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Table 3 Clinical characteristics of AMI hospitalizations by race/ethnicitya

From: Racial/ethnic disparities among Asian Americans in inpatient acute myocardial infarction mortality in the United States

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*

  1. aValues are means (standard deviation) or percentages of patients
  2. *P-value< 0.05 when each of the racial/ethnic group (Asian, White, or Black) was compared to White