Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 971-978 , November 2007

Disparities in the treatment and outcomes of vascular disease in Hispanic patients

  • Nicholas J. Morrissey, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Nicholas J. Morrissey, MD, Division of Vascular Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Cornell Medical College, 161 Ft Washington Ave, Ste 639, New York, NY 10032.
    • ,
  • Jeannine Giacovelli, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
    • International Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research, Columbia University Health Sciences, New York, NY.
    • ,
  • Natalia Egorova, MPH, PhD

      Affiliations

    • International Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research, Columbia University Health Sciences, New York, NY.
    • ,
  • Annetine Gelijns, PhD

      Affiliations

    • International Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research, Columbia University Health Sciences, New York, NY.
    • ,
  • Alan Moskowitz, MD

      Affiliations

    • International Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research, Columbia University Health Sciences, New York, NY.
    • ,
  • James McKinsey, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Kenneth Craig Kent, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Giampaolo Greco, PhD

      Affiliations

    • International Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research, Columbia University Health Sciences, New York, NY.

Received 17 February 2007 ,Accepted 5 July 2007.

References 

  1. U.S. Interim Projections by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin. Available at: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/usinterimproj/natprojtab01a.pdf. Accessed Sept 28, 2006.
  2. Diverse Hispanic population to become largest U.S. minority. Popul Today. 1997;25:1–2Anonymous
  3. Wong MD, Tagawa T, Hsieh HJ, Shapiro MF, Boscardin WJ, Ettner SL. Differences in cause-specific mortality between Latino and white adults. Med Care. 2005;43:1058–1062
  4. Reddy J, Son H, Smith SJ, Paultre F, Mosca L. Prevalence of breast arterial calcifications in an ethnically diverse population of women. Ann Epidemiol. 2005;15:344–350
  5. Peralta CA, Shlipak MG, Fan D, Ordoñez J, Lash JP, Chertow GM, et al. Risks for end-stage renal disease, cardiovascular events, and death in Hispanic versus non-Hispanic white adults with chronic kidney disease. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2006;17:2892–2899
  6. Borrell LN, Dallo FJ, White K. Education and diabetes in a racially and ethnically diverse population. Am J Public Health. 2006;96:1637–1642
  7. Benabe JE, Rios EV. Kidney disease in the Hispanic population: facing the growing challenge. J Natl Med Assoc. 2004;96:789–798
  8. Incidence & Prevalance Racial Differences in the Incidence of ESRD. 2006 Annual Data Report. Available at: http://www.usrds.org/2006/pdf/02_incid_prev_06.pdf. Accessed Oct 24, 2006.
  9. Wetrogan SI. Projections of the population of states, by age, sex, and race: 1988 to 2010. Curr Popul Rep Popul Estim Proj. 1988;1–124
  10. Rucker-Whitaker C, Feinglass J, Pearce WH. Explaining racial variation in lower extremity amputation: a 5-year retrospective claims data and medical record review at an urban teaching hospital. Arch Surg. 2003;138:1347–1351
  11. Feinglass J, Rucker-Whitaker C, Lindquist L, McCarthy WJ, Pearce WH. Racial differences in primary and repeat lower extremity amputation: results from a multihospital study. J Vasc Surg. 2005;41:823–829
  12. New York State Department of Health Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS). Annual reports. Available at: http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/sparcs/sparcs.htm#general.
  13. Florida Health Stat. Available at: http://www.floridahealthstat.com.
  14. Nowygrod R, Egorova N, Greco G, Anderson P, Gelijns A, Moskowitz A, et al. Trends, complications, and mortality in peripheral vascular surgery. J Vasc Surg. 2006;43:205–216
  15. Greco G, Egorova N, Anderson PL, Gelijns A, Moskowitz A, Nowygrod R, et al. Outcomes of endovascular treatment of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms. J Vasc Surg. 2006;43:453–459
  16. Colton T. Statistics in medicine. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company; 1974;
  17. Reddan DN, Szczech LA, Klassen PS, Owen WF. Racial inequity in America’s ESRD program. Semin Dial. 2000;13:399–403
  18. Ramsey DJ, Goff DC, Wear ML, Labarthe DR, Nichaman MZ. Sex and ethnic differences in use of myocardial revascularization procedures in Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites: the Corpus Christi Heart Project. J Clin Epidemiol. 1997;50:603–609
  19. Ibrahim SA, Siminoff LA, Burant CJ, Kwoh CK. Understanding ethnic differences in the utilization of joint replacement for osteoarthritis: the role of patient-level factors. Med Care. 2002;40(1 Suppl):I44–I51
  20. Giacomini MK. Gender and ethnic differences in hospital-based procedure utilization in California. Arch Intern Med. 1996;156:1217–1224
  21. Andrews RM, Elixhauser A. Use of major therapeutic procedures: are Hispanics treated differently than non-Hispanic Whites. Ethn Dis. 2000;10:384–394
