Question:

ehhh…rubber brains’ again..since you know so little about psysiology….have any clue why said babies needed heart surgery??? nah..how could you… children/babies ONLY have heart surgery to correct some anatomical defect…NOT CAD…plague thus the great chelation…even if it did work on CAD..would NOT worth a whit… as others have said..the guy was a problem with a knife…and deserved what he got… no correlation here… not that you would have noticed that sad that hawki

Response:

The next step is to determine why female and black patients had worse outcomes.  I’d think the first thing to look at would be co-morbidities, particularly type 2 diabetes (which is more common in people of other than European ancestry and while a significant factor in heart disease in men, is even more significant in women, who otherwise have fewer risk factors).  

And the blood pressure problems that are well-known to be more prevalent in black populations at every income level. Note that the assertion that black and female bypass patients have worse outcomes due to co-morbidities is a testable hypothesis and therefore needs to be tested rather than just assumed.   If the test comes up negative, then you have to start looking at whether racism and sexism are leading to poorer care, among other things.  Though you can’t assume that "poorer care" means "poorer care *by* the surgical team; it could be poorer outpatient care, or poorer access to such care, in the years before the surgery, leading to worse disease at the time of the surgery.

That was my thought: they were not referred at a uniformly early state of cardiac problems … whether due to lack of access to care, or bias on the part of the screeners. Some of this could be checked by backtracking through the medical records, and by interviews with the patients and families. Tsu — To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. – Jules Henri Poincar

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