Physician's Weekly: Survival Lower for Asian Versus White Individuals With OHCA

Asian individuals with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) have similar rates of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as White individuals, but have lower survival rates, according to a study published online July 26 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Kashvi Gupta, MD, MPH, from Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, and colleagues compared the rates of bystander CPR and survival for 278,989 OHCAs among Asian and White individuals during 2013 to 2021. The rates of bystander CPR, survival to discharge, and favorable neurological survival were compared.

“Our findings that Asian, as compared with White, individuals with OHCA have lower rates of overall survival and favorable neurological survival do raise potential concerns about racial disparities,” the authors write.

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