The influence of race in older adults with infective endocarditis

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 2 Odds ratios for hospital outcomes in infective endocarditis for black and white patients

Racial status (2013 and 2014)	Multi-variable Un-adjusted Odds Ratio (95% CI)	p-value	Multi-variable Adjusted Odds Ratio (95% CI)	p-value
Valve replacement treatment
Mitral valve replacement (MVR)
White patients (ref)	1.0		1.0
Black patients	0.9 (0.56–1.58)	0.67	0.51 (0.27–0.95)	0.036
Aortic valve replacement (AVR)
White Patients (ref)	1.0		1.0
Black patients	1.0 (0.69–1.7)	0.71	0.82 (0.47–1.5)	0.46
Tricuspid valve replacement (TVR)
White patients (ref)	1.0		1.0
Black patients	0.7 (0.4–7.4)	0.3	2.3 (0.29–19.6)	0.40
In-hospital mortality
White patients (ref)	1.0		1.0
Black patients	1.6 (0.98–2.6)	0.057	2.0 (1.1–3.8)	0.020

ref Reference, CI Confidence Interval. The multi-variable analysis adjusted for the following: age, gender, median household income, insurance and Charlson comorbidity index and additional clinical factors that differed between groups with a p value of < 0.2 that included cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, hospital bed size, teaching status, urban location, and region

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