Study Finds Gender, Racial Disparities In ICD Referrals
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Women and minority men are significantly less likely than white men to receive an implantable cardioverter defibrillator for either primary or secondary prevention of cardiac death, according to studies in the Oct. 3 Journal of the American Medical Association
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