Black patients receive less heart failure treatment than white patients, study finds

Black patients with advanced heart failure received potentially life-saving therapies half as often as white patients, a study published in the AHA journal Circulation: Heart Failure found.

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The study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, followed 377 patients receiving treatment at 21 centers in the U.S. The analysis found 22 percent of white adults received a heart transplant or ventricular assist device compared with only 11 percent of Black adults.

The findings underscore a possible racial bias in end-stage heart failure, according to an NIH release.

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