7):483–493. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2017.02.012

TABLE 2.

In-Hospital Therapies, Procedures and Medications on Discharge, Mortality, and Length of Stay for Patients With HFpEF Overall According to Race/Ethnicity

Overall (N = 53,065) White (n = 44,871) Black (n = 4,767) Hispanic (n = 2,260) Asian (n = 842) Other (n = 325) p Value Standardized Difference White vs.
Black Hispanic Asian Other
In-hospital procedures
 Cardiac catheterization/coronary angiography 4.71 4.73 5.04 4.01 3.13 5.85 0.2109 0.015 0.035 0.082 0.050
 PCI 0.14 0.13 0.20 0.20 0.20 0.49 0.5747 0.015 0.016 0.015 0.064
 Coronary artery bypass graft 0.27 0.26 0.33 0.27 0.39 0 0.8706 0.012 0.001 0.022 0.073
 Cardiac valve surgery 0.35 0.37 0.20 0.27 0.39 0.49 0.6066 0.032 0.017 0.004 0.019
 Pacemaker 1.01 1.02 0.98 0.94 0.98 0.98 0.9979 0.004 0.008 0.004 0.004
 CRT-D 0.24 0.25 0.16 0.20 0 0 0.6011 0.019 0.011 0.071 0.071
 ICD only 0.10 0.09 0.23 0.07 0 0 0.1609 0.035 0.008 0.042 0.042
 Cardioversion 1.04 1.11 0.72 0.40 0.59 0.49 0.0168 0.041 0.082 0.057 0.070
 Intra-aortic balloon pump 0.06 0.06 0.03 0.07 0.20 0 0.6926 0.011 0.005 0.040 0.033
 Dialysis 2.92 2.29 6.78 5.61 7.63 8.78 <0.0001 0.217 0.171 0.248 0.287
 Ultrafiltration 0.19 0.18 0.49 0.07 0 0 0.0019 0.055 0.031 0.059 0.059
 CRT-P 0.16 0.16 0.20 0.13 0.20 0 0.9498 0.009 0.006 0.009 0.056
 Atrial fibrillation ablation or surgery 0.08 0.08 0 0.07 0 0 0.5199 0.041 0.007 0.041 0.041

No procedures 84.06 84.76 78.74 82.82 81.02 74.63 <0.0001 0.156 0.053 0.100 0.254

Procedures are missing 32.35 31.72 35.96 33.81 39.31 36.92 <0.0001 0.090 0.044 0.159 0.110

Discharge medications
 ACE inhibitors 34.37 34.08 37.58 36.48 26.06 32.58 <0.0001 0.073 0.050 0.176 0.032
 ARB 17.86 16.97 19.98 25.41 28.63 25.00 <0.0001 0.078 0.208 0.280 0.198
 Anticoagulation therapy 34.28 36.42 22.74 22.06 22.80 25.17 <0.0001 0.303 0.320 0.302 0.246
 Beta-blocker 73.65 73.62 74.25 72.70 74.78 73.33 0.9015 0.014 0.021 0.027 0.006
 Aldosterone antagonist 9.56 9.97 7.64 6.95 6.69 8.87 <0.0001 0.082 0.109 0.119 0.037
 Diabetic medications 40.81 38.03 55.44 56.58 48.92 50.00 <0.0001 0.354 0.378 0.221 0.243
 Lipid-lowering medications 56.19 55.63 57.70 61.18 59.74 64.68 <0.0001 0.042 0.113 0.083 0.186
 Hydralazine nitrate 11.22 9.92 21.37 14.46 12.44 13.07 <0.0001 0.319 0.139 0.080 0.099
 Diuretic 44.75 45.24 42.71 41.84 39.29 40.95 <0.0001 0.051 0.069 0.121 0.087

In-hospital outcomes
 In-hospital death 2.87 3.01 1.70 2.30 3.44 3.08 <0.0001 0.086 0.044 0.025 0.004
 Length of hospital stay, d 4 (3–6) 4 (3–6) 4 (3–7) 4 (3–7) 4 (3–6) 4 (3–6) <0.0001 0.082 0.081 0.048 0.027

Values are % or median (IQR).

CRT-D = cardiac resynchronization therapy with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; CRP-P = cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker; other abbreviations as in Table 1.