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Table 3 Rates of cardiac surgical interventions among Jewish- and Arab-Israelis with schizophrenia and matched controls diagnosed with a cardiovascular disease

From: Double disparities in the health care for people with schizophrenia of an ethnic-national minority

 

Jewish Israelis

Arab Israelis

 

Schizophrenia

Matched controls

Schizophrenia

Matched controls

OR (95% CI)a

Cardiac catheterization

21.6%

32.3%

26.6%

37.8%

SMI 0.57 (0.51–0.64)

Sector 0.95 (0.80–1.14)

Coronary artery bypass graft

8.2%

11.1%

10.7%

15.4%

SMI 0.72 (0.61–0.86)

Sector 0.81 (0.63–1.03)

Cardiac pacemaker implantation

1.4%

2.3%

1.2%

2.0%

SMI 0.60 (0.40–0.90)

Sector 0.82 (0.44–1.53)

Any intervention

28.7%

41.3%

34.9%

49.1%

SMI 0.56 (0.50–0.62)

Sector 0.87 (0.73–1.04)

  1. aAdjusted model included sex, age, socioeconomic status, and age at first cardiovascular diagnosis
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