  22. Disparities in screening for and awareness of high blood cholesterol–United States, 1999-2002. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2005;54:117–119
  23. Lavery LA, Ashry HR, van Houtum W, Pugh JA, Harkless LB, Basu S. Variation in the incidence and proportion of diabetes-related amputations in minorities. Diabetes Care. 1996;19:48–52
  24. Collins TC, Johnson M, Henderson W, Khuri SF, Daley J. Lower extremity nontraumatic amputation among veterans with peripheral arterial disease: is race an independent factor?. Med Care. 2002;40(1 Suppl):I106–I116
  25. Chew DK, Nguyen LL, Owens CD, Conte MS, Whittemore AD, Gravereaux EC, et al. Comparative analysis of autogenous infrainguinal bypass grafts in African Americans and Caucasians: the association of race with graft function and limb salvage. J Vasc Surg. 2005;42:695–701
  26. Jha AK, Fisher ES, Li Z, Orav EJ, Epstein AM. Racial trends in the use of major procedures among the elderly. N Engl J Med. 2005;353:683–691
  27. Sacco RL, Kargman DE, Zamanillo MC. Race-ethnic differences in stroke risk factors among hospitalized patients with cerebral infarction: the Northern Manhattan Stroke Study. Neurology. 1995;45:659–663
  28. Sacco RL, Boden-Albala B, Abel G, Lin IF, Elkind M, Hauser WA, et al. Race-ethnic disparities in the impact of stroke risk factors: the northern Manhattan stroke study. Stroke. 2001;32:1725–1731
  29. Doty M. Quality of health care for Hispanic populations. The Commonwealth Fund Available at: www.cmwf.org.
  30. Kurian AK, Cardarelli KM. Racial and ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systematic review. Ethn Dis. 2007;17:143–152
  31. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prevalence of cigarette use among 14 racial/ethnic populations-United States, 1999-2001. MMWR Morb Mortal Weekly Report. 2004;53:49–52
  32. Westberg J. Patient education for Hispanic Americans. Patient Educ Couns. 1989;13:143–160
  33. Wachtel MS. Family poverty accounts for differences in lower-extremity amputation rates of minorities 50 years old or more with diabetes. J Natl Med Assoc. 2005;97:334–338
  34. Kaplan GA, Keil JE. Socioeconomic factors and cardiovascular disease: a review of the literature. Circulation. 1993;88:1973–1998
  35. Berk ML, Albers LA, Schur CL. The growth in the US uninsured population: trends in Hispanic subgroups, 1977 to 1992. Am J Public Health. 1996;86:572–576
  36. Hispanic health in the United States. Council on Scientific Affairs. JAMA. 1991;265:248–252
  37. Ibrahim SA, Siminoff LA, Burant CJ, Kwoh CK. Differences in expectations of outcome mediate African American/white patient differences in “willingness” to consider joint replacement. Arthritis Rheum. 2002;46:2429–2435
  38. Gonzalez-Swafford MJ, Gutierrez MG. Ethno-medical beliefs and practices of Mexican-Americans. Nurse Pract. 1983;8:29–3032,34
  39. da Silva GC. Awareness of Hispanic cultural issues in the health care setting. Child Health Care. 1984;13:4–10
  40. Sacco RL, Roberts JK, Boden-Albala B, Gu Q, Lin IF, Kargman DE, et al. Race-ethnicity and determinants of carotid atherosclerosis in a multiethnic population (The Northern Manhattan Stroke Study). Stroke. 1997;28:929–935
  41. White H, Boden-Albala B, Wang C, Elkind MS, Rundek T, Wright CB, et al. Ischemic stroke subtype incidence among whites, blacks, and Hispanics: the Northern Manhattan Study. Circulation. 2005;111:1327–1331Mar 15
  42. Lederle FA, Johnson GR, Wilson SE, Chute EP, Littooy FN, Bandyk D, et al. Prevalence and associations of abdominal aortic aneurysm detected through screening (Aneurysm Detection and Management (ADAM) Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group). Ann Intern Med. 1997;126:441–449
  43. Steyerberg EW, Kievit J, de Mol Van Otterloo JC, van Bockel JH, Eijkemans MJ, Habbema JD. Perioperative mortality of elective abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery (A clinical prediction rule based on literature and individual patient data). Arch Intern Med. 1995;155:1998–2004
  44. Huber TS, Wang JG, Derrow AE, Dame DA, Ozaki CK, Zelenock GB, et al. Experience in the United States with intact abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. J Vasc Surg. 2001;33:304–310discussion 310-1
  45. Hua HT, Cambria RP, Chuang SK, Stoner MC, Kwolek CJ, Rowell KS, et al. Early outcomes of endovascular versus open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-Private Sector (NSQIP-PS). J Vasc Surg. 2005;41:382–389
  46. Becquemin JP, Chemla E, Chatellier G, Allaire E, Melliere D, Desgranges P. Peroperative factors influencing the outcome of elective abdominal aorta aneurysm repair. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2000;20:84–89
  47. Lee WA, Carter JW, Upchurch G, Seeger JM, Huber TS. Perioperative outcomes after open and endovascular repair of intact abdominal aortic aneurysms in the United States during 2001. J Vasc Surg. 2004;39:491–496

 Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(07)01181-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.07.021

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 971-978 , November 2007

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution