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ArticleCatheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions2022

Black lives matter … in the cath lab, too! A proposal for the interventional cardiology community to counteract bias and racism.

Anezi I Uzendu, Konstantinos Dean Boudoulas, Quinn Capers

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Article in Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Diversifying the Interventional Cardiology Workforce: Why It Matters and How to Achieve It.Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Anezi I UzenduSection of Interventional Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0576-7510
Konstantinos Dean BoudoulasDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0625-8750
Quinn CapersDivision of Cardiology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Massachusetts General Hospital · USThe Ohio State University · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structural racism in the United States underlies racial disparities in the criminal justice system, in the healthcare system generally, and with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the year 2020, these inequities combined and magnified to such a degree that it left Black Americans and physicians caring for them questioning how much Black lives matter. Academic medical centers and the major cardiology organizations responded to a global call to end racism with bold statements and initiatives. Interventional cardiologists utilize advanced equipment to mechanically treat a wide spectrum of heart problems, yet this technology has not been applied in an equitable manner. Interventional therapies are often underutilized in Blacks, exacerbating healthcare disparities and contributing to the excess cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in these communities. Racial bias, whether intentional, unconscious, systemic, or at the individual level, plays a role in these disparities. Many in the interventional cardiology community aspire to take intentional steps to reduce the impact of bias and racism in our specialty. We discuss several proposals here and provide a "report card" for interventional programs to perform a self-assessment.

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CardiologyCOVID-19RacismHealthcare DisparitiesHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Treatment OutcomeUnited Statesdisparitiesequityinjusticeprejudice

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PMID34037303
PMCPMC9545946
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