Women and people of color wait longer to access emergency care for a heart attack, study shows.
, caused by blood vessel blockage; and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction , caused by a narrowing or temporary blockage of the artery.
But when looking back, the team found that it took a while for many patients to receive this first step in treatment. In 2005, 50% of men and 35.7% of women with STEMI and 45% of men and 33.1% of women with NSTEMI had a timely angiography. In the same year, 46% of White patients and 31.2% of Black patients with STEMI underwent timely angiography.
Although differences in care decreased between the demographics, the gap still exists. Whereas this dataset only extends to 2015, this trend may still persist today, says Robert Glatter, MD, an emergency medicine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who was not involved in the study. Therefore, physicians need to consider this bias when treating patients.
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