Table 2.
Comorbidities of the incident HD population with AF, overall and by race/ethnicity, 2006–2013
| Comorbidity | Race/Ethnicity | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall (n=56,587) | Black (n=10,561) | White (n=39,073) | Hispanic (n=4594) | Asian (n=1971) | Other (n=388) | |||||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| Congestive heart failure | 28,644 | 50.6 | 5276 | 50.0 | 20,217 | 51.8 | 2140 | 46.6 | 815 | 41.4 | 196 | 50.5 |
| Cancer | 5146 | 9.1 | 681 | 6.5 | 4111 | 10.5 | 232 | 5.1 | 96 | 4.9 | 26 | 6.7 |
| Peripheral vascular disease | 10,333 | 18.3 | 1567 | 14.8 | 7667 | 19.6 | 811 | 17.7 | 204 | 10.4 | 84 | 21.7 |
| Cerebrovascular disease | 7311 | 12.9 | 1700 | 16.1 | 4732 | 12.1 | 568 | 12.4 | 255 | 12.9 | 56 | 14.4 |
| COPD | 9223 | 16.3 | 1354 | 12.8 | 7224 | 18.5 | 448 | 9.8 | 148 | 7.5 | 49 | 12.6 |
| Hypertension | 48,131 | 85.1 | 9377 | 86.8 | 32,702 | 83.7 | 3986 | 86.8 | 1723 | 87.4 | 343 | 88.4 |
| Current smoker | 2385 | 4.2 | 527 | 5.0 | 1731 | 4.4 | 97 | 2.7 | 15 | 0.8 | 15 | 3.9 |
| Atherosclerotic heart disease | 17,344 | 30.7 | 2360 | 22.4 | 13,070 | 33.5 | 1254 | 27.3 | 516 | 26.2 | 144 | 37.1 |
| Diabetes | 31,541 | 55.7 | 6196 | 58.7 | 20,080 | 53.2 | 3111 | 67.7 | 1172 | 59.5 | 258 | 66.5 |
All racial/ethnic comparisons were very highly statistically significant (P<0.001). COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.