An assessment of cardiovascular disease hospitalizations and disparities by race in patients with rheumatic disease hospitalizations in Alaska, 2015–2018

Table 4 Number (Proportion) of Patients with any Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Hospitalization by Type of CVD of Patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) Only, Gout, Other Rheumatic Disease (RD) Hospitalization, or No RD Hospitalization

Type of CVD	Osteoarthritis Only, n (%) with one or more hospitalizations for this CVD type	Gout, n (%) with one or more hospitalizations for this CVD type	Other RD,^a n (%) with one or more hospitalizations for this CVD type	No RD Diagnosis, n (%) with one or more hospitalizations for this CVD
Any CVD hospitalization	1076 (10.2%)*	870 (30.2%)*	341 (14.0%)	7845 (12.7%)
Acute Myocardial Infarction (MI)	296 (2.8%)*	230 (8.0%)*	96 (3.9%)	2615 (4.2%)
Stroke	343 (3.3%)*	197 (6.8%)*	103 (4.2%)	2486 (4.0%)
Heart Failure	353 (3.4%)	406 (14.1%)*	126 (5.2%)*	2119 (3.4%)
Coronary atherosclerosis and other heart disease	180 (1.7%)	111 (3.9%)*	31 (1.3%)	960 (1.6%)
Hypertension complications other than heart disease	44 (0.4%)	72 (2.5%)*	18 (0.7%)	317 (0.5%)

a: Other Rheumatic Disease includes people with a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, lupus/MCTD, spondyloarthritis, vasculitis, Sjögren syndrome, systemic sclerosis, and/or myopathy. Some persons included also have osteoarthritis in addition to one or more of these conditions. Persons with gout are excluded from this category regardless of other conditions
*p-value < 0.01 for comparison to persons with no RD diagnosis

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