Indigenous Australians have a greater prevalence of heart, stroke, and vascular disease, are younger at death, with higher hospitalisation and more aeromedical retrievals from remote regions

FW Gardiner; K Rallah-Baker; A Dos Santos; P Sharma; L Churilov; GA Donnan; SM Davis; F Quinlan; P Worley

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Indigenous Australians have a greater prevalence of heart, stroke, and vascular disease, are younger at death, with higher hospitalisation and more aeromedical retrievals from remote regions

FW Gardiner, K Rallah-Baker, A Dos Santos, P Sharma, L Churilov, GA Donnan, SM Davis, F Quinlan, P Worley

Eclinicalmedicine | Published : 2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101181

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Abstract

Background: We aimed to determine whether heart, stroke, and vascular disease (HSVD) prevalence and emergency primary evacuation (EPE), hospitalisation, and mortality differ by patient characteristics. Methods: An Australian-wide incidence population based study, with prospective data collected form the 1 July 2019 to the 30 October 2020. Findings: Indigenous Australians reported significantly higher prevalence of HSVD at 229.0 per-1000 as compared to 152.0 per-1000 non-Indigenous Australians: risk ratio 1.5 (95% CI 1.2-1.8). 583 remote patients received an EPE for HSVD, consisting of 388 (66.6%; 95% CI: 62.6-70.4) males and 195 (33.0%; 95% CI: 29.6-37.4) females. There were 289 (49.6%; 95% ..

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Angie Dos Santos Author

Leonid Churilov Author

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This is a self/internally-funded study, with the lead organisa-tion being the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) of Australia. For the duration of the study period, the RFDS provided in-kind sup-port including one full-time equivalent (FTE) and resources (office space, computer, research software, and office equipment) . There was no external funding source that had a role in study design or data analysis or interpretation.