Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Patient Age at First Hospitalization for Heart Failure
Authors' conclusion
NH Asian, NH Black, and Hispanic patients were younger at the time of first HF hospitalization compared with NH White patients in the GWTG-HF registry. Differences in social and clinical factors explained a large proportion of the racial and ethnic differences in age at first HF hospitalization.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with first heart failure (HF) hospitalization and no prior HF diagnosis, Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure (GWTG-HF) registry, 2016–2019
- Participants
- 42,252 patients
- Exposure
- Non-Hispanic (NH) Asian, NH Black and Hispanic vs NH White adults
- Outcome
- Age at first HF hospitalization
Methodological detailsregistry-based, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition
- Registry-based
- Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- NH Asian, NH Black and Hispanic significantly younger than NH White
- P < 0.01
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Younger age at first HF hospitalization associated with differences in social and clinical risk factors (decomposition), vs NH White
Years
- NH Asian
- 1.2
- NH Black
- 12.5
- Hispanic
- 7.4
Original publication
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Patient Age at First Hospitalization for Heart Failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. Published 9 September 2025. doi:10.
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it