Table 3.

Clinical characteristics of AMI hospitalizations by race/ethnicity^a

Variable	Asian	White	Black	Hispanic
Number of diagnoses (SD)	11.3 (6.2)	11.3 (5.2)	11.6 (5.2)*	10.8 (5.2)*
Length of stay, days (SD)	6.2 (7.4)*	5.3 (17.4)	5.6 (7.0)*	5.9 (19.5)*
Types of AMI
STEMI	35.2*	32.7	25.3*	32.1*
NSTEMI	64.8*	67.3	74.7*	67.9*
Receipt of invasive cardiac procedures
PCI	48.0	48.2	41.0*	47.6*
CABG	10.6*	9.3	6.5*	10.2*
Receipt of invasive cardiac procedures by AMI type
STEMI (n = 158,623)
PCI	69.5	72.1	68.1*	72.2
CABG	8.0*	7.3	5.4*	8.1*
NSTEMI (n = 337,849)
PCI	36.3	36.5	31.9*	35.9*
CABG	12.0*	10.2	6.9*	11.3*

^aValues are means (standard deviation) or percentages of patients

*P-value< 0.05 when each of the racial/ethnic group (Asian, White, or Black) was compared to